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Kallistero
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« Reply #78 on: an Autumn night » |
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A script that generates blog posts from simple .txt files, which I've rewritten a few times already just to try getting it all working It's built from knowledge that I gained making mods for other people's scripts, including Melon's frame link generator! I'll be adding the modded frame link generator to the Melonland wiki when it's more complete. I want it to be able to support multiple iframes, like for split-screen multiplayer page links or page links with selectable webgardens. I'll get to that once I'm at a stopping point with my blog script, though. The knowledge I brought from Melon's code to the blog script was doing things with a page url, so I can link to individual blog posts even though they're all technically at the same Web address! I've been sort of stuck the last couple of days when it comes to adding pseudo-BBCode for the blog .txt files, but I'm doing all sorts of experiments until I get unstuck. Each rewrite attempt seems more promising than the last, and it should start moving again because I actually took a couple notes before retrying this time! After my work here reaches a stopping point, I'll probably make an actual blog post or two. Then, I'll work on a page where I offer my creations for others to use, with tutorials for things included. After that, I'll probably go on to Melon's frame link generator mod, with the actual code offering & tutorial for that being on the Melonland wiki, just with a link there from among my other offerings. P.S. If you haven't seen it yet, I've also added a CSS selector reference for customizing your Melonland forum profile on the wiki, too! I think I forgot a couple things (like the contact info section), but it's mostly complete right now.
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« Reply #81 on: an Autumn night » |
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I'm working on rearranging my site to get away from the blog paradigm, and I'm also working on eliminating pandoc as a dependency in my toolchain.
In developing my blog script, I've been sort of thinking of how a blog paradigm stretches and forms, in order to think of ways people might want to use a blogging tool. Because the script can parse HTML when the user tells it to, it doesn't really even need to be a "blog" as people might think of it; a "blog post" can just be an entire Web page, which conforms to whatever styles are on the HTML page. I made the script to solve the issue of being able to write blog posts on the go without needing HTML (as .txt files, which mobile apps support), but in my quest for feature-completeness, I think I've created an entire lightweight Web page framework. Blog tools really are just that! By setting the blog navigation widget to display:none (which I may add as a vanilla feature) and having the "blog" posts have links to one another, a person can make their entire site using only my "blog" script with some text files! This makes me question whether a blog is about what is there versus what isn't there. If you use just a plain text file, then sure, this thing makes blog posts. But just add some [html][/html] tags, and then suddenly, it's become something else!
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« Reply #85 on: an Autumn day » |
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At the end of August I did an accessibility survey of my site. There's not too many problems with it, but the biggest is being caused because I used the hidden checkbox hack for part of the main menu. It's a nice bit of code but not very accessible.
I want to keep the main look of the pages but some things need changing. It's been a bit of a slog because other things keep getting in the way, but I've been writing other test pages and come up with a way of making the Details tag behave how I want it to and still retain its accessibility.
There's some other code I want to play with, maybe involving the dialog tag, before I start changing the pages.
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