Saturday April 6, 2002

Comments are back, this time all of the bugs are mine. I didn't like the last system because it all came from another server, so if that server was down or had problems my site would appear to be down, slow, or have problems. Yesterday I put together the code for showing/adding comments and this morning I tied it all together with code that shows the number of comments for a given post. I'm not really expecting much in the way of comments, but now that I have the capability I can add it to my other "logs", including customer sub-sites, which I think will be really handy.


Jerry Halstead • 2002-04-06 09:18am

Linebreaks are preserved, but embedded HTML isn't at this time:

http://jerryrig.com/log/

Maybe at some point I can turn things that look like URLs into clickable objects?

Should work with or without Javascript. I borrowed the l
Jerry Halstead • 2002-04-06 09:24am

Right, fix the little bug limiting amount of comment text to 255...what do I think this is, Macintosh strings?

I borrowed much of the look and feel from Burningbird's comments. I found some code for graceful javascript/window fallback (I think it's annoying when sites/comments won't work without javascript, even though the actual window/comments don't require them).

Hmm, not much else to add.

-Jerry
Zeke • 2002-04-06 09:25am

What about walk fallbacks? Does this support more dog walks?