Kalsey Consulting Group: SimpleComments.
TrackBacks are comments. They are comments left on someone elses site rather than your own, but they are comments nonetheless. Movable Type makes a distinction between entry comments and TrackBacks that seems artificial, and it made more sense to me to have TrackBack ping data appear within the comments portion of a Movable Type site.
SimpleComments is a new plugin that will let you do just this. Comments and Trackbacks are merged into a single list. Comment counts include the number of TrackBack pings, and best of all, you dont need to learn new MT tags in order to do this.
That’s a cool plugin. Maybe I’ll use it someday. I’ve seen it (on David Rayes site [http://www.rayners.org/archives/000231.php#comments]) where it’s used and there is a distinction, using stylesheets, between regular comments and trackbacks. It was kinda cool
Ken,
Just noticed a bug … not sure if there is anything you can do about it, but in Jai’s comment up above the link passes over top of the links on the right hand side.
I be in galeon 1.3.4, which is using *opens mozilla* version 1.3.1 of mozilla’s gecko slimy stuff.
(course, it might be my version of mozilla too)
Altp.
hmm … apparently MT takes things in “*”‘s and bolds them … wierd. I usually use them as actions when i’m not in IRC (to replace the /me command) …
have to remember that.
The things in “*”‘s is because Ken is using the Textile plugin, *I think*… ~hmmm~
Ken, I don’t know if you are aware of it, but in IE your links “jump around” when you hover on them. Check your stylesheet
Hey Mike. I’m using Firebird (latest build) for layout. What screen resolution are you using?
The overlap thing is, as far as I know, inevitable when you use columns in CSS. The same thing would happen if I were to write a particularly long piece of code–it always overlapped the left-most column. Haven’t found a fix for that yet.
Re: formatting rules
Although I’m not allowing HTML in comments, the MT-Textile rules are still in effect to some degree. Let’s test a bulleted list:
# Somebody
# get this
# fwiggin
# duck away
# from me!
(Hm. That didn’t work.)
Or *bold.* Or _emphasis._ I’m still not clear how these rules (no HTML, but Textile) interact. The liklihood is that I should probably shut them off because the Textile rules seem to supercede the HTML ones.
(I think that Textile is still allowing users to use the HTML tags I specified in my MT setup, but MT doesn’t let users enter those in as pure HTML. That needs fixing one way or another).
Jai–thanks for the warning. Freakin’ IE. Only Internet Explorer would interpret my a:hover CSS code as “make my links jump around the page when users hover over them.”
http://www.kennsarah.net/styles-site.css
Makes perfect sense, right?
Give your a:hover a font weight I guess… I dunno- looks liek valid CSS to me. Maybe Dave Shea can help- he’s the CSS master!
Ah–it was the padding that was in my “content” element (a div that surrounds the main page text). It looked like this:
padding: 1px 5% 0px 35px;
The 1px is there because the tops of the vertical lines get cut off if it’s not (wish I had a better reason than that!).
The 35px is to keep a consistent margin on the left hand side of the page. The 0px is because I don’t care about whitespace beneath the page content. The 5% was supposed to size dynamically–that way, if the page layout is tight (640×480), then the margin is relatively small, but if the layout is larger (1024×768), there’s more margin, making the content easier to read.
Anyway, apparently IE can’t figure out exactly where 5% should be because of my a:hover. So, the right margin is now 35px as well.
my screen resolution is 1200×1024 …
but my browser windows is about 850×600. I find that size window best for my usage habbits. stretching it out a bit fixes the problem. I’m not a css guru, i still use tables to do my formatting* (which, prevents seeing that problem).
*I now i have to support netscape 3.0 on windows 3.1, as per our most recent web usage statistics … lets talk about finding fun formatting techniques
Altp
Re: have to support netscape 3.0 on windows 3.1
Mike, I’ve been wondering, with all the effort that has been put into advertising standards-based web browsers*–why is it that some organizations continue to support legacy technologies like this? Does your school simply not have the budget to upgrade these people?
*Effort:
http://www.mezzoblue.com/cgi-bin/mt/mezzo/archives/000133.asp
http://www.webstandards.org/act/campaign/buc/
etc.
Ken, your site is a bit busted in IE. The sidebar is completely overlapping the main content. Just a head’s up. Are you using CSS2? Just wondering.
Ken, just a head’s up: your site looks great in Mozilla Firebird.
Ken,
Its not that the school doesn’t have the money to upgrade, its that some of the users refuse to use anything newer. I was in an office recently, the department bought this individual a brand new dell with a Pentium 4 sticker ont he front and it was running windows XP.
he had never even logged into it because he prefers how the windows 3.11 desktop works compaired to windows XP. He also will not look into a newer version of netscape because he paid for 3.0 gold himself and he intends to get his money out of it.
We also have to support home users, who could be using anything under the sun. If i had my way, i would require Netscape 6, mozilla 1.2, and IE 5.5 or higher on my pages … but i don’t get my way in these regards
Altp.
You might as well ask that guy you talked about this question, Mike:
“So how exactly *did* the dinosaurs become extinct anyway? I’ve never met anyone who was there first hand before.”
Then, when he’s not looking, leave a high powered magnet next to his win 3.1 machine.