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Monday, 13 October 2003, 12:07 PM
Reality Check

Since I can't get to another machine at the moment (at least to test this), would someone else viewing this tell me if the blogroll stuff in the sidebar ("***Blogs, et al.") has any of the cute little graphic buttons normally associated with it, between that title and the Blogrolling.com button?

I'm seeing just the text prepends, some curly brackets I added in, and one broken image at the top. But Blogrolling tech support says it's all hunky-dory.


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Monday, 13 October 2003, 12:09 PM
Quoth Happy Aston-Snow ...

Dave,

I get the same weirdness you do on the Blogs, et. al section.


And I LOVE your blog.

Happy

Monday, 13 October 2003, 12:29 PM
Quoth Marn, eh ...

Ditto. No pretty link graphics show up from my machine on Opera 7.2. *Sigh*.

Monday, 13 October 2003, 1:36 PM
Quoth *** Dave ...

Thanks. I've passed the word to Jason (the God of Blogrolling).

Monday, 13 October 2003, 2:29 PM
Quoth Jack Gulick ...

They seem to be there now. (They weren't earlier... but I've moved from IE at work to Safari at home, which might also be responsible.)

Monday, 13 October 2003, 2:39 PM
Quoth *** Dave ...

Really? Because I'm still not getting anything here.

Monday, 13 October 2003, 2:45 PM
Quoth Boulder Dude ...

Still nothing

Monday, 13 October 2003, 2:47 PM
Quoth *** Dave ...

It's also affecting Brian Peace's Random Ravings blog, too. Basically seems to be zorching any blogroll that uses IMG commands for the title.

Monday, 13 October 2003, 2:56 PM
Quoth *** Dave ...

Or, rather, is stripping out the IMG commands in the Title.

Monday, 13 October 2003, 2:59 PM
Quoth Boulder Dude ...

theeeerrrreeee baaack!

Monday, 13 October 2003, 3:05 PM
Quoth *** Dave ...

For me, too! Huzzah!

Monday, 13 October 2003, 7:21 PM
Quoth Ghost of a flea ...

I see everything (at about 9:20 eastern).

Wednesday, 15 October 2003, 1:11 PM
Quoth *** Dave ...

Jason notes on the Blogrolling.com page:

Updated the display code so there are no entities in the output for single or double quotes. This will fix problems for people using old style image tags. Tip: Gold members can use auto image translation. All you do is add a url and Blogrolling automatically generates the image tag for you. Great for lists of buttons or face/identity rolls.

Heh. I think that means me.

I note, though, that the auto image translation falls short in two ways.

First, you don't get an automatic test of the image within Blogrolling. You have to reload your page to see if the image is correct.

Second, it doesn't let you specify width/height parms, which makes the page load more slowly.

Both are relatively trivial, though, and I'm sure Jason would rather see people using the auto-image stuff than tell yet another yahoo about using single, not double, quotes in the IMG statements.

Wednesday, 15 October 2003, 1:16 PM
Quoth Margie the Wife ...

Bear's Cave doesn't appear to be updating. As of 1:14 PM MDT blogroll shows the last update as 7:50 AM MDT, but he has a 10:50 AM MDT post up. Then again THIS is not my forte.

Wednesday, 15 October 2003, 2:05 PM
Quoth *** Dave ...

Well, that gets into the flakiness of the pinging systems out there. I know from my own experience that pinging weblogs.com, which is what most folks do, is a hit-or-miss operation. Pinging blogrolls.com works a lot better in terms of success, but not everyone does that.

Wednesday, 15 October 2003, 3:06 PM
Quoth *** Dave ...

The blogrolling.com ping, is http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/, by the by.


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