06.03.06
New Blogroll in Testing…
Please have a look at my latest attempt at the byteclub blogroll…
http://www.byteclub.net/blog/index_comments.php
Keeping in mind that its a work in progress, but I’d love some feedback at this point.
I haven’t tested in IE, so please don’t fry me for that yet - i’ll do my best for IE once I know what we *really* want.
I don’t have the comment for the external blogs yet either - i’ve got to check the different feed formats. From the presentation you might be able to see that i’m thinking of using CSS/JS to hide details and show on demand… what do you think.
lots of plans still, but there it is for now…
Lucien said,
June 3, 2006 at 8:03 am
Showing the last 10 posts per user seems a little exessive, but as you say, with a little DHTML magic…
I noticed that Thushans most recent post is 1 day ago, but the list says “29 days ago”, which is the date of his oldest post. Is his feed using a different format that’s not getting time stamped correctly?
Apart from that, it’s all good :)
I LOVE the comments feed.
Lucien said,
June 3, 2006 at 9:00 am
Hmmm, I posted that last comment about an hour ago.
Still hasn’t shown up in the recent comments list. How often does the list get rebuilt? Is it cached?
Matthew Delves said,
June 3, 2006 at 10:33 am
I like the idea behind it, though it appears as a semi jumbled mess in Safari.
Clinton said,
June 3, 2006 at 11:16 am
:~( if you have the time let me know what you can… i’d hate to go to a table based layout, but if i have to (cause I can’t work it out!) i will!
Clinton said,
June 3, 2006 at 11:23 am
Lucien - i realise why the orders is stuffed and i’ll fix that. (its showing the last modified date per user channel, but that’s not the last post date…)
and yeap - the last 10 - is the standard amount provided in the feeds - is excessive!! (but it’s work in progress… and i’m showing what info i’ve got.)
i think it actually makes more sense to have “blog-list” (a short list) and then another “most recent blog post list” (with authors appearing more than once…) so with the most recent comments list that would make three columns :)
note that hover over the comments give you the first snippet of the comment… (title attribute value).
Lucien said,
June 3, 2006 at 8:47 pm
Hmm, I just tried it in Safari. It didn’t look too bad, but there are some small CSS issues.
Interestingly, it looks quite good in IE for Mac. But I heard they will no longer be developing Mac versions of IE, so support for it on our site is not likely to be an issue ;)
It doesn’t look bad in IE on Windows. But the Mac IE version looks better. Go figure.
Camino 1.0.1 (Mac) looks exactly the same as the regular Firefox version.
Opera (on Win) does the same funny stuff as Safari.
I think that about covers most of the major browswers. Except for AOL. Anyone got a copy lying around?
Hmm, I just make the window narrower and the recent comments list does some funny stuff when it gets longer than the recent blogs list. Oops ;)
For a beta version, I’d say the page is doing a bloody good job :)
Zooba said,
June 3, 2006 at 8:54 pm
Looks good in IE6 on Windows. The numbering all works and the monkeys are there ;-)
Lucien’s right - when the window gets too narrow the comments ‘column’ moves to below the posts ‘column’ (not sure how they’ve been implemented, I haven’t looked)
On IE for Mac, just because MS stop developing something doesn’t mean it won’t get used (for proof, see Windows 98SE and Visual Studio 6)
Lucien said,
June 4, 2006 at 11:44 am
Oh Zooba. ByteClub is a *programmers* web site.
What real programmer uses IE?
;)
Xavier said,
June 5, 2006 at 7:55 am
Especially love the recent comments list. Recent blogs, with authors potentially appearing multiple times makes sense, and then you’d need a blog roll in addition. Maybe this could go below rather than 3 columns, because it’s not something we need access to regularly.
Looks good in Opera except the numbering for the recent comments falls behind the margin (overlapping the right hours listing for recent blogs) and the hours listing shows above the line rather than below.
Zooba said,
June 5, 2006 at 9:13 am
Just modified my KPL post and I’m back on top of the blog roll.
However, in your new version it still says the post is from 4 days ago. I’m not sure what you’ve done differently, but is it possible to use the same field in the ordering code? I know you’ve been looking at this.
Lucien,
A real programmer who values his RAM ;-)
Andrew B Coathup said,
June 5, 2006 at 6:04 pm
Looks ok in IE7.
In reference to Lucien, I use IE. I am a Microsoft .NET developer.
Clinton said,
June 5, 2006 at 9:59 pm
IE vs [Others]
fight! fight! fight! (it is byteclub… :~)
…and love it or hate it, it’s the biggest audience, and it does a lot of stuff well, so we can’t just ignore it… but don’t let that stop the fight.
Thushan Fernando said,
June 6, 2006 at 2:04 pm
@Lucien:
What real programmer uses IE?
What real programmer would have used Netscape back in the days(circa 98-2001′ish)?
Sure MSFT were slack with IE which eventually is causing its downfall (heck I’m a firefox user) but I have to admit, I have to forgive alot of performance issues inherint in firefox every day just to use the browser. The “Memory Leaks”, the caching of page “Feature” all of which ads up to a (sometimes) 400-500Mb foot print. When I put 4Gb of memory i expect dev environments to choke up that much, not some spiffy browser hailed as the next thing to deliver us all from that evil company!
On a lighter note, i prefer Opera to all. Its like the iPod really… People seem to think if you have an iPod your cool (== if you use Firefox youre ‘cool’). Me personally, i’m a Creative Nomad guy, IE/Opera and for the heck of it Firefox. I do love its UI elements, just get the performance right and maybe implement some of the planned bookmarking features and I’m converted.
If anyone wants some lame PoV’s for against firefox heres a site:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/FirefoxMyths.html
I dont fully agree with teh stuff above though;-)
PS. First comment on byte club and i’m already starting up a fight… (…club… theres even a tyler here too in true geek style, its the server!)…
Thushan Fernando said,
June 6, 2006 at 2:11 pm
ok just had a look at my current instance…772Mb, the peak memory usage at one point was 865Mb… This is running in Safe-Mode too… (I’ve been trialing safe-mode to see if theres a difference the past week) looks like its a FF issue, not an extension one…