Monday, February 18, 2002 - No Simpler than this Radio Archive - Sporadic notes about working with radio

# 18:39 Radio		Asc Mo
one more pitch for userland to alter the publishitem callback! i altered render to be able to squeeze a few more variables into 't'. this is something that i imagine others wanting to do and it can be done painlessly if one moves the invocation of the callbacks down to before the text-substitutions and passes 't' to the callback in addition to adrpost. i'm ok moving the block and adding the parameters each time the render proc gets blown away.. but there is zero reason (flow-wise anyway) for the invocation to be where it is (haste perhaps?) if it was moved down to 'the last possible second' it would open up many possibilities for everyone. and thats a good thing.

# 15:00 Radio		Asc Mo
Dann Sheridan has another miracle, a real-time event viewer for Radio 8. (Screen shot.) Eureka! Finally a use for Window's Active Desktop. I wanted exactly this to appear for 3 weeks now. Here it is. Another question answered by default. 5 min elapsed time. Neato! The big deal here is not that iFrames can get any page.. but that the server is on my desktop and can deliver local dynamic pages as well as soap'ed contents from elsewhere. ..still want to know how to get radio to keep an open connection to me! to bad that i dont understand the whole model yet.. like where to set an authentication context.. not per call.. i sure hope not!.. is there an auth-token 'standard'? interface discovery?

# 12:16 Radio		Asc Mo
GIGO: words unreadable aloud: "found the manual 3D border effect" ..and I found that same effect there :) now using: .nitam { background-color:ALICEBLUE; padding:3px; margin:3px; line-height:1.62; border-bottom:white 1px solid; border-left:black 1px solid; border-right:white 1px solid; border-top:black 1px solid; }

# 12:13 Radio		Asc Mo
Michael Zajac's Radio Weblog: "The best thing CSS has done for me" gave me the variable line height tip now used to increment interline spacing in these posts.