Palimpseste de Gwenael

Palimpseste de Gwenael
UserTalk et AppleScript: scripting sur Macintosh

dimanche 13 janvier 2002

En faisant le tour de RU8, je ne peux manquer de penser au propos de Tim Berners-Lee :"We must consider the people." qui semble avoir guidé l'équipe de developement; pas de manière démagogique (par exemple, je pense ici à l'ancien dialecte franchouillard d'AppleScript ou au mode d'enregistrement automatique des scripts de ce même langage, qui ne convient qu'au scripteur expérimenté mais envoit dans le mur le néophite, en lui faisant prendre de très mauvaises habitudes*); mais cela m'apparait plutôt comme une résurgence de ce que disait, en substance, J.L. Gassé au début de années 80 lorsqu'il présentait les produits Apple, à savoir qu'il ne savait pas trop bien à quoi pouvaient servir ces produits, mais qu'il comptait bien sur ses clients pour le lui dire et montrer. Le jeu potentiel des macros de RU8 me donne le tourni.
* je précise que j'aime beaucoup AppleScript.
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commentaire pisteur [] Technorati Cosmos See also: radiouserland

Liens Partagés de Donovan Watts

http://becomethemedia.org/radio

Home of Radio UserLand: The Missing Manual

2005-06-18T01:17:00Z

RadioUserland tools

Radio Userland tools including a dataFileCleaner and ExportWeblog tool

2005-06-06T15:04:00Z

www.romanvenable.net: Downstreamer Tool for Radio UserLand

Hmm...not sure what use this is yet, but review later

2005-06-06T14:59:00Z

MailEdit Documentation

An enhanced replacement to the Mail-to-Weblog feature

2005-06-06T14:56:00Z

Steve Hooker's Radio: Convert all Radio post into one RSS file

2005-06-06T14:52:00Z

Radio.Outliners.Com : How to create a Blogroll with Radio's outliner

2005-05-19T07:16:00Z

Radio UserLand: In a questioning mood: Book roll?

2005-05-18T18:31:00Z

Converting Manila to Movable Type

will try that

2005-05-07T02:15:00Z

Radio UserLand: Tip of the Week - by Donovan Watts

Cool Radio UserLand tips

2005-05-02T19:39:00Z

Workbench: Workbench.root

Tool suite from Rogers Cadenhead for Radio UserLand

2005-05-02T18:15:00Z

Radio UserLand: How to backup and restore your weblog

2005-05-02T17:50:00Z

Radio Community Server: Home

2005-04-16T20:56:00Z

Radio Userland updated today

RSS Feed

2005-03-31T10:49:00Z

bniz: Tuning Time2Read

2005-03-27T22:49:00Z

RadioExpress! bookmarklet for Radio

2005-01-19T00:28:00Z

blogSearch, a weblog search interface for Radio UserLand

blogSearch, a weblog search interface for Radio UserLand weblogs by Mark Paschal

2005-01-08T01:45:00Z

How to redirect an RSS feed

Here's the scenario.

You've just moved your weblog or news site, and the RSS feed has moved too.

You want people who are subscribed to your RSS feed to automatically start reading the feed at its new location.

This document explains how to do that.

2005-01-04T20:43:00Z

Radio UserLand: FTP upstreaming Events Log page error messages

Possible causes of FTP related upstreaming error message using Radio to publish to a FTP server.

2005-01-02T02:28:00Z

Add a javascripted calendar to your Radio UserLand template

2004-12-29T00:26:00Z

Radio Meta-Documentation

LOTS of excellent Radio UserLand links

2004-12-28T00:54:00Z

Restart Radio threads in Radio UserLand

If you notice only one single thread running in the About Radio UserLand window.

You can restart the threads that manage upstreaming etc.

2004-12-23T06:04:00Z

New Radio UserLand macro: categoryLinks

What you get: an HTML unordered list of links to your categories.

2004-12-16T23:57:00Z

Firefox application overlay: extending the radio aggregator

As you can see from this screenshot I have a Javascript in place which adds a select and deselect option to the posts from each feed which controls the checkbox next to each post in the group.

This script is only invoked for the Radio aggregator page.

For

2004-12-14T06:14:00Z

Yet Another Radio UserLand FAQ

This document is a Frequently Asked Questions document about Radio UserLand, a weblogging application from UserLand Software.

2004-12-13T18:10:00Z

Pingbacks tool for Radio UserLand

Pingback provide for a more connected weblogging experience.

This tool is a pingback client tool for Radio, it will automatically send pingback's to those servers that support them when you post entries in your weblog.

2004-12-13T02:11:00Z

Radio UserLand: WebDAV client in Radio Userland?

Simone wrote a tool that helps coping with WebDAV

2004-12-12T23:46:00Z

Paolo Valdemarin Weblog: Uploading a Radio weblog on .Mac

2004-12-12T23:44:00Z

Change your default font preferences in Radio UserLand

2004-12-12T03:58:00Z

Community Radio UserLand Wish List

Join us by adding your Radio UserLand wish list.

2004-12-11T22:32:00Z

Tools in Radio UserLand

Tools bring together all of the major areas of Frontier and Radio UserLand functionality, in a single place.

This page documents the Tools functionality for Frontier and Radio UserLand.

2004-12-08T03:37:00Z

Radio UserLand nodeTypes Reference

This page lists all of the Radio UserLand nodeTypes, what's in their right-click menus and what happens when you expand a node.

2004-12-07T08:02:00Z

comment cela fonctionne

Aide Radio

Programmer

L'environnement

Dossier Gems

Les images

radio.macros.imageRef

Outils

Multi-Auteurs

Divers

Déplacer Radio

Accès distant

Extensions de fichiers

Liens

activeRenderer

WebOutliner

Frontier 5 (en selle)

Scripteur.com

Aide d'activeRenderer

Tutoriels

Tutoriel 4 - activeRoll

Tutoriel 5 - signets

Tutoriel 6

Tutoriel 7 - transclusion

Tutoriel 8 - rssBox

Divers

FAQ

Annexes

Assistants

rssBox

A propos de...

Radio Userland

WebOutliner

nouvelles d'activeRenderer

Radio Upstreaming Beta and activeRenderer

A quick note: the new upstreaming scheme provided with Radio's Uptreaming Beta will break the normal automatic upstreaming of outlines saved in 'outlines' or 'opml' folders under Radio's root folder ('www') or any Radio category folder.

I have a fix ready in activeRenderer version 2.5.2, but other features of 2.5.2 are not quite ready for release yet.

I'll announce vs 2.5.2 soon on the ar-announce list.

In the meantime, any beta-tester who wants the fix right now can get a pre-release aR 2.5.2 update by dropping me a line directly.

4/05/05 - 5:59 pm GMT - [guid]

activeRenderer Users Gallery Update

[image] First update in over a year.

I had almost forgotten the existence of the activeRenderer Users Gallery page :-).

Anyway, my hat's off to Dawn and Drew.

While they are not using Radio Userland as their publication tool, they've made a great use of the public activeRenderer web service and its XML-RPC API to create outlined show notes for their podcasts.

[image] Thanks to the audio transcluding feature of activeRenderer 2.5 built into the web service, you can listen to their podcasts directly inside the show note page by clicking the small 'loudspeaker' wedge icon in the 'MP3 File' paragraph.

[image]

14/04/05 - 5:25 am GMT - [guid]

Outline link macros

Starting with version 2.5, activeRenderer provides a way to include part of the outline's content into the URL specifying a transcluding link.

If you think this is gibberish...

You're probably right.

A small example will probably make things clearer, at least if you are reading this directly on the activeRenderer News site.

Click on the 'page' wedge icon to the left of the next paragraph to learn what MSDN can report about activeRenderer. activeRenderer The URL of the link attached to the previous node looks like this: http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=##self## ##self## is a link macro that references the current node's textual content.

Link macros come in several flavors besides ##self##.

They are useful as search requests arguments to specify richer outline links.

Learn more about link macros in activeRenderer's Tutorial 9.

7/04/05 - 10:58 pm GMT - [guid]

With the webOutliner tool installed...

...

I can prepare a post using a full featured browser based outliner, then press the 'post to weblog' icon to publish it into this weblog.

This is my first public posting experiment with the webOutliner, a companion Radio tool to activeRenderer.

The webOutliner is still under wraps, but its release date is getting closer :-) There is no official webOutliner site yet, but a demo site has been running for some time.

There is also a wo-support discussion group; and a support index.

With the current version of webOutliner, I can format my posts in static HTML (using HTML blockquote tags) or, in activeRenderer style dynamic HTML, such as in this post.

This is fun when linking to podcasts, such as these Morning Coffee Notes from Dave Winer.

There's still a little work to do: filtering DHTML in the RSS feed, providing for post links and enclosures, sending outlines over email.

Parallel development is on the way on non Radio, non Usertalk environments.

Stay tuned.

5/04/05 - 10:22 pm GMT - [guid]

Download activeRenderer 2.5

[image] After the customary delays (even worse than my worst estimates this time :-), the new version 2.5 of activeRenderer is now available for download.

Here is a quick summary of activeRenderer 2.5's new and upgraded features.

Plain text rendering: activeRenderer now renders regular text documents in addition to OPML outlines and RSS news feeds.

It even renders dot-head format files, for nostalgia's sake.

[image] Word documents rendering: in addition to plain text, activeRenderer now renders Microsoft Word documents - .doc files.

For this feature to work, Microsoft Word has to be installed on the system running the Radio/activeRenderer application.

Automatic importing feature: any text or Word document dropped, saved or modified in aR's new www/imports folders is automatically rendered as an OPML document in the matching www/outlines folder.

This triggers its upstreaming as DHTML on the public site.

Audio transclusion: the transclusion mechanism in activeRenderer now recognizes several audio file formats when processing OPML link attributes: ".mp3", "m4a" (Apple), ".wav" (Microsoft) and ".mid" (MIDI).

These audio links are rendered in the outline's DHTML version with a new 'speaker' wedge.

[image] Clicking the speaker wedge creates a small player object under the linking node, sized according to the linking node's width.

The audio content starts playing.

You can control the sound output through the player object.

[image] This should be helpful to poscasters who are publishing show notes in OPML format using Radio with activeRenderer, or are using the activeRenderer web service.

Importing feeds from mySubscriptions.opml: activeRenderer's outline browser now has a new import button at the bottom of its news feed list [screenshot].

Clicking import, you can locate a subScriptions.opml file on your local system or on the Web [screenshot], and ask activeRenderer to automatically add all the feeds of that file into Radio's aggregator: mass subscription! Registration is back: It's optional, works fast [screenshot], the server side processing is simple and hosted in NYC. Registration is a first step in getting to know activeRenderer users, something that is very important in any community driven project.

So please take a few seconds to register once aR 2.5 is installed.

Complete release notes are available on the ar-announce Yahoo group.

Indeed, ar-announce and ar-support have been the places where most of the action took place these past months.

In an effort to take better advantage of RSS publishing, I will publish more detailed information about each aR 2.5 new feature on this channel in the coming days.

24/03/05 - 11:36 pm GMT - [guid]

activeRenderer 2.4 Steps Forward

[image] Version 2.3.1, announced last June, is now officially reported Missing In Action, fallen to determined bug attacks - and pressing other engagements - during the testing phase.

RIP. At long last, activeRenderer 2.4 is now ready for download.

It has all the features of 2.3.1, and a whole bunch of others.

Here's a short list: The registration process at first time installation is now history: I couldn't afford the time to replace the aging (defunct?) registration service graciously offered by eVectors in Northen Italy.

New users: we'd still love hearing from you, drop us a note anyway.

[image] activeRenderer is now available in German, thanks to Werner Bohlmann and a little help from Albert Baeumel, as well as in Italian, thanks to Fabio Artuso.

Gwénaël's work in vs. 2.3 makes localization almost painless; we're still looking for Spanish, Dutch and Danish contributions.

To switch languages, use the popup at the bottom of activeRenderer's preferences page.

The outline rendering of RSS feeds and of Radio's aggregator is vastly improved: no more risks of crashing Radio when feeds contain malformed HTML Tags.

I also added a clever (I hope) sentences processor to separate posts content into outline nodes in a clean way (this was a major endeavour, took way too long :-) The outline browser got a little face surgery.

You can check it out on the demo site.[image] Local lists in the 'news' and 'outlines' tabs are now selectable.

After selecting an entry, you can either delete it (unsubscribe for an RSS feed) or rename it.

Clicking twice on an entry puts you directly in text editing mode.

When browsing a news feed which is not in your subscription list already, you can subscribe to it directly.

Finally you can enlarge or reduce the font used to display outlines.

At Thomas Burg's request, you can open transcluded Flash or QT Movie objects full size in a different window when clicking on the new 'spyglass' button that appears at the right of the transcluded node.

At Gwénaël's suggestion, I added a new startup preference so that aR may republish in the background at a programmable interval all pages created using a template that includes the rssBox macro.

[image] If I can convince Gwénaël to lead the development of the next 2.5 version of activeRenderer, it will include wizards to easily format and style rssBox and activeRoll macros in weblog publishing templates.

13/10/04 - 7:49 pm GMT - [guid]

Brioude-Internet : référencement et positionnement

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