Monday, January 21, 2002

Yes; I can use a pre block. So HTML editing via a web form with a sometimes parses, sometimes doesn't submission mechanism sucks monkey. No news there and certainly not something to hold against Radio. I wish someone would put together a freakin' HTML editor that (a) was usable and (b) didn't result in 80% of the document being marked up with meta information and CSS stuff that is largely useless, given context. Two steps forward, five steps back. 2:00:01 PM

Notice how these are separated by blank lines. But < this &lt; this line is not separated? It has something to do with < / &< appearing in the text. It appears that some HTML markup is required. Let's see, can I use a PRE block to show you exactly what was entered? Notice how these are separated by blank lines. But < this &lt; this line is not separated? It has something to do with < / &< appearing in the text. 1:53:56 PM

That went badly. (1) Radio Userland [the app on OS X] is unable to open files in Text Edit if Text Edit is already running. Doh! (2) Mozillas HTML editor works somewhat rather well for dealing with complex structure. Unfortunately, it changed all of the < into &lt;'s, etc... Obviously, it changed some other stuff. (3) Radio Userland does not refer to files in the filesystem cleanly. If there is a #homeTemplate~.txt -- a TextEdit backup file -- it will happily use that. Somebody messed up the FSRef stuff. (4) Manila envelope didn't work for me at all. The fault is entirely mine, I have *no clue* what I'm doing. Yet, somehow, I feel like the README should provide at least a hint of how to configure things. If not that README, than something somewhere. Alas, no luck. (5) What is up with this sort of kind of parsed, but not parsed, plain text, but not plain text post editor?? Is it HTML or not? Is there documentation somewhere that remotely describes what it is going to do to whatever I type in? At least my page is a little bit less frilly now. Still pining for WebDAV support. Maybe the next best thing is to have a local-to-my-machine FTP server and something that automatically syncs via WebDAV, as necessary. Maybe someday, this weblog will actually have something interesting in it. Hmmm... awful lot of potential here, just don't know if I have the patience to go there. The barrier to entry seems rather painful, at the moment. 1:49:24 PM