Next/Previous links, Keeping current with Radio
As
I mentioned
in the Radio UserLand
discussion site,
I stumbled upon a reference to a couple of macros
recently added to Radio: nextDayLink and previousDayLink.
(Here is
Lawrence Lee's announcement about them.)
I had been thinking to try to figure out a way to do this myself,
so I do find them very useful.
However, it's a bit troubling that I only found out about them
by accident — UserLand doesn't seem to have a very
good way of notifying Radio's users when a feature has been added
that you have to change your templates in order to take advantage of it.
I have done so and republished my whole weblog. What this means is
that now, for instance, if you only want to look at pictures, you would
click my "About Me & GIGO"
navigation link, then see the entry about the categories, and click on the
pix category, and then you can
navigate via the "Previous/Next" links in the Calendar box.
Lawrence did say that the "Best place to watch for all updates is with
the Radio.root updates RSS feed:"
http://static.userland.com/updatelogs/Radio.xml
(That is, you would enable the feed by entering the above .xml address
into the form in the middle of the news aggregator subscriptions page:
http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/subscriptions
and clicking the "Add" button.)
So maybe I'll try to go through that feed and cull out the ones
(mostly new macro definitions)
that you have to activate manually. I mean, I suppose it's nice to
know about all of the bug-fixes, but it's not essential: you just
get them automatically for free with Radio's nightly self-update.
The added features don't generally become useful until you
put in references in your templates somewhere. So they're
IMHO more important to separate from the full stream of bug fix
info in that XML feed.
10:46:57 AM
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