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Tuesday, April 9, 2002

Upgraded Post to Weblog Menu
4/9/02; 10:30:11 by MB

Replace all instances of renderCss in s l a m with renderOpml. -- Done

Create a story to explain how renderOpml works. -- Done

Announce renderOpml in radio-dev.

Here is another cool way to link an outline with a weblog's HTML content: Dave has quietly released an upgrade to the Post to Weblog outline right-click menu.
In the previous version it would just take the text of the cursor headline. In the new version it traverses the cursor outline, marking it up with <ul> and <li> tags. [Radio.root Updates]
It's all a matter of when the linking occurs. The Post to Weblog menu is totally static linking. The opmlRender macro is publishing time semi static. XSLT filters are dynamic.

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opmlRender: An Expanded Outline Rendering Macro
I've added standard URL compliance and expanded/collapsed state rendering to renderCss, my previous attempt at using Frontier macros to render opml outlines.
renderCss is born again as opmlRender, here is a full tutorial on how to use it.
URL compliance can be fun: whose outlines are those ?

Status: online
8/29/02; 11:33:49 PM by JES -- Lawrence
I released the parts for getting updates over Jabber to work. Go ahead and test. Let me know if it works for you. thx.
8/29/02; 10:57:26 PM by JES -- Jabber test
Testing Jabber-based notifications. If it beeps, then I'm in business.
It beeped! -- Lawrence tracked down the bug and I'll release the fix in a few minutes.
8/29/02; 9:16:37 PM by JES -- Rob
Did this make your computer beep? (Rob says yes.) Cool -- beep!
8/29/02; 8:34:34 PM by JES -- small bug fix
Just fixed a small bug with the IO notification over IM: The callbacks at user.radio.outliner.callbacks.subscriptionChanged weren't being called. Now they are again.
8/28/02; 10:14:57 PM by JES -- Rob
Are you running in MacOS X? (I assume that you are.)
Try putting your cursor on the following line and hitting Cmd-/ -- does it beep?
8/28/02; 10:06:24 PM by JES -- Hi Andy
Is this the same IM account that you use for your regular IM-ing? If so, you should get another one for Radio.
8/28/02; 9:54:35 PM by JES -- Hi Sam
Thanks for the mug. ;-)
8/28/02; 9:11:16 PM by JES -- for Sam DeVore
I can see that you subscribed to my outline, but when I went to your site to find your OPML coffee mug, I didn't see one...
8/28/02; 8:57:32 PM by JES -- Hi Rob
I see you. Welcome!
8/28/02; 5:22:51 PM by JES -- Hi Jack
Just saw that Jack Mancilla subscribed to me, so I've subscribed in turn. Hi Jack!
8/28/02; 4:54:36 PM by JES -- Lawrence
Just saw your update. :-)
Lawrence asked: "What happens if I'm offline and someone wants to signup to my outline via IM notification?"
8/28/02; 4:44:21 PM by JES -- more for Tom
Your IM connection shut down? You mean the IM connection Radio's using?
I was about to say: Restarting Radio will re-connect to your IM service. The Jabber protocol may be a little bit more robust in this respect.
8/28/02; 3:49:43 PM by JES -- Hi Tom
Just saw that Tom Clifton is subscribed to my outline, so I thought I'd return the favor. Hi Tom!
Tom wrote: "Do I have to resubscribe to my buddies to get the notification working?"
8/27/02; 4:36:43 PM by JES -- milestone
Lawrence just got notification that my outline changed via an IM-0RPI call. It was almost instantaneous!
8/27/02; 4:13:31 PM by JES
Hello World!

10/20/02; 11:34:48 AM by DW
All parts are released, announced on Radio-Dev.
The wiener boys' sphincters are starting to contract.
10/20/02; 10:37:38 AM by DW
After more testing.. Changes needed in these parts:
10/20/02; 9:52:27 AM by DW
Parts I'm going to release:
Announce the spec
10/14/02; 10:15:44 AM by DW
Projects on my plate
8/29/02; 6:15:31 PM by DW
A fresh start for my instant outline.

Of course, this is publishing time static rendering. For anything dynamic, XSLT is the way to go. Joshua Allen has a head start.

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storyList and radioScan
Jon, author of the original storyList macro (among other things :-) had some intriguing comments on radioScan last night:
As I look at these things side by side, I wonder whether JavaScript compatibility is the major issue. In both versions, the category names are tucked into HREF TITLE attributes, which means they're only shown when you hover over an item title (and maybe only in IE).
Perhaps a table enumerating all stories, with titles, dates, and categories, is really what the storyList page wants to be. This kind of widget can be rendered statically in a number of ways, and you can give the illusion of sorting up and down on any column by caching these views. It can all be done with no JavaScript dependency.
This would work up to a few hundred items. After that, you'd need to start partitioning the display, but even this can be done in a dynamically-rendered/statically-served way. [Jon's Radio]
How interesting... Jon, may be you could be a little more specific about the 'give the illusion of sorting up and down on any column by caching these views' with 'no JavaScript dependency' part ?
I reckon I'm still learning html and javascript from a programmer's perspective. It's not as bad as I thought. With a little help, I may whip up the time to advance the storyList macro in the direction 'it wants to go'. Or maybe it's your turn now :-)

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