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© copyright 2002
by Marc Barrot

Monday, June 3, 2002

Welcome To s l a m's Neighborhood Here is a link to s l a m's neighborhood, as harvested by UserLand's lastest Weblog Neighborhood Tool. Fascinating: I have never heard of more than two thirds of the harvester's findings. A lot of reading ahead... I'll probably update the neighborhood page in the coming days, to observe how the new headLinks macro is spreading. 7:16:34 PM    comments:   Google It!

RSS Subscriptions Auto-discovery Jon Udel writes : - However, I'm using my channelroll script to automatically surface my reading list. - One option would be to surface it is an RSS feed, a la DJ's meta link - Another would be to have the channelroll script write a blogroll.opml, and then use radio.macros.blogroll to render it. The information that Jon is publishing in his channelRoll, which I use in s l a m's home page as well, is automatically stored in a gems/mySubscription.opml document, when the proper preference is checked in Radio. When it exists, this OPML subscriptions list document is the one referenced by the new headLinks macro, in the link tag with the rel="subscriptions" and type="text/x-opml" attributes. Another item in my never-ending toDo list is to write a newer version of channelRoll, based on the mySubscriptions.opml document, with some 'active wedges' and transclusion magic. Got to finish my XSLT based transclusion work first though... 12:54:43 PM    comments:   Google It!

Link Autodiscovery Follow-up Userland has released this morning a replacement for Friday's linkToRss macro. It is called headLinks, and covers subscriptions, and blogrolls in addition to RSS feeds. Very Neat. Even neater, Radio's aggregator now supports RSS auto-discovery. One final note: Dave actually took the time to update linkToRss so that it calls the newer and slightly different headLinks code. In this way, given Radio's auto-update feature, there will be no disruption in the rss link, even if one doesn't replace linkToRss with headLink in one's home template. Imo, user consideration in development doesn't come any better. Well, Dave chose to call his company UserLand, didn't he ? 11:59:47 AM    comments:   Google It!

Outline Abstract Draft Ian Bruk has come up with an interesting expansion idea for activeRenderer in outline (non weblog) mode: an 'abstract' widget that would work like the 'latest' widget on s l a m's home page. The 'abstract' widget would output a list of the rendered OPML outline summits (or top nodes), somewhere on the side of the actual outline (may be next to the expand all / collapse all links). This assumes that the summits in the outline are titles. Clicking on a title would expand all subnodes below this summit (read chapter or paragraph) in the outline, collapsing all the other summits. This does not look difficult to implement in Javascript, leveraging the W3C DOM level 1 API. I'm currently deep in XSLT and transclusion rendering, so I won't address it now. Anybody interested ? Drop me a note , I'll help. 9:31:30 AM    comments:   Google It!

Outline Presentation Is Spreading Cool, DJ Adams is using activeRenderer's javascript code to publish his morning readings. The result is indeed neater and more manageable. DJ has written an outline enabled plugin for blagg, Rael Dornfest's Perl based RSS aggregator. He has also slightly clarified my javascript code, thanks DJ. This reminds me that Paolo has already suggested I modify Radio's aggregator to include some activeRenderer style outline presentation. DJ's experiment proves it's worth it. I've moved the priority up in the seamingly never-ending activeRenderer toDo list. Any help would be warmly welcome. 7:22:41 AM    comments:   Google It!