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Nov. 10th, 2008
...can anyone who has a negative opinion of the new LJ profile page tell me why you don't like it? More than just "it's ugly" - why is it ugly? (Those of you who are tired of the furore can scroll on by.)
I accidentally ended up being one of the beta testers for the new profile. A few weeks ago I was changing something-or-other in my profile, noticed a checkbox that said "Beta-test the new profile page?" thought "Huh. I wonder what they're doing with it?" and checked the box. After that, alll profile pages appeared the new way to me, so I got used to it and forgot that most people didn't see it that way until my f-list erupted in OMGWTFLJ?! :)
Anyway, my opinion is: hey, the stats I'm interested in are at the top instead of at the bottom hidden behind a cut-tag and I like left-justified because I am BORING.
I accidentally ended up being one of the beta testers for the new profile. A few weeks ago I was changing something-or-other in my profile, noticed a checkbox that said "Beta-test the new profile page?" thought "Huh. I wonder what they're doing with it?" and checked the box. After that, alll profile pages appeared the new way to me, so I got used to it and forgot that most people didn't see it that way until my f-list erupted in OMGWTFLJ?! :)
Anyway, my opinion is: hey, the stats I'm interested in are at the top instead of at the bottom hidden behind a cut-tag and I like left-justified because I am BORING.
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Nov. 10th, 2008 05:33 pmXSLT can just bite Mello's fabulous ass.
Spent the afternoonbanging my head on my desk trying to get a blog RSS feed to appear without having the HTML elements stripped out.
Got much farther along than I had before, which is Good, but I have now found more New and Interesting Problems, which is Bad. i.e., sure, I can have the contents of a blog post show up on a page with the HTML tags intact, however if I want that to happen, I have to have THE ENTIRE POST DUPLICATED WITHOUT THE HTML TAGS ON TOP OF IT.
It reeeeally doesn't help that my knowledge of XML/XSL/XSLT is in the "typing in magic words I found on teh intarwebs and seeing what happens" phase. I have almost no understanding of this whatsoever. The only bright spot seems to be that the XML reference books from 2002 and 2004 that the library has, the most recent ones in the collection, seem to still be valid.
Spent the afternoon
Got much farther along than I had before, which is Good, but I have now found more New and Interesting Problems, which is Bad. i.e., sure, I can have the contents of a blog post show up on a page with the HTML tags intact, however if I want that to happen, I have to have THE ENTIRE POST DUPLICATED WITHOUT THE HTML TAGS ON TOP OF IT.
It reeeeally doesn't help that my knowledge of XML/XSL/XSLT is in the "typing in magic words I found on teh intarwebs and seeing what happens" phase. I have almost no understanding of this whatsoever. The only bright spot seems to be that the XML reference books from 2002 and 2004 that the library has, the most recent ones in the collection, seem to still be valid.