links for 2006-11-23
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Wondering if I can use the first-letter and text-transform things to ensure that posts auto-created by del.icio.us will have a title beginning "Links for..." rather than "links for...". Looking at other blogs, seems they only went lower-case recently.
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Free, open-source LAN mapping, monitoring, remote control & VPN application.
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PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.
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Fabulous way to display 12" record sleeves. Must ask for some of these for Christmas. I used to blu-tack sleeves to the wall in my student days, but this is more grown-up.
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Good summary of recent Dutch history & background, plus general musing on British, Dutch & Muslim identity.
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Here's a User Script for Greasemonkey to warn when you're going over the 255 byte limit in the del.icio.us notes field, to avoid truncated notes.
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Selective discography of John Cale in French, with images of record sleeves. I had never spotted Warhol's image on the Songs For Drella cover!
Update: yes, the capitalised headlines thingy worked. Obviously it doesn't change the underlying lower-case word in the Movable Type database, but it displays it with an initial capital when viewed via a CSS-capable browser. For the technically curious, my post titles are coded as follows:
<P class="title">
<a class="permalink" href="<$MTEntryLink$>">
<$MTEntryTitle$>
</a>
</P>
The CSS magic that does the initial cap is as follows:
P.title:first-letter { text-transform: capitalize ; }
Posted by Hg on Thursday 23 November 2006 at 23:26.
Received 3 comments so far.
You need to apply the same CSS to the mouseover state or something. I get capital "Links for.." until I mouseover it and it switches to "links for.."
Anyway, missed the change last week. V.nice. I remain undecided about the del.icio.us dumps though but that's just me.
I DO like yer use of Flickr and overall this is 'my kinda site'. Slick, smooth, uncluttered and hey, look at all that great content!
Comment by Gordon on Monday 27 November 2006 at 10:08.
Oh, thanks for the mouseover tip - hadn't spotted that one. I'll see what I can do.
I might end up styling the del.icio.us dumps differently, to distinguish them from the other stuff. Not sure yet.
Thanks for your other comments, glad you like it. I think I might even go the whole hog and redesign that banner graphic too. I'm keeping it for now to provide continuity, but it's starting to look a little tired to me.
Comment by Hg on Monday 27 November 2006 at 11:53.
Right, this forum thread covers the first-letter de-capitalisation on mouseover thing.
It appears to be a Firefox bug, which hasn't been fixed in Firefox 2.0. Looks like the only feasible workaround would actually capitalise the first letter of all links on mouseover, not just the permalinks.
That seems to be a case of fixing one thing by breaking another, so I'm going to leave it as it is and wait for the Firefox bug fix.
Comment by Hg on Monday 27 November 2006 at 23:29.
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