Writing Online
on my (ab)use of Radio Userland
Friday, August 16, 2002D'Aggregator
I'm attempting to determine what about my Tools post's interaction with Radio's entity decoding bug is causing the NAggregator page to render incorrectly, and, in the process, observing some idiosyncracies of the rendering: 1) debugging radio is annoying, 2) this post won't truncate until I type a dot, or until I reach a certain number of characters; 3) if there is no title element, then the aggregator anchors the whole entry; 4) this would be easier to deal with if I could print system.verbs.builtins.radio.html.viewNewsItems without saving it first as text.Let me guess -- this post will truncate after the word "system"? Nope. It truncates after a fixed char length.
4:51:24 PM # Google It!
categories: Writing Online
Truncation
Radio doesn't quite like it if another application has rss.xml open when it tries to write.I'm trying to truncate my feed again. Luckily Rick wrote down the instructions, since I forgot to write mine. :-( The UserTalk script Dave supplies
on truncate (description, adrpost) {return (string.firstSentence (description))}doesn't consider ! and ? to be the end of sentences. It stops at the first dot (.). It also has trouble with blockquotes, IIRC.
Good thing Google's around, otherwise I'd have even more difficulty following the historical thread on this topic. There's something to be said for threaded discussions in a single venue.
3:06:25 PM # Google It!
categories: Writing Online
