It's technically already Thursday in Europe but let's pretend it's still Wednesday. Today, Wikidot ran smoothly, with barely a slowdown, even though network traffic hit peaks of over 20Mbps at around 8pm CET. We did a scheduled database reorganization last night at 1am CET, which helped keep performance perfect today. Me, I've just finished a new Iron Giant template site and a bunch of new themes.
The techblog template site is a fork of the standard blog template, but stripped down and redesigned to work as a technology blog. Mainly this was an exercise in design, to see if a typical technology blog could be wikified. The answer is, "yes".
As part of the exercise, I also produced a dozen or so themes, all variations on a… theme… sorry. This Minimalist theme set use no graphics, and you can customize them using only a little CSS. I have this vision of a module that will let you simply choose two colors, one for the highlight, and one for the background… bingo! A new personalized theme.
i like.
nice one
shame opera don't like it :-(
.Goal NHGC
Sigh. I tested on FireFox, Safari, IE8, and just don't have an Opera installed. Will do that tomorrow then.
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There seems to be an issue with the parser when it finds no tags in %%tags%%.
I have seen this error a couple of times now, but you can reproduce it by removing the visible tags from page project:technology-blog. The calling page, irongiant start, will then corrupt the first three Listpages results - the issue-tracker title disappears! - until you re-add a visible tag.
For the time being, I have added the tags "technology" and "blog" to make the irongiant start page display the list properly.
Problem is that %%tags%% can now return an empty string, and it seems that the coloration syntax (somevalue) does not like an empty value. I fixed it simply by putting a space after %%tags%%. You can check it works, I've removed the "technology" and "blog" tags on the page. (Feel free to retag after.)
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OK, that trick works! But not if you want to display the tags in bold, apparently.
**%%tags%%** displays as **** when there are no tags present
**%%tags%% ** displays as ** ** when there are no tags present
Is there a similar fix for this?
(I've put the tags back onto that page.)
Ah, I was wondering why **** was appearing on some pages. So I've found two workaround. Either add a dot after the %%tags%%, before the closing **. Or add an invisible character such as ' ' (Unicode emspace).
I'll make a note and we'll fix the parser. You can see the same effect if you place a comment between the asterisks, like this: **[!--comment--]** giving ****.
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