Mooquackwooftweetmeow
Concatenating zoölogical onomatopœia since 1999
About Mooquackwooftweetmeow
Hi! This is Mooquackwooftweetmeow, a collection of stuff by Greg K Nicholson.
Entries labelled ‘The Twaddle’
- Hash those hs!
A quick request of everyone who writes web pages, especially weblogs, or who designs web page templates:
- The Twaddlebot has been unleashed
Last night version 1.0 of The Twaddle went live. It uses arbitrary XML and XSLT to generate valid XHTML pages... offline.
- On-the-fly page validation
I wonder if this is possible. I've been dabbling with JavaScript a little recently, in order to produce The Twaddle's Expletatron and this seems like something that should be possible with JS:
- Chameleon
The Twaddle v0.21 is up. It now has multiple, user-choosable themes; the current options are the three (modern) themes that have already been published - Forest, St. George and Yellow Sky, plus the Default theme, currently Yellow Sky.
- Stop! Thief!
I've read articles about CSS design theft before - I never thought I'd be a victim.
- Adventures in XML
I did manage to get the XML+XSL-based jiggery-pokery for The Twaddle working - quite nicely, actually. Getting the entire contents of the content field onto the page took a little bit of effort, as described on the mozillaZine forums.
- Opera + XSL = Eugh
Evidently Opera doesn't like XSL - this weblog shows up as a lot of plain text with the odd URL chucked in. The question is whether I care.
- IE + XML + XSL + XHTML + W3C = Get In!
As a prelude to some major back-end renovation I'm planning for The Twaddle, I decided to see if I could get Internet Explorer 6 to display this XSL-ified weblog nicely, not accounting for IE-unsupported CSS (which is already taken care of at The Twaddle). Previously, IE displayed the DOCTYPE declaration as plain text at the top of the page; using strategic HTML commenting, I've managed to prevent it from doing so.
- Hurrah for Ridiculous Quotes!
While perusing this weblog at this ridiculous hour, I happened to follow my (text) link to the April Fools' Day thread on The Twaddle Forums, whereupon (oh, yeah!) I saw this most ridiculous quote from my cousin, who likes to call himself bob:
- April Fool!
Only kidding - it's not really.
- The Twaddle is now printastic, and other web-authoring-related digressions
A while ago I added a print stylesheet to Mooquackwooftweetmeow; now, The Twaddle's had the same treatment. On Saturday I also gave The Twaddle a site icon, so the site's now approaching Mooquackwooftweetmeow in completeness. Does this mean v1.0 any time soon? Probably not...maybe.
- It's Still Not A Tree The website formerly known as This Wasn't A Tree
About these entries
Questions? Comments? Plaudits? Microblog at identi.ca/gregknicholson, or with the tag #thetwaddle; or email me at greg@gkn.me.uk.