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So, hey, I finally deployed my Arc blog
14 points by wfarr 6098 days ago | 10 comments
As I explained in my first post, code-wise it's nothing fancy. But it works.

It does rely on Anarki if for nothing but additional html tag support and macros I added to html.arc. My layout is 100% table-free (sorry pg - I'm just not a fan of tables), and does what it needs to.

I know some other folks were expressing queries in other threads about deployment, which I also address in my post.

Anyhoo, those interested can check it out here: http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~wfarr/



6 points by lojic 6098 days ago | link

Well done, the site does look good. I'm not a fan of tables either, but I do try and get my html to validate. You have a few errors on the page - you might want to check out the following:

  http://validator.w3.org/
About done with high school, eh? Boy, I feel old now :)

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2 points by wfarr 6098 days ago | link

Yeah, a lot of the validation issues come from Arc's somewhat stubborn nature regarding tags that should end with a slash.

For now, I've moved the doctype to HTML 4.01 Transitional and all is well. I really would like to go back to XHTML though.

The CSS could use some work too, but most of the issues with that are my early adoption of some css3 standards.

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3 points by lojic 6097 days ago | link

Given that the browser with 80% to 90% can't handle XHTML properly, and after long drawn out debates in usenet over the best doctype, I've personally settled on HTML 4.01 Strict. Once I discovered how IE actually handles XHTML, that sealed the deal.

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2 points by wfarr 6097 days ago | link

As an update, after much heartbreak over not knowing about (cdata), the RSS now validates as well.

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2 points by wfarr 6098 days ago | link

Got it back up after a brief stint of being incredibly stupid.

One thing I'd really like to get happening is fully-fledged Markdown support, which'd benefit everyone. Anyone who wants to jump in is more than welcome to.

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1 point by almkglor 6098 days ago | link

On Opera 9.10 build 8679 Win32 the following page goes beyond the apparent lowermost border:

http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~wfarr/viewcode?id=1

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1 point by wfarr 6098 days ago | link

It seems Opera's not respecting something with the CSS. The content area not only has a minimum height, but the pre has auto overflows (meaning it should force the box to only a given size and then use scrollbars).

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1 point by croach 6098 days ago | link

The site looks great, I would love to see the code behind it. Maybe you could post it so others could learn a thing or two from it.

Good work, though, the site does look great.

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3 points by wfarr 6098 days ago | link

In that post I detail that it is available here: http://github.com/wfarr/wfarr-arc/tree/master

;)

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2 points by almkglor 6098 days ago | link

cool ^^

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