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Back? Am I back on opml.org? With the folders all named differently, it doesn't map to my blogs.opml.org files So I can't really do anything. Anyway, 24 is starting. When I look at properties on my banner... I get http://blogs.attengine.com/images/defaultBanner.jpg No /amyloo It's mostly working Posting this on attengine.com. Test Test. 7:55 p.m. Central. See if I can puzzle this out Maybe do the NewsRiver stylesheet like the blog template. No more blogging for the sick girl I'm so spacy I'm making 8 mistakes or omissions in every 10 words I (try to) write. Maybe after a nap. Goodnight. Rollyo This is pretty neat. Roll your own search engine. It would be neater still if, in addition to having you enter the URLs of up to 25 sites, it let you import an OPML subscription list, so long as the file included the site URL in addition to the feed URL. (By way of the Krugle blog. Krugle seems to be some sort of open source search product about to launch. Or maybe Krugle is the company and Rollyo is the product. It's a little hard to tell. Chris "Rageboy" Locke is doing the blogging.) Stylesheet in the object database I'm home sick today, so I might doodle around with Dave's second alterative to NewsRiver CSS: 2. Another possibility is to get the content from the object database. This sounds a bit more hairy than it actually is. You could have a command in a menu somewhere that says Open My CSS, and an outline window would open and it would say NewsRiver CSS. You’d edit it, and refresh your NewsRiver site in the browser, and boom, the change would be instantly visible. Now the user wouldn’t really be sure exactly where the CSS resides. But then they don’t have to worry about where it is. I do this in a bunch of places in the OPML Editor, and so far haven’t heard too many complaints. (Check out the Open Log Outline command in the Community menu for an example.) I'm not as sold on this way; it's nothing to do with the method. In thinking about how the stylesheets might be used, I have a feeling users might like having a menu of already-made choices -- like blog templates. Not everybody who wants to use a simple aggregator would necessarily want to write their own CSS. I suppose there could be a copy-and-paste page for users on a given community server and they could use this method that way. On the other hand, the way they're set up now, neither the readWholeFile nor the includeHttp method would allow a user to change the stylesheet. They only have two choices. If there's a file where the macro in the template is pointing, it gets used. If there's nothing there, they get the plain default style. SO, maybe the menu thing could be used to specify the file in the file system or out on the web. Because I'm sure he must need it... Here's some appreciation for Dan MacTough, a.k.a. yabfog, for toiling on the community server. Ha! includeHttp just works!
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