Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

I created (or rather modified) some code to allow for quicktags, so commenters can have bold, italic and code text, amongst other features.

I also added in abbr and acronym tags, just for fun.

Today, I made this even more kick-ass.

If you select some text, and click on abbr or acronym, and there is a valid acronym in the list in the script, it autofills the definition in the dialog for you.

I got rather excited after doing this. But, I’m a nerd.

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Note: The seperate Quicktags toolbar is not supported. Please use the full toolbox script, or hack it any way you like. The remainder of this post remains for posterity only.

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Anyway, you can get the button version here, and the CSS link version here. Remember to Right-click and download, rather than just clicking on them.

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One thing is missing from my Comment Preview script: when you click on the link button you get a window to enter the link URI, I need to implement the equivalent for the acronym/abbr.

Actually, I can probably autofill most of the acronyms. That would be cool. And maybe get the code added back into the one that is used for the WordPress Dash.

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I use SubEthaEdit all of the time, and the feature I like just about most is the Copy As XHTML ⇧⌘C. This will create some nice marked up text that accurately represents what SubEthaEdit looks like - it takes your current syntax styling layout and creates is as XHTML.

There are a couple of issues, at least with Blogsome. Firstly, for some reason Blogsome needs all style tags inside the block to use ‘, not “. I think it might be to do with the fact it is a <pre> block. I did notice it was screwing with some double-quotes on another script I was posting.

My other hassle is that the syntax highlighting isn’t quite right for AppleScript: it doesn’t take into account terms used from applications, so sometimes the wrong colour appear.

I will write an Automator action that grabs the XHTML from SubEthaEdit, replaces ” with ‘, and pastes it into the current active text box, I think.

I also started using Convert Script To Markup Code - don’t recall where I found this, but it does a much better job of marking up the text from Script Editor, and everything looks much nicer.

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I’ve noticed some commenters Gravatars are not loading, including mine. Some of them are, but I don’t know why.

I haven’t been able to log into Gravatar.com to see what’s going on.

Oh, and Jake, I think there’s a problem with document.commentform on your site, and I cannot submit a comment.

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Not that I get a lot of PGP encrypted email, but I had GPGMail installed, and I upgraded to Tiger (I missed the chance to do an Archive & Install, apparently - they hid that a bit too well).

Mail complained on startup that GPGMail wouldn’t run, but apparently it still was trying to render the emails through it, as every email I tried to view caused Mail.app to crash. A cursory inspection of the Crash Report told me this was the cause. Disabling it fixed it alright.

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I have a couple of DVDs a friend gave me, and I have noticed some interesting things occurring with them. Firstly, I thought the DVD he gave me was bad, as it would not mount in my iMac G4. It’s an HFS or HFS+ disc, so will not mount in a PC either.

I then asked him for another copy, which he gave to me. It won’t mount either. Thinking something weird was going on, I tried it in an iMac G5, with a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive. Mounted first time. I then tried it in another iMac G5, this time with a DVD-RW (specifically, a Pioneer DVR-K04F) drive, and it wouldn’t mount.

So, it seems like this DVD will mount in DVD-ROM drives, but not DVD-RW drives. And I cannot make another copy, as the only drives it will mount in are not Recordable drives!

Every other disc I have tried in my iMac has worked. I am stumped.

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I haven’t updated the iPod in a while, and I noticed after doing it tonight that it gives it a nice new icon, and when restarting the iPod it gives a progress bar, just like booting up a Mac.

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Note: This has been updated to reflect most of the feedback I received from the comments and emails.

One of the ways to combat comment spam is to use a Catchpa: or a Completely Automated Turing Test to Tell Humans and Computers Apart. I have implemented one with a simple bit of JavaScript.
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Boing Boing: Interesting words from around the world

My favourite: bakku-shan: a girl who appears pretty from behind but not the front. Japanese.

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Since someone on the forums mentioned that you can change some hardcore options with /wp-admin/options.php, I got a little interested, and discovered there are other filest that you can run, and do interesting stuff with.
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