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Curiouser and Curiouser! on activerenderer http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic activerenderer Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Using RSS to track software updates Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:38:57 +0100 <A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/2002/07/16.html#a221">New activeRenderer.root Updates RSS Feed</A>. Following <A href="http://static.userland.com/updatelogs/Radio.xml">UserLand's lead</A>, I've created a new <A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/categories/aRupdates/rss.xml">RSS feed</A> where I log all modifications to <A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/outlines/aR/activeRenderer.html">activeRenderer</A>. This way, aR users who <A href="http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/subscriptions?url=http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/categories/aRupdates/rss.xml">subscribe</A> to this feed can get an idea of which new aR parts are downloaded . [<A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/2002/07/16.html#a221" target=_blank>read more</A>] [<A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/">s l a m</A>] <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> » This is a very good idea.  </BLOCKQUOTE> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000218.html activeRenderer macro reference Sat, 28 Sep 2002 22:06:56 +0100 <A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/2002/09/26.html#a374">activeRenderer's Macros Reference</A>. I've compiled and documented a list of the macros activeRenderer provides for improving Radio templates with outlines: check out aR's <A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/outlines/aR/aRMacros.html">macros reference</A>. [<A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/2002/09/26.html#a374" target=_blank>read more</A>] [<A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/">s l a m</A>] <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> » Cool.  I envy Marc's documentation...</BLOCKQUOTE> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000626.html The Amazing Transcluding Browser Fri, 11 Oct 2002 09:15:38 +0100 <A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/2002/10/10.html#a423">Transclusion Breakthrough: The Endless Web Page</A>. The links you can see on the <A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/outlines/aR/endlessWebPage.html">Endless Web Page</A> demo, with [img] icons, are the result of a long research. Clicking the [img] icon, or the link's text, will cause the linked outline to be inserted directly in the current page, as a child of the node that carried the link. [img] While the linked outline is rendered, the [img] icon is replaced by a small rotating globe. Once the linked content is inserted, the [img] reverses to a 'regular' outline wedge [img] , with the standard collapse/expand functions attached. This is the in-browser version of what <A href="http://scripting.com/">Dave Winer</A> and UserLand created for Radio's outliner. This is instant rendering, happening on the fly as you browse through the current page. It is totally recursive: try clicking on the 'endless web page' node that appears under my name in the demo page. [<A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/2002/10/10.html#a423" target=_blank>read more</A>] [<A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/">s l a m</A>] <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> » Congratulations to Marc. He's done some pretty amazing stuff to get this working.  It's an amazing demo -- check it out.</BLOCKQUOTE> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000702.html activeRenderer 1.3.1 Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:44:55 +0000 <A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/2002/11/14.html#a480">activeFix for liveTopics</A>. <A title="meet Matt" href="http://www.ryze.org/view.php?who=mowerm">[img] </A>Or is it liveFix for activeTopics ? :-) <A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0107808/">Matt</A> and I quickly found out that the new 1.3 version of <A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/outlines/aR/activeRenderer.html">activeRenderer</A>, with its new 'page' wedges for HTML link attributes to outline nodes, was thoroughly breaking <A href="http://www.novissio.com/Products/liveTopics/livetopics.html">liveTopics</A>' indexes. The updated 1.3.1 version of activeRenderer fixes a couple of minor bugs, and handles HTML link attributes in a more liveTopics friendly way. [<A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/2002/11/14.html#a480" target=_blank>read more</A>] [<A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/">s l a m</A>] <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> » My thanks to Marc for quickly & elegantly fixing this problem.  The new activeRenderer features are very cool so you can be sure that liveTopics will soon be exploiting them!</BLOCKQUOTE> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000827.html activePaolo Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:57:58 +0000 <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> Outlined weblogs? Just a little experiment with Marc Barrot's <A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/outlines/aR/activeRenderer.html">activeRenderer</A> and iframe: <A href="http://paolo.evectors.it/outlines/outlineCollection.html">check it out</A> (it might take a while to load...)";->" [<A href="http://paolo.evectors.it/">Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog</A>]</BLOCKQUOTE> » Sweet ;-) Okay also on Paolo's advice I am experimenting with changing my quoting style and indenting the material being quoted.  To me, right now, it looks totally weird and unnatural.  I hope it will grow on me.  I guess it renders my little red chevron meaningless as well.  Such a shame, I liked that little chevron... http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00000878.html Outlined RSS in the browser Tue, 04 Mar 2003 21:28:17 +0000 <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/2003/03/04.html#a560">Outlined RSS Comes to the Browser</A>. <A title="click for screenshot" href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/images/my/activeBrowser01.png" target=_blank>[img] </A>I have finally released <A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/outlines/aR/activeRenderer.html">activeRenderer</A> vs 1.4. The new version packs 3 new features: <UL> <LI>activeRenderer now renders RSS format files (news feeds) in active outlined form, <LI>with activeRenderer installed in Radio, you can now visualize both OPML and RSS local files in the new outline browser, <LI>activeRenderer's rendering engine is now accessible as a web service, via both a local URL and a public one at services.activeRenderer.com/activerenderer/render.</LI></UL> Here are some more screenshots of the outline browser: <A title="click for screenshot" href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/images/my/activeBrowser02.png" target=_blank>win/mozilla</A> - <A title="click for screenshot" href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/images/my/activeBrowser03.png" target=_blank>win/msie</A> - <A title="click for screenshot" href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/images/my/activeBrowser04.png" target=_blank>mac/msie</A> - <A title="click for screenshot" href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/images/my/activeBrowser05.png" target=_blank>mac/safari</A>).  [<A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/2003/03/04.html#a560" target=_blank>read more</A>] [<A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/">s l a m</A>]</BLOCKQUOTE> This is really cool.  Marc's pretty close to realising his vision. http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001255.html Mozilla and liveTopics Wed, 02 Apr 2003 19:40:34 +0100 I don't use Mozilla as my day-to-day browser.  Over the last couple of years I have become very dependent upon MS IE.  IE may be a terribly irritating browser at times but it's still ahead of Mozilla on Windows and the WYSIWYG editor is a major plus when editing weblog posts. However I have to take my hat off to the Mozilla developers for providing a vastly superior environment for writing web applications.  Over the last couple of days I have been delving into the DOM and using JavaScript+DOM to create a dynamic interface for liveTopics.  IE just sucks in this respect.  It's error messages are hard to find, unhelpful or just plain wrong.  Using the Mozilla console & DOM inspector have just made things much easier.  Now if I could just figure out the debugger... One thing that does puzzle me though is why the built in View Source application: <UL> <LI>doesn't show line numbers <LI>doesn't have a jump-to-line-n command</LI></UL> Both seem like pretty obvious functionality to me. So, what is this all in aid of?  Well <A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/">Marc</A> wowed me with the possibilities available with DOM & JS in today's browser (I did most of my HTML & JavaScript coding over 3 years ago) and I realised that I could totally overhaul the part of the liveTopics interface that needed it most. Here are some screenshots to give you an idea where I am going with this. <%softShadow( "http://matt.blogs.it/images/liveTopics/topicManager1.jpg" )%>The old suggest topics interface is gone, long live the topic manager.  You'll notice that this interface displays the topic types available in my weblog. <%softShadow( "http://matt.blogs.it/images/liveTopics/topicManager2.jpg" )%>There are no suggested topics shown in this shot but they would appear as regular checkbox items. Here I have popped open one of the types to show the topics I can select from it. All thanks to the magic of activeRenderer. <%softShadow( "http://matt.blogs.it/images/liveTopics/topicManager3.jpg" )%>Heres the magic. Click + and add a new topic. You can also say what type it should belong to. <%softShadow( "http://matt.blogs.it/images/liveTopics/topicManager4.jpg" )%>The interface is totally dynamic. There are a few more days work to get this to a point where it is usable.  I hope to release 1.1.3 to interested parties (Roland?) at the weekend.  Oh and of course this release also contains RSS+topics and Topic Types! http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001347.html