Archive for October, 2006

Improved commenting

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

Commenting is now nice and Ajax-y. Comments can be submitted, edited, and deleted without ever reloading the page. If you have JavaScript off or I wrote script wrong, it’ll still act like before. I made this change to address some of the confusion regarding how to link to other users and styles in comments - […]

We’re OpenID enabled

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

You can now sign in and create new accounts on userstyles.org with OpenIDs. As I discussed earlier, OpenIDs let you have one login for many sites. Not only is this more convenient, it’s probably more secure because, frankly, I’m no security expert and it’s probably better off leaving your personal info with people who know […]

Site’s up

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Dreamhost said I was editing the file with a Windows text editor, which put Windows line breaks in. Good explanation, other than the fact that I run Linux. All’s well, at least. Maybe next time I should back stuff up…

Site’s down

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

I was playing around to get RubyGems working so I can deploy my OpenID changes, but I messed up the server and now the site doesn’t work. I’ve got Dreamhost working on it…

Styling sites that have few or no IDs or classes

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

One of the frequently asked questions I get is how to make styles for sites that have few or no IDs or classes. To explain, I’ll have to go over some CSS concepts. It helps to think of CSS elements as a family (it’s also the way the spec was written), so start thinking of […]

OpenID

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

OpenID is a distributed identification mechanism that I’ve been thinking about using on this site. Essentially, once you had a profile set up, each OpenID site (”consumer”) you visited would just require you to enter your OpenID URL. You would get forwarded to your “provider”, who would ask you if/how you want to allow the […]

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