Jim's Depository

AH, well ok. That first post looked like crap. I added 8 more lines and now insert <p> and <br> to preserve formatting of the text, a bit at least. I suppose I’ll make a post editor before I get back to the language.

Update: When I added HTML support I had to get rid of the “one newline turns into a <br>” rule. I had to fix all the existing entries. There is a lesson in there somewhere.

Femtoblogger is now functional. It is 619 lines of HTML and PHP plus a 281 line library for the recaptcha human detector. As usual, I spent too much time fiddling with extras before starting to use the software, for instance:

• I added an account management system with captchas for a system that will only be used by me for the foreseeable future.
• I added “Search” capability when I had two articles.
• I added “Categories” then had to sort of stretch to come up with 3 categories.

I still have a gaping hole, there is no way to format or style the comments. I’ll have to think about how to do that without allowing all sorts of silly HTML attacks and ugliness, but it is time to get back to the “language” category and make some progress there.

Update: The language continues to be neglected, but HTML is supported with not silly attacks possible.