It seems like it’s early days yet to be complaining, but I have a gripe: WordPress stinks at posting source code.
The problem is a bit long to explain but the issue is stifflingly simple: The visual TinyMCE text editor (and how it is implemented in WordPress, it seems) contrives to strip leading tabs and spaces from all lines of content—including content between <code> and <pre> tags.
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? You just know someone had this one waiting in the wings to announce as soon as the final release made it out to piss on Microsoft’s parade.
The only flaw I see in their logic is that the Wednesday morning after Patch Tuesday would have been an even better day to announce this little flaw, as MSIE 7 will be rolled out automatically to a large number of users automatically as mentioned in an earlier post.
This is a bit of a depressing day. First, I wake up to news that Logitech has acquired my favourite hardware vendor, Slim Devices, then my kid projectile vomits all over me, my chair, and a large portion of my desk. Ah, fatherhood.
Slim Devices, in case you didn’t already know, manufactures streaming audio players; the devices themselves don’t store any data locally (you can’t pick them up, plug them in anywhere and listen to music like you could an iPod) but rather play audio from a server located on the premises (or across the internet if you have a fast connection and a reason to do it, like playing music stored at home from work or something). More after the gap …
The final release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is now available as a “free download” from Microsoft’s site as of tonight.
As a web designer who is (dramatically) impacted by this release I am of two minds. Disclosure: I am a Firefox user and have been for years, now—but as any UI designer knows, your preference has nothing to do with what you do all day long.
Believe it or not, I don’t think there’s any hyperbole in this post’s title. How is it possible that MySpace could be worth so much—but have so little contributed to making it attractive, flexible, and well-designed—especially after its whirlwind success over the past 12 months?
Well, here goes nothing. I’ve only had this domain name since March of 1999, and here’s the first attempt I’ve ever made to run a site on it. Why not? Well …
There are a few reasons. Topping the list has always been that thing about enjoying what you do for a living as a hobby—most people don’t.
That’s not all, though. Maybe the bigger issue is, I don’t know if I have anything worth saying. Well, with friends abroad now and few enough of them as it is, maybe it wouldn’t hurt to reconnect a bit with them and others, in my own little way. I have several little ongoing projects at any given time, too; I’ll post about my experiences here and hopefully help others out (and maybe get helped a bit, myself, too).
I’ll be adding more content sections and a bit more functionality as time goes on, so bear with me. Thanks for stopping by, and here’s to hoping there’s something worth reading every now and then to bring you back.
Cheers.