Comments on: Weblog UI and slugs

By: Douglas F Shearer

Douglas F Shearer — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:07:34 +0000

Nice blog post, gave me some good ideas while deciding in which direction to take the slug generation in my own publishing application.

By: choan

choan — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 13:31:17 +0000

[...] there’s no character encoding sent

No, it's not a bug, it's a misconfiguration. I'll try to solve it as soon as possible. Anyway, seen the problem with Opera, it seems mandatory to use the escaped characters.

By the way, what's the matter with apostrophes in these comments?

PS: I love cats —and women, but the blog doesn't have any of them (women) at the moment ;)

By: dolphinling

dolphinling — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:00:22 +0000

I mean that your name and the try that didn't work are in ISO-8859-1 and there's no character encoding sent. I don't know if this is a something you forgot to set or a bug in Apache because I see the rest of your site is in UTF-8.

P.S.: Your blog is in spanish, so I can't read all of it (took 4 years in middle/high school but stopped last year), but it has a cat at the top, so I approve. :-)

By: choan

choan — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 07:31:20 +0000

Via choan in the comments, it exists! Thank you! But shouldn’t you be using UTF-8? ;)

Yes, I should and I'd really like to do it because, obviously, it's simpler to use ñ than \u00F1. But reallity kicked my ass while developing the script: Opera won't do the replacements for accented chars whatever encoding I use.

So, I decided to take the \u#### route. As the rest of the script uses only ASCII characters, it seems as the encoding doesn't matter.

By: choan

choan — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:31:04 +0000

Well, my server's back, so here's the script. It works as an Opera user script too.

Please, feel free to improve it.

By: choan

choan — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 09:56:58 +0000

I suppose cooking up a greasemonkey script [...]

Cooked. Unfortunately my server is down at the moment, so I cannot show it, but it's working for me.

I'll made it publicly available as soon as my server goes up again.

By: Paul Goscicki

Paul Goscicki — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:55:33 +0000

I suppose cooking up a greasemonkey script that does that for a Wordpress advanced edit UI is a matter of 5-7 lines (and less than 5 minutes for experienced js coder). I'm sure someone will write it, because it's quite neat idea.

Typing slugs by hand works for me, though.