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Developers outline their issues with OPML

Members of the OPML-DEV mailing list are discussing a proposed new version of OPML that would be more like other XML dialects, supporting child elements inside of the outline element in place of attributes. As I wrote on the list, OPML is extended in a way that's unusual for XML: Anyone can add new attributes to the outline element, as long as they give it a type attribute that lets programmers know what attributes to expect. This is an odd way to do things, as Danny Ayers explains on his ... (read more)

2003/04/11

UserLand offered an object database API

Snappy the Clam challenges UserLand on the subject of open standards: Ask UserLand sometime how many competing UserTalk implementations there are. Also ask them where the documentation for the Frontier "object databases" are, so that you could write programs in a different language that access the root file. UserLand offered an object database API with the release of Frontier 5 for MacOS and Windows. There's no telling if it still works today, since it was released more than six years ago, but ... (read more)

2003/04/09

Using Radio's default template in a new tool

Phillip Pearson offers a Radio UserLand tip for tool programmers: How to get a tool to use the default template on its Web pages. ... (read more)

2003/03/10

New interface offered for Radio UserLand

I'm writing this post using FM RadioStation, a new Windows application that provides a different user interface for Radio UserLand (screen shot). It can be used to publish a weblog, read RSS news feeds, and browse the Web (using a built-in version of Internet Explorer 6). I can't get the news reader to work, but the weblog publishing interface is impressive, and this is the first Internet Explorer-based browser I've seen that uses Mozilla-style tabs. I'll write more about it after I've had some ... (read more)

2003/03/07

UserLand is now offering Radio webloggers 50M of additional storage space for $39.95. The feature is purchased online and activated with a code. ... (read more)

2003/02/25

Anil Dash describes an unusual side effect of the Google-Pyra deal: All the Google API users on Radio UserLand weblogs may be in violation of the license, which prohibits use with any product or service that competes with Google. ... (read more)

2003/02/24

New Radio UserLand script: daysUntilEvent, which displays the number of days until a user-specified date. ... (read more)

2003/02/21

Add blank lines to Radio navigator links

Radio UserLand tip: Jenny Levine's navigator links tutorial covers how to add links, mailto links, and HTML to a weblog's list of links. One she doesn't cover: To include a blank line, add an element with a space as its name: <item name=" "/>. ... (read more)

2003/02/18

Erik Noble has found a security issue in how the Radio UserLand comments server associates names and e-mail addresses: If anyone posts a comment and puts your e-mail address in the Email field, their name will appear with your address on every comment you made in the past. Try it yourself by posting a comment on Erik's weblog with the e-mail address justsayno@tospam.com. ... (read more)

2003/02/16

As I dig out from under a backlog of reader mail, it reminds me how much of a grind Web maintenance can be. There are more than 2,000 pages on this site, which has evolved over the past seven years from Notepad-edited HTML to FrontPage Webs to Java servlets/JSP to, today, PHP/MySQL and Radio UserLand. Though new material is being added through PHP/MySQL Web applications or this Radio UserLand weblog, most of the older files are static HTML documents. I'd like to edit them locally and have the ... (read more)

2003/02/12

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