I have added an HTML editor to the article editor of PageCat. It's working out quite nicely. I have a couple of features that I would like to add to it (for which I even have source code, just haven't integrated them yet), including a MS Word HTML cleanup script and a graphical table creator.
The MS Word thing is very handy. If you've ever had to edit a web page someone else created in Word you know what I mean. It puts all kinds of extra tags into the HTML that make it very hard to read. It also uses all sorts of <font> tags, which are just yucky. This script I stole from some other site has a bunch of regular expression replaces that do away with all of the Word yuckiness.
The graphical table generator is like the one in Word. You click on the dropdown thingie, then you move the mouse until the dropdown has as many cells as you need, then you click and it inserts that size table into the editor.
I had to actually do some work on the editor to add style-based markup rather than font-based. Fonts are evil on the web, and I don't understand why people insist on using them.
Also, regarding PageCat and Asymptomatic, today marks the first occasion of pushing an article off of the bottom of the front page. I have the limit currently set to 5, meaning only 5 articles should appear on the front page at once. I hope to institute a procedure where you can go to the next page of articles. It's actually pretty easy to do even with the code I have now, but I want to make it more elegant. Anyway, I'm excited to see it work on a site other than my test site.
I put the Linklog back online today, too, with my first entry of the SlimP3 player. I saw this thing last night on the Screen Savers and thought it was pretty cool. That and the WAP11 from Linksys. Gotta get me one of those wireless access points for the notebook when I finally get the notebook. There's a topic that'll require a whole new article's worth of discussion.
The mothball smell of the urinal puck today at work has me yearning for the bouquet of paint thinner in a plastic cup. I was feeling a little bit woozy after coming out of the restroom early today from the fumes. Our only hope is that it disintegrates quickly. Between the puck smell and the arctic AC blowing on my neck all day, I'm in a swell state to concentrate on work. Obviously.
