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Monday, May 24, 2004

Blogger Problems

I've never been happy with Blogger. The quality is inconsistent at best, and remains so many months after the Google aquisition.

For example, I have no idea what happened to my "recent posts" on the right side. They disappeared sometime on Sunday.

Another example, I edited my template a week ago or so to remove the CSS indent from paragraphs in the items I post. OK, I need to look up the proper way to do this maybe, to avoid template changes coming from on high. But could I have a warning or a chance to accept the template changes?

Other changes to the template have been preserved. Maybe I just put the CSS changes in the wrong location in the template.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've noticed that more than half the time, loading your diary produces a stream of random gibberish characters. It usually goes away after a reload or two, though. It happens on multiple browsers, in multiple locations, on multiple operating systems, so I think it's probably on Blogger's end. Suckage. -- Zach Beane

Anonymous said...

I get the same random (Unicode!) character jibberish very often on this site as well (Firebird 0.7, Windows XP)

- Adam Vandenberg

Jesus Henry Christos said...

The 'random character' problem is related to Mozilla bug 241085
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241085

The meat of the discussion starts right around comment 24
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241085#c24

From the looks of it, the Blogger team is on it and working to get it solved.

(Sorry I couldn't provide "a href" style links, the Blogger redirect messes up the Bugzilla URL encoding, so it wouldn't directly work...I'll submit a bug report.)

If you'd like some help with the template, I'd be happy to take a look at it for you. drop me a line at (temporary at s92949322.onlinehome.us)

Jasmine said...

I've got problems the staff aren't listening to either. My latest posts never turn up on my index page, any idea how to deal with that? My index is stuck in limbo for now, and you can only see the latest stuff in Archives. Dosen't work either even after I removed the archives function.

john said...

i dont have any this kind of problem with template.i m using flash template.

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