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Posted to dev@roller.apache.org by Matthew Montgomery <Ma...@Sun.COM> on 2007/09/14 20:41:35 UTC
Character Count - About your blog
Hi everyone,
We have many people running into the current 255 character limit of
the "About your blog" field without realizing it until after
submission. An RFE was generated to display the current count
dynamically and captured here.
http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/browse/ROL-1519
I have some simple JavaScript to handle this. It is currently in
housed in the WeblogConfig.jsp and I am happy to submit a patch when
I am done with the rest of ROL-1519, save for the DB change that
would be needed to up the 255 limit. Couple of comments.
1. Is there a way to pull the current character limit from the model?
I have 255 hardcoded in there at the moment.
2. I still need to externalize the strings for the label.
Any interest in applying this one to the trunk or shall I maintain it
externally for blogs.sun.com.
Re: Character Count - About your blog
Posted by Dave <sn...@gmail.com>.
On 9/21/07, Dave Levy <Da...@sun.com> wrote:
> I wonder if this should be extended at all. Here's how I do about me and
> I have many more than 255 characters.
>
> On my Blog, http://blogs.sun.com/DaveLevy, I created an About Me page
> using the edit templates interface. It is at
> http://blogs.sun.com/DaveLevy/page/AboutMe
>
> It is now possible to address a blog article directly, I have not worked
> out how yet, but I propose to move the content text to a blog article
> next time its sensible and reference it in the about me page. (I am also
> toying with attaching an audio file.)
>
> The menu macro displays the hyperlink off the various pages with in the
> blog.
>
> (For those who don't intend to check the site out, I have an aboutme, an
> archive page and a search page in additon to the blog page.)
That's not a bad approach and I use it on rollerweblogger.org
(http://rollerweblogger.org/project/category/About), but it is not as
straight-forward and user-friendly as providing an explicit "about
this blog" field in the UI.
- Dave
Re: Character Count - About your blog
Posted by Dave Levy <Da...@Sun.COM>.
I wonder if this should be extended at all. Here's how I do about me and
I have many more than 255 characters.
On my Blog, http://blogs.sun.com/DaveLevy, I created an About Me page
using the edit templates interface. It is at
http://blogs.sun.com/DaveLevy/page/AboutMe
It is now possible to address a blog article directly, I have not worked
out how yet, but I propose to move the content text to a blog article
next time its sensible and reference it in the about me page. (I am also
toying with attaching an audio file.)
The menu macro displays the hyperlink off the various pages with in the
blog.
(For those who don't intend to check the site out, I have an aboutme, an
archive page and a search page in additon to the blog page.)
Matthew Montgomery wrote:
>
> On Sep 15, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Dave wrote:
>
>> On 9/14/07, Matthew Montgomery <Ma...@sun.com> wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> We have many people running into the current 255 character limit of
>>> the "About your blog" field without realizing it until after
>>> submission. An RFE was generated to display the current count
>>> dynamically and captured here.
>>>
>>> http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/browse/ROL-1519
>>>
>>> I have some simple JavaScript to handle this. It is currently in
>>> housed in the WeblogConfig.jsp and I am happy to submit a patch when
>>> I am done with the rest of ROL-1519, save for the DB change that
>>> would be needed to up the 255 limit. Couple of comments.
>>>
>>> 1. Is there a way to pull the current character limit from the model?
>>> I have 255 hardcoded in there at the moment.
>>>
>>> 2. I still need to externalize the strings for the label.
>>
>> I think 255 characters is too short for an About this blog field.
>>
>> To up the limit in the schema we will have to figure out how to write
>> alter table code that will work with the various databases we support
>> and add that to the 400-to-410 migration script. We'll probably have
>> to write a macro that generates the appropriate SQL for each database.
>
> Longer would be better in the DB. One concern I know we would have is
> that the themes which support this are designed around 255 visible
> characters. But, really the display space in the theme should be made
> flexible enough to support more.
>
> --
> Matthew Montgomery
> .Sun Engineering
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
>
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Re: Character Count - About your blog
Posted by Matthew Montgomery <Ma...@Sun.COM>.
On Sep 15, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Dave wrote:
> On 9/14/07, Matthew Montgomery <Ma...@sun.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> We have many people running into the current 255 character limit of
>> the "About your blog" field without realizing it until after
>> submission. An RFE was generated to display the current count
>> dynamically and captured here.
>>
>> http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/browse/ROL-1519
>>
>> I have some simple JavaScript to handle this. It is currently in
>> housed in the WeblogConfig.jsp and I am happy to submit a patch when
>> I am done with the rest of ROL-1519, save for the DB change that
>> would be needed to up the 255 limit. Couple of comments.
>>
>> 1. Is there a way to pull the current character limit from the model?
>> I have 255 hardcoded in there at the moment.
>>
>> 2. I still need to externalize the strings for the label.
>
> I think 255 characters is too short for an About this blog field.
>
> To up the limit in the schema we will have to figure out how to write
> alter table code that will work with the various databases we support
> and add that to the 400-to-410 migration script. We'll probably have
> to write a macro that generates the appropriate SQL for each database.
Longer would be better in the DB. One concern I know we would have is
that the themes which support this are designed around 255 visible
characters. But, really the display space in the theme should be made
flexible enough to support more.
--
Matthew Montgomery
.Sun Engineering
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Re: Character Count - About your blog
Posted by Dave <sn...@gmail.com>.
On 9/14/07, Matthew Montgomery <Ma...@sun.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We have many people running into the current 255 character limit of
> the "About your blog" field without realizing it until after
> submission. An RFE was generated to display the current count
> dynamically and captured here.
>
> http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/roller/browse/ROL-1519
>
> I have some simple JavaScript to handle this. It is currently in
> housed in the WeblogConfig.jsp and I am happy to submit a patch when
> I am done with the rest of ROL-1519, save for the DB change that
> would be needed to up the 255 limit. Couple of comments.
>
> 1. Is there a way to pull the current character limit from the model?
> I have 255 hardcoded in there at the moment.
>
> 2. I still need to externalize the strings for the label.
I think 255 characters is too short for an About this blog field.
To up the limit in the schema we will have to figure out how to write
alter table code that will work with the various databases we support
and add that to the 400-to-410 migration script. We'll probably have
to write a macro that generates the appropriate SQL for each database.
- Dave
- Dave