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Deconstructing Blogger Beta's HTML

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hello-world-in-html dept.

Scott Wilkinson writes, "Google's Blogger is going through a major revamp, called Blogger Beta, with lots of nifty new graphical layout features and pesky bugs to annoy the users. Yesterday they finally opened up the HTML code behind the Beta, and it's a significant departure from the traditional Blogger. This post at Banana Stew deconstructs the Blogger Beta code and points out some nice new features like if-then, loops, and object-oriented structures."

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  1. If-Then-Else by colonslashslash · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whoa.... if-then-else loops!? Truely, a marvellous new feature from Google that will revolutionise the intertubes. What an awesome age of technological advancement we live in!

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    1. Re:If-Then-Else by SuperBanana · · Score: 4, Funny

      Whoa.... if-then-else loops!? Truely, a marvellous new feature from Google that will revolutionise the intertubes

      I beg to differ; it's perfect for the blogging crowd.

      IF $mood == "angsty" THEN display(AngryKittenGIF), SetBackground(Black)

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    2. Re:If-Then-Else by xENoLocO · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why bother to run a conditional against a public static final?

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    3. Re:If-Then-Else by Americano · · Score: 3, Funny
      The problem is, the blogging crowd doesn't NEED "if-then-else" loops:
      $site_name = "Black Icicles In My Heart";
      $mood = "angsty";

      SetBackground(BlackWithSilverRosesAndLightning);
      display(AngryKittenJPG);
      display(SunnyDayRealEstateJPG);
      display(JimmyEatWorldJPG);
      display(DeathCabForCutieJPG);
      printBlog("Sigh. My parents just don't understand me, and how hard it is to be young today! Sometimes I think only MTV gets me.");
      See, there's not a SINGLE conditional everywhere... they're unconditionally angsty. :)
  2. Amazing! by Peganthyrus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Blogger has a templating language now! How terribly newsworthy.

    It's not like any blog system before this ever had conditionals!

    Bonus points to the article for putting a table in monospaced Flyspeck 3 and having it in the middle of a design that completely breaks when you bump up the text size.

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