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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. My Eyes!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The page layout made that article was completely unreadable. I was about to turn off CSS when I realized that the article is basically a huge table of non-tabular information. What a waste of time.

  3. Not really too interesting if you RTA by x3nos · · Score: 5, Interesting
    1. Beta has been out for awhile . . . missed the scoop - too little too late IMO
    2. How pointless is it to comment on commented code?
    3. Author of TA didnt really get into a lot of the features like Labels, modifiable templates from an AJAX control, blah blah
    4. For once I actually did RTA and I think Ill go back to just making flippant comments about comments
    Now about Beta - my big gripe is the continued lack of xhtml compliance on the part of the blogger developers. I go through the extra 5% effort it takes to ensure my code validates. It makes things easier on the end user, and its just good best practices. Despite several years of complaints by bloggers, they [Google] have yet to enforce compliance with their blogger product.
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    1. Re:Not really too interesting if you RTA by nursegirl · · Score: 4, Interesting

      What particularly drivs me batty is that they just hired Douglas Bowman as Visual Design Lead in May. He's been at the head of the XHTML/CSS progression/revolution for years, including the Wired News redesign in 2002.

      I understand that it takes some time to get settled into a new workforce, so Bowman might not have had the time to get around to working on Blogger that much yet. According to his blog, he appears to have spent the first half of this year working as a contractor on Google Calendar. I just wonder, why wouldn't the Blogger team have waited until their Design guy/standards-compliance guru was free before rolling out this beta?

  4. Feeds need more work by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They still haven't gotten the site-wide comment feed working yet. You can turn it on in the Blogger controls, but no link for it is provided anywhere. You have to guess the url from the post feed and the individual post comment feed.

    Even after that, I found that it only lists the first 25 comments ever made to my blog. This makes a recent comments sidebar hard.

    Whether this will ever get fixed, I don't know. Google uses "beta" to mean "released" for all their software and the practice sucks. I have the feeling that a lot of their free "beta" software will one day become non-free, and they will only at that point "release" it.

  5. One problem... by Andrew+Nagy · · Score: 4, Informative

    The new blogger beta doesn't allow you to host the blog on your own site anymore....

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