Technical note

Never, ever forget to close the quotes around the URL in an anchor when using Blogger. It apparently eats the text.

More accurately, all the text following it is subsumed into the anchor (which makes sense, actually). The result is the second "A truly sad day" you run into when you scroll down the page a little--the byline is a link to the story instead of nice simple text.

Worse, the error is absolutely unreachable by Blogger's built-in editor. In normal mode the edit link that reloads a post for update or deletion load the subject page into the frame that lists your recent posts. In safe mode it runs into the next post, and the edit link only loads the second one. There's another bizarreness that would take too long to write up if you're not familiar with the user interface. Fortunately Blogger's tech support will be VERY familiar with it (when you use someone's free tools and run into a problem, it's required of you (in my opinion) to write detailed, non-hysterical bug reports).

I could probably futz with the template to fix it, but I don't think it's worth it. But it's another reason I want a desktop-based Blogging tool, even if I use it to publish through Blogger.

posted by Prometheus 6 at 4/10/2003 10:41:42 AM |