Typogrify 1.6
Something’s a little loose in Typogrify’s pattern matching code. There’s an option for it to
Add <span class="amp"> to ampersands.
…which does just that, but it doesn’t check the context of the ampersand’s placement. It will grab an ampersand in the middle of an anchor tag, for instance say, in a title attribute and nuke it. The results are this:
<a title="Bob <span class="amp">&</span> Doug McKenzie" href="http://www.hoser.com">Take off, eh?</a>
…which leaves a broken link and HTML guts all over the page. Like, you really don’t need that many double quotes in there, do you now. The regex code in Typogrify works if instead of “amp” it used ‘amp’ with single quotes (unless your attribute is enclosed with single quotes). At least it doesn’t break the HTML into tiny little pieces. However, there’s a larger question as to whether or not you really need a span inside an title attribute – or even anywhere inside HTML code. It’s more code to do a check that you’re not pattern matching inside HTML tags, but it’s been done. Maybe this will be addressed in wp-Hyphenate when it gets rolled in.
There was discussion at the Firefox developer meeting on Wednesday that the upcoming version 3.1 should maybe be released as 3.5 instead. Personally, I think that would be awesome as 3.5 is clearly better. 0.4 better to be exact. That’s an almost 13% improvement.
All In One SEO Pack 1.4.7.3
WP Super Cache 0.9.1
WP Super Cache supports server-side compression which you’d think is a good thing. It doesn’t seem to play nice with the All In One SEO Pack, though. You’ll need to turn compression off and delete your cache to get the two to work together. Funny trade-off, though: if you’ve installed the SEO pack then you obviously want to increase traffic to your site. Assuming this works, it would be of benefit to have server-side compression working to reduce the load on your server.
As an aside, I like the second comment on this forum posting:
“Why are you using crap like Super Cache anyway? Get rid of it entirely. Get 1BlogCacher — it’s simple, it works without problems, and it’s very, very good in making your blog static. And yes, it works with all other plugins without trouble.”
I assume he’s referring to a different caching plugin.
Okay, I don’t know if that’s actually true but the Features page of the Postbox site state it’s based on Mozilla technology, which to my mind suggests they’re either improving on Thunderbird or just using the XUL backend to put a better front end on their own code. What do I know.
Postbox is a new email client for Mac OSX and they’ve just released their 8th beta of version 1.0. I gave the 7th beta a test run and it wasn’t bad – pretty good actually. Although, I’ve decided to stay with Apple Mail 3.0 for now since I’ve actually grown quite fond it its…um…stability. Yeah, that’s right.
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jQuery Lightbox (Balupton Edition) 1.3.5
jQuery Lightbox (Balupton Edition) WP plugin 0.5
There are a million lightbox implementations out there and almost as many corresponding WordPress plugins. My favourite is the jQuery Lightbox (Balupton Edition) which, in my opinion, is one of the best looking ones out there. A lot of them go for flashiness but end up looking tawdry or, in their attempt to be pretty end up suffering usability issues. The jLB is simple and attractive. I use it in conjunction with the Add Lightbox plugin.
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