S2 rambling

[crschmidt]

<3 to S2.

There's a lot of things still buggy about S2, but I just did something (after a lot of mucking around) that I'm pretty sure would have been darn near impossible without a mess of CSS and other things like that.

If you look at my journal (crschmidt), you'll notice a list on the side of Links to different things... and at the bottom, you'll see the first 20 characters of my most recent 20 subjects.

That's right folks, I just added a subject listing to my LASTN/Recent Entries page. And that's friggin nifty.

Another thing that I DEFINITELY couldn't do before: http://www.livejournal.com/users/crschmidt/2003/04/ . A month view. In my style. So Friggin nifty.

I can't wait for comment pages to be editable. First task will be to edit the style I made for Leora (relevant comment) so that she can read lj-cuts without squinting, then to make mine pretty and matching.

Still, bugs in code *sigh*. Things like the alternate() function not working right, and the text for the Month view viewname is an empty string. The comment print functions fudging things up all over the place. It's not the cleanest system in the world yet.

I'd also like to see more views implemented. Basically, I want to be able to display any page that displays information about me to look like my journal. I want my userpics page to look like my journal, my memories, my userinfo, everything. It's getting there, but I don't know how far brad plans to take it. I sure do hope it's farther than this though ;)

Anyway, I'm just muttering on, and it's late. time for bed. see ya'll in 6 hours or so.

Comments

[angelsk.livejournal.com]

I love your new style :)

[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Cool! I don't know what it would be used for 'cause all those entries on on that view, but it's still cool!

[comeseptember.livejournal.com]

The ability to have your month view in your style has completely confirmed my desire to learn S2. Two more weeks of class left, and then I'll start. :)

[ralesk.livejournal.com]

   Tabbed Menu, Tabbed Menu, Tabbed Menu, Tabbed Menu, Tabbed Menu, Tabbed Menu, Tabbed Menu! ^^; *bounce*

[comeseptember.livejournal.com]

Aww! :D *blush* OK, I definitely have to do it after that! ;D

[brad.livejournal.com]

Dude, it's gonna get crazy good... don't you worry. :-)

We know lots of core is incomplete. Filling that in is trivial. Whitaker and I are working on it. EntryPage is coming along, too... you'll be able to styleize comment pages pretty soon here.

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah, just don't take another couple years on it, alright? I mean, S2 is still a myth to some volunteers. They refuse to believe the system exists, because it's been "under development" so long :)

*nod* Like you may have noticed, every time you add something to core, I try to use it. I usually screw things up, but I use it ;) My layout is such a mess right now... code everywhere ;) But I love it. I'm a nerd at heart, albeit not a very good one, and as a nerd, i love power. I love being able to do nifty little things. I love being the first, being the quickest, being the most special :)

That's why I keep doing all this stuff. Because as silly as it may be, I love being the leader of the pack, I love being the "big man on campus" - especially in a community I love (most of the time *cough*).

I love the new style system. It's been in development for about 3-4 times as long as i've even had a journal, but I don't care. I love being able to play with things, to change things, to do things. I just enjoy it. I love being able to poke at code and fix bugs and make new things happen and being able to point people at my journal and saying "Look at that! It works!"

Just... please. don't release this system to the "public" (by which i mean, general public. news or anything like that) until it's done ;) I love new features, but I love new features that are complete before they get to the public a lot better ;) I think you've been doing really well with this so far: keeping things in lj_dev, which si good. because hopefully the people who are in lj_dev are smart. (Obviously it doesn't happen all the time. I mean, there was that American Idol poster we all ridiculed for an evening.) But I think this is great. This is a great project, it's a great tool, a great toy, a great way to do things.

I like it. And that's why you get the nice green thumbs up. (But only because you're brad. I don't know about that bradfitz guy. He just isn't my style.)