Really geeky Movable Type post. No apologies.I noticed several hours ago that for some reason the trackback section of my index page was no longer marked up properly. Such things are invariably my fault, so I started tweaking my stylesheet, then the template — all to no avail, and things really took a turn for the curious when I looked at the rebuilt code: all “class” attributes had vanished from tags inside <MTPings> tags, as well as entire <span> tags with class attributes inside <MTPings> tags.
BTW, apologies for the site’s most recent current look — it’s a bit of a shambles, and I may not be able to tweak it into submission for a while.This, of course, is impossible. And yet there they weren’t. The discovery was followed by a series of progressively more outlandish attempts to coax recalcitrant code into revealing itself, without success. What really hurt was how the comments, which were encased in the exact same html code structure, performed flawlessly. Then I remembered I had installed the new “nofollow” Movable Type plugin earlier in the day. I removed it, and my problems were goneMore about “nofollow” here..
I briefly considered being a hero and repairing the plugin, but then I saw the grep pattern that adds the “nofollow” rel attributes to comment and trackback links, and it is a monster, so I’ll settle for flagging this bug. FYI, I tried the “nofollow” plugin without the “mt-pingedentry” plugin and can confirm it’s not due to a plugin conflict (I had flashbacks of OS9 there).
I noticed similar weird stuff, but maybe only when there are more than one <MTPings> block in my template (though I didn’t test this enough to tell for sure).
did you write the last part of your series “top ten things i hate about stockholm”? i really enjoyed the first nine, and drop by now and then in search of the last. posts about blogging are less enjoyable…
Hi Kristina, yes, posts about blogging sort of defeat the purpose of blogging, but sometimes I just go through these phases, you know?
Regularly scheduled blogging about my quaint adventures in Stockholm will resume shortly, I am sure. Though as for my number one pet hate, my main problem is that none of the candidates are really worthy of the number 1 position. There really isn’t much to hate about Stockholm, try as I might. Next time I will work down from 1, rather than up.
“OS9”? Do you really mean OS9?
http://www.onastick.clara.net/os9.htm
http://www.radisys.com/oem_products/microware_OS-9.cfm
You’d think there’d be more originality in the naming of operating systems, right? I was referring to extensions in Mac OS9.
Stefan I’m very much looking forward to reading “Things I hate about Stockholm: Part -5”- and then you could start heading into other numerical realms- irrational numbers, imaginary numbers, etc…
It appears that Movable Type 3.17 has a bug fix for this.