Comments on: Better sidebar launch for Blogroller

By: Neurotic Fishbowl

Neurotic Fishbowl — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Quiet Today
I've been kind of quiet today, but I feel like I've got a lot of stuff accomplished. I went through

By: jane

jane — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I did this today and it worked great! Thanks Pariah!

By: Pariah

Pariah — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I got your e-mails. Actually, I was looking at your site and the script when I noticed ScriptyGoddess in your blogroll. Just for the heck of it, I hit the link and checked back on the comments under this topic.

I e-mailed you, but I thought I'd respond here as well in case others had the same question.

Customizing the Blogroll sidebar look is outside my script since BlogRolling.com actually generates the page on which your Blogroll appears. I did some research. If you embed the Blogroll in a static, normal page, then you can use CSS with the div.blogrollmain, blogrollmain a, and blogrollmain a:hover class names Jason built into the code. Using a sidebar, though, you're actually calling a page that blogrolling.com generates on the fly.

In short, customization is limited to what you can do through your blogrolling.com preferences. This is a hard and fast limitation. So… I made a way to get around it.
It's here.

By: jane

jane — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I added Pariah's script and it works great! Does anyone know how to customize using CSS the blogrolling sidebar? I don't like how it looks so different from the rest of my site.
Thanks!

By: The Other Jennifer

The Other Jennifer — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I emailed Jason, and he's planned to release a fix for the Opera problem soon.

By: Pariah

Pariah — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks for posting this, Jennifer!

Um, yeah. Opera. My script DOES work with Opera… But the Blogroll itself doesn't work (completely) through the sidebar in Opera 6+. I just confirmed this. It WAS working while I tested, but that may have had something to do with the extra coding I was using during development.

The good news is, as The Other Jennifer noted, Jason is aware of, and working on, the issue. Watch Blogrolling.com for an update.

In the meantime… What do you think? Should I update my script to create a popup in Opera instead of the sidebar?

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Jennifer, if you add it to your personal bar, it loads as a regular page.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Are you guys contacting the author of the code? I don't use blogroller so I couldn't test it.

I'm still using my "add a link" script. Which, while it isn't as robust (and bug-free) as blogroller, I like having things that I invest that much time creating on my own server. If/When he ever releases one that you can use like that, that's when I'll make the switch. He mentioned he was working on one once, but I think he's stopped developing that version.

So, in any case - if there's problems with the script, make sure you send them to Pariah. He may not be aware of the problems you're having, and/or he may be able to help you get it to work.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

This doesn't really work in Opera. It creates the sidebar, but the drop-down box doesn't work. I'll choose a blogroll and hit the "go" button. The pages seems to refresh, but my blogroll list isn't displayed. I edited the sidebar code to show my blogroll id number, but that makes no difference.

I have Opera 7b2, but I've seen the same behavior in older versions of Opera.

Anyone out there have any ideas?