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e hënë qershor 14, 2004

Wordpress founder Matthew Mullenweg comments about blogs.sun.com

Wordpress founding developer Matthew Mullenweg has posted a few constructive comments about blogs.sun.com. He mostly points to things we need to configure and expose better.

I copy my answer here for my pals managing blogs.sun.com: I have created a blogs.sun.com category for this weblog. Please fellow Sun bloggers to the same so that we can filter the aggregated blogs with the category="blogs.sun.com" query and get a project requirements list autogenerated for the site.

Let's answer in order here:

Tim Bray proposed WordPress and I was more in favor of Roller because I have experience with it, we know it scales thanks to the JRoller instance, it fit our requirements of hosting multiple blogs, and it's in java so we can hack it to our heart's content. Other people at Sun shared my opinions, so we wen on with Roller. I haven't tried WordPress so I can't judge wether it's better or not.
Feeds seem strange, can you be more specific? Then we can try to fix that.
Permalink is a good comment: they exist but currently they are not exposed in the theme I use. I will add this requirement for the Sun theme we develop. This entry, with the category blogs.sun.com indicates that the entry contains a requirements for blogs.sun.com.
For example for my post that you comment about, the permalink is http://blogs.sun.com/pat/20040607#blogs_sun_com_cool_history
Terrible uris, I guess you're talking about the roller/page part of uris: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/pat/20040607#blogs_sun_com_cool_history
these are not necessary, since we have an Apache front end which rewrite urls: the above axample can be accessed through http://blogs.sun.com/pat/20040607#blogs_sun_com_cool_history which seems good enbough to me, at least as good as your http://photomatt.net/archives/2004/06/08/sunny/#comments :-)
But we need to start expose these and maybe redirect the roller/page uris to their reduced counterparts.

Thanks for the feedback Matt.

( Qer 14 2004, 02:55:55 PD PDT )

Comments:

Inadvertantly, this is a good example of why "justified" is a lousy alignment for blog paras with embedded URLs ;-)

Posted by Geoff Arnold on qershor 14, 2004 at 08:21 PD PDT #

One problem that I see with Roller is that many of the themes are developed for HTML-savvy folks. I helped develop a few themes, including this one. They take some knowledge (and interest) on the author's part to make them look good. For instance, adding style="text-align: left" to the

tag on this post. Personally, I have trouble writing a post that's funny looking due to HTML errors (i.e. a

that's waaayyyy too wide). I tend to tweak and tweak until I get it just right. However, if you look at a lot of the blogs on JRoller, a fair amount of folks seem to post-n-run and they don't seem to care how it looks. I good solution is probably to develop/add some themes that people can't screw up - or possibly publish an HTML style guide of sorts with each theme. BTW, to get rid of the "comments" link that does nothing on this page - you should be able to delete that page w/o effecting anything.

Posted by Matt Raible on qershor 16, 2004 at 05:55 PD PDT #

Thanks Matt and Geoff. I'll change the theme when I have some time, which is not the case now. I'm the kind of guy who posts and runs: I don't care about HTML and you'll never see me insert manually CSS instructions such as style="text-align: left" in my posts. So I need a foolproof theme. Some of my colleagues are working on that. I'll just use what they create.

Posted by Patrick Chanezon on qershor 16, 2004 at 01:56 MD PDT #

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