It's even worse than it appears..
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Rich Brown reports a problem with the tabs on the Scripting News home page on an Android tablet running Brave. It sounds like the problems were introduced when I did a rewrite of the tab code, and it's probably due to some code catching the click before it gets to the tab code. Once found, it's easy to fix. If you're running Brave or using an Android tablet, could you give it a try per Rich's description, see if you can reproduce. Also curious if there are error messages in the JavaScript console. Thanks! #
Random WordPress idea#
  • Caveat: This very likely already exists. #
  • Random idea for my friends at Automattic. How about a theme for a WordPress site that's good for technical subjects. #
  • It should have good default styles for code. Handle screen shot images gracefully. Basically a way of using WordPress for documenting the kinds of things we write up on GitHub because their editor is designed to work well for technical stuff. #
  • Just thinking out loud. A good test case would be the RSS 2.0 spec, which doesn't look too great after years of no-updates (more than 20 years) and browser slippage? #
  • It started life as a Manila site, transitioned to WordPress, and now I believe it's a static site. At one time it looked good in WordPress. It could totally use the kind of treatment Doc's blog got, but obviously it's serving a different purpose. #
A social network for writers#
  • I asked ChatGPT to draw a picture of a social network for writers. #
  • GPT rendering of "social network for writers."#
  • I asked for a more racially diverse rendering. #

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You know those obnoxious sites that pop up dialogs when they think you're about to leave, asking you to subscribe to their email newsletter? Well that won't do for Scripting News readers who are a discerning lot, very loyal, but that wouldn't last long if I did rude stuff like that. So here I am at the bottom of the page quietly encouraging you to sign up for the nightly email. It's got everything from the previous day on Scripting, plus the contents of the linkblog and who knows what else we'll get in there. People really love it. I wish I had done it sooner. And every email has an unsub link so if you want to get out, you can, easily -- no questions asked, and no follow-ups. Go ahead and do it, you won't be sorry! :-)