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Ping.fm is unable to send HTML to blogger.com without corrupting the code. (PHOTOS INCLUDED)
There are hundreds of reported issues with posting HTML on blogs but they go ignored. It's a REAL problem. Pixelpipe (http://ping.fm/apps/web/) doesn't have this issue. I tested a post in both and the image has the results.
I tried to troubleshoot the issue in many different was but to no avail. Though I did notice SOME things it really hated like BR tags not having a slash before the greater than sign. It doesn't like the inline elements in hyperlinks. But it was so random that I don't realy know what to think.
It also adds strange code to to the end product.
I've attached what I hope are helpful screenshots. When you DL the JPG with the screenshot of code, see if you can open the exif data. I put file comments of the HTML for easy copy/paste.
Also the blog posting has no unicode support.
I tried to troubleshoot the issue in many different was but to no avail. Though I did notice SOME things it really hated like BR tags not having a slash before the greater than sign. It doesn't like the inline elements in hyperlinks. But it was so random that I don't realy know what to think.
It also adds strange code to to the end product.
I've attached what I hope are helpful screenshots. When you DL the JPG with the screenshot of code, see if you can open the exif data. I put file comments of the HTML for easy copy/paste.
Also the blog posting has no unicode support.
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Inappropriate?Another helpful image. The shaded portion is my original text UNMOLESTED. The unshaded portion is what pixelpipe surrounds it with. But the bottom line is that it successfully posted my markup without a fuss.
Sidebar: What's with people adding unnecessary div tags to EVERYTHING? Also, that open H4 tag isn't doing me any favors. That blog I'm posting to is a test blog but on my real blog those H4 tags are out of place. It's not a semantic use at all.
I'm all about tablefree fluid layouts but understand what that means before you attempt it!
I’m not pleased
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Inappropriate?I noticed this also. I put a message on the blogger developer forum and have not had much luck. I also noticed a few other people on the forum reporting a similar problem. I can re-investigate the problem.
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Inappropriate?Adam, you win 50 Internets for responding. I feel better knowing that you're looking into this.
Thank you!
If you do get this working properly, I know for a FACT a surge of blogger.com users will flock to ping.fm. There's no way to link blogs or crosspost or syndicate content and ping.fm is our only hope for that right now.
Thank you.
I’m super thankful, Adam is a pretty cool guy and doesn't afraid of anything!
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Inappropriate?Oh, you might also want to try hitting up @blogger or @rklau on twitter.
Thanks again.
I’m hopeful
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Inappropriate?Both issues should be fixed now. Html and unicode. Let me know if you have any more problems!
I’m unicoded
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Inappropriate?SO CLOSE! YOU ARE SO CLOSE!
—Sorry, I'm just really excited about the prospect of this finally working!
First of all, the Unicode goes through just fine so AWESOME work on that. 100 Internets for you.
But when posting links, they get garbled, AND I KNOW WHY. You have some code in your system that takes any http address and makes it a hyperlink, even if the address is inside an HREF! I tested this by posting a hyperlink without the http and it went through unharmed.
At first when I saw the code still coming out like that I thought it might be linkification so I turned that off. I also thought Ping.fm might have been converting the addresses so I tested that:
TL;DR the addresses were not being converted.
So then I posted just the iframe portion and that's when I saw what was happening:
(Click for larger version.)
I also tested the iframe without http:// and it works but that's only a workaround if you're linking to a relative page. Hyperlinks to outside domains don't work without "http://".
Posting the iframe triggers something that messes up ANY addresses is the post as you see above. It doesn't do this when I post without an iframe.
So yeah, very close guys! Just one more hurdle! I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait!
I’m getting hyped!
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Inappropriate?I do convert normal links to hyperlinks with html. This is because Blogger will not do that on it's own where many other sites do. Almost all of our users enter plain text messages without html, so their links do not work on Blogger (and various other sites where I do the same html trickery). I do have a simple check for a previously exising <a href= before adding it myself, but it is hard to parse it exactly to tell whether I need to add it or not.
Perhaps I should make it so that it only adds the html for status and microblogs, but leave the message unchanged for blogs, assuming the user has created the html. One other factor is that I also must add html to display pictures that are sent along with a blog. It will take some work to get it all straightened out. -
Inappropriate?Hmm, perhaps a checkmark do disable the translation?
Or maybe you just need to check for "src=" like you do with "href="
I think it was the "src=" part that tripped up the code. Everything else I sent through without the iframe was A-OK. And we know the "href=" works.
Could it be applied?
I’m unsure
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This solves the problem
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I changed it to simply check for the existance of < and >. If it has both of those, it won't add html to create hyperlinks. It will still display an attached image to the beginning. -
Inappropriate?ADAM! ADAM! ADAM! ADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM! HEY ADAM! ADAAAAAAAAAAM! AAAAAAAAH! YOU FIXED IT! YOU FIXED IT! HAHAHA! OH MY GOD YOU FIXED IT!
I'm about to JUMP OUT OF MY SKIN! ADAM YOU ROCK! YOU ROCK SO HAAAAARD! You will not regret this. I will MAKE SURE blogger.com users know about this.
Ping.fm rocks!
Feel free to mark this issue resolved.
I’m SUPER EXCITED!!!!
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