more fun with features

Friday, January 02, 2004, at 01:47PM

By Eric Richardson

Two new features premiering at once here. First off, you'll notice that posts now have a listed location. I wrote in some support for creating locations and then each time I post I assign it to one of those locations. I have some really cool plans for this, but right now all that this gives you is the ability to limit your view to posts at a location. Kind of cool for seeing where I am at a glance, but not real useful for anything else yet. The important word there is yet... Hopefully soon...

The second feature was inspired by the layout of Marc Canter's blog. As I've mentioned before, I really like outlines, and I loved the ability to expand/collapse posts on his site. His navigation appears to come from activeRenderer, but I wasn't sure quite how any of that played together, so I ended up just writing my own javascript to do it. Nothing overly complex, but I think it's a really cool effect. I'll try to put together some step-by-step instructions later, but it's pretty easy to figure out if you just open up my html and the javascript file included.