World of Codecraft

I think regarding the dialog, you just want to add some HTML that gets
displayed/hidden with a button, and add both the HTML and the button
stuff into .kupu files for the XSL make system. Then when the user
chooses a symbol to add, do something like (assuming you have the
character is ‘mychar’):

var sel = kupu.getSelection();
var tnode = kupu.getInnerDocument().createTextNode(mychar);
sel.replaceWithNode(tnode, true);

This should replace the current selection with a text node, and select
the added node.

I hope this helps (and indeed works, didn’t actually try)…

A friend calls it the Ross and Rachel Factor, this phenomenon that drags otherwise rational people back to the source of their greatest pleasure and their greatest pain.

The allusion is from the television show Friends but in the sports world you don’t have to look a long way to find potent examples. Wendel Clark returned to Toronto as if guided by divine destiny.

Michael Curry was returned to the Detroit Pistons bench after postings elsewhere. A longtime White Sox, Ozzie Guillen returned to the South Side to manage with great success.

And then, of course, there is the case of Paul Maurice, late of the Maple Leafs and the current architect of the Carolina Hurricanes’ appearance in the third round of the playoffs.

They are no fluke. The Hurricanes entered the playoffs playing better than anyone in the East and ousted teams with far superior records, the New Jersey Devils and then the Boston Bruins.

Paul Maurice enjoyed scant success with the Maple Leafs. His teams finished outside the playoffs both seasons and, as Maurice once said, coaching the Maple Leafs brings its own, agonizing loneliness.

“When you make all the right moves, everyone wants to stand beside you and pat you on the back,” he said. “When things don’t workout, you’re by yourself.”

He has plenty of company this year as the Hurricanes have written an intriguing sidebar to the playoffs.

As usual, Maurice is filling reporters’ notebooks and making the oldest credos sound fresh. A Paul Maurice press conference is and always be a revelation. Some guys paint houses. Other guys paint pictures.

“We usually feel if thing go bad, there are mistakes that are correctible,” he was telling reporters in advance of Thursday’s Game 2 of the Conference Finals against Pittsburgh.

“We also don’t expect our team to play a perfect game every night. That way, we can be positive about some of the good things we can do.”

Clearly, this is the coach the Leafs thought they were getting when they offered Maurice a three-year-deal, the first of which was spent babysitting the building during the lockout. He inherited some formidable weapons, a fading but still potent Mats Sundin, lots of playoff experience and expectations to match.

But Andrew Raycroft’s 37-win season would prove illusionary and when the tests came in and showed brand new free agent Jason Blake had leukemia, the season went haywire.

Maurice, along with GM John Ferguson, paid the price but it was damned lonely in the end.

Glad to see he has so much company on the bandwagon. They couldn’t have handed a better man the reins.

Overview:

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Written by Kevin Muldoon

I hate websites who place frames around sites I have built. What right do they have to stop a user viewing my site its entirety. It’s such a cheap 1990s scummy method of ensuring that the user doesn’t stay on your site for long and returns back to the toolbar owners site.

So Diggs recent addition of a toolbar annoyed me. Infact, it pissed off quite a lot of people. I for one cannot understand why they have introduced this. Digg was built on user content. It was built by webmasters and bloggers who promoted Digg to their users in the hope that Digg would send a lot of traffic back. But Digg is trying to stop sending quality traffic back to the people who helped build it.

With a URL frame around content, there is no SEO benefit from promoting Digg. It also increases their traffic stats and reduces yours. Brant from X Pose also pointed out a few more reasons why the Digg Bar sucks. The one which really pissed me off was hearing that they had stripped away the meta tags of my blog and replaced it with “Digg, Digg.com, news, images, videos, vote, content”. They also have an ad tracker in the toolbar so they are clearly planning on adding advertisements to YOUR BLOG in the future.

Goodbye Digg

Because of all of this, I have removed the Digg voting link from BloggingTips and it will not return until Digg remove their toolbar. I was never a big Digg user so I doubt this will concern them too much but I am sure that many other bloggers and webmasters feel the same way I do.

Digg know what they are doing. I’m sure that their traffic will increase because of this move but I strongly believe they have forgotten their roots and forgotten how much their site depends on it’s users. A lot of their traffic depends on webmasters and bloggers placing the Digg button on their sites and they are now getting a pretty bad deal.

Seriously, why would you send a visitor to Digg knowing that any visitors they do send back will not actually visit your site, rather they will be viewing your site through Digg.

This is why I have placed a frame breaker on BloggingTips. If any of you feel the way I do then I encourage you to read on

How To Remove The Digg Bar From Your Blog

I searched Digg for some BloggingTips articles which have been dugg. The first one i came across was 100 Great Blog Logos : Volume 2. Though now, instead of linking to www.bloggingtips.com/2008/10/24/100-great-blog-logos-2/, they now link to www.digg.com/d1cqDg (and with it goes the SEO benefit of a link from Digg!).

So Digg visitors saw this :

To remove this toolbar you need to use what is called a Frame Breaker. All you need to do is add the following code to the HEAD section of your header template (i.e. before the </head> tag) :


<script type="text/javascript">
if (top !== self) top.location.href = self.location.href;
</script>


When you add this to your blog the visitor will still see the Digg Toolbar for a second or so and then it will be removed (So for the visitor to go back to Digg they would have to click the back button twice).

There are a lot of basic javascript methods for breaking a frame but I found this to be the best one. If you don’t want Digg, or any other website for that matter, placing a frame around your blog, then I recommend adding the above code to your header template,

If you have any problems adding this to your blog please leave a comment and I’ll do my best to help

Overview

I don’t like content thieves, I don’t like trolls and I don’t like websites placing frames around my blog. Why should they be allowed to reduce our traffic stats and reduce the chances of a visitor browsing the rest our blogs. Heck, they might not even know what blog they are viewing because the URL at the top of the browser will say Digg.com and not YourBlog.com.

I hope BloggingTips users don’t miss the Digg button too much. I know that many of you like Digg and I’m sure some of you even find their new toolbar useful so I hope you can appreciate my view on the matter.

Personally, as someone who is using Twitter more and more, I prefer the Retweet Me vote button from TweetMeMe as it allows you to quickly share a good link with friends and associates much easier.

I hope you find the Frame Breaker code useful and as always, I would love to hear your opinions on all of this