I found the description for “Homeopathy” in google results included controversy text.
For such a small description, one would believe there’s not enough room for quack it or promote it, but there it was.
This is how you penetrate wikepedia, right in front of their editors
After (me) being hated by some of the editors, the description miraculously changed to a plain description, but nobody said “I did” or “Oops”, yet I’m still waiting for an official answer to my request to edit a HIDDEN section even the editors didn’t know exists. : The “Lede” or lead. You need to add special query parameters in the address bar to see it (&secion=0 if the page is not marked as “controversial” or somehow blocked) like this lede for furniture
One answer was
How many times do we have to say this: ‘we have no control over what Google does’
The lede, is what the crawler reads, but IT’S NOWHERE IN THE USER PAGE, it’s only seen by bots.
Although Wikipedia is believed to be neutral, and open, the lede is not even seen in your browser, nor the main “edit” page.
If you thought you can at least control what others do, think again.
That page is locked, and you have to (more…)
As a followup of my previous article Semantic yet SEO rating stars, here’s a new application of custom fonts: A bar graph generated out of simple numbers. No images, no JavaScript, no SVG, no Canvas, no DIVs; just CSS, a minimal font and the same text you’ll write for human reading.
The microformat doesn’t make sense yet, since I just used the one for the stars, but since I haven’t found a specific schema for polls, or graphs, I’ll just post it anyway, while I get an answer from the schema brains about how the code should be rendered.
- Poll Question: Does WordPress Plugin API deserve its own SVN client?
- Yes: 67%
- No: 33%
- based on: 176 Votes
…and BELOW the SAME MARKUP, with a regular font.
- Poll Question: Does WordPress Plugin API deserve its own SVN client?
- Yes: 67%
- No: 33%
- based on: 176 Votes
Again, you can inspect the code of the bars above, and see by yourself it doesn’t use any extra code or markup for the bars.
As you can see, the bar, outline, and background color can be changed independently, even on (more…)
The dream
Now it’s possible to write your review in normal text, and have it formated as fraction-filled stars, no images, no JS, no flash, no SVG, no canvas.
Euhh?
Inspect this live example
Take the following text as example. This will also render the stars in Google search results, not because you made a special code for robots, but because it’s actually the SAME code.
- Plugin Review: Darkroom facebook photo gallery for wordpress
- Rating: 3.5 out of 5</i>
- based on: 76 reviews
And below the same text without the class “seostars”. (more…)
Safari renders the rounded corners with bezier paths, and the values you enter not always generate a valid curve in webkit. Sometimes some value fails to render the curve, and although it was taken care of for the rendering of the curve (more…)
Beyond proof of concept, it’s possible to make a pure css animated folding page-tip, as I wrote before in my article Pure CSS animated flipping page corner effect
That article was the proof-of-concept, and in this one I cleaned up the code, trying to make pseudo-elements of the parts you shouldn’t care about, and placing the editable colors where you can easily edit them, e.g. not inside a gradient fill lost between color stops.
The challenge here was to leave a click-able object on top, but still having lights and shadows falling on top of your hidden button, so I made the whole corner click-able, and (more…)
Take one.
The sample speaks by itself, for a first-take.
I havent made it cross-browser yet, which could be just a single image, scaled up and down, but it works fine this way, no images, no javascript.
I started with webkit animation, but it could be made with javascript.
The corner diagonal fill could be replaced with a box rotated with jQuery… but I’d rather use no javascript and make it mobile-compatible (webkit).
I haven’t seen anything like this on the web so I’m sharing it with you looking forward for your comments.
I’ll post an update with cross browser compatibility.
Oh… and valid markup. I know there’s a lot of extra markup here, but as soon as webkit animations work on pseudo-elements (created by css), I’ll reduce the amount of code too.
I was banned from WordPress today, and that’s a good way to begin this post 
I took me 3 days, 1 WordPress bug and a few programmers getting pixxed off enough to ban me, as all the previous times that I insinuated there was an issue in WP core. But it was worth it.
You’ll see: Some people like to offer help ( like in forums ) under their conditions, that even happens to me sometimes, but when that person ALSO has the POWER to moderate the forums AND is the one others will blame to when the bug comes up to light, their conditions include “or else”. For me all that only seconds “solve and help”.
Anyway, the price I paid is less than what you’d pay if you hired someone to fix it for you. This can’t be fixed by any canonical plugin so understanding this WordPress bug will save you a few bucks… and and will make SEO and WordPress devs hate you! hehe (more…)
Subversion GUIs are not made for Mac users, yet.
I mean, we, Mac users, are used to friendly interfaces, which don’t require more than 10% of knowledge about the system/mechanics behind we are dealing with. That 10% (or less, please!) is what we expect to be in the documentation, and today’s internet-age users would like to be one page long at most.
Unfortunately, SVN apps (clients?) documentation are STILL several pages long, and although I’m sure our issue is user-related, if such documentation is that long, that’s not a user anymore, but a slave.
For all of you, like me, who like Apple-style easy apps (more…)
I released my new Plugin to showcase your Facebook photo albums to WordPress, with a nice animated interface using jQuery, not flash, so your get rid of another bag of flash
Here’s a Live demo which looks like the image below:
Here’s the official page for Darkroom facebook photo gallery where you can comment and get help:
After 2 previous times when they told me “there’s nothing wrong”, I finally got a ‘secretary’ (yes, the ones who answer your call are not real cutomer reps, since they can just access the online help you can see yourself, and the real help is behind them) who was lucky to find someone willing to really test what I said.
The other times they even told me “we just placed a php script and it sent us mail fine” (I have no proof of that since it didn’t go to me, nor they gave me a copy of the script used)
This time, Godaddy ADMITED they were able to replicate the issue. Same issue that I asked them for in my last call, a month ago, when I read about somebody saying the php files were corrupt.
So their solution now is to UPDATE the files, and they can’t do it! So they sent me the instructions to do it by hand.
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