Jun 17
2010
This will be the last release of Antique, I think, barring a few minor fixes (follow @ttscoff for updates on this and other projects). You can download it here. The code is completely open source, if anyone wants to continue the project feel free (credit would be swell, where it’s due). I’ll be putting my free time into Instapaper Beyond and other more “legitimate” projects now (although I really would like to do a nice, high-contrast, Helvetica version…). In deference to Faruk Ateş, I’d like to clearly state that this is a hack, and you run a risk (albeit very minimal…
Posted in Blog, Code, Featured | 8 Comments » Tagged: antique, hacks, javascript, jquery, reader, safari, safari 5, typography, widont Jun 14
2010
While playing around with Antique, I decided I really wasn’t in love with the ampersands that were included in any of the fonts I was working with. Normally, I’d just run everything through Typogrify and get some handy CSS classes to work with. Working in Safari’s Reader, though, I only had access to Javascript (and jQuery, now).
I set out on a search for an easy, all-purpose solution, but nothing worked as well as I wanted it to. So I did a little scavenging and put together a couple of functions that do the job pretty well…
Jun 13
2010
There is a new version of Antique available! Check out version 1.6!
Version 1.5 1.6 of Antique (originally posted here) is officially available for download. Here’s what’s new!
If you want to try out the style, download it here and open the archive. Inside you’ll find a file called Reader.html. The file you’re going to replace (back it up somewhere safe first) is […]. If you don’t know how to do this from Terminal, you can just do it in Finder: go to your Applications folder and locate Safari, then right click on it and choose “Show Package Contents.” That will open a new window with the inne
Jun 06
2010
I’ll be the first to admit that I get a little obsessed with projects that aren’t really going to improve my life all that much. Those projects can be fun to blog about, though, so I present you my brief obsession for this Sunday afternoon.
You may have noticed on this blog that some posts have header images, and some don’t, and that they get styled differently based on whether there’s an image or not. It pulls the header images from one of two places: the post thumbnail (which I can’t edit from MarsEdit) or the first image in the post content with a class of “headerimg”…
May 26
2010
I ran into a problem recently. I wanted to have links to images be “lightboxed,” but I also wanted to blog in Markdown and not have to write out link tags with “rel” attributes for every image link. There are several existing plugins for WordPress that will do this automatically, but I’ve been sticking with the jQuery Lightbox plugin, which handles WordPress galleries in this manner, but requires the “rel=lightbox” attribute to handle single image links.
I’m not a big fan of directly modifying plugins, primarily because it means that my changes will be scrapped if I ever automatically update the plugin…