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Sunday, May 12
That's user-unfriendly-land to you
When I saw James pondering Radio Userland, I thought "this will be interesting." I briefly pondered sending him a friendly warning about the idiosyncratic nature of that software, but why hoist my own biases on the guy? From His review of the program that he wrote a few days later beats about the bush a bit, but I think a close reading reveals his true thoughts on the product. My biggest beef with most Radio Userland blogs is how they handle old posts. That default "calender" interface is a usability toilet. Having to learn a proprietary scripting system also seems like a bad way to spend my time. '; } else { if(stristr($filename,"archive")) { $dir=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; $template='_01_archive.html'; $tail=strlen($template); $thisArchive=$filename; //$files=scandir($dir); $dh = opendir($dir); while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) { $files[] = $filename; } sort($files); $earlyarch=""; $laterarch=""; $prevarch=""; $next=0; foreach($files as $file) { if (substr($file,-$tail)==$template) { if ($next==1) { $laterarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; $next=0; } if ($file==$thisArchive) { $next=1; } else { $prevarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; } } } $link=''; $divider=''; if(file_exists($earlyarch)) { $link='< Earlier Archive'; $divider=" | "; } if(file_exists($laterarch)) { $link=$link.$divider.'Later Archive >'; } $link=$link.' '; } } echo($link); ?> |