Social Bookmarking Revisited

Take a look at the bottom of this post. Hover your mouse over the Social Bookmarks displayed there. Do you like this hack? I thought so.

I saw this use of dynamic HTML at one of my favorite websites, Vladstudio. And reverse-engineered it to fit into Blogger Beta.

For starters, I just give you some simple instructions on how to implement this hack. Later on I'll expand on how this hack works and how to tailor it to your needs. If you want to have other services, let me know.

Implementation is easy.

Step 0: Backup your template.

Step 1: Add the following code to the head of your template:

Enhanced Blog Interactivity Using Polls

Completely new to me, and extremely easy to implement are free polls from Pollhost. You can have a poll up and running on your blog withing a few minutes. Just open an account, create your first poll, generate the HTML, and paste it into a Blogger Beta html-page element.

You can have up to 15 polls running, and each poll can have up to 20 answers.

So, let me know which hack is most usefull to you. And if you like other polls, please let me know!

Improved Super Peek-A-Boo Post

Did you like the Super-Peek-A-Boo post? Then I am sure you will like this improvement as well! After collapsing a post, it auto-scrolls back to the top of the post. That's nice, isn't it? You can see it at work now if you expand and collapse the post you are reading now.

One of the comments I received on the Super Peek-A-Boo post is, that after collapsing a post you end up reading another post, that 'moves up' into view because you collapse the post.

So I sleft a few nights on it, and came up with a very simple solution to this (cosmetic) problem. You need to make 2 slight adjustments.

One is to the 'post'-includable. If you followed my instructions on peek-a-boo posts, you gave the post-body

an id. You have to move this id to the top of the includable like this:

expr:id='"post-" + data:post.id' >

We will use this id to scroll back to, so by placing it at the top we assure that we scroll back to the top of the post (and not to the top of the body, which would leave out the post title).

Secondly, we need to adapt the javascript hideFull() function, by adding a tiny line of code at the end:
post.scrollIntoView(true);

Thats all to make it work!

In order to adhere to common standards I asked Ramani to update his Hackosphere.js-file to include the new line of code. So be patient until Ramani releases the new file.