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By: josh

josh — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:31:28 +0000

Thank you for leaving a link. Nice lookin’ site you got there. ;-)

I actually read each and every one of your posts. How often can we say we wish a blog had been longer? I added your feed so I can keep up with your posts in the future; I really like your point of view.

I think you’re being a bit rough on Google though. If you look at Thompson’s `Trusting Trust’ paper (or even an answer he gave recently on Ask-a-Google-Engineer), the picture arises of a world where you always trust someone with your data — Google, an OS vendor, Sun’s JRE…

Open source is some measure of remedy for this — but only to the extent that an individual can comprehend a modern kernel and shared library stack in its entirety.

Nevertheless, your concern is well-placed, and I enjoyed your comparison of the “Don’t be evil” slogan with a communist leadership preaching always and falsely about brotherhood and peace.

Last but not least, a link from a commenter on your site pointed me at the Nitrogen framework, and I’m pretty excited about that.

So it was a worthwhile trip to your site(!), and thanks again. Hope Simplish will be a good frame for your excellent content.

By: sacharya

sacharya — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:42:19 +0000

Alrite, just so if you wanted to know, check it out at sacharya.com
Thanks for your help, and the wonderful theme.

By: josh

josh — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:40:51 +0000

As an aside: A month or two ago, I wired the Google code prettifier directly into Simplish in an experimental branch. I continue to like this code-colorer better than Geshi by a small margin. I believe there is a WordPress plugin incorporating this same syntax highlighting javascript.

By: josh

josh — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:30:28 +0000

It sounds like you just want to stop the interaction of Simplish pre and code styles with the styles the plugin is adding. If you take a look at style.css:174, you can chop out most of Simplish's styling for pre, if you plan to always run the Geshi plugin. You may also want to find and alter/excise the code styles. I haven't looked into how to get the wp-syntax plugin to print line numbers; I don't think the theme style is hiding them. As a design matter, I'd rather Simplish have sensible, black-and-white pre and code styles than for it to work with any particular code-coloring/formatting plugin. But the styles are fairly easy to remove in favor of your favorite plugin.

By: sacharya

sacharya — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:25:33 +0000

Thanks. I get similar result as yours, and I prefer using the line number

and it doesnt look that nice.
Nothing is messed up though. Just needs a lil bit of finishing touch.

By: josh

josh — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:11:53 +0000

I haven’t used the Geshi-based code colorers before, because I like Google’s a little better. However, I dropped the wp-syntax plugin in place here (on WordPress-µ 2.7), and it seems to work for a snippet of C: http://labs.utopian.net/blogs/simplish-demo/pre/

I’ve also tested it with plain WordPress locally and had the same results. That’s WordPress v2.7. What’s the specific issue you are having? Is the issue with posted PHP code, or with anything posted within pre tags?

By: sacharya

sacharya — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:32:44 +0000

I like this Simplish theme a lot and wanted to try out for my blog. I am using WP 2.5 and it doesn’t seem to do too well with the Geshi WP Syntax highlighter.
What would you recommend for syntax highlingting ? Have you tried Geshi on this theme?