Dev-Picayune

As far as I know, I now have a working trackback system in place for this site (Dev-Picayune). As I noted previously, the biggest challenge was handling PHP coming from the XSL transformation. Once I got that working, the rest was just the normal tedious details. At the same time, you may notice I did a little cleanup on the header graphics to make them more consistent and a little more 3D accurate. I also used my own modification of the ALA Sliding Doors method for dealing with variable sized backgrounds under text (so my “trackbacks” bubble sizes itself). So now I can use the same graphic for a slightly differently sized “comments” bubble or a tiny bubble that just says “b” or a giant bubble with the words “when the revolution comes, the Perl programmers will be the first ones against the wall”. Well, maybe that won’t quite fit… but it certainly might be a true statement.