The blog's new clothes

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Ported the Scribbish theme to Movable Type, hacked the K2 livesearch into it and did a few small changes to the layout format, mainly to allow for my inline asides (aka del.icio.us links) to blend in.

The main feature of the scribbish theme is that it's hAtom compliant, which is something that was making me curious enough. I wonder if now with the inline asides it's still compliant... hmmm, I'll check that out.
Anyway, hAtom is a proposed microformat to structure a blog page's html in an atom-like format so that it can be syndicated. Neat.
Oh and the relative dates, yes (you see 'em below the title). They're done in javascript and I just love 'em. They make the thing look so more human friendly, without ruining machine readability at all.

Other items of note... well, the livesearch is a simple php script that peeks into MT's database. No rocket science at all, but it's been nice to tinker with MT's dynamic templates at last (have a look here for a primer).

Oh, yes, and now the whole thing is powered by the new MT3.3x... which is cool, except that it has now its own tag system, which breaks all my previous tags (I used to store an entry's tags in the keyword field). Retrieving them shouldn't be difficult at all though. Put it into the TODO list.
All of the code is truly horrible, but if you want to have a peek at it just contact me.

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nice :-)

Thank you!
Still quite a few glitches though. But I guess there'll be always some.

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