Out of Cheese

No such luck that time; navigator link page names are root-relative, and I was missing the ‘/’. It turns out that you can actually learn something from re-reading the docs.

In the process, I got Radio to crash. It seems the networking code isn’t very well threaded — it’d blocked while uploading a file and failed to serve pages while it was blocked. One force-quit and relaunch later and it’s happy again.

Playing with Radio now, I’ve added a new navigator page and need to figure out how to get this page updated to link to it instead of displaying an error message. Hopefully posting this will get it to update.

Still no responses to my Samson mail. Marc got a new version of PC-Leland out, though, along with a rather complicated explanation of how to grovel through the Windows NT kernel’s memory to associate network connections with users. Ick. Thank goodness Samson doesn’t have to do anything quite that silly.

More Radio information: UserLand’s Robert Scoble responded to a query from another hopeless newbie (like me) on the Radio discussion group with a link to Radio UserLand for Webloggers. I finally feel somewhat clued in. Unfortunately, true WYSIWYG editing is apparently only available through the IE DHTML control on Windows. Yet another reason why Apple should work harder on its HTMLRenderingLib, and why Mozilla needs to keep making progress.

I sent mail out to the Samson team today saying that I won’t get the release out till next Monday. No responses. I wonder if everyone’s given up on it.

I did fix a couple of bugs tonight — default sessions now work and the font button is no longer toggled (!). On the other hand, I also noticed that colors don’t work in Forsythe, though they work on Leland Systems machines. Bizarre.

In other news, I’m still trying to figure out Radio. Apparently I can add pseudo-tags to this text area to get linking and other HTML basics, and I can also create WYSIWYG pages with simple HTML elements within the Radio app. The Radio documentation is great for getting started and great if you’re familiar with Frontier, Manila, or previous versions of Radio, but it’s quite lacking for anyone else.

As I imagined, I’ll have to work a little to get myself to write here regularly. That’s what I’m doing now, and at 2 a.m., I should probably be doing something else. Oh, well.

I’m actually trying to get a Samson release out tonight. We’ll see if it happens. It’s been longer than I can remember since the last release. November, I think, or perhaps October. Maybe even earlier than that. And now it’s all rewritten for Mac OS X and looks great, but it’s a bit short in the feature department at the moment. Hopefully I’ll find time to take care of that over the next couple of weeks without going too insane.

I’ll be darned…it looks like Radio 8 does work after all. Nifty. Now I’ll just have to see if I can actually maintain the dedication to update this every so often. And if I can figure out how to modify the template to add a couple of links, and to get a couple of other pages up for those links to point to, and so on and so forth.

I should also try to see what this WYSIWYG thing is that the Radio documentation talks about. Ain’t much that’s WYSIWYG about typing into a textarea in an HTML form, so there’s hopefully a better way to write these entries.

Well, it’s time to see if this works. If it does, that’s pretty awesome. Here’s hoping that it works…and that you can delete posts so this doesn’t stay up for too long.