My second meme

[_imran_]

How common are _imran_'s interests
Universal books (186866)
chocolate (102422)
computers (265117)
drawing (168573)
friends (336539)
harry potter (126522)
movies (538818)
photography (230452)
rain (112920)
reading (351744)

Popular family guy (60095)
fantasy (63566)
history (62661)
ice cream (60114)
internet (73597)
pizza (

Comments

Forms in comments

[samj]

I have a comment about memes in general. Most memes involve a form to fill in so you can try it yourself (like the Enter username field above). However I've found that if you paste your meme into an LJ comment (as opposed to an LJ entry) then in some browsers (I use Firefox) the form fields are not displayed. Perhaps your memes could generate two blocks of HTML - one for pasting into entries, and another for pasting into comments, with the latter just having a link to MemeLand instead of a form?

Another idea is to have a Javascript powered button to press that automatically puts the HTML on the clipboard, thus saving us an arduous 'select all and copy' operation. Obviously selecting from the text box should always be available as a fallback.

Re: Forms in comments

[_imran_]

re the javascript copy-to-clipboard, I would do it but I haven't found an easy cross-browser way to do it.

You can do it in recent versions of IE without much difficulty but all the ways I've seen for doing it under moz require moz to be running with weaker security options then it has by default.

Re: Forms in comments

[kunzite1]

form fields are stripped from comments when posted to lj.

Re: Forms in comments

[ianiceboy]

I learnt from my first one and had the 'submit this' words solely on the button, so that when that disappears on a comment, it just looks like results, not Enter username: then nothing.

[perlmonger]

Nice.

You've got a bug though - you generate bad HTML if an interest has a " character in it; need a s/"/"e;/g in there somewhere :)

P.

fixed now

[_imran_]

fixed.

[mauser]

I sent an e-mail about this one. Another bad bit of HTML is not escaping spaces as %20. If one is not using Explorer, which "fixes" urls on the fly, clicking on an interest with a space in it will generate an error. (I usually get "Document contained no Data")

[perlmonger]

...oh, and "∞" on my list gets rendered as "\u221e", so something in your Unicode handling needs attention too.

[_imran_]

I can't reproduce this one - it works for me, it might be a browser issue or something. Do you have any idea what might be causing it ?

[perlmonger]

False alarm - it was an artefact from pasting from logjam into xemacs and back...

Sorry if I caused any worry :)

[justababybath]

Whoah. I'd no idea this was a character I could use on LJ. The lemniscate!!! Oy, thank you for pointing that out to me, however accidentally...

[lizblackdog]

I'm not sure what went wrong here but this is the error message I got:

[Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.]

[_imran_]

Fixed it, so it should *fingers crossed* work now.

I accidently broke something else when I was fixing perlmonger's bug, but hopefully boths bugs are fixed now.

Ummm....

[lizblackdog]

[Error: Can't use string ("lizblackdog") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at (eval 641) line 102. @ w46]

This is what I got this time...

Re: Ummm....

[_imran_]

I can't seem to reproduce this error, I've tried running the meme with your username several times using several different web-browsers and it's worked everytime.

I've no idea what it's complaining about, would you mind trying again, and if it still gives you that error I'll look into it more thoroughly.

[ladyortyger]

Thanks for the color customization! :)

[_imran_]

No prob.

What I'm thinking about doing next time is to work out a way of automatically colouring in a meme based upon the style of the user's lj.

[angharad]

Ooh. That would be nice.

[squiggydaspcdog]

That would be cool.