dmpop
Aircraft photography, spaghetti code, half-baked thoughts
Reads GuestbookTinble: Now more whimsical and with new features
As it often happens, all I wanted to do was to make a few simple tweaks in Tinble. Of course, one thing led to another, and I ended up implementing a new feature, fixing a handful of issues, and reworking the entire design.
Let's start with the most visible changes. The title now uses a very retro looking font called Honk. The buttons, selection lists, and the card elements now feature square-like look. I discovered how to do that with CSS, and I really went to town with it. I also renamed posts to articles. It doesn't make any difference, but I like it that way. With the SHOW_SUMMARY option enabled, article summaries on the main page are formatted as cards.. When I tried to use the search feature, I realized that it actually performs search on file names not the content of each file, which is rather useless. So I've fixed that, too.
Finally, I also implemented a feature that generates smaller versions of images (I call them tims as in tiny images) on-the-fly. Why? Because it's always a good idea to reduce image dimensions and size before inserting them into articles., but it's not always possible to do that. So now you can upload full-resolution images and link to them through the tim.php script that automatically generate smaller versions of them. The README file explains how to do that.
It's not all rainbows and unicorns, though. For some reason, the title font is not displayed correctly in Safari and the entire menu block is not centered properly (see issue #8), just to name a few.
Update
I've fixed issues with the menu block. Safari not displaying the Honk font is due to the browser not supporting the COLR font format.
