SubscribeWrong title from posts
On SOB, individual posts get the names of the categories used as the title by co.mments. I think this stems from apotheon’s formatting of the categories within a div of class-name “post-title”. Is co.mments using a regex to scrape the title that’s maybe a little too loose? Something like <.*title.*>? Example post: http://sob.apotheon.org/?p=182, where the title comes out as “Metalog& Geek 16 Jan 2007 07:53 pm”.
Posted by SterlingCamden in General on Friday, February 2nd, 2007. You can follow any responses using co.mments, leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Assaf
February 5th, 2007 at 1:06 am
It does happens due to the formatting. For this blog, co.mments’s best guess is that the element with the class name ‘post-title’ contains the post’s title.
Unfortunately, it happens to be the next element, with the class name post-info, that contains the title.
SterlingCamden
February 5th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
But the page also has a <title> element — why wouldn’t you use that?
Assaf
February 7th, 2007 at 12:36 am
I’m actually considering that, to always pick the page title and ignore the post title. It will work better for some blogs, worse for others, but overall it might be the better tradeoff.
SterlingCamden
February 7th, 2007 at 11:23 am
Oh, now I see your dilemma. Some blogs don’t even put the post title in the page title. Their bad, says I.
Sherri
March 2nd, 2007 at 8:31 am
I wonder if we were able to edit our titles ourselves at the time we added it to Co.mments might be easier than you having to adjust the programming for all the different blog softwares out there.
Plus it would be nice because sometimes people title things differently than what we might, and it’s hard to remember what a post was about after some time has passed.
Assaf
March 6th, 2007 at 2:18 am
Letting people edit their own title sounds very useful.
SterlingCamden
March 6th, 2007 at 11:17 am
I’d vote for it.
albany
January 30th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Meee tooo