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mecurtin) wrote in
dw_suggestions2010-06-02 08:32 pm
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Entry tags:
Make automatic cuts in feeds
Title:
Make automatic cuts in feeds
Area:
Feeds
Summary:
Make it possible to force cuts in feeds (or other entries, but feeds in particular)
Description:
I've been consolidating my feeds on DW, and while some of them (e.g. http://alistapart-feed.dreamwidth.org/ ) use excerpts for their feeds, others (e.g. http://smashing-feed.dreamwidth.org/) do not. I know that the difference is in the way they've set up their feeds, but I'd like to be able to force cut tags for certain journals, or for a class of journals such as feeds.
Poll #3305 Make automatic cuts in feeds
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 45
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Should be implemented as-is.
19 (42.2%)
Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
10 (22.2%)
Shouldn't be implemented.
6 (13.3%)
(I have no opinion)
8 (17.8%)
(Other: please comment)
2 (4.4%)
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(Are people allowed to do anything with feeds besides name them and create them, right now?)
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However, crafting a 'show only so many ems of text' solution via CSS is actually not that easy, because it involves positioning.
Also, a cut affects what is actually loaded to the page, while CSS does not.
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The easy way to do it would be by specifying a height for "page-read .journal-type-Y", and also overflow:hidden. That should roll them right up.
I shall test!
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I do know that picking a really good minimum can be hard, because there are several different parts of an entry as displayed on a reading page. I wouldn't pick .journal-type-y as my class, without specifying that it's the entry text portion that I wanted to hide. I would want the entry links to remain visible, and probably to keep the title from taking up any of the restricted space.
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It is quite true that individual styling is difficult; I haven't mastered it myself.
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?? I don't know, it seems wonderfully straightforward to me. Are you having problems with anything in particular?
I hadn't thought about using CSS to style feed display ... hmm. I'll give this a think.
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So I'd at least like an option.
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A feed that had humongous articles would either (if I were largely interested) be fine by me, or (if I weren't) be off my list. But a feed that had humongous articles that gave only a teaser and had an off-site link would be off my list unless the data was so critical to me that I couldn't bear to take it off my list. The bar for that is very very high for things other than journals maintained by personal friends.
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.journal-example_feed img { display: none; }
to your layout at http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/options?group=customcss
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Plus I'm trying to push myself more to comment on the non-DW/LJ blogs I read, so personally I wouldn't mind forcing myself to click through on everything.
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