Comments on: Citing References in Blog Posts

By: Dave Hall

Dave Hall — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:40:50 +0000

I have been using the content attribute in my print stylesheets for a couple of years for this reason. It does work on IE, but then again you should reward people for using (more) standards compliant browsers.

Being able to change your stylesheet is a requirement any semi professional looking blog.

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 13:13:41 +0000

How much access do most bloggers have to their platform? I thought most of the hosted platforms allowed you to change the template, so you could insert the above style. Is there a good recent comparison/ survey/ review out there?

http://jayajha.wordpress.com/2005/09/27/bloggercom-vs-wordpresscom/ suggests both blogger and wordpress hosting platforms support it, but that’s from 2005, so maybe out-of-date.

By: etbe

etbe — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:19:05 +0000

http://mindboosternoori.blogspot.com/2007/09/citing-references-in-blog-posts.html
The above URL gave me a couple of extra ideas about TinyURL so I updated that section.

MJR: Good idea about the stylesheet. Pity I’m not that great a web programmer. Also I was mostly thinking of things that can be done without web programming (as most bloggers don’t have such access to their platform).

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:47:25 +0000

Bleah. I should read all earlier comments before answering the first one. A second line of

content: “[" attr(href) "]“;

will work just as well.

(It’s now pretty tempting to try a meta http-equiv redirect tag to see if it works…)

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:45:30 +0000

Something like:

a:after { /* Not MSIE? */
content: “”;
font-size: 90%;
padding-left: 1ex;
}

in the print stylesheet perhaps?

MJR, your friendly cooperative-webmaster-for-hire.

By: Ted Percival

Ted Percival — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:05:46 +0000

Ech, I didn’t realise markup was allowed. I was talking about the

and HTML elements (blockquote and q).