IT LIIIIIVES

[active_apathy]

In all honesty, after my precious, precious icon spaces, the biggest reason for me to renew a paid account is to get back my access to the advanced customisation area so that I can add hack after Frankensteinian hack to the S2 code powering my layout.

(When all you have is a chainsaw compiler, everything looks like a zombie source code.)

Most of what's been done so far has been practically invisible to any long-time reader of this journal - things like the quickreply boxes on comment pages, or the tiered tag list, or the random icons in the sidebar (which I have to update at some point, because what's the point of having a hundred and something icons if they don't all have a ~1% chance of appearing on your layout?), or the less-intrusive headings in the bookmarks list. There were some other things, too - things like changing the background images, or reverting to overrides to the base layout - but they mostly came about because I had no paid time and six icons are really never enough.

Until tonight, that is, when I've added the first actually-new thing for Quite Some Time™. Now that the core layer will, by default, add a tooltip to the date and time on a comment to show how long after the entry it was posted, I wanted to see if it could be done for entries.

And it can. Hover your mouse over the date and time of an entry on my layout, and it should show you long ago the entry was posted. Probably the best idea of how it works can be had from my memes or icons tags, and my friends of friends page.

Comments

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

Very cool. I wish I knew how to code, I'm sure it's a useful skill!

[matgb]

'tis why I taught myself how to do it, it's a lot easier to do than a lot of people seem to think, at least at a basic level anyway.

@AA: Showing off aren't you. Very cool though, I always like mouseover stuff that isn't intrusive.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Mm, not quite; showing off would be linking to my theme layer for everyone to see it, and the code for this is a little messier than I'd have liked.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

matgb is right - it really is a lot easier than it looks, for the basics. And once you have those, complicated things are mostly a matter of finding something that works and plugging it into the right spot.

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

Yeah, from what I do know about it that seems to be the case. I basically got as far as simple HTML and no further, but it's all logic based, and logic I can do.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Well, there's also the problem solving, and the moments of frothy, incoherent rage. But logic, mostly. :)

[annemjw.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I get quite a lot of frothy incoherent rage just writing my essays, but I can see the potential...

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Nifty!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!