OddThinking

The hawk-eyed may notice some subtle changes to the SomethinkOdd theme.

These aren’t big changes in usability. Many are features that are unlikely to be used much. These changes are largely about making me feel more pure (read that as “more purist”).

The big (internal) changes reflect my improved understanding of auto-detection of feeds. You can now auto-detect per-article comment feeds, category feeds and even feeds on keyword searches. Just think: you can subscribe to only articles where I mention Klondike.

Three items I am still not happy with about:

• No WordPress support yet for ATOM 1.0
• I use a non-standard (but conventional) MIME type for RSS
• Some RSS aggregators (e.g. FireFox) show a long list of identical feeds due to the many feed formats offered. I plan to kill some of these formats in the future, as the winning feed format becomes clearer (and support for it grows).

I’ve also taken a step further towards adhering to proper “Outlines” (i.e. using <H1>, <H2>, <H3>, etc. tags properly). You’ll notice the “Current Articles” banner across the top. That’s part of this. There’s still more work there (e.g. categories and single posts).