PowerBlogs.Com Development

Previously the "weekly" archives only used the creation date of the post to determine which "weeks" to link. Now they use the display date so that if one uses the rewrite history feature to back-date posts, the archives lists will now reflect this properly.

(note: I say "weekly" since that archive style is not truly weekly, but rather a method of slicing up months which tends to slice into 7-day segments. I really should add a true weekly archive option, which aligns on Saturday-Sunday borders.)

Those powerblogs users who use the optional formatting option "Format HTML automagically" know that the magic involved was not very powerful magic — it broke and left a post unformatted often enough to be annoying. I've been working on the second generation of auto-formatter which will be far smarter and more robust, but in the mean time on Eugene Volokh's suggestion I implemented a stop-gap which will add paragraph tags to everything separated by newlines. It's not ideal, of course, but it should really ameliorate the automagic formatter's failures. (Of course, this problem doesn't affect you if you're using the default "break at newlines" option.)

I also introduced a minor feature in the editing window which can take ascii-formatted tabular data and put all of the appropriate HTML code around it to make it an HTML table. (One can then select the newly generated table and edit it with the table editor.)