Alright, so mysigs is back...

Written by Kalle - August 22, 2007, 9:59 am, No Comments
Alright, so now mysigs is back i decided to try it out, it looks like the old one, however after browsing the User Admin Panel there was a few things i didn't like.
 
News titles
You can only have a news title that havn't been used by anyone else on another blog which is quite bad imo. Its hopefully gonna get fixed sooner or later.
 
Template Coding
Heres a few things i really dislike, but okay its maybe just because i wanted to be able to skin my blog 100%.
 
<?xml ... ?>
Doesn't work, i guess its cause to remove php code inside the template, but i still think it should be allowed!
 
"Code trimming"
Mysigs seems to trim all my template code which i don't really like, since it gets alot un-structured and non professional looking.
 
<!DOCTYPE ...>
After saving a template and then going to edit it, then mysigs changed the doctype tag from whatever you have been using to the old HTML 4.01 doctype, not sure if this is mysigs or the FCKEditor used.
 
HTML Special Characters
If saving a template with special HTML markup, lets say the copyright mark: &copy; is being decoded when doing to make a change to your template which makes square boxes around the template and invalid HTML markup.
 
"Top bar isn't skin-able and looks ugly (sorry Vin)"
It took me a while to try figure out how to skin the top bar on my mysigs page, but last i found the way; Javascript, since the top bar doesn't include any ids i had to use getElementByTagName and three for-loops which is kinda bad but it worked out, I will post a hack later on how to hack the top bar on your blog.
 
Auto-removing off omitted tags
So i noticed since i had to use a meta tag insted of the <?xml ... ?> which aren't avaible mysigs is removing the omitted part, <meta ... /> which is pretty bad and overall forces you to go back to HTML 4.01 =/
So thats what i don't like about the new MySigs, however i love the new User Admin Panel, its really nice and easy to use if you compare it to the old one, Good job!
 
One thing i think Mysigs is missing is RSS feeds for blogs, which i hope will be implemented sometime soon, else i can't say anything other than good job.
 
I will also finish skinning my blog soon, so you can use the shout box, news comment and gallery ;)