Musings and Mutterings

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Cross-posted to dw_codesharing.

The one-click DreamWidth-LiveJournal hybrid javascript for posting seems to work well with the new cross-posting feature. I've tested tables, images, and video, all seem to work fine. I do a one-click post to DW and it shows up on LJ. Very cool!

Edit: ms_danson did some testing and made some useful observations:

http://ms-danson.dreamwidth.org/4709.html

The most important is that if you delete a cross-posted DW entry, the entry will ALSO be deleted on LiveJournal unless you make sure both the "Crosspost this entry" and the target account have been unchecked.

It appears the jerry-rigged solution works and doesn't require being logged into LJ. The final version of the code is below:

javascript:void((function(){var%20u='http://www.dreamwidth.org/',w=window.open('','','toolbar=0,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,status=1,width=1000,height=500');if(window.LJ_bookmarklet){return%20LJ_bookmarklet(w,u)};var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.onload=function(){LJ_bookmarklet(w,u)};e.setAttribute('src','http://www.livejournal.com/js/bookmarklet.js');document.getElementsByTagName('head').item(0).appendChild(e)})())

Create a bookmark in your browser and in the URL field cut-and-paste the above script. One of the biggest changes that is needed is to replace the http://www.livejournal.com/js/bookmarklet.js javascript code residing either locally or on a DW server rather than on the LJ server, but I'm leaving that for others who may be so inclined.

Posted here so that I remember where to find it:

http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Dreamwidth_Communities

I just arrived at Dreamwidth yesterday and have, so far, been rather impressed. One of the features I missed, however, was the bookmarklet javascript for auto-posting. I've gerry-rigged the LJ javascript function to perform the same function for dreamwidth:


javascript:void((function(){var%20u='http://www.dreamwidth.org/',w=window.open('','','toolbar=0,resizable=1,scrollbars=1,status=1,width=1000,height=500');if(window.LJ_bookmarklet){return%20LJ_bookmarklet(w,u)};var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.onload=function(){LJ_bookmarklet(w,u)};e.setAttribute('src',u+'js/bookmarklet.js');document.getElementsByTagName('head').item(0).appendChild(e)})())


Create a bookmark in your browser and in the URL field cut-and-paste the above script. One of the biggest changes that is needed is to replace the http://www.livejournal.com/js/bookmarklet.js javascript code residing either locally or on a DW server rather than on the LJ server. I'll continue to play with this to see what I come up with.

If anyone makes any improvements to this script, please let me know and I'll update this post with appropriate cudos.

Edit: Found a bug with the method; it only works if you have run the script to post to LJ at least once in this session. Not a big problem at the moment because I'm posting to both so I just post to LJ first, then to DW, but this is certainly not a long-term solution.

Edit 2: Now testing some locally-running javascript to attempt to perform the same function but so far no-go.