XHTML Friends is now about people

May 9, 2005 by Oliver
Filed under: XHTML Friends 

XHTML Friends (or so it seems) now correctly reads “me” links and associates sites by author. It will take a while for it to crawl all the extra info it needs to get this properly up to date though.

Be my guest and have a look though :)

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7 Comments on XHTML Friends is now about people

  1. Oliver on Mon, 9th May 2005 1:47 am

    2. Actually, it’s rather buggy. But I’ll sort it when I’m not so tired…

  2. Oliver on Mon, 9th May 2005 2:40 pm

    3. Seems to be sorted now. There are a few situations that will confuse though that I will have to sort out afterwards.

  3. Caitlin on Mon, 9th May 2005 5:30 pm

    4. Not sure where else to put this, but the search on XHTML Friends doesn’t seem to handle apostrophes correctly. It doesn’t appear that the apostrophe is getting escaped correctly. If I search for “Caitlin’s Random Text”, it returns:
    You searched for Caitlin\’s Random Text.

    No results.

    If I drop the word with the apostrophe and just use “Random Text”, it returns my site to me as expected. Just thought you might want to know about that :).

  4. Oliver on Mon, 9th May 2005 6:30 pm

    5. Ah yes, the search is rather, erm, limited. Since I’ve added people I need to make it search people too…

    But that specific problem should be fixed now :o)

  5. Caitlin on Tue, 10th May 2005 10:19 pm

    6. Thanks. You’d be surprised at how many major sites have problems with apostrophes. I have an apostrophe in my surname, and you’d be surprised at just how many websites tell me that my surname is “invalid” input. Of course, I never considered handling apostrophes until after I got married and changed surnames. Anyway, I’ve been playing with XHTML Friends, and it’s pretty nifty :).

  6. mdawaffe on Thu, 12th May 2005 9:52 pm

    7. I’ve tried to get XHTML Friends to crawl my site a couple times, but I’ve not had any luck. At least, it never shows up in the search results.

    I just tried again and the “Oliver Brown’s XFN Crawler” tab that pops up contains no data.

    Perhaps this is all because of my non-standard port number?

    Of course, it won’t bother me that much if XHTML Friends thinks my site too unimportant to crawl :)

  7. Sören Kuklau on Wed, 18th May 2005 8:37 am

    8. It thinks my name is “Sören Nils”, when in fact that’s my first and middle name. :>