Comments on: XHTML Friends is now about people

By: Sören Kuklau

Sören Kuklau — Wed, 18 May 2005 08:37:25 +0000

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

By: mdawaffe

mdawaffe — Thu, 12 May 2005 21:52:35 +0000

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 :)

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Tue, 10 May 2005 22:19:50 +0000

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 :).

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 09 May 2005 18:30:47 +0000

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)

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Mon, 09 May 2005 17:30:25 +0000

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 :).

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 09 May 2005 14:40:28 +0000

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

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 09 May 2005 01:47:47 +0000

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