I just added Jason Silver's smilefie plugin to allow support for graphical emoticons. Here's what I've got (with images lifted from Trillian Pro):
![:-\](/images/blog_buttons/disappointed.gif ":-\"){kind=small}
He had a minor bug or two that I fixed, and I added proper support for XHTML. I also made the alt tags more lynx friendly, and ended up having to rename the plugin to 99smilefie to force it run after tiki and wikiwordish.
I need to learn a little more regex kung fu to make this really work correctly with tiki (such as preventing emoticons in code blocks).
I've got a question regarding the smilefie plugin – I also wrestled with the plugin to make it work with my blog settings and to make it validate correctly as XHTML. One unsolved problem remains:<br />
I cannot make it work in comments :( this is too bad, because comments are the places where they appear most frequently in my blog…
hah! :O there you go.
Hi ozean, I dug in to the writeback plugin and found a way to make smilefie work. I had to change the smilefie_this function a little bit, and add one line to writeback to use that function. While I was in there, I also enabled tikiformatting and wikiwordish in writeback [writebacklfbug, writebacks, writebackformatting, writebacklfbug-fixed].
Oh, I should also note that I disabled support for short smileys like :) because they conflicted with some tiki formatting. Only 3-character emoticons will work on this blog.
Great! Could you maybe sent me an e-mail containing your modified writeback and smilefie scripts so that I may take a peek and see how I can transfer it to mine? That would be awesome.
One more thing: in the explanation on Tiki Formatting (the link below the Comments entry field) you are using alt attributes to display the tooltips for your emoticons. This does not work with Gecko based browsers, the correct attribute would be title
Thanks for the title tip! I'd be happy to send you the code changes. I've modified the plugin a bit, so let me check first to make sure it will still work on someone else's blosxom [ditchgoogleads, webcamoffline, sixyearsofsortablogging, twoyearanniversary, answers, writebacklfbug, feedburner_and_more_ldquo_outsourcing_rdquo, emoticons, morerpscaptcha, writebacks, added_disqus_commenting_system, amazonbox, findplugin, threeyearanniversary, fouryearanniversary, test_posts_and_blog_updates, rpscaptchasandwich, linkblog, smilefie, rpscaptcha, highlightjssourcesyntaxhighlighting, amazonads, weblogsping, atom_feed_and_share_link, qtag, bloglines, writebackformatting, amazonimages, stylingthegooglereaderwidget, writebacklfbug-fixed, tikiformatting, google_search_and_link_blog, deprecatedrssfeeduseatomfeedinstead, gzipencoding, morentries, myyahoo, interwiki, addediphonestylesheet] config. I'm afraid it is no longer one of Rael's well-behaved plugins.
Hi ozean, I finally posted my mods of smilefie. Have fun!
