Software Developing: SnipSnap and Snip It

Software Developing: SnipSnap and Snip It

Well it seems that a few days ago Leo announced what everyone already knew, SnipSnap Development has ceased. I already knew it, but it's with great sadness that I've read the announcement.
I also must say that I was surprised to see that someone mentioned me on the comments as a "side developer", it seems there are more people aware of my work with snip it than I thought.

Regarding the snip it development a new version has been deployed and for the first time I actually put as version 1.0-snipit. The major differences are the suggestions that derjohn gave about the weblog are now implemented.

A "Next Page" - and also a "Previous Page" when appliable - link is present now at the top and the bottom of the blog, it allows any reader to navigate among older posts, being able to go from page to page until the end of the blog, or come back until the first one again.

Besides this idea of navigation - which was a really good one - derjohn also suggested that there should be a way to shorten blog entries. Now, this isn't as simple as it seems because, we can't limit:

• The HTML render length since that could generated invalid HTML.
• The raw text length because it could generated invalid wiki tags.

After putting some thought on it I realised that a good way would be to limit by paragraphs number, even if can originate some slight variations between posts size it's a good measure - as probably many other that I haven't think of - and does not generate invalid HTML nor invalid wiki tags.
To use such feature, it's only needed to define numberOfParagraphs variable in the weblog macro.

Unfortunately the Access Control isn't yet fully finished, so I'll keep that subject for another post.

The modifications can be downloaded from SVN.

Anyone with more feature request or interesting ideas is invited to register and comment or edit the my_snipsnap_fork_feature_list.