I've looked a lot at chatola, and it's been a really good learning
experience. But, chatola, as shipped is broke - at least on firefox
2 on OS X.
The problem occurs because athena is not correctly escaping quotes in
the filled stan templates. So, if any of your messages contain
single quotes, you get a javascript error. Also - any use of the
change nick or change topic automatically includes single quotes into
a message string, and thus breaks when interpreted as javascript.
A stupid simple fix is to simply change the %r interpolation on lines
90 and 98 of chatola.py to something like %s:
self.content(changer, 'changed the topic to %r.' %
(topic, )))
becomes
self.content(changer, 'changed the topic to %s.' %
(topic, )))
or even
self.content(changer, 'changed the topic to "%s"' %
(topic, )))
Now at least, you're not breaking automatically whenver changing
topic or nickname.
And then I could write custom code to properly escape the quotes in
the stan template. But this violates some cental ideas that at least
some of you have - namely that you don't want the application
developer escaping quotes. And I assume if I do this, it could
easily break in the future.
I can explain in greater detail, but am throwing this out as is so
that it's not too long to read ;) I can also send a code snippet if
you don't want to use the chatola code.
Dav Clark
917-544-8408
Dav Clark
917-544-8408
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