Easily pleased

[tinyjo]

I am full of geeky joy, for I have finally got my ASP to work! Yes, over lunch I have finally found the solution to using MSXML2 on my hosting company's servers (it was all a version numbers problem apparently). This means that I can use ASP to embed my journal pages and, if I set a cookie on my site to duplicate the LJ login one, I can read my private/protected entries via ASP! This is good, because no JavaScript makes my site more accessible. It's also good because I can take the opportunity to strip invalid mark-up and that means that my site validates (assuming I and my friends post valid XHTML strict - so I guess my friends page won't validate that often). It also means that I can embed the parts that LJ doesn't yet support embedding for e.g. the month view and the comments page. It also means that with a bit of clever wangling, I'll be able to bring back the icons on the main page. I want to geek all evening, but I'm going over to cleanskies for wine and Deadwood and with any luck a bit of Mucha Lucha! (Damian, what's the code for upside-down exclamation mark?)

Comments

¡Inverted exclamation mark!

[(Anonymous)]

You can use ¡ or ¡ depending on preferences.

If you have PC with a numeric keypad (I don&rdon;t) then you can type 0 1 6 1 while hoding down the Alt key to enter the character directly. Or you can pick ¡ out of Character Map (in Windows XP, All Programmes → Accessories → System Tools → Obscure → Advanced → Character Map).

Not sure about the Mac keycode, but I would not be surprised if it were Option-1 or Option-Shift-1.

—Damian

Re: ¡Inverted exclamation mark!

[jinty]

Mac:
Option-1 = ¡
Optio-shift-1 = ⁄