2015-03-03 (Tuesday)

@jah @migurski @enf I’m going to have to go to bed. Let me know if there’s anything I can do with this. I’m stumped at the moment.

@jah @migurski @enf What now?! I’m looking at a Mishawaka FOND in ResEdit and I feel young and stupid again & the Internet will be amazing!

@migurski @jah @enf I’ve got Eudora Light 1.5.5 from here pure-mac.com/olden.html#eud… and got it running and it has Mishawak!

@jah @migurski @genmon I’ve got Eudora Light 3.1.3 running but Mishiwaka isn’t an option in the font settings :(

@migurski @genmon @jah Mishiwaka listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A2=… No idea how you’d find that now…

@migurski @genmon @jah’s original example. And, comparing ‘a’s, this suggests it’s not Monaco: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm…

@migurski @genmon @jah But ignoring the size and anti-aliasing, why are the a’s and w’s so different?

@kevinmarks @jah @genmon That’d have been my guess, as @jah said, the 'a's are different. Unless there were different Monacos?

@genmon @jah Actually, it can’t be Geneva at all - that wasn’t fixed width, didn’t have slashes through zeros. We’d have known this once :)

@genmon @jah I’ve got a Mac running OS 9 and Geneva on that looks different. l’s are straight, no foot, W is more angled, less vertical.

@frankieroberto I wasn't proposing to do it myself - just assumed there'd be a simple existing module I could have do it.

@frankieroberto Yes, but it seems crazy to me... Grab all the wikitext, send it back to api, get the html back. Isn't that laborious?

@whoisdanw Stupidly, I thought it'd be more robust than the rendered HTML ha ha.

@antimega Yeah, weird. So much data and yet…

@antimega It'd be a bit like the Olympic torch going round the country. #legacy

@antimega “utterly bold” indeed. If anyone at the BBC thinks this is as bold as TV can get then I despair. Sorry, utterly despair.

A bit more here for anyone still awake. stackoverflow.com/questions/2878…

“Best” being a balance of feasible and not a pain in the arse. Which surprised me. I thought wikicode would be designed for easy HTMLing.

Re an earlier tweet: Seems that the best way to make HTML from wikipedia content is to scrape the page, not deal with wikicode -> HTML.

@tomcoates I was confused because Tweetbot showed me different replies each time I clicked. Now I see. Think I'm busy tonight after all soz.

@tomcoates Am I not trying hard enough? Don't play hard to get!

@tomcoates I can't wait to see the replies to this they'll b p cool because you're soooooo sexy RU busy tonite lol?