Does Hebrew work in Radio 7 as well? I’ve set radio.html.perfs.isoFilter to false, so let’s give it a go:
æä ðñéåï ìëúåá áòáøéú – åòí ñéîåðé HTML, ëîåáï.
Nope. It doesn’t work properly – the Hebrew is preserved in the weblog view, but is transformed into ´&agrav;&acrap; on my actual homepage.
So, that’s one good reason to upgrade (and pay).
Just to complete what I wrote in my last post, I’ll add that converting templates involves changing Radio 8’s <% foo %> macros to old Radio 7 { foo } macros (in curly braces). You lose all the macros that invoke Radio 8 scripts (all the macros of the form radio.weblog.doSomethingCool()). Looks like I should get back to trying to write a version of the nice drawCalender script (the output of which can still be seen in my category pages) to PHP.
Oh, and when converting the item template (itemTemplate?), you should note that Radio 7 uses the variable text where Radio 8 uses itemText. Compare your Radio 8 templates (which are in the Radio 8 www folder, in files of the form #xxxTemplate) to the Radio 7 templates under myUserLandData.themes (look at the default theme for a simple reference of what the Macro names are.
That’s basically it.
A brief description of how I downgraded my weblogging experience
First, you need to have Radio 7. I don’t think that Userland have the file on their download section anymore, but I still have a copy of the install file. Anyway, you need to install it somewhere, preferably without overwritting the existing installation. I put it in a folder called “Radio UserLand 7”.
Next, copy webLogData.root from the “Data Files” directory in your Radio 8 folder to the “Tools” directory of your Radio 7 installation folder.
Launch Radio 7, completing the installation if neccessary. From the Window menu, select webLogData.root and open it. Then, select myUserLandData.root and open that too.
Copy your posts from webLogData.posts to myUserLandData.blogs.default.posts. Set myUserLandData.blogs.default.nextPostNum to be one higher than the number of your last post (or you’ll overwrite your old posts)
Copy/Paste and convert your templates. Somehow.
Fed-up Japanese gals turn to Asian men to spice up love lives. From WaiWai, which I guess is a Japanese tabloid. Lots of sordid Japanese sex news.
Instead of buying Radio 8, I’ve gone and bought a license for TextPad. Why? Because it’s an excellent piece of software, I use it everywhere and all the time (it’s my text editor of choice on Windows), and it’s a fully-functional evaluation version, which means that except for an occassional nag screen, there’s no difference between the shareware version and the fully-license version.
Umm. So there’s actually not much difference to using it licensed. Gee. I must be a sucker.
But it’s the principal of the thing. TextPad is user-friendly shareware, reasonably-priced, useful, flexible, stable and bug-free (I’ve only managed to lock it up once, and that may have been a Windows issue more than anything). That makes it more worthy of my respect, IMHO, and therefore I should pay for that before paying for anything else.