If you create a Javascript enabled website, and it includes a dropdownlist that reloads the page when you change its value, please include a “go” button as well. Surround it by <noscript> tags if you must.
Remember that I don’t know you. There is no basis of trust when I first visit your site. I have Javascript disabled by default (using the NoScript add-on). So nothing happens when I change the dropdownlist.
My company is hosting a seminar June 28th. On that seminar we will put some Oracle technologies side by side, and compare them. Read the (Dutch) website for more info.
One of the technologies we will have a presentation about, is Oracle Application Express, or APEX. In the old days known as HTMLDB, and AskTom as a great example of the technology. You can recognize APEX sites by the “f?p=” in the URL.
This week we had a trial-run and I watched the APEX presentation. The presentation is very clear about what APEX is and how to use it. That alone should warm you up. But my colleague also demonstrates APEX live, and that is something you must see for yourselves. I had heard of HTMLDB/APEX, I already viewed some screenies and some casts, but as you all know: screenies don’t say anything about the amount of time to get there. And casts, well, they can be shortened or could be skipping tedious parts. Seeing the APEX application modified live in just a couple of minutes was a matter of “seeing is believing”. And boy, am I a believer know.
So if you have some guru-skills (not that you really need them) in SQL and/or PL/SQL and don’t want to learn something like Java, or PHP to create webapplications, than you really should try APEX. All you need is a browser, and a database to install the runtime-packages in. Simple.
If you are from the Netherlands, then by all means: come to our seminar. It’s free. We have a discussion forum with the presenters and the audience at the end. And of course we will have some drinks before we send you home. Hope to see your there.
If you can’t make it, or you’re not living in our area, please do yourself a favor and learn about APEX on Oracle’s website.
After some digging into RewriteRules and other mod_rewrite stuff, I tried to run the weblog with a clean install (just unzip into new directory and point Apache to it) of WordPress. The comments and single pages still did not show up. So I figured it must be something else. Since I also read somewhere that Askimet (an anti-spam plugin) could be disabled to solve the problem, I did just that.
It did not work. But I also have Bad Behaviour and WP-Hashcash active. Disabling Hashcash brought back the comments and single pages. FINALLY.
I did happen to use an old version of WP-Hashcash, so I’ll check to see if I can use the new version without any trouble.
Thanks for your patience.
Update: I switched from WP-Hashcash 2.3 to 4.0.1 and things still seem to be working.