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I have made a tiny update to the Callout Box macro to remove a line break after the calloutTab.gif image. This caused the tab shape to vary slightly on different browsers.

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I played around with Radio's xml-rpc interface (MetaWeblog API) via applescript for the first time today.

It worked pretty well, although it took me a while to work out what I was doing. I will post some example code in the next few days which may help others to get to grips with it a bit more easily.

I did run into one problem which I couldn't overcome. The metaWeblog.getCategories call returns a struct of structs. Applescript conveniently translates structs into records which is usually very convenient. However, in this case I really was looking for the category names. These become the labels in the applescript record as in:

{category1Name:{description:"a weblog",...}, category2Name:{...}}

Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to access the labels of a record in applescript, so I can't retrieve the category names. I had to revert to a standard applescript "Do Script" to get the category names. Which may make my code example even more useful to some - but is not really what I wanted to do.

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I updated my Callout Box macro to version 0.91 yesterday to correct a minor typo.

The effect of this typo was to omit a space within a td tag making it read as follows:

<td bgcolor=#e4be04valign=top>

Note the missing space between the bgcolor attribute and the valign attribute. Interestingly, this typo caused no problems in IE 5.2 for Mac OS X which is my normal browser. It was only the day after I released the code, when I checked using IE on Windows and Netscape 7 on OS X that I noticed the problem. On both these browsers, the table cell background displayed as red instead of #e4be04 which is a dark yellow.

I know - I can hear you - I should have tested on multiple browsers before release but such are the vagaries of amateur software

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