A Fool's Wisdom » Web Standards http://foolswisdom.com A fool and his blog are soon parted. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:39:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Interested in Freeing Yourself from the TypePad Trap? http://foolswisdom.com/interested-in-freeing-yourself-from-the-typepad-trap/ http://foolswisdom.com/interested-in-freeing-yourself-from-the-typepad-trap/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:49:37 +0000 Lloyd http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1587 Continue reading →]]> My co-worker Noel Jackson, tired of hearing me whine about the Six Apart TypePad Trap, has created a WordPress importer mashing together the MT formatted export file (missing permalinks) and the broken TypePad AtomPub (missing comments and trackbacks). We are currently testing this on WordPress.com before polishing the code up and sharing it. We are looking for some TypePad customers to help us test it — it’s completely harmless, read-only.

If you are interested, let me know and we can set up a private blog on WordPress.com for you to import into. Bonus is that you will have a backup of your blog ready to go live if anything ever befalls TypePad.

This importer wouldn’t be possible without the heroic effort Ronald Heft Jr put into creating a TypePad AtomPub importer for WordPress — it’s not his fault TypePad still doesn’t have a way to export your full blog.

What’s an AtomPub? While working on this importer Noel contacted TypePad support only to have them tell him they don’t know what AtomPub is, and that they don’t support it.

TypePad Support to Noel, "What's an AtomPub?"

Anyway, as I said, if you are a TypePad customer, and want to participate in open source development by testing this exporter, or would just like a backup of your blog ready to launch on WordPress.com, leave a comment or send me an email.

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Today I was helping work through some of the WordPress.com support requests, and a customer asked about this very issue.

I’ve never heard described a real problem — that it doesn’t pass W3C Markup Validator I don’t see as a problem in itself. I would love for a real problem to lend weight to the argument of YouTube addressing this, though allowing browsers to run lean, mean, and fast is itself a pretty good reason.

So I did some research. It seems that a solution is both reasonable and well known:

    Specifically about YouTube:

    Is there good reason YouTube hasn’t done this?

    YouTube Help turns up nothing.

    Aidas Bendoraitis asked this question on YouTube API Developer Forum, but his question has gone unanswered.

    I don’t think I have any contacts on Google’s YouTube team, so I will put this out there for now, and wait for an opportunity to pursue this further.

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