Question for you tech-minded Tumblr freaks out there: Is it possible to create a custom-modified version of Tumblr’s TinyMCE/WYSIWYG functionality using a Chrome extension or a Greasemonkey script? We’re thinking of ways to make it easier to post our more-complicated post styles using Tumblr alone, without having to type in lots of HTML. And since the Tumblr API is relatively unreliable (and also because it’d be a lot more work, since we’re not professional programmers and we’d have to figure out what we were doing), it’d be easier to modify TinyMCE to use a custom CSS file and a series of post templates. Certain Chrome extensions get partway there, but not all the way. Above is a screenshot of our WordPress setup, which we hacked to do the above. We’d like to do something similar without using WordPress at all. (Sorry for the nerdery … we’ll get back to making fun of Sarah Palin Joe Miller with the next post, we swear.)
» Wait, what about YouPorn?: See, YouPorn, one of the most popular sites on the Internet that nobody ever talks about going to, is the most-notable user of this particular hack, which scrapes your history using Javascript to see if you’re going to other sites, and even hijacks it. And don’t think because you don’t watch porn that you’re not getting traced – news sites, sports sites and many other safe-for-work sites also use the scary technique. (Update: In an earlier version, we linked to a site which appears to have been down much of the day. Sorry ‘bout that.)
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