Moveable Type and Blogger

August 20, 2004 8:03 AM

Anyone know what's up with MT copying the Blogger bar? I first noticed the blogger bar on evhead a couple weeks ago. Then this morning, I see a MT Bar on #1's own site and it is almost exactly the same! What's up with that? (links go to screen caps of the two sites with the bar)
posted by thebwit to Computers & Internet (9 answers total)

Is this any MT blog? I can understand the blogspot sites doing this, since they're hosting it for free, but on MT sites it seems a little more invasive.. Looks like simple monkey-see monkey-do to me, though.
posted by Space Coyote at 8:11 AM on August 20, 2004

Have you seen the MT-bar on any other MT blogs? It could just be matt's poking fun.
posted by Ufez Jones at 8:22 AM on August 20, 2004

Looks like a joke to me. Check Matt's source code -- the image is in his junkdrawer directory, the divs and such are all still called, e.g., "b-search" and "b-query", the "get your own blog [fuckwit]" button still points to Blogger, and the "next" button is hardcoded to go to Anil's site (I presume his bar will appear momentarily). That cwazy wascal.
posted by gleuschk at 8:25 AM on August 20, 2004

Ah, rather, the button doesn't point to Blogger, but the image () is pulled from there.
posted by gleuschk at 8:27 AM on August 20, 2004

hah, cute.
posted by Space Coyote at 8:39 AM on August 20, 2004

I could see that picture, out of context, being used a lot around here. All we need is the acronym's "F".
posted by DrJohnEvans at 10:09 AM on August 20, 2004

It was a joke.
posted by mathowie at 2:18 PM on August 20, 2004

You cwazy wascal.
posted by gleuschk at 4:43 PM on August 20, 2004

Response by poster: Heh I thought it was mathowie when I couldn't find another MT blog, but thought just maybe it was some new plugin for MT that you found. Ahh well. I am saved now :P
posted by thebwit at 5:19 AM on August 21, 2004