Hi all, On 03/08/13 03:01, Stefano Maffulli wrote:
starting today the OpenStack Planet aggregator on http://planet.openstack.org will become the main tool for community members (individual and companies) to disseminate information about OpenStack.
I've been watching this feed for a while, and normally I view this on my desktop computer, where I've configured Firefox to disable animations on GIF images. Today I looked at my aggregated feed on my phone, and discovered that the images were animated. (I haven't figured out how to do the same in Firefox for Android.) Highly distracting trying to read a page of text with things bouncing around in one's field of view. Now I'm not going to start jumping up and down about how pointless posts containing nothing more than a link to an animated gif are. Rather, I just flexed a little coding muscle to filter them out. So those who are similarly irritated by these animations, I have a sanitised version of the OpenStack planet available here: http://portal.redhatters.yi.org/openstack/ and there is an ATOM feed here: http://portal.redhatters.yi.org/openstack/atom.xml Right now, the filter script is rather crude:
$ cat filters/nogifs.py #!/usr/bin/python import sys import re
data = sys.stdin.read() print re.sub(r'<img[^>]+src=["\'][^"\']+.gif["\'][^>]*>','',data)
I'll expand on this if I feel the need to (i.e. if people start posting the animations as APNGs, I'll block all <img> tags). People can always click on the link headings to get the original posts should they see a burning desire to see the original post anyway. The service is hosted on my own personal equipment on my own Internet service. I do this more for my own personal use, but I don't mind sharing it with the community at large. I doubt I'm the only one that find GIFs annoying. Anyways, keep up the good work on OpenStack, I hope to get more into it into the future... and I hope the above feed is helpful for those who might want to keep up-to-date without the distractions. Regards, -- ## -,-''''-. ###### Stuart Longland, Contractor ##. : ## : ## 38b Douglas Street ## # ## -'` .#' Milton, QLD, 4064 '#' *' '-. *' http://www.vrt.com.au S Y S T E M S T: +61 7 3535 9619 F: +61 7 3535 9699