First, three non-technical updates. Yes, this is a house of contradiction.
Now, for technology: I spent part of the weekend with a welder’s mask and a blowtorch, tinkering with a few loose screws around the site. Basically, this means that you should now be able to leave comments in Opera, and commenters in Chrome should now be safe from the obscure and confidence-destroying threat of seeming to accidentally duplicate the comment before theirs whenever they submit their own finely crafted thoughts. There you were, committed to the Google spirit of innovation and individuality and sensible lunch salads, and suddenly you had no choice but to accidentally parrot the thought of the person before you, as if you were—let’s face it—shudder—Microsoft. Life was a Twilight Zone nightmare of billionaire NBA owners and I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I, and your browser’s crappy cache management was to blame. I’m sorry your browser is so very, very stupid about caching POST requests, Chrome users. But now you are free.
More importantly, or at least as importantly, we now have a mobile site. Your phone should detect this automatically and point you in the right direction, but if it doesn’t, you can always get there by aiming your mobile browser at m.runofplay.com. The new site should provide a dramatically improved reading experience for those times when you’re on the go, or lying on the floor of a bank lobby during a Verizon commercial. However, it’s still pretty new to its job and may not have all the ropes down yet, so if you run across any bugs, thumb your way back to your email and drop us a line at tips@runofplay.com. You, and we, will be glad you did.
Finally, if you like The Run of Play so much that you feel like clicking widgets for it, today’s your last chance to vote in the Soccerlens Awards. We’re nominated for Best Blogger and Most Entertaining Football Site.
Here is an interview I did about this process. I have opinions about Castrol industrial lubricants.
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by Brian Phillips · December 19, 2010
Harry Redknapp would’ve just sent Chrome out there and let it play.
I think an annual FM diary, a la Pro Vercelli, would be perfect. I certainly don’t play soccer, I don’t play video game soccer, I don’t even play soccer simulators, but I am dying to read more summaries of not real video game soccer.
Curse on you for being productive while virtually the entire EPL was resting, feet up on the couch, with a warm cup of tea. Or bottle of tequila.
Fond memories of the days I was single and stayed up in front of the PC playing FM until I started seeing weird things out of the cornes of my eyes indicating it was time to sleep… Good times.
Brian,
you missed the bug that automatically generates and sends me a death threat email every time I mock Rafa Benitez and/or Liverpool fans.