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Well done! I'd be ears to a writeup on how you did it: tech considerations, Ajax, etc.

Super minor nits:

Missing characters https://skitch.com/rocktronica/rs5nx/csspivot1

External scripts/CSS brought in with "//" falsely prepended with URL https://skitch.com/rocktronica/rs5nk/csspivot2

Thanks for the feedback!

The missing characters are because the of unicode decoding in Python. If the content-encoding if not found in the html headers it will replace all unknown characters. I'm working on improving that.

The // is something I can fix right now.

[edit] the // link bug is fixed, and it also allows https:// links (which i noticed that it didn't work because i pasted in your urls)

Have you considered using this: http://chardet.feedparser.org/ to detect the encoding?

I'm not sure if this helps, but seems like it would.

Thank you for the link! Will definitely give it a try (tomorrow)!

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