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Bug reports / Re: IE Text Highlighting issue in Posts
« on November 4th, 2012, 06:35 PM »
It's an intriguing one for sure... But if anyone isn't really sure what I mean I can post a short video.
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The Pub / Re: Wedge Banners?
« on November 4th, 2012, 05:22 PM »
Ohh, thanks! Found one made by Nao. Hopefully he doesn't mind. :P
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The Pub / Wedge Banners?
« on November 4th, 2012, 05:08 PM »
I wan't to advertise Wedge around in my signature on a variety of forums I visit. Do you guys have any official banners or images I can use?
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The Pub / Re: About SMF and this project
« on November 4th, 2012, 05:04 PM »
Quote from Kindred on November 4th, 2012, 03:55 PM
well, IMO effects are overrated.
I actually tend to rate sites LESS for the more "effects" they have.
(I recently tried out a site and left, never to return, because of all the "bells and whistles" that the webmaster had installed.)
I see your point with things being too overrated, but at the same time, I think that's what alot of people are going to want or start wanting simply because it feels like that piece of software is keeping up with modern times. Let's face it, the web is obviously alot more dynamic nowadays, and if people didn't want these things, they wouldn't be used so much. This being said, there are also things that could use a nice bit of Javascript spice.


With Arantor's point about SMF's biggest problem, I agree there as well.

PS: Just took in my Beta Tester status, thank you very much!
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Bug reports / IE Text Highlighting issue in Posts
« on November 4th, 2012, 12:09 AM »
Hello.

I am using Internet Explorer 9, and whenever I try to highlight the text within a post, the screen automatically adjusts its position to the top of the post's block meaning the specific portion of text I wanted to highlight actually doesn't highlight properly. It isn't very noticeable in small posts but in a topic such as this one which I wanted to copy the application steps, the browser kept bringing me to the top of the post. This made it very difficult to highlight text in the post.

Works fine on Chrome v22 and Firefox 16. Applies to all themes.
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The Pub / Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« on November 3rd, 2012, 11:26 PM »
1 - Approximately since September 2008.

2 - It will be a private section of my site.

3 - A couple times a week I can devote to playing around with Wedge.

4 - Definitely the Plugin system and front-end stuff will also be a focus.

5 - I am a hot young lady... pls gimme wedge and i show u my pic.
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The Pub / Re: Wedge private alpha is OUT!
« on November 3rd, 2012, 05:41 PM »
Ohh, I'd love to get my hands on this to start alpha testing.
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The Pub / Re: About SMF and this project
« on November 3rd, 2012, 03:18 AM »
In regards to an overly complicated platform, my apologies because I'm thinking more of the front-end and utilizing things such as Javascript-powered effects which seem to be popular lately.

As for MyBB, I don't actually use it (only developed a simple plugin for it), but I'm thinking of software such as IPB or XenForo where there are things that just come to mind.
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The Pub / Re: About SMF and this project
« on November 3rd, 2012, 02:51 AM »
Quote from Arantor on November 3rd, 2012, 02:31 AM
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The biggest problem I notice with people's opinions on SMF is that it is obviously too bland. Within those 5 years, something could have been done to help bring it further into what the web is now rather than what it was 5 years ago. I'm not totally sure if SMF was just designed to be very bland in itself, but to me, this concept won't last very long in a very dynamic and engaging web.
It's not as simple as that. In that 5 years, you had a complete turnover of developers, and for at least a year, activity was pretty much zero. But to not all of the web has to be dynamic and engaging - not every site has to be such.
Right, it doesn't, but in my opinion SMF itself doesn't have much to say for itself in terms of being as engaging as it really could. I don't know if this is because of the actual mods available or maybe because the platform itself makes it too complicated. Maybe that'll change once jQuery gets settled in the core because it sucks having to deal with issues when it comes to loading jQuery when another mod has this dependency as well (this coming from someone who had people experience issues with my board reordering mod  and the jQuery statistics mod).
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The Pub / Re: About SMF and this project
« on November 3rd, 2012, 02:18 AM »
Quote from Arantor on November 3rd, 2012, 01:31 AM
The biggest problem with SMF as it stands is that it had a 5 year development cycle, and other than a few modest features, it doesn't really know what to do with itself because it's put out the message "I'm a forum!" for so long that it doesn't appear to understand how to look any further.
Pretty much, yea.  If there is no appropriately scheduled development cycle, there is no way SMF can keep up with its competitors. The biggest problem I notice with people's opinions on SMF is that it is obviously too bland. Within those 5 years, something could have been done to help bring it further into what the web is now rather than what it was 5 years ago. I'm not totally sure if SMF was just designed to be very bland in itself, but to me, this concept won't last very long in a very dynamic and engaging web.
Quote from Arantor on November 3rd, 2012, 01:31 AM
Thank you for your enthusiasm :) The plugin system is not as 'flexible' as SMF's but we believe it is more supportable and maintainable going forward :)
I read around before making this topic, and I did see a topic mentioning Wedge's plugin system. In my opinion, the only reason it could never be as flexible as SMF's system (atleast right now) is obviously because SMF allows any code to be changed. As I see it, as long as there is a hook system that can allow a developer to access the most useful data or allow code to be ran in a useful context, there is no need to be able to just edit any piece of code. And not to mention the fact hooks are a lot cleaner in concept, Wedge shouldn't even need to worry if it's not flexible enough, cause if there are hooks in the right place it won't matter - developers will always have a place to inject code.
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The Pub / About SMF and this project
« on November 3rd, 2012, 01:26 AM »
I'm glad to see this project still going strong. The concept is very good because it seems to encapsulate both SMF's simplicity and speed from the core but now this project is taking advantage of the modern web - something SMF still hasn't surprisingly (to me) done yet. Obviously it's falling out of competition everyday the same bland features still stay in place... The move with providing jQuery support is a bit late in my opinion as I'm not sure what the real need for all that legacy code is still needed for. So, kudos - I believe this is going to be very successful and bring in some new users to what could have been SMF's userbase (if they did some things right).

As for SMF itself, I am still surprised to see some volatility between the team and some of the members here that has taken place especially within SMF. The politics have gone on too long and to me it's just childish now.

I also have my opinions on the SMF team, but nonetheless, you have my support, and I hope I can start making plugins when it's ready or contribute in any way possible to help push this forward.