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Features / Re: Improving how smileys are managed
« on January 16th, 2013, 06:05 PM »
Um, yes, yes it can. I mean it works currently, right? Yup, they're embedded as data URLs directly into the CSS file already ;)
The difference I'm proposing is to effectively change where this information is coming from - instead of getting them from the physical files as it does currently, get them from a database table.
The difference I'm proposing is to effectively change where this information is coming from - instead of getting them from the physical files as it does currently, get them from a database table.
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The Pub / Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« on January 16th, 2013, 05:35 PM »* Arantor would remind the people asking now that there are some major gaps in functionality, especially with respect to banning at the present time.
And to go back and perhaps read some of the other recent posts in this thread.
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Features / Re: Improving how smileys are managed
« on January 16th, 2013, 05:24 PM »
Bump for Nao: what are your thoughts about storing the smileys in the DB and having them inserted in to the CSS from there? (I'm trying to avoid the need to push files to the file system unless necessary)
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Features / Ordering sticky topics
« on January 16th, 2013, 05:11 PM »
Been thinking about this a bit, wondering what people think.
Would it be interesting/useful to allow site owners to re-organise sticky topics into a fixed order, regardless of last post?
Technically it makes little or no difference, ordering is always done on is_sticky which is a tinyint, and that's before ordering by last post. Right now, it's simply 1 or 0, but you could introduce non-1 values to force a specific ordering. It doesn't require changing indexes, since the nature of it will still mean zero rows will form the bulk of the index (and thus render it useless) and it is not significantly expensive to pull just the sticky rows from a board.
Just wondering if it's worth the effort; it's mostly just some UI and a little bit of logic change (where it currently assumes it's 1/0 rather than non-zero/zero)
Would it be interesting/useful to allow site owners to re-organise sticky topics into a fixed order, regardless of last post?
Technically it makes little or no difference, ordering is always done on is_sticky which is a tinyint, and that's before ordering by last post. Right now, it's simply 1 or 0, but you could introduce non-1 values to force a specific ordering. It doesn't require changing indexes, since the nature of it will still mean zero rows will form the bulk of the index (and thus render it useless) and it is not significantly expensive to pull just the sticky rows from a board.
Just wondering if it's worth the effort; it's mostly just some UI and a little bit of logic change (where it currently assumes it's 1/0 rather than non-zero/zero)
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Features / Re: New revs
« on January 16th, 2013, 03:35 PM »
(1 file, 1KB)
Revision: 1849
Author: arantor
Date: 16 January 2013 14:34:45
Message:
! Some fringe bugs relating to news items (admin permission not enforced properly, errors thrown in the event items were not visible to guests) (Subs.php)
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Modified : /trunk/Sources/Subs.php
Revision: 1849
Author: arantor
Date: 16 January 2013 14:34:45
Message:
! Some fringe bugs relating to news items (admin permission not enforced properly, errors thrown in the event items were not visible to guests) (Subs.php)
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Modified : /trunk/Sources/Subs.php
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Plugins / Re: Future Dated Posts
« on January 16th, 2013, 03:22 PM »
Also, don't forget that jQuery UI is now in the core and you can use their dateinput if you'd like.
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Features / Re: Pages: [1] 2 3 styling
« on January 16th, 2013, 02:05 PM »
Don't know about that, but probably not, not that [] would be that meaningful...
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Plugins / Re: Future Dated Posts
« on January 16th, 2013, 01:56 PM »
Back dating would set the date but physical order would be wrong. Everything is ordered by id, remember.
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Features / Re: Pages: [1] 2 3 styling
« on January 16th, 2013, 01:51 PM »
Screen readers do CSS too..
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Features / Re: New revs
« on January 16th, 2013, 05:27 AM »
(6 files, 11KB)
Revision: 1848
Author: arantor
Date: 16 January 2013 04:26:33
Message:
+ New news UI, including privacy of news items and fun things like that. Doesn't include pulling from a board, haven't made my mind up about how that needs to work yet. Should have cleaned house on the template and language strings. (ManageNews.php, ManageNews.template.php, Admin language file)
! Spacinazi. (Home.php)
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Modified : /trunk/Sources/Home.php
Modified : /trunk/Sources/ManageNews.php
Modified : /trunk/Sources/Subs.php
Modified : /trunk/Themes/default/ManageNews.template.php
Modified : /trunk/Themes/default/languages/Admin.english.php
Modified : /trunk/Themes/default/languages/Admin.french.php
Revision: 1848
Author: arantor
Date: 16 January 2013 04:26:33
Message:
+ New news UI, including privacy of news items and fun things like that. Doesn't include pulling from a board, haven't made my mind up about how that needs to work yet. Should have cleaned house on the template and language strings. (ManageNews.php, ManageNews.template.php, Admin language file)
! Spacinazi. (Home.php)
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Modified : /trunk/Sources/Home.php
Modified : /trunk/Sources/ManageNews.php
Modified : /trunk/Sources/Subs.php
Modified : /trunk/Themes/default/ManageNews.template.php
Modified : /trunk/Themes/default/languages/Admin.english.php
Modified : /trunk/Themes/default/languages/Admin.french.php
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Features / Re: Latest WIP: news feature
« on January 16th, 2013, 05:12 AM »
If the items are different sizes, there's nothing you can do short of making it big enough to handle the largest item (which will typically be oversized), or you make it so it's scrollable to handle larger items without making it bigger.
If you have a solution, I'd love to hear it.
If you have a solution, I'd love to hear it.
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Features / Re: Really petty, but I got to ask
« on January 16th, 2013, 03:59 AM »
It's also what IPB uses directly, so it's not like I can just rip it off. I'll think about it while I'm finishing up the news feature.
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Features / Re: Really petty, but I got to ask
« on January 16th, 2013, 03:07 AM »
Yes... if all the rest of the ACP is rewritten to support it...
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Features / Re: Really petty, but I got to ask
« on January 16th, 2013, 02:57 AM »
It made perfect sense to me when I first used iOS after being a die-hard anti-Apple user for years.
Keeping it simple has a place, and there are certainly other aspects to the UI than merely window dressing like that (because if it is iOS like visually, people will expect it to be practically as well, e.g. no more ticking the box then hitting save, it should kick in immediately)
Keeping it simple has a place, and there are certainly other aspects to the UI than merely window dressing like that (because if it is iOS like visually, people will expect it to be practically as well, e.g. no more ticking the box then hitting save, it should kick in immediately)
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Features / Re: Really petty, but I got to ask
« on January 16th, 2013, 02:46 AM »
It says 'on' so it's on... either slide it or tap it to turn it off... the behaviour is surprisingly intuitive actually.