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Plugins / Re: Random idea for a plugin
« on May 5th, 2012, 01:48 PM »
I had *one* drink last night and that was enough. This month is going to be interesting...
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Off-topic / Re: So, busy out here in RL
« on May 5th, 2012, 01:47 PM »
I already considered how one might run PHP via Node.js... ;)
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Features / Re: Action buttons: positioning
« on May 5th, 2012, 04:18 AM »
You know, I think it might be better if the like button were actually a button in the style of the other buttons. Sure you'd have to add the thumb-up and thumb-down to the sprite for that, but I think it'd look better that way.
Quick mockup using Chrome, see the lower-down post.
Or it would if the attachment system wasn't breaking the file for some reason, it is very firmly a working PNG before upload.
I don't have a hex file editor installed and I'm a bit too drunk to investigate but I'll post the pic to the gallery and investigate when I sober up a bit.
Quick mockup using Chrome, see the lower-down post.
Posted: May 5th, 2012, 04:12 AM
Or it would if the attachment system wasn't breaking the file for some reason, it is very firmly a working PNG before upload.
Posted: May 5th, 2012, 04:16 AM
I don't have a hex file editor installed and I'm a bit too drunk to investigate but I'll post the pic to the gallery and investigate when I sober up a bit.
Posted: May 5th, 2012, 04:17 AM
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Plugins / Random idea for a plugin
« on May 5th, 2012, 03:58 AM »
Just occurred to me. We could have a button that says "I'm having a drink" and you press it every time you start a new bottle of beer, and it records roughly how much alcohol you'd had.
Then it attaches a flag to each post written while drunk to say 'I was pissed while writing this' and the alcohol count goes down over time, so as you sober up you can look back and see what you wrote while pissed and others can forgive you if you wrote something stupid while drunk.
Then it attaches a flag to each post written while drunk to say 'I was pissed while writing this' and the alcohol count goes down over time, so as you sober up you can look back and see what you wrote while pissed and others can forgive you if you wrote something stupid while drunk.
* Arantor was a bit drunk while writing this.
Posted: May 5th, 2012, 03:57 AM
* Arantor had tongue firmly in cheek when writing, btw. This is not a serious idea. But it is an idea. Have at it.
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Features / Re: Action buttons: positioning
« on May 5th, 2012, 01:14 AM »
I like it like that, but we can make the full list a popup when there's 'x others'.
There is a value to not hiding it too much.
There is a value to not hiding it too much.
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Features / Re: Action buttons: positioning
« on May 4th, 2012, 09:09 PM »
Well, the maximum number of people shown will be: 'x, y and <number> others like this', though currently there's no AJAX click to load who likes something.
I like the idea of the positioning you've mentioned, it sounds like it should work but until we try it, I suspect we won't know for sure.
I like the idea of the positioning you've mentioned, it sounds like it should work but until we try it, I suspect we won't know for sure.
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Off-topic / Re: HTML5 Upload Progress.
« on May 4th, 2012, 07:51 PM »
Yes, I knew it was JS but I didn't know how it actually worked :P
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The Pub / Re: The Cookie Law (in the UK at least)
« on May 4th, 2012, 07:51 PM »
Heh, nope, not any reply at all. Can't say I'm entirely surprised but I'll give them a nudge shortly.
Oh, I have no problems with people trying it out at all. I think it's great that people are at least taking it seriously and trying to implement something that's workable. I don't have issues with that, I have issues with the concept of geo-location, as I said (though I was perhaps a touch less tactful than I might have been)
I just get the feeling that if it falls flat and gives a spurious response, the ICO will not be too enthusiastic about it, because it would appear to be a way of 'getting around' the requirement.
What it does mean, really, is that developers will change how they approach things, exactly as you indicate; we'll see items pushed into URLs and localStorage to bypass being in cookies, though once that's pointed out, we'll likely see the law expanded to cover these things too.
Oh, I have no problems with people trying it out at all. I think it's great that people are at least taking it seriously and trying to implement something that's workable. I don't have issues with that, I have issues with the concept of geo-location, as I said (though I was perhaps a touch less tactful than I might have been)
I just get the feeling that if it falls flat and gives a spurious response, the ICO will not be too enthusiastic about it, because it would appear to be a way of 'getting around' the requirement.
What it does mean, really, is that developers will change how they approach things, exactly as you indicate; we'll see items pushed into URLs and localStorage to bypass being in cookies, though once that's pointed out, we'll likely see the law expanded to cover these things too.
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Features / Re: Action buttons: positioning
« on May 4th, 2012, 06:35 PM »I wasn't too sure because you were confused at first, and thought it was an error on my side, instead of encouraging me to 'keep' that error online
Except that doesn't quote... Answering posts without reading their actual contents is what politicians and zealots do, not normal people
One of the things that confuse me is, I think, the Like button... I'd probably like for the ability to push it to the Plus button, actually. This is because over the years I've been so used to clicking the first button in the list to reply, it just became a no-brainer... Now I have to be more careful (although it's not too bad since at worst I can simply unlike a post.)
Perhaps we should give users the ability to choose what buttons they want inside and outside the action button... I don't know. It could be something we store in the generic data field.
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Plugins / Re: CAPTCHA plugins
« on May 4th, 2012, 06:33 PM »
Yeah, I can see the logic but I don't actually find it as easy to complete as they claim - and even more so I find issues with it for visually impaired and people with motor control difficulties.
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Plugins / Re: CAPTCHA plugins
« on May 4th, 2012, 06:25 PM »
Well, Bad Behaviour's built in, so is our CAPTCHA, so that's two out of three, heh. I have to admit I keep finding Akismet refusing legitimate comments.
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Plugins / Re: CAPTCHA plugins
« on May 4th, 2012, 06:04 PM »
Well... Wedge has its own CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA is rather vulnerable these days. I can think of about 6 other modular CAPTCHAs that are available for building into a site.
The performance consequence is not particular important, the amount of difference is rather small. But what might be interesting is if you had all of them available but only served one random one per use. What that means is you might get reCAPTCHA one time, then KeyCAPTCHA the next etc. etc. meaning that any bot trying to break in would not likely get so far.
The performance consequence is not particular important, the amount of difference is rather small. But what might be interesting is if you had all of them available but only served one random one per use. What that means is you might get reCAPTCHA one time, then KeyCAPTCHA the next etc. etc. meaning that any bot trying to break in would not likely get so far.
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Plugins / CAPTCHA plugins
« on May 4th, 2012, 05:12 PM »
So we have reCAPTCHA and what feels like a jillion other CAPTCHAs.
I already did a reCAPTCHA plugin and I can see other people will want others, so I'm curiously wondering... which is better? Do I implement one plugin that supports all of them (in a single main package) or do I implement each one with its own plugin?
I already did a reCAPTCHA plugin and I can see other people will want others, so I'm curiously wondering... which is better? Do I implement one plugin that supports all of them (in a single main package) or do I implement each one with its own plugin?
* Arantor is just curious, really.
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Features / Re: Action buttons: positioning
« on May 4th, 2012, 04:42 PM »
Having it at the bottom does make it look more organised, yes. Mostly the reason you're looking twice is because you've been using SMF for so long that you're absolutely familiar with it where you have seen it for years. But note that you have less cons for it than you do for the 'before', none if you exclude familiarity, while there are major issues with before.
Familiarity isn't always a boon, either, I'd honestly rather have things at the end where they would naturally fall in how people read posts and reply to them. If you're replying without reading first, there's always the reply button at the top of the thread anyway...Quote If you're editing a post in a topic, you want to see what came up to that point (as presumably you're not editing it with the knowledge of later, but only for is applicable up to that point) but if you hit quote, you're replying to that, and would likely want to take the rest of the thread into account. Always made sense to me.
Familiarity isn't always a boon, either, I'd honestly rather have things at the end where they would naturally fall in how people read posts and reply to them. If you're replying without reading first, there's always the reply button at the top of the thread anyway...
PS: a freebie for teatime... How come if you edit a post in the middle of a topic, your Topic Summary has the last posts *before* that post, but if you quote the same post, the Topic Summary has the latest posts in the topic instead..? I understand the idea, I just don't know if it makes sense for the common man...
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Features / Re: New revs - Public comments
« on May 3rd, 2012, 08:48 PM »Yeah, it's perfectly true, and that's why I'm not sure about JsModify, but QuoteFast isn't used a lot I'd say, and other Ajax functions are the same... And I don't think that technically 10KB or 15KB isn't going to change the parsing time a lot. (It's not even an extra 5KB because there's the Wedge file header...)
Or perhaps we could add prefixes to the Ajax files? Ajax-QuoteFast, Ajax-JsModify...
I suppose so. Especially since it has its own folder anyway... It could be done. And it'd be a good idea to rename 'Aeva-Gallery2' or 'Subs-Aeva' to some self-explained names...
Meh. About 200 of them are 'quick tabs' that I just don't have time to read... About 300 are late answers to Wedge.org... Things I promised myself I'll answer (and never will, of course.)