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The Pub / Re: The Cookie Law (in the UK at least)
« on April 6th, 2012, 07:27 PM »
From my perspective, you can call up WHOIS and identify the owner of a domain and their base of operations, which is probably more meaningful than where the host physically is.
Google doesn't get to circumvent it, exactly, if you get a UK site using Google Analytics, they do have to make this declaration.
Though if you do want a laugh, take a look at the ICO's own implementation, http://www.ico.gov.uk/ - especially the privacy policy.
I find it quite disturbing that they're happy with a blanket opt-in which would include Google Analytics.
Google doesn't get to circumvent it, exactly, if you get a UK site using Google Analytics, they do have to make this declaration.
Though if you do want a laugh, take a look at the ICO's own implementation, http://www.ico.gov.uk/ - especially the privacy policy.
I find it quite disturbing that they're happy with a blanket opt-in which would include Google Analytics.
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Archived fixes / Re: Split topic appears to trip Bad Behaviour
« on April 6th, 2012, 05:08 PM »
I'm currently working on altering the handling of BB so that admin errors will also be logged, currently they are not.
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Features / Re: timeformat annoys me...
« on April 6th, 2012, 05:07 PM »Isn't this a complete list of all timezones?
Also, is the fact that I was by default on UTC/Dublin due to me probably not going to that area before, and thus having no default timezone...? Because I saved my time format, and didn't notice the timezone at that moment, and I immediately got an incorrect forum time (well, YOUR correct forum time if you prefer :P). I had to go back to the page and noticed that it was Dublin by default.
The timezone code has a bug where it can display the wrong entry in the list if the underlying timezone identifier has a _ in it. This is not a new bug and was discussed and investigated last week, I just haven't fixed it yet. But it still saves the correct timezone.
Check the timezone column in wedge_members to see what it's actually using for you - I'm on UTC Dublin, despite the server not being so.
Also, as far as I can determine, Amsterdam is not the same physical timezone but shares all the same rules with the Central European timezones, so that it is to all intents and purposes the same.
Regarding dates, I don't have a better solution, I'd prefer it to be as 'right' as possible, ultimately. April 1st would be better than April 1 which would be better than 1 April, but it's almost more a preference than anything else right now.
And yeah, optimising timeformat is one of those cases that it'd be neat but ultimately not a huge win in the scheme of things (IIRC, I already did some work to make it faster than SMF's by changing the setlocale call handling)
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Features / Re: timeformat annoys me...
« on April 6th, 2012, 04:45 PM »
Yay, dates are just as much of a shit to cope with as timezones are!
Anyway, yes, English has rules, and they're all insane and largely ignored.
Consider this: April 1 - that's mostly how the Americans write it, and it's wrong, because it should really be April 1st, never mind the implied but missing 'the' in the middle that you mention.
But the English get it wrong too. We tend to write 1 April or 1st April, but that's linguistically wrong too - it's really '1st (of) April' with the implication of 'day' being in there.
Fortunately most people aren't anal enough to care about this and don't really notice it when it's 1 April or April 1 with or without the suffix, it's only those of us who *really* put in the attention to detail that would even notice, let alone do anything about it.
(For the record, it's something I'd like to see done right too, but I didn't know enough about how other languages did it to make a judgement call on how it should be done)
Anyway, yes, English has rules, and they're all insane and largely ignored.
Consider this: April 1 - that's mostly how the Americans write it, and it's wrong, because it should really be April 1st, never mind the implied but missing 'the' in the middle that you mention.
But the English get it wrong too. We tend to write 1 April or 1st April, but that's linguistically wrong too - it's really '1st (of) April' with the implication of 'day' being in there.
Fortunately most people aren't anal enough to care about this and don't really notice it when it's 1 April or April 1 with or without the suffix, it's only those of us who *really* put in the attention to detail that would even notice, let alone do anything about it.
(For the record, it's something I'd like to see done right too, but I didn't know enough about how other languages did it to make a judgement call on how it should be done)
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Bug reports / Re: Board order issues
« on April 6th, 2012, 04:32 PM »
It's still broken but I have no idea why - the category codepath uses the same codepath as the boards one but it's still out of order.
Also, I think there might be a problem if the category is collapsed but you still try going to the category page itself, you'll just get that category header on its own without any way to uncollapse it.
Also, I think there might be a problem if the category is collapsed but you still try going to the category page itself, you'll just get that category header on its own without any way to uncollapse it.
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Features / Re: timeformat annoys me...
« on April 6th, 2012, 04:28 PM »
Is there not an actual linguistic equivalent in French for 2nd? I always thought there was.
And sadly there isn't a good way around this one - normally it's not a huge problem because most of the time we only have _1 and _n strings in English which will naturally be overridden in other languages. I don't think you can get around it, unless you drop it in English entirely and just leave it in other languages if they want to do so.
And sadly there isn't a good way around this one - normally it's not a huge problem because most of the time we only have _1 and _n strings in English which will naturally be overridden in other languages. I don't think you can get around it, unless you drop it in English entirely and just leave it in other languages if they want to do so.
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The Pub / Re : Bloc Madness
« on April 6th, 2012, 04:10 PM »
So we delete your account, then what? You create a new one in the future? Do you really have that little self control that you can't just... not visit?[1]
Oh, and calling you a teenager is not really a compliment. At 45, you should have seen enough life to know better. I mean, you're old enough to be my father, I shouldn't have to explain how not to be a jackass to you.
Oh, and calling you a teenager is not really a compliment. At 45, you should have seen enough life to know better. I mean, you're old enough to be my father, I shouldn't have to explain how not to be a jackass to you.
| 1. | I manage it with sm.org these days just fine, since I no longer feel enough pity for the people who need help over there to actually post anything. I just stay away. |
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Archived fixes / Re: Captcha doesn't work in Chrome
« on April 6th, 2012, 04:02 PM »
I've had a look and I can see where there's a problem: the library is essentially reparsing image files and redrawing them onto a Canvas, and this doesn't work for animated GIFs.
I'm not sure how best to work around this, to be honest, since they're animated GIFs that load correctly in everything I've tried them on so I'm going to have to say it's a problem for the plugin author, and I'll raise the issue there.
I'm not sure how best to work around this, to be honest, since they're animated GIFs that load correctly in everything I've tried them on so I'm going to have to say it's a problem for the plugin author, and I'll raise the issue there.
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Features / Re: New revs
« on April 6th, 2012, 03:49 PM »
(1 file, 4KB)
Revision: 1541
Author: arantor
Date: 06 April 2012 14:48:55
Message:
! Merging posts should also merge their likes. (SplitTopics.php)
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Modified : /trunk/Sources/SplitTopics.php
Revision: 1541
Author: arantor
Date: 06 April 2012 14:48:55
Message:
! Merging posts should also merge their likes. (SplitTopics.php)
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Modified : /trunk/Sources/SplitTopics.php
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Archived fixes / Re: Preparsing adds url bbc where it shouldn't
« on April 6th, 2012, 02:33 PM »
OK, so I've been doing some more work on this.
Quick modify never calls aeva_onposting(), so the changes there never occur in quick modify. There is another bug involved here, namely that content inside a nobbc is modified by aeva_onposting when IMO it should not be, that's fixable easily enough by just updating the $array in aeva_onposting to include the nobbc tag.
The problem is predominantly aeva_autolink_urls(), if I comment the call out to that from aeva_onposting(), it stops injecting so many url bbcodes. I'm not sure, but I think you could remove that code entirely and everything would still work - certainly in my limited test cases it still finds videos properly even when bare linked.
Quick modify never calls aeva_onposting(), so the changes there never occur in quick modify. There is another bug involved here, namely that content inside a nobbc is modified by aeva_onposting when IMO it should not be, that's fixable easily enough by just updating the $array in aeva_onposting to include the nobbc tag.
The problem is predominantly aeva_autolink_urls(), if I comment the call out to that from aeva_onposting(), it stops injecting so many url bbcodes. I'm not sure, but I think you could remove that code entirely and everything would still work - certainly in my limited test cases it still finds videos properly even when bare linked.
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Plugins / [Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« on April 6th, 2012, 01:52 PM »
If you do need a topic to be a specific list of users, then this is the way to go. But very often you don't need that all the time, and having a list of groups is the way forward - if your contact list(s) are also groups.
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Archived fixes / Re: Preparsing adds url bbc where it shouldn't
« on April 6th, 2012, 01:07 PM »
That's a point, if you nobbc something like a YT URL, does it still attempt to embed it?
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Test board / Re: Test topic.
« on April 6th, 2012, 01:06 PM »
Quick editing goes through a different code path to main posting, as I commented when this first occurred.
Need to compare the path of Post2.php to JSModify.php and see where the difference is, I'll look at that shortly.
Need to compare the path of Post2.php to JSModify.php and see where the difference is, I'll look at that shortly.
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The Pub / Re: The Cookie Law (in the UK at least)
« on April 6th, 2012, 01:05 PM »
The government is not yet actively monitoring everything, the law has not yet been passed in the UK, though it doesn't seem too far away.
That's the thing, this ruling is not really down to our government but it's actually an EU-wide ruling that is supposed to be adopted by all member states. Note that the UK is one of only two states that has agreed to implement it (and I can't even remember the other)
That's the thing, this ruling is not really down to our government but it's actually an EU-wide ruling that is supposed to be adopted by all member states. Note that the UK is one of only two states that has agreed to implement it (and I can't even remember the other)
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Plugins / [Plugin Screenshots] Re: Invitation Only Topics
« on April 6th, 2012, 01:04 PM »
And what happens if you create a contact list for all your friends, what then? Isn't that *exactly* when you would use groups?
(The reason I was pissy earlier in this thread is that we discussed it for days and days and this wasn't brought up before)
(The reason I was pissy earlier in this thread is that we discussed it for days and days and this wasn't brought up before)