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Plugins / Re: Which next? [Poll]
« on March 30th, 2012, 07:02 PM »
Yeah, there needs to be a notification subsystem and it needs to be core. I have some ideas on how to achieve this - and if I have anything to say about it, it will go in sooner rather than later. But I want a smaller goal that I can just work on in the meantime, just to gently ease myself into thinking about making awesome code again (since that's what the notifications thing really needs, a dose of creativity)
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Off-topic / Re: Need help with a tooltip (jQuery)
« on March 30th, 2012, 07:01 PM »
*nods* I have been bitten by that in the past, though normally it's been solved by the main script in the head tag and the specific invocation in the body after the tag already exists.

JS is, really, not my speciality. I can wield it well enough but I don't like it enough to wrangle the finer points. I want it to 'just work', though it is *much* better than it used to be.
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Plugins / Which next? [Poll]
« on March 30th, 2012, 06:57 PM »
OK, so I've officially had enough of bug wrangling for the moment, having spent my afternoon wrestling with things unsuccessfully.

So, which plugin should I write next?
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Off-topic / Re: Need help with a tooltip (jQuery)
« on March 30th, 2012, 06:53 PM »
I have to admit I did wonder about wrapping it in document.ready() or equivalent but as it seemed to work, I didn't pay it much attention.

Mind you, given that most of the JS I've done for ages has been working with Nao's event handling in Wedge, I tend to forget that somewhat...
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Archived fixes / Re: Time offset (auto detect)
« on March 30th, 2012, 06:33 PM »
Bowl of cereal for breakfast, cheese and tomato sandwich for lunch, will do dinner soon (got up at 10am today so that's about right timewise), all in all nothing out of the ordinary really.
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Archived fixes / Re: Time offset (auto detect)
« on March 30th, 2012, 06:16 PM »
There are probably several reasons, related to the number/types/severity of side effects of ibuprofen vs paracetamol, users' reaction to it etc. I just went with it because it was cheaper than paracetamol given that I could get generic ibuprofen vs only branded paracetamol. *shrug*

The importers aren't such a pain to test, generally, and with it there's really only so much that can be done - take the server time offset, factor in the user's own offset and look it up against a list of 'most likely' candidates, and with any luck it'll turn out OK.
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Off-topic / Re: Need help with a tooltip (jQuery)
« on March 30th, 2012, 05:48 PM »
No, if you alter the opacity, it's the opacity of the whole item, not just its background.

You'll have to prepare an image for it for IE.
Posted: March 30th, 2012, 05:47 PM

Though you can of course specify a regular colour first (e.g. straight black) and then use rgba for browsers that support it, as per http://css-tricks.com/ie-background-rgb-bug/
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Archived fixes / Re: Time offset (auto detect)
« on March 30th, 2012, 05:47 PM »
I've taken ibuprofen, and I may still be a touch dehydrated though I've had a lot to drink since yesterday afternoon, will have more though to see if it helps.

Also, actually, there will still be an issue with users who come from other systems, but I may be able to fix that by extending the importer, we'll have to see.
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Plugins / Re: Signatures Once Per Page
« on March 30th, 2012, 05:44 PM »
Yay for stock installations? Perhaps the 'hide post count group' thing should actually be on by default, heh.

But yeah, quick little thing this afternoon, and it's about 8 lines of code, excluding the plugin-info.xml file :D
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Archived fixes / Re: Time offset (auto detect)
« on March 30th, 2012, 05:39 PM »
That's because I didn't add on the facility to select timezone on registration, which is the next thing I'm doing, or will be doing once this bloody headache shifts.

Once you select it on registration, there really isn't so much of a problem ;)
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Off-topic / Re: Need help with a tooltip (jQuery)
« on March 30th, 2012, 05:36 PM »
IE 8 does not support rgba syntax.
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Archived fixes / Re: Time offset (auto detect)
« on March 30th, 2012, 05:36 PM »
The default is UTC Dublin if it has nothing else at all to work with, and there's a bug where if you save it, it may reshow UTC Dublin on the next page load even if it isn't using that actual timezone itself.
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Off-topic / Re: Hackers could decapitate the internet soon
« on March 30th, 2012, 05:14 PM »
Actually Anarator is not one I've seen before. Aranator, Anator, Anantor, Ananator, yes, but not Anarator.
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Off-topic / Re: Need help with a tooltip (jQuery)
« on March 30th, 2012, 05:13 PM »
Works in IE8, though the background's a bit broken. Really, though, if you look in IE, you'll see other JavaScript errors on the page that affect it.

Not sure offhand why it doesn't work in Safari Mobile, but I'd imagine it's related to JavaScript errors again (try turning on Developer Mode there)
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Plugins / Signatures Once Per Page
« on March 30th, 2012, 05:09 PM »
Simple but effective.