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Features / Re: New revs
« on July 15th, 2011, 08:48 AM »
Revision: 868
Author: arantor
Date: 07:48:22, 15 July 2011
Message:
! Some more icons for the admin panel. (Admin.php, *.png)
! Minor tag mismatch in the credits page. (Credits.php)
+ Added ability for icon copyrights to be displayed in the credits too. Feel free to edit or mash up if you don't like it, but we should be attributing where appropriate. (Credits.php, Who.english.php, Who.template.php)
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Added : /trunk/Themes/default/images/admin/serversettings.png
Added : /trunk/Themes/default/images/admin/smileys.png
Modified : /trunk/Themes/default/images/admin/themes_and_layout.png
Modified : /trunk/Themes/default/languages/Who.english.php
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The Pub / Re: Menu hover concerns
« on July 15th, 2011, 07:53 AM »
I have a feeling it does, but honestly, the admin panel is somewhere we're likely to be expanding the use of JavaScript in (there is one place I know right now that *needs* JavaScript because of its current implementation) - it's not as if the general forum absolutely requires JS at the moment. The admin panel does have a much lower access rate and can afford to make more demands.

(But you cannot have a menu that doesn't pop up instantly without CSS.)
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on July 15th, 2011, 07:49 AM »
Quote from DoctorMalboro on July 15th, 2011, 04:30 AM
I can't still believe 'A good man goes to war'... It's just so... wrong and... awesome.

I find Torchwood not as appealing as DW, maybe because I'm sick of watching thrillers (well, Torchwood is a thriller(ish) show).
AGMGTW answers the question, of *who* River Song is, but doesn't explain much more than that. It doesn't, for example, explain who the good man that she murdered is (and was subsequently sent to Stormcage for). It doesn't explain how she was subsequently pardoned because she has been by the time of the events of Silence in the Library.

It also does not explain - and this is the most intricate detail - the military insignias. The military insignias shown on the uniforms in AGMGTW match the military insignias on the uniforms of the troops in The Time of Angels.

And if that's not enough, the insignia is... potentially... from a very old enemy of the Doctor.


As for TW, it isn't the same show as DW so it will appeal to some more than others. Though I'd argue that TW is no more a thrillerish show than DW itself is.
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The Pub / Re: Menu hover concerns
« on July 15th, 2011, 07:41 AM »
Quote from b4pjoe on July 15th, 2011, 03:12 AM
Any chance to change the amount of hover time before the menu appears? SMFs menus have always driven me crazy when they drop down just by moving the mouse close to it and then it's in the way of what you really wanted to do. A short delay would be a plus.
Unlike SMF's, which actually has no hover time at all because it's purely CSS driven, I believe there's a fraction of a second in Wedge's.
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Development blog / Re: Now with 97% more visuals!
« on July 15th, 2011, 03:04 AM »
You can still use the dropdown menus to get to deeper levels, though (and that's done on hover, not click, though it isn't the standard SMF menu!) so if you know precisely where you want to go, maybe it is quicker that way, but even with this front page it has certainly encouraged a wider reorganisation of items.
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Development blog / Re: Now with 97% more visuals!
« on July 15th, 2011, 02:35 AM »
Which is why http://media.wedge.org/item/32/ is even titled WIP... ;)
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Development blog / Re: Now with 97% more visuals!
« on July 15th, 2011, 02:30 AM »
Most of the theme work has been Nao's, the admin panel is mine, but yeah, I think it's coming together very, very nicely :)
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on July 15th, 2011, 01:24 AM »
It's a 10 part mini-series, one episode per week. It's basically a string of cliff-hangers as a result. At least CoE was shown an episode per night.

There's quite a few explosions, but mostly lots of hospital scenes.
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Development blog / Re: Now with 97% more visuals!
« on July 15th, 2011, 01:21 AM »
As for me and the admin panel...

Details

(Full picture and some of my comments here.)

:edit: Fixed the link to point where I want, heh.
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on July 15th, 2011, 01:16 AM »
If you weren't thrilled with Children of Earth, I really doubt you'll like Miracle Day. It's even darker.

And, I hate to say it, but I think it's lost its way somewhat. Yes, I know Russell T Davies has been out there, I know he's been writing it and so on but honestly it doesn't feel like Torchwood much (even if only 4 characters have been kept from CoE anyway, and one of them was a more minor/recurring character, which I called months ago when it was announced that '4 familiar faces will reappear'. Not even that hard to predict.)

It feels like a US show trying to be Torchwood, since a lot of the episode is answering the question of what Torchwood is/was and setting up the problem that is the Miracle. I can only hope it gets better, right now I'm not quite seeing the drama, if that makes sense.
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Off-topic / Re: Changing from ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8
« on July 14th, 2011, 12:53 AM »
Well, once you make the conversion to UTF-8, it's done and there won't be any more complicated bridges or hurdles to cross.

UTF-8: it's like the future but here and now. ;)
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Off-topic / Re: Changing from ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8
« on July 14th, 2011, 12:34 AM »
Well, if you can't get the host to install iconv, you're kind of stuffed on the PHP side; there isn't anything AFAIK that is the replacement of iconv, and a PHP routine would be scary-slow by comparison.

However, all is not lost - if you're brave of heart. There is a way you can do it in MySQL if you need to - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-convert.html - by converting it that way but I'd be inclined to do bulk transpositions of the tables instead.

Specifically, create new tables, same structure as the old, but with pure UTF-8 collation etc, then INSERT INTO new_table SELECT FROM old_table.field, wherein you can plug in the CONVERT call into that select.

Then you just rename the two tables, effectively switching the newly minted UTF-8 only table for what was ISO-something.
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Plugins / [Naming poll] Re: Packages
« on July 13th, 2011, 01:42 PM »
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while add-on sounds like something superfluous
Isn't that what a non-core feature is, by its nature?
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Features / Re: New revs
« on July 13th, 2011, 01:38 PM »
Revision: 860
Author: arantor
Date: 12:38:19, 13 July 2011
Message:
! More admin panel reorganisation: Maintenance is now Server & Maintenance, and Server Settings and Mail live in there (reducing their prominence as they're less commonly used settings), auto embedding is now under Forum, and Media's Maintenance is now also under the Server & Maint. area. Also, auto embedding is no longer in Core Features, but controlled by its own page (in line with the other stuff), which means pretty much going back to AeMe's own code in that respect. (Admin.php, Admin.template.php, Admin.english.php, ManageMedia.english.php, ManageSettings.english.php, ManageSettings.french.php, feature_e.png)
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Modified : /trunk/Sources/Admin.php
Modified : /trunk/Sources/ManageSettings.php
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Modified : /trunk/Themes/default/languages/Admin.english.php
Modified : /trunk/Themes/default/languages/ManageMedia.english.php
Modified : /trunk/Themes/default/languages/ManageSettings.english.php
Modified : /trunk/Themes/default/languages/ManageSettings.french.php
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Plugins / [Naming poll] Re: Packages
« on July 13th, 2011, 01:30 PM »
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Maybe you have a point there.
*nods* I wouldn't be surprised if that were the reason, ultimately.
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so they should have a bikeshed.
Not the context I meant ;)