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The Pub / Re: I Have To Be The First To Ask
« on March 30th, 2011, 12:15 AM »
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Makes me think I have a reply to finish posting over at the topic where we discuss edit-less templates
Well, breaking the templates down in the same way I did for the board index would help as a start, need to do more of that.
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Yeah... That change was damn cool, Pete.
It's the only way I could solve the matter of {query_see_ticket} without doing either manual editing of the DB library (as, say, Project Tools does) or a wrapper function (which is what I did in SimpleDesk and while that gave me freedom in some ways, it is a burden too)
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Do you realize that you actually made me *like* OO programming? Well, at least not hate it anymore. And I've been pestering at OO for something like 15 years
It's something I had to learn and learn fast for other things, and when used properly, it's lovely to work with. But like everything else it's a tool to be used and there are places it's not appropriate.
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The Pub / Re: I Have To Be The First To Ask
« on March 29th, 2011, 11:47 PM »
I went to crazy lengths to avoid edit conflicts in SimpleDesk, obscene in some cases, and got the opportunity to point out how bad SMF's structure is for extending things. Rest assured the knowledge I'm gaining from working on SimpleDesk (for my own ends as much as anything else) will come to play a direct part in what I do with Wedge.

I know at least one change implemented in Wedge that I made specifically came about because of something I had to do in SimpleDesk (the register-replacements thing in the DB layer) to avoid edits.
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The Pub / Re: I Have To Be The First To Ask
« on March 29th, 2011, 11:34 PM »
Well, I wouldn't go quite that far, but it should certainly be easier than fighting with SMF at times.
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The Pub / Re: I Have To Be The First To Ask
« on March 29th, 2011, 11:31 PM »
Oh, modders will get features but they won't be able to get them through theme edits so much, there are better ways.
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The Pub / Re: I Have To Be The First To Ask
« on March 29th, 2011, 11:16 PM »
Quote from DoctorMalboro on March 29th, 2011, 11:00 PM
One thing that would be interesting is a list of coding features. I mean, not the core features, but the things that allow you to (as a themer o modder) make your work even easier and clean as possible.

Not many (I know any) that list that kind of things, even less document it...
Oh, we will, once they settle down and mature. Right now it's still in a state of flux.
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The Pub / Re: I Have To Be The First To Ask
« on March 29th, 2011, 10:52 PM »
Netscape's inability to compete was evident from the moment it arrived being a paid package, when IE was free and bundled.

I saw the last couple of major versions of Netscape before it failed entirely and it was getting more and more sluggish as time went on - it was slower then (relatively) than FF is now, and FF is sluggish these days.
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The Pub / Re: I Have To Be The First To Ask
« on March 29th, 2011, 10:28 PM »
That's what caused IE6's downfall; for those who weren't around at the turn of the decade, the browser wars were fizzling and IE pushed the boundary by introducing what would eventually become known as XmlHttpRequest - the technology that makes AJAX possible. Before IE did it, the only way to do it was through popups and hidden frames, which is neither elegant nor practical.
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The Pub / Re: Why wedge?
« on March 29th, 2011, 10:26 PM »
We've been through a number of names, though, and this one was the first one we both liked.
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The Pub / Re: Why wedge?
« on March 29th, 2011, 08:11 PM »
We should have removed all of them actually ;)
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Off-topic / Re: Hi all!
« on March 29th, 2011, 06:29 PM »
http://aeva.noisen.com/6180/announcement-fork-you-smf/msg251752/#msg251752

I just linked/quoted it on arantor.org shortly thereafter. But it's still kind of underground...
apart from 44k backlinks from sm.org

Wait until we have something to show people, then we can promote it much better :P
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Off-topic / Re: Hi all!
« on March 29th, 2011, 06:21 PM »
Since earlier today :)
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Off-topic / Re: Hi all!
« on March 29th, 2011, 06:15 PM »
Most of the unusual French strings are still present because they were never converted into English to start with, as this was based on Noisen's code which is predominantly French.

Odd, the board list hasn't been expanded with The Pub on the QuickBoardList... (but it has for others)
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The Pub / Re: Why wedge?
« on March 29th, 2011, 05:46 PM »
Two things.

Firstly, it's a form of simple machine in its own right.

Secondly, you often use a wedge to split something down the middle...
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Off-topic / Re: Hi all!
« on March 29th, 2011, 04:27 PM »
Well, this isn't running Wedge yet. It's running the stuff Nao added on his site over the years - including the theme.

Wedge has its own theme, which looks familiar but different, and is still evolving. The auto save... I did that so much better in Wedge (like making it not braindead, and making it work on personal messages)

The personal text stuff is going to happen before long in Wedge itself :)
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Off-topic / Re: Hi all!
« on March 29th, 2011, 03:31 PM »
Hey :)