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Features / Re: Another life-changing fantastic idea for quotes! (Bit silly, too.)
« on March 18th, 2011, 12:56 AM »
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I don't get the problem with the checkboxes.
As for security... Well, it's not THAT surprising ahah.
The problem with the checkboxes in there is simply the fact that the only way they're passing back to the backend is by what's in the form. It would be trivial to inject something into the themes table via that page because no sanitisation of accepted values. Literally to add a new field is a new <input> in the form. No checking on the backend what should be used, no validation of data type, just the form provides it, so it's accepted.
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Features / Re: Another life-changing fantastic idea for quotes! (Bit silly, too.)
« on March 18th, 2011, 12:29 AM »
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Yeah, possibly... But then they'll get used to it and they may like it. Only old timers will refuse it. People like me, probably
Well isn't that ironic :lol:
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I'm saying if I were in a position to 'try' it, I would have a hard time accepting that Wedge is doing everything for me
It's a fair point.
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You mean the fact that it's in the 'Look and layout' page?
No, more the mechanics. There are just a bunch of checkboxes in the HTML, and minimal validation done on the other end; you can literally add a profile field just by adding the HTML there without having to modify anything else.
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Features / Re: Another life-changing fantastic idea for quotes! (Bit silly, too.)
« on March 18th, 2011, 12:16 AM »
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I don't think forum wide would be very logical.
True enough. I just get the impression that some people are going to freak out though.
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A per-user setting, yeah, I thought about that but am too lazy
We really need to overhaul that actually. The way it's implemented feels wrong to me. If you ever looked at it, you'll understand why it feels wrong, I think.
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Other software / Re: Well the deed is done
« on March 17th, 2011, 09:52 PM »
A vB inspired baby at that.
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Features / Re: Another life-changing fantastic idea for quotes! (Bit silly, too.)
« on March 17th, 2011, 06:10 PM »
I've had a play with it, and it's certainly interesting, just gotta get used to it, you know? I need to be sure in my own mind when it's acting up and when it's behaving as expected.

I also get the distinct impression an option to disable it (either forum wide or per user) wouldn't be a bad idea.
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Other software / Re: Well the deed is done
« on March 17th, 2011, 01:30 AM »
Making apps standalone isn't necessarily the panacea it sounds like. I know plenty of folks who would love an all-in-one integrated solution that just lets them deploy what they want, how they want, without the fuss of extra stuff to install.
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Other software / Re: Well the deed is done
« on March 16th, 2011, 11:19 PM »
vB 4 looks a lot better to the end user than vB 3 did, but behind the scenes I'm still not that impressed :P
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on March 14th, 2011, 05:21 PM »
Working with me too long has rubbed off on you, eh, that things can always be improved? :P

I dunno, I'm actually really happy with the logo as it is (without the caption)
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Features / Re: Another life-changing fantastic idea for quotes! (Bit silly, too.)
« on March 14th, 2011, 12:03 AM »
Hmm, this seems like it could be very interesting to debug. I'm doing other (family history) stuff tonight but I can certainly dig into it properly tomorrow.
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Features / Re: Another life-changing fantastic idea for quotes! (Bit silly, too.)
« on March 13th, 2011, 09:00 PM »
We'd actually have to pass the list of closed tags to the JS because although the list is only three tags now, it might not be in future.

As for the theme, just playing with some different header ideas and seeing how well the sidebar worked on the right.
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Features / Re: Another life-changing fantastic idea for quotes! (Bit silly, too.)
« on March 13th, 2011, 07:51 PM »
I just realised another issue with it, if you're wrapping tags - you'd have to pass a list of closed tags to the parsing function otherwise it would see the br tag and attempt to close it, no?

(As for me, for the first time in 2 years, I'm experimenting with a theme as opposed to UI tweaks :o)
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Features / Re: Another life-changing fantastic idea for quotes! (Bit silly, too.)
« on March 13th, 2011, 12:46 AM »
It's the only way to ensure that the quote doesn't break anything it's not supposed to, I think.
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Features / Re: Another life-changing fantastic idea for quotes! (Bit silly, too.)
« on March 13th, 2011, 12:25 AM »
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What about... If I cut a code tag that's located in a nested quote? (i.e. not directly inside the main quote.)
I'd argue it should replicate the end code bbc in before the cut, and open a new code bbc in the new quote. That way the tags are what they should be, and will be legally nested later.
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Features / Re: Another life-changing fantastic idea for quotes! (Bit silly, too.)
« on March 13th, 2011, 12:21 AM »
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It still won't deal with things that are cut in the middle, like code tags or even anchors or whatever. Dunno if it's that important... Is it?
It probably should, to be honest.
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Adding them back would probably be a bit complicated...
Yup. Not sure it's hugely critical personally.

* Arantor will go test shortly.
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Features / Re: Recycling board by default (PLEASE READ THE FEB. 15 POSTS EVERYONE!)
« on March 12th, 2011, 07:24 PM »
Keeping the UI lean is important, sure. And this particular one is something that bothered me quite significantly to do something about. I think it's worth mocking up in a test page before full on implementation and seeing if it feels 'right' or not.