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Archived fixes / Re: Little Problem on Topic View
« on March 1st, 2013, 12:56 PM »
What is compatibility mode, already...?
If it breaks something when you enable 'compatibility', it's not exactly compatible... :lol:
If it breaks something when you enable 'compatibility', it's not exactly compatible... :lol:
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The Pub / Re: Language editing inside Wedge
« on March 1st, 2013, 12:55 PM »
'kay, a few comments on the new area...
- Looks nice :)
- License agreement editor shows 3 line breaks for French even though I only added two br tags. The difference with the English file is, I actually inserted a linebreak before adding the two br tags, so I guess Wedge is converting linebreaks to br's... Is it as intended..? Might as well remove the br's and do two line-breaks per paragraph in the language file.
- Finding the wysiwyg editor in that area is amusing... ;) Cursor over the scrollbar is the editor cursor though, not the regular cursor.. (??) And I just realized it's the same everywhere.. Argh?! Doesn't that bother you..??
- 'Master values' pages could use more styling... I know it's a WIP, but I'm thinking 'Master values' should be in italics.
- Also, err... I'm assuming eventually one will be able to edit these, right..? :^^;:
- Suggesting that the E-mail templates links point to the page for the current language being edited. (It's already in the URL -- lid=french/english.)
- Search engine doesn't work, it redirects to the admin homepage. Reminder: I have pretty URLs enabled... Maybe related. Even the variable separators have ampersands instead of semi-colons... (??!!)
- I forgot... Do you still plan to allow for caching English + French next, or something...? I don't remember.
- Looks nice :)
- License agreement editor shows 3 line breaks for French even though I only added two br tags. The difference with the English file is, I actually inserted a linebreak before adding the two br tags, so I guess Wedge is converting linebreaks to br's... Is it as intended..? Might as well remove the br's and do two line-breaks per paragraph in the language file.
- Finding the wysiwyg editor in that area is amusing... ;) Cursor over the scrollbar is the editor cursor though, not the regular cursor.. (??) And I just realized it's the same everywhere.. Argh?! Doesn't that bother you..??
- 'Master values' pages could use more styling... I know it's a WIP, but I'm thinking 'Master values' should be in italics.
- Also, err... I'm assuming eventually one will be able to edit these, right..? :^^;:
- Suggesting that the E-mail templates links point to the page for the current language being edited. (It's already in the URL -- lid=french/english.)
- Search engine doesn't work, it redirects to the admin homepage. Reminder: I have pretty URLs enabled... Maybe related. Even the variable separators have ampersands instead of semi-colons... (??!!)
- I forgot... Do you still plan to allow for caching English + French next, or something...? I don't remember.
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Features / Re: New revs
« on March 1st, 2013, 11:56 AM »
rev 1967 -- commit of love.
(4 files, 16kb)
* I hope no one minds... I've replaced that ugly filter.gif magnifier icon from SMF (used in search boxes, admin error log, and a couple of areas no one has ever noticed), with a much better, similar-looking icon based on the main menu search icon we just got rid of (but which I liked better, so there you go). I'm not 100% happy with it (notably the extra 1px of height that breaks some perfect alignments, but who will notice but me?), but it's 50 bytes smaller, and I also moved the search input's version into the menu sprite, so instead of wasting 220+ bytes in the CSS file for that, we're instead saving 25 bytes. All in all, a good move... I'm not 100% happy with the icon, but I can always revisit it later. Finally, note that the sprite icon is slightly offset to the right. This is to avoid background overlapping in the input box. (images/filter.gif, images/icons/sprite.png, other/images/sprite-menu-32bit.png, index.css)
* Reduced line-height of submit inputs, I guess they were still set to the Opera 'optimum', but since Opera will be moving to WebKit anyway, might as well use the WebKit optimal height now... (index.css)
(4 files, 16kb)
* I hope no one minds... I've replaced that ugly filter.gif magnifier icon from SMF (used in search boxes, admin error log, and a couple of areas no one has ever noticed), with a much better, similar-looking icon based on the main menu search icon we just got rid of (but which I liked better, so there you go). I'm not 100% happy with it (notably the extra 1px of height that breaks some perfect alignments, but who will notice but me?), but it's 50 bytes smaller, and I also moved the search input's version into the menu sprite, so instead of wasting 220+ bytes in the CSS file for that, we're instead saving 25 bytes. All in all, a good move... I'm not 100% happy with the icon, but I can always revisit it later. Finally, note that the sprite icon is slightly offset to the right. This is to avoid background overlapping in the input box. (images/filter.gif, images/icons/sprite.png, other/images/sprite-menu-32bit.png, index.css)
* Reduced line-height of submit inputs, I guess they were still set to the Opera 'optimum', but since Opera will be moving to WebKit anyway, might as well use the WebKit optimal height now... (index.css)
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Features / Re: New revs
« on March 1st, 2013, 11:36 AM »
rev 1966 -- maintenance.
(6 files, 2kb)
! Wrong variable name... Oops? (Class-CSS.php)
! Okay, I didn't realize I had so many $context['is_mobile'] calls last night, and I don't know why I stopped after a couple of these... Probably got distracted by another bug. Anyway, I'm leaving them as they were, but use SKIN_MOBILE as much as you like, even if that other variable is available. I just decided against adding a couple of milliseconds (microseconds??) to the execution time. (Display.template.php, Msg.template.php)
! Big error messages equal big error log crashes, most of the time. Limiting per-message bodies to 10KB (instead of 64KB), should be enough to deal with most cases. (ManageErrors.php)
- Well, one of the points of using <URL> is the pleasure of removing $scripturl from global calls... So, why don't we just do that..? ;) (ManageSearch.php)
- Removing a context variable we no longer need. (Load.php)
(6 files, 2kb)
! Wrong variable name... Oops? (Class-CSS.php)
! Okay, I didn't realize I had so many $context['is_mobile'] calls last night, and I don't know why I stopped after a couple of these... Probably got distracted by another bug. Anyway, I'm leaving them as they were, but use SKIN_MOBILE as much as you like, even if that other variable is available. I just decided against adding a couple of milliseconds (microseconds??) to the execution time. (Display.template.php, Msg.template.php)
! Big error messages equal big error log crashes, most of the time. Limiting per-message bodies to 10KB (instead of 64KB), should be enough to deal with most cases. (ManageErrors.php)
- Well, one of the points of using <URL> is the pleasure of removing $scripturl from global calls... So, why don't we just do that..? ;) (ManageSearch.php)
- Removing a context variable we no longer need. (Load.php)
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Features / Re: Saving Bytes Every Page - Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Enhance Search
« on March 1st, 2013, 06:45 AM »
Pete: ever tried using Warm? :lol:
Everything looks good.
Re search icon. We should harmonize them into one, I think....
Everything looks good.
Re search icon. We should harmonize them into one, I think....
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Features / Re: Saving Bytes Every Page - Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Enhance Search
« on March 1st, 2013, 12:13 AM »
Lol, didn't even remember I'd made this smiley... (Based on another.)
It's certainly not in the Cyna smiley pack I posted earlier to the team boards.
Also, while I'd love to have these smileys as default, I already said a few years ago that some of the smileys were directly taken from PunBB's default package, others from a PunBB community topic where people posted variations, others were done by me based on some IPB smileys (mostly for the animations or the basic idea), and only a handful are done entirely by me... If any ;)
So, really, it's hard to say that it can be put into Wedge's official package 'as is'...
I'm not a huge fan of text links, really it depends on what you want to do, and whether you find a suitable alternative.
It's certainly not in the Cyna smiley pack I posted earlier to the team boards.
Also, while I'd love to have these smileys as default, I already said a few years ago that some of the smileys were directly taken from PunBB's default package, others from a PunBB community topic where people posted variations, others were done by me based on some IPB smileys (mostly for the animations or the basic idea), and only a handful are done entirely by me... If any ;)
So, really, it's hard to say that it can be put into Wedge's official package 'as is'...
I'm not a huge fan of text links, really it depends on what you want to do, and whether you find a suitable alternative.
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Features / Re: New revs
« on February 28th, 2013, 11:29 PM »
rev 1964
(3 files, 5kb)
* French translations. Hopefully, only EmailTemplates remains to be completed... Phew. (Admin, Errors, ManageSettings)
(3 files, 5kb)
* French translations. Hopefully, only EmailTemplates remains to be completed... Phew. (Admin, Errors, ManageSettings)
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Features / Re: Saving Bytes Every Page - Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Enhance Search
« on February 28th, 2013, 11:27 PM »
We can do it that way, too, at least for starters... And I'll look into doing the rest later (when I have more free time available.)
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Features / Re: Saving Bytes Every Page - Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Enhance Search
« on February 28th, 2013, 11:26 PM »
Leave the hover box up to me, if you're not sure, I'll come up with something!
Hmm, I just checked out the website for the forum software we were talking about tonight... And I think that's where I came up with the hover box in my head, unconsciously. I wasn't thinking of something so elaborate (because it adds many bytes), but well, it couldn't hurt too much to have something like that... At worst (best?), we could even load something similar *through Ajax*... :) If we make it a click-triggered menu, like they do, Ajax is a given. $('input[type=search]').next().load(url_for_advanced_search_options)... And voilà ;)
Oh, I'm totally doing that, and with Ajax...
Their HTML (ungzipped) for the search pop-up is 1901 bytes long. Per page. Just for the sake of offering the same amount of features with just a few dozen bytes per page, I'll implement that with pleasure ;)
Hmm, I just checked out the website for the forum software we were talking about tonight... And I think that's where I came up with the hover box in my head, unconsciously. I wasn't thinking of something so elaborate (because it adds many bytes), but well, it couldn't hurt too much to have something like that... At worst (best?), we could even load something similar *through Ajax*... :) If we make it a click-triggered menu, like they do, Ajax is a given. $('input[type=search]').next().load(url_for_advanced_search_options)... And voilà ;)
Posted: February 28th, 2013, 11:21 PM
Oh, I'm totally doing that, and with Ajax...
Their HTML (ungzipped) for the search pop-up is 1901 bytes long. Per page. Just for the sake of offering the same amount of features with just a few dozen bytes per page, I'll implement that with pleasure ;)
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The Pub / Re: XenForo wins
« on February 28th, 2013, 11:17 PM »
Yeah, that particular string was gone already anyway, I'd only checked the diff patch but forgotten to update my files themselves.
ManageSettings wasn't up to date. I fixed that.
Errors wasn't, either. And Admin.
ManageMail is up to date. I think everything's good now, except for EmailTemplates...
I'd be great to have some tool, in the language cache stuff, to actually spot missing language entries and notify the admin... Ohhhhhh yes, thaaat would be goooood.... :)
Heck, even better: storing a MD5 of all English files, thus spotting any modifications, and determining whether the equivalent translation has a modified MD5 as well. In which case --> all good. Otherwise --> may need an update.
ManageSettings wasn't up to date. I fixed that.
Errors wasn't, either. And Admin.
ManageMail is up to date. I think everything's good now, except for EmailTemplates...
I'd be great to have some tool, in the language cache stuff, to actually spot missing language entries and notify the admin... Ohhhhhh yes, thaaat would be goooood.... :)
Heck, even better: storing a MD5 of all English files, thus spotting any modifications, and determining whether the equivalent translation has a modified MD5 as well. In which case --> all good. Otherwise --> may need an update.
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The Pub / Re: XenForo wins
« on February 28th, 2013, 10:50 PM »:) Credit where credit is due.
I saw that, and honestly I wouldn't be that worried. There's two choices - I can either work on a proper language tool for here (though given my lack of enthusiasm for the inline one in Wedge...) or I can just shove stuff through Google Translate as a working one and it get fixed later. Up to you. I don't mind doing stuff like that if it would be useful.
Also, when you removed the package files, did you thoroughly check for unused text strings...?
I only tested for one, and couldn't find it. It is $txt['package_file_contents']. I suppose there may be many more..?
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The Pub / Re: XenForo wins
« on February 28th, 2013, 10:41 PM »Eh, the salient points of that thread are: 1) threaded replies are technically feasible but the UI implementation sucks,
2) the moderation centre as a UI system sucks and we can do a bunch better with a 'board' of some fashion. Exactly what that entails I don't know yet.
I wish I knew French :( But maybe this is the impetus I need to build a proper translation tool for use here to manage even that.
Bugger...
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Features / Re: Flexible box model. It's easy, until it gets hard.
« on February 28th, 2013, 10:36 PM »
Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar! You're gonna go far, fly high, you're never gonna die, you're gonna make it if you try. They're gonna love you!™
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Features / Re: Saving Bytes Every Page - Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Enhance Search
« on February 28th, 2013, 10:35 PM »
You have my approval as well.
I'm thinking that, for UI's sake, we could hide the 'advanced' link by default, and have it show up by hovering the search box, similar to a mini-menu or whatever...
Overall, this would take more space in the HTML (this hover box + a select box for topic/board/forum scope), but it's worth it.
If you've followed my recent work on shortening code in all HTML pages... I'm not doing this 'because all pages should be short', I'm doing this so that we can happily add more features at no cost. :)
And, good riddance with the simple search page..!
I'm thinking that, for UI's sake, we could hide the 'advanced' link by default, and have it show up by hovering the search box, similar to a mini-menu or whatever...
Overall, this would take more space in the HTML (this hover box + a select box for topic/board/forum scope), but it's worth it.
If you've followed my recent work on shortening code in all HTML pages... I'm not doing this 'because all pages should be short', I'm doing this so that we can happily add more features at no cost. :)
And, good riddance with the simple search page..!
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The Pub / Re: XenForo wins
« on February 28th, 2013, 10:31 PM »
Oh, this reminds me that I have to read the rest of that huge vB topic like you asked me, Pete...
I'm afraid it'll be hard for me in the next few days... Plus I'm totally (totally..) lost with respect to French translations.
Anyway, now maybe xF has a chance to catch up with... Wedge 8-)
I'm afraid it'll be hard for me in the next few days... Plus I'm totally (totally..) lost with respect to French translations.
Anyway, now maybe xF has a chance to catch up with... Wedge 8-)