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Plugins / Re: Extending the moderation filter actions when posting
« on December 17th, 2012, 03:16 PM »
Ah, got it, never actually SAVED a filter after building it... That's why I couldn't find the popup ;)
It may be triggered on change, but on my side it never triggers when typing text, only on focusout... Odd. Can you look into it?
How to reproduce what I really consider to be a bug:
- Create new filter
- Choose first in dropdown
- Choose first radio button
- Choose first in dropdown
- Click a checkbox (i.e. a board name), nothing happens, which is as intended I guess,
- Click a radio button (i.e. "applies to the selected"...), nothing happens, which is NOT as intended.
GenericPopup done :) It's not as slick as the Help stuff, but at least it's no longer a hack eheh...
It may be triggered on change, but on my side it never triggers when typing text, only on focusout... Odd. Can you look into it?
How to reproduce what I really consider to be a bug:
- Create new filter
- Choose first in dropdown
- Choose first radio button
- Choose first in dropdown
- Click a checkbox (i.e. a board name), nothing happens, which is as intended I guess,
- Click a radio button (i.e. "applies to the selected"...), nothing happens, which is NOT as intended.
GenericPopup done :) It's not as slick as the Help stuff, but at least it's no longer a hack eheh...
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Features / Re: New revs
« on December 17th, 2012, 03:10 PM »
rev 1801
(11 files + 3 renames, 7kb)
* Renamed the Help template to GenericPopup, which makes more sense. Renamed $context['help_text'] to 'popup_contents'. Best way to hide a hack is to have it in plain view. Ha. (Help.php, Like.php, ManageErrors.php, ManageModeration.php, ManagePlugins.php, ViewQuery.php, GenericPopup.template.php, script.js, extra.ie6.css, extra.ios.css, index.css)
! Forgot to rename a few iphone CSS files to ios. Until I get to rewriting the feature... (extra.ios.css in Weaving, Warm and Wireless)
(11 files + 3 renames, 7kb)
* Renamed the Help template to GenericPopup, which makes more sense. Renamed $context['help_text'] to 'popup_contents'. Best way to hide a hack is to have it in plain view. Ha. (Help.php, Like.php, ManageErrors.php, ManageModeration.php, ManagePlugins.php, ViewQuery.php, GenericPopup.template.php, script.js, extra.ie6.css, extra.ios.css, index.css)
! Forgot to rename a few iphone CSS files to ios. Until I get to rewriting the feature... (extra.ios.css in Weaving, Warm and Wireless)
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The Pub / Re: Getting ready for an alpha release: WeCSS/Wess improvements
« on December 16th, 2012, 11:53 PM »Seems to me it should generally create a new CSS suffix.
index.ie[-7].css
Or
index.css with @is (ie[-7], "something", "else) inside it.
Both are currently valid, but the second one won't automatically force a browser keyword to be added to the cached filename (which is bad.)
The first one, though, also has its limitations.
@is (rtl) is probably superfluous, since there should be .rtl.css files for the cases when it is RTL, no?
As you may have seen, I'd actually set up a variable called $left (IIRC?) that's set to 'left' or 'right' depending on the current RTL context. It seems more natural to me. So maybe index.rtl.css should go as well...
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Plugins / Re: Extending the moderation filter actions when posting
« on December 16th, 2012, 11:49 PM »* Triggering the popup is easy. Create a rule that has moderate or prevent as its action, and you'll get an extra option at the bottom to put in a message for the different languages. Put something in there. This is so when a rule triggers, the admin can explain to users what they did wrong. The popup is just a convenience in the admin area to show the admin what all the different languages are. (I can add screenshots of the whole process if that would help)
I was expecting a '?' icon or something..?
It was written that way, by me, deliberately back in February and it has *always* been that way since day 1. It's simply to not allow the user to actually add anything until there's something valid to add.
As I see it, none of this is a bug.
It's working exactly as I designed it to. Whether that means the design is wrong is a matter of debate, but if it changed, a lot more stuff has to be written to explain to the user what they're doing wrong.
It's still primarily used for the help text as far as I know (though the new say/ask might use it, haven't checked), and the only other uses are this popup and the who-liked-this popup, both of which are somewhat misappropriation of the help template by keeping the display logic inside the action itself rather than delegating it to some kind of template.
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Off-topic / Re: Programming styles, and does it really matter?
« on December 16th, 2012, 11:36 PM »
I personally pray that our support forum will be 1/4 the size of MyBB's, even less would be better, if only because I know I'll never read all of those posts anyway... :P
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The Pub / Re: Getting ready for an alpha release: WeCSS/Wess improvements
« on December 16th, 2012, 11:34 PM »
Oh, I've been thinking about this for a week actually... But since I hadn't committed anything, it was okay for be stumped. Now, I forced myself to commit precisely so I could try and trigger a stroke of genius... Which has yet to happen. :^^;:
I'd like to know, though, whether or not I should restrict browser/OS tests to @is/@if commands, rather than have them as a possible CSS suffix.
(And I should check whether a @is (rtl) test will actually work...)
Most of my css suffixes are usually quick hacks, but several skins/extra.ie*.css files are much bigger than just the usual stuff, so it'd definitely take me a couple of hours just to move these hacks into index.css itself... Then again, after that it becomes a (bit) easier to manage the files.
I'd like to know, though, whether or not I should restrict browser/OS tests to @is/@if commands, rather than have them as a possible CSS suffix.
(And I should check whether a @is (rtl) test will actually work...)
Most of my css suffixes are usually quick hacks, but several skins/extra.ie*.css files are much bigger than just the usual stuff, so it'd definitely take me a couple of hours just to move these hacks into index.css itself... Then again, after that it becomes a (bit) easier to manage the files.
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Off-topic / Re: Programming styles, and does it really matter?
« on December 16th, 2012, 11:00 PM »
I'm not worrying... That vB is actually successful despite sucking in the first place (bad UI choices mostly), is simply what bothers me...
Next year, I'm guessing Wedge will be directly propelled to the Top 5 of best forum software, but OTOH maybe myBB or others will have caught up as well... Never underestimate competition ;)
Next year, I'm guessing Wedge will be directly propelled to the Top 5 of best forum software, but OTOH maybe myBB or others will have caught up as well... Never underestimate competition ;)
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The Pub / Re: Getting ready for an alpha release: WeCSS/Wess improvements
« on December 16th, 2012, 10:58 PM »
You can always install the Android SDK and then download the x86 image for Jelly Bean or whatever... Then use Intel's accelerator (it needs to be installed from within a Program Files folder, oddly enough, but makes emulation magnitudes faster....), and you're good to go, except you can't run the Play Store with that, so you're stuck with installing APK packages. Ahem, Opera doesn't install on it IIRC. But Chrome probably can...
Anyway...
I'm trying hard to figure out a better way to cache the test results.
It seems like it's beyond me for now...
And I'm afraid it'll start to turn me mad, ah ah.
Well, anyone willing to help...? :^^;:
Anyway...
I'm trying hard to figure out a better way to cache the test results.
It seems like it's beyond me for now...
And I'm afraid it'll start to turn me mad, ah ah.
Well, anyone willing to help...? :^^;:
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The Pub / Re: Getting ready for an alpha release: WeCSS/Wess improvements
« on December 16th, 2012, 09:49 PM »It's not even like you can search for Mobile Safari either, since pretty much every mobile browser seems to send that header.
Apple is going to continue to refuse alternate engines for the time being.
Which it isn't.
The only thing I like on it, compared to Android stuff, is that it tends to reflow text in a smarter way. For instance, noisen.com's forum topic lists at the top of the page are very readable in iOS, and extremely small and unreadable in Android, whether using stock, Chrome or Opera or even Firefox... (I like Firefox on Android. Except that it doesn't tend to keep all of your tabs open after you quit it... Smart.)
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Off-topic / Re: Programming styles, and does it really matter?
« on December 16th, 2012, 09:46 PM »And that's two platforms I've never heard of
The point I was making is that while there *are* alternatives to WP, they're a long way down the totem pole, while in the forum world, it's not as if there is one serious front-runner, there are several that all joust for position.
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Off-topic / Re: GMail domains
« on December 16th, 2012, 09:44 PM »
Oh, I'm afraid I'm not reading many topics these days...! At least not many of the new topics. I'm still recovering from my crunch mode/burn-out and want to take it slow... :^^;:
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Off-topic / Re: Programming styles, and does it really matter?
« on December 16th, 2012, 09:01 PM »
Off the top of my head..? Dotclear (because it's French), Nucleus (because I used it back in the early noughts), and SPIP (just look at my old website http://dossiers.cyna.fr -- still the best pro-writer-oriented CMS IMHO, to this day.)
Really, there are tons of platforms around, it's just that WP has managed to outshine them all, not out of sheer quality, but because most people settled on it, and thus there's this 'virtuous circle' where blog users install WP because everyone is using it and thus it has the most support. Just like the S3 phone is the most used, and thus gets more attention from coders... :P
Really, there are tons of platforms around, it's just that WP has managed to outshine them all, not out of sheer quality, but because most people settled on it, and thus there's this 'virtuous circle' where blog users install WP because everyone is using it and thus it has the most support. Just like the S3 phone is the most used, and thus gets more attention from coders... :P
* Nao is wondering whether he shouldn't go for a S3 Mini... Ah ah ah.
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The Pub / Re: Getting ready for an alpha release: WeCSS/Wess improvements
« on December 16th, 2012, 08:59 PM »
It's actually needed more than ever -- iOS doesn't allow for engines other than Safari Mobile's, so just having 'Chrome' isn't helpful because if it's 'Chrome for iOS', it actually uses the Safari Mobile engine, not Chrome's own.
The reason why I clearly separated OS from UA is because I wanted it to be 'clean', and having a special case for iOS wasn't clean to begin with.
It pains me to say, but as annoying as the new code can be, it's the only way it's going to work, as long as Apple refuses alternative engines on its platform... (of course, Opera Mini is a different engine per se, but it's more akin to sending a URL and receiving an image in return...)
The reason why I clearly separated OS from UA is because I wanted it to be 'clean', and having a special case for iOS wasn't clean to begin with.
It pains me to say, but as annoying as the new code can be, it's the only way it's going to work, as long as Apple refuses alternative engines on its platform... (of course, Opera Mini is a different engine per se, but it's more akin to sending a URL and receiving an image in return...)
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Off-topic / Re: GMail domains
« on December 16th, 2012, 08:54 PM »
French gmail has 'gmail.com', which I'm assuming is the same for most countries really...
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The Pub / Re: Getting ready for an alpha release: WeCSS/Wess improvements
« on December 16th, 2012, 08:16 PM »
Farfetched or not?