Wedge

Where do you see sarcasm?
Just because I'm put off by your tendency to request for account deletion, doesn't mean I don't understand the reasons behind your behavior. I won't judge you on that. I'm only interested in work, anyway. (I think you noticed the 24/7 thingy.)The leaf wasn't widely liked. So I cut the rounded corners and suddenly some people liked it. Then I added a 3D effect and they started loving it. Then I moved the text to the middle and even more loved it. Every time I make it 'busier', people like it more. It's not what I think they'll like -- it's what I see they like.
I've done countless logos I did *not* post, by the way... I'm only posting the ones I think deserve of being posted. Not all of them are worthy of being *used*, though. Just kept as a souvenir... Over the year, I posted dozens of logos, and I think I could pick a dozen of them and still be unable to decided which I like best.
And even then, it's not about what I like best -- it's about what gives Wedge a 'personality', if you may.

As a wanna-be designer, I know that simplicity is better than number of features. I also know that sometimes, you can get away with a beautiful busy design by ensuring nothing around it is busy. That's why I removed the slogan from the 'busy' logo, and why I worked mainly on readability.
Still doesn't stop me from having a parallel file where I'm testing variations on the 'sober' design. See my post just above, I edited it with my latest version (PT Sans + gradient icon.)It's what you want it to be. There's nothing 'true' and nothing 'wrong'. Went to Sydney back in '01 and it was the first flight I ever had, a fantastic memory and anything that reminds me of it is cool. The colors on the icon can also make you think of a plant (and the idea of tending to something beautiful.) The shapes can also make you think of two wedges meeting each other -- or two parts separated by a wedge. You can also see the two shapes as representing Pete and moi. (I'll also let you determine which is who.) You can see the most recent logo as a proud blazon. Or you can just see it as a random mass of pixels that doesn't make sense... Just like many people will probably be put off by my own design choices for Wedge in general.Yet I put effort into it. So, how would you do it...?It's not the shape that matters... It's what you do with it :PWhich first attempts? The recent ones with the new icon, or the older attempts?There are so many logos I found striking... Some were disliked by most people. Not that I would usually care, but I believe that after a year and a half of work on Wedge, I went from "doesn't care who uses it" to "hopefully it'll be successful."
So... Yeah, in a way, that logo matters to me. A lot. And it matters to me that people like it. No matter if I have to spend another year on it. It'll be a funny bed time story for my geeky grandchildren...

Oh I see. They act as a proxy then?

rev 1235
(3 files, 3kb)

* Made setSelected() a bit faster. And as a fine geek, I also added comments with performance comparisons. Don't mind me. (sbox.js)

! Fixed select box display area being too wide when the default selection has a details pane. (sbox.js)

! Fixed the $here bug where using it on a local Windows install would generate URLS like ..\Hello/world.png, which browsers don't like. It's a bit hackish but at least it's short and fast. And no, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with plugin directories... (Thanks John!) (Subs-Cache.php)

* All these quotes in PM headers looked odd to me. (PersonalMessage.template.php)

Very impressive indeed.
That he did it all without images... Woot.

Ironically, the site sucks when viewed on the device in question... ;)

Something like this..?

rev 1-2-3-4 (could have waited for 12:34 for even more fun but... depends on your idea of fun...)
(8 files +2-2, 20kb)

@ The NIGHTMARE commit... Just because of a couple of onclick and onfocus events in the entire Wedge codebase. I should have removed them instead... Again, many many fixes to the select box system. Keyboard navigation should now properly trigger the click event when using arrows (which a regular select box would never do -- and yes, onclick is only used ONCE in all of Wedge but I'm like that.) Focus and click events had various glitches that I believe I managed to fix entirely. Well, I thought that MANY times and then discovered that it broke every other right click in Iceland when temperature is above 67°C, so I went for a rewrite every time and it would break something else. What fun. I don't want to touch events ever again.

- Removed original's class from $display and $items, because it feels more natural to style ".custom_class .items" than ".items.custom_class". Plus it's compatible with IE6... (sbox.js)

- Removed the .sb("focus") and focusOriginal() hacks. Should work okay without these now... (PersonalMessage.template.php, script.js, sbox.js)

* Ensuring that clicks on select box display area to close it will keep focus on it. (sbox.js)

* Ensuring that selected items are always valid (i.e. they still exist now and haven't been deleted by a refresh.) (sbox.js)

* Rewrote inline event attribution for select boxes by moving event declaration around in the template file, so that they're always available for the plugin to extract from. That way, we fix (okay, I fix) this insane bug where inline events aren't available on select boxes after a refresh. (sbox.js, index.template.php, Subs-Template.php)

+ Implemented or restored (can't exactly remember) instantOpen parameter on OpenSB(), for resizing purposes mainly. (sbox.js)

! Clicking the select box to close it should now properly cancel the current selection. (sbox.js)

! Fixed broken select box widths in IE6 where optgroups were being used. (index.ie6.css)

* Replaced .is(".class") with .hasClass("class"). Gzipped/minified takes 4 extra bytes, but it should be a tad faster to execute. And semantically correct. (sbox.js)

* Moved positioning code inside OpenSB(), since it's only used there. Saves about 20 bytes and compensates for hasClass... (sbox.js)

@ Total size is 2204 bytes (+37). There's only one remaining bug as far as I can tell, which wasn't there a few hours ago. Running a refresh from a focus() event will break the tabindex flow on it, meaning if you tab out, you'll switch to the first element on the page and will have to ctrl-tab backwards to where you want to go. Tested in various browsers, and this only happens in Opera so... I'll live with it for now. Considering the nightmare it was to make this commit work across all browsers and navigation types, I consider such a small glitch to be a victory.

[b)Non-select box changes:[/b]

! theme_base_js() and theme_base_css() were always called through an echo, and yet they insisted on echoing their contents themselves, resulting in misplaced code, opening the door to more bugs. Ouch. (Subs-Cache.php)

+ Added styling for footnotes on printable pages. (Printpage.template.php)

* Renamed other/wip to other/attic, as I consider these snippets to be 'things too interesting not to be committed somewhere', rather than 'things I'm planning to include in Wedge later'. (other/attic)

+ Added a very short snippet inspired by jQuery-tie, which overloads jQuery methods with a new event. I liked the concept, but I'd rather check for all select boxes individually and fix them as needed, rather than relying on a clever hack. (other/attic/Unused-tie.js)

+ Added another very short snippet showing how to import a DOM element's event data into another element. (other/attic/Unused-events.js)

Aaaand I think I'm going to give up on these event imports as well...
Probably just going to import .click events, I guess. Because let's be honest, it's the only kind of event we have in Wedge, AND it's not like I'm trying to make a universal select box. Modders can adapt. If I want to go universal, I'll rewrite it again anyway...