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Features / Re: New revs
« on October 29th, 2011, 02:30 PM »
rev 1137
(19 files, 21kb)
* Separated windowbg/windowbg2/windowbg3 logic from posts, which will use postbg/postbg2 from now on. Started to convert templates. The idea is: user-generated content should use postbg, while Wedge/skin-generated content should use windowbg. (index.css, index.ie6.css, sections.css, Display.template.php, Media.template.php, ModerationCenter.template.php, PersonalMessage.template.php, Post.template.php, Profile.template.php)
! Sending PMs with just an embedded item would fail. (PersonalMessage.php)
! Shortened action URLs would fail if Wedge was installed in a sub-folder. (QueryString.php)
* Use on_timeformat in drafts and post lists for profiles. (Profile-View.php, Profile.template.php)
* More helpful error message when the MySQL server is outdated. I'll leave it to Pete to decide whether we should keep testing mysql_get_client_info(), or test it only against MySQL 5.0, or switch to MySQLi. Or whatever. (install.php, Install.language.php)
* Cosmetic rewrites and a typo, I believe. (Class-CSS.php, ManagePlugins.english.php)
* French translation. (ManagePlugins.french.php)
@ Note: okay, I seem to remember you discussed a problem with the skeleton system this week, but can't find where exactly... Was it an issue on your side?
(19 files, 21kb)
* Separated windowbg/windowbg2/windowbg3 logic from posts, which will use postbg/postbg2 from now on. Started to convert templates. The idea is: user-generated content should use postbg, while Wedge/skin-generated content should use windowbg. (index.css, index.ie6.css, sections.css, Display.template.php, Media.template.php, ModerationCenter.template.php, PersonalMessage.template.php, Post.template.php, Profile.template.php)
! Sending PMs with just an embedded item would fail. (PersonalMessage.php)
! Shortened action URLs would fail if Wedge was installed in a sub-folder. (QueryString.php)
* Use on_timeformat in drafts and post lists for profiles. (Profile-View.php, Profile.template.php)
* More helpful error message when the MySQL server is outdated. I'll leave it to Pete to decide whether we should keep testing mysql_get_client_info(), or test it only against MySQL 5.0, or switch to MySQLi. Or whatever. (install.php, Install.language.php)
* Cosmetic rewrites and a typo, I believe. (Class-CSS.php, ManagePlugins.english.php)
* French translation. (ManagePlugins.french.php)
@ Note: okay, I seem to remember you discussed a problem with the skeleton system this week, but can't find where exactly... Was it an issue on your side?
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Features / Re: New revs - Public comments
« on October 29th, 2011, 10:52 AM »
I'll look into it. I shall be committing today anyway.
Oh and I need to answer the post above...
Oh and I need to answer the post above...
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Off-topic / Re: Had trouble deciding where to post this
« on October 29th, 2011, 01:16 AM »
I'm not sure there's a question in this ;)
Btw I changed a couple of lines in the post template to deal with my windowbg rewrite I told you privately. Not that it matters if it conflicts...
Btw I changed a couple of lines in the post template to deal with my windowbg rewrite I told you privately. Not that it matters if it conflicts...
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Off-topic / Re: Google Galaxy Nexus
« on October 27th, 2011, 06:08 PM »
Or just buy a shitty phone, it'll be cheaper and you can wait a few more years until the perfect phone is out :p
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Features / Re: Google Maps feature in profile
« on October 27th, 2011, 06:07 PM »
They require an API key for every single (sub)domain you use the script in.
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Features / Re: Google Maps feature in profile
« on October 27th, 2011, 04:13 PM »
Well, last time I checked, Bing Maps was pretty okay...
There's nothing that matches Google's speed and feature set, but there are okay alternatives.
Yeah I'd say it'd be best as a plugin by now... Too bad, though. But we could still record coordinates through GMap, because I doubt even a 'big' site would have 25k+ users actually update their map position on a daily basis...
There's nothing that matches Google's speed and feature set, but there are okay alternatives.
Yeah I'd say it'd be best as a plugin by now... Too bad, though. But we could still record coordinates through GMap, because I doubt even a 'big' site would have 25k+ users actually update their map position on a daily basis...
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Features / Re: Google Maps feature in profile
« on October 27th, 2011, 03:37 PM »
Interesting... And a bit sad.
Well, 25k/day is still okay for most, but it's complicated.
They still allow embedding though -- meaning that users can still post map URLs and Aeva Media will happily embed them into your posts. We could simply have a custom field in profile areas, telling users to post a GMap URL to their location if they want... Obviously, though, this makes it impossible to gather everyone into a single map, or things like that... But quite honestly, I think that after the novelty effect, maps aren't that exciting at all.
Or we could also simply change to a competitor...
Well, 25k/day is still okay for most, but it's complicated.
They still allow embedding though -- meaning that users can still post map URLs and Aeva Media will happily embed them into your posts. We could simply have a custom field in profile areas, telling users to post a GMap URL to their location if they want... Obviously, though, this makes it impossible to gather everyone into a single map, or things like that... But quite honestly, I think that after the novelty effect, maps aren't that exciting at all.
Or we could also simply change to a competitor...
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Off-topic / Re: Battlefield 3
« on October 27th, 2011, 02:59 PM »
Well, at least you don't have to skim through thousands of typefaces trying to figure out whether your 'instincts' will click at something... :whistle:
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Off-topic / Re: Google Code-in
« on October 27th, 2011, 02:24 PM »
Good luck!
I was 22 when Google was born. Bunch of kids :p
I was 22 when Google was born. Bunch of kids :p
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Off-topic / Re: Battlefield 3
« on October 27th, 2011, 02:23 PM »
RPGs eat enough of my free time.
Skyrim comes out in two weeks. Expect no commits for a while :P
Skyrim comes out in two weeks. Expect no commits for a while :P
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on October 27th, 2011, 12:06 PM »
Why would Moffat make a topical episode based on a joke he made over a year ago..?
Anyway -- I'm probably going to give Pyramids of Mars a try.
Anyway -- I'm probably going to give Pyramids of Mars a try.
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Off-topic / Re: New coding music :D
« on October 27th, 2011, 11:57 AM »I like a TV show and a film that's interesting to watch, reasonably well paced (I have a lowish boredom factor when it comes to passive entertainment), and is sufficiently deep that there's something for my brain to dig into.
I'd tend to suggest Paranoia Agent.
Try to watch a fansub of it. It's a 13-episode show that could be a good entry point into anime. It's a thriller about a roller-skating boy with a cap who assaults random people with a baseball bat, and people are trying to figure out who he is. It's both weird and deep. Especially from episode 5 on. Has some surrealistic stuff, opportunities to ponder over what's being shown versus what you think you've figured out, etc... I watched the entire show twice and even the second time, I didn't figure it all out. Well, I suppose it's mostly targeted to those who like The Prisoner, things like that ;)
From the same director (who sadly passed away last year from cancer) -- Millennium Actress is an excellent 'romance' movie about an old actress who's reliving her memories under the prism of her major movie roles -- they're intertwined so much that you're not sure whether you're watching reality, or an idealized version of it. And Tokyo Godfathers is a Christmas story about three bums who discover an abandoned baby and decide to take care of her. It's a character-driven comedy/drama. Mostly comedy.
Of course there's always the Ghibli movies to start with... If you want a sense of adventure, there's Laputa (Castle in the sky), or a sense of wonder, go for Kiki's Delivery Service or Howl's Moving Castle. If you want drama, there's Nausicaä or Princess Mononoke. Ghibli's most popular movie is Spirited Away but I'm not a big fan myself. If you like tragedies, best of all is Grave of the Fireflies.
Also in the 'weird surrealistic' area, I could think of Utena, but the main drawback here is that out of the 39 episodes, most are of the 'formulaic' kind, i.e. it's always the same structure, character has a problem, it's analyzed in the first half, then they get to fight, and their problem is solved (or not). Plus it has a soundtrack that could be seen as either genius or pure crap. (I personally love it but I can understand it's not something everyone will like.) Hmm... Probably not a good entry point.
One of my favorite movies is Princess Arete, if Liz ever wants to watch a slightly feminist movie, and you both don't mind with the very quiet pace, it's really great.
Actually, Milady hates Japanese animation in general (with a passion!), but over the years she liked all of the anime I mentioned above (except for Utena which I wouldn't dare to even introduce her to.)
Oh... If you like over-the-top animation/story, you may enjoy Giant Robo: The Animation (1993 or so). Yeah there are giant robots in it, but it's a cult show that pays homage to the old Japanese 60's shows. A labour of love, really. I particularly recommend episodes 4, 5 and 7 (mostly because the first episodes are mostly exposition.)
And Evangelion (1996)... Because it doesn't deliberately choose a retro style, it looks kind of dated by now. They recently made new movies out of it which are high budget and everything, but you may want to wait for a couple more years until they're done with the remakes. Otherwise, well... It's another giant robot show with kid pilots, but this time it's on a Freudian level... Guy has a complex around his father, father is obsessed about reviving his dead wife or something like that, mix it up with tons of esoteric references, trauma, and a share of typically Japanese gags. It's kind of... special. If you manage to get through the first half of the show, which is quite commercial and a bit boring, the second half rewards anyone with a brain. It's basically the first prime-time anime series to show an orgasm off-screen (in episode 20), or have an episode entirely built on intertitles and still images (the very controversial episode 25).
Oh, and Cowboy Bebop... A pretty good jazz/funk soundtrack, stand-alone episodes that allow for casual viewing, mostly a comedy show with action scenes. I'm not a big fan (except of the very Batman TAS-inspired episode 20) but it's one of the best loved shows of its kind.
Music... really, the music in TV and film doesn't tend to grab me unless it's *seriously memorable* or *seriously epic*. I don't own many film soundtracks, for example. To put in perspective, the film soundtracks I own are: Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade, Flash Gordon, the three Lord of the Rings soundtrack albums, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Labyrinth, and Clerks II.
I have almost more computer game soundtracks than I do film soundtracks.
And still looking... Anything that sounds like the 16-bit era is what I'm seeking after. Not the 8-bit era though... Except if it sounds like a Commodore 64, in which case it's okay :P
That said, I do have the soundtracks from the first 5 seasons of Doctor Who, because somehow that's actually more memorable to me.
It's mostly because they don't do a lot for me, as it were. If the dialogue's good, that's going to keep my attention more than the music is.
Although I watched 'The Sky Crawlers' this morning (from Mamoru Oshii), and I found it to be really well written. Only problem is, the story wasn't so great... (Well, I'm not a big fan of depressing movies with no encouraging ending :P) One of Kenji Kawai's best soundtracks though (along with Patlabor 2), if you like minimalism. I have a feeling you don't, though!
Musically I tend to favour rock, not-so-heavy metal and stuff like that. My playlist is primarily Queen, Meat Loaf, Iron Maiden, Nightwish and Murray Gold(!) with interludes from Bon Jovi, ABBA(!!), David Bowie, Aerosmith and stuff like that, plus whatever I happen to find of interest on YouTube.
ABBA is great, just like A-HA. Gotta love old Scandinavian pop. Anyone who says otherwise is lying! Ahah.
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The Pub / [Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« on October 27th, 2011, 11:26 AM »
I'm not sure 'instinct' and 'creativity' always overlap... I trust my instincts more than my skills here.
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The Pub / Re: Adding menu icons
« on October 27th, 2011, 08:18 AM »
My first reaction would be to add a index.myplugin.css file to the main index list. That way it's easily done.
The simplest way would be to use a generic class though. Doesn't prevent us from using inheritance on all classes but allows other files to inherit easily with the icon class.
The simplest way would be to use a generic class though. Doesn't prevent us from using inheritance on all classes but allows other files to inherit easily with the icon class.
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Features / Re: New revs
« on October 26th, 2011, 07:34 PM »
rev 1135
(6 files, 15kb)
! Most browsers didn't like my latest changes to menu paddings. Removed an old min-height: 0 hack that seemed to bother them... Yeah, don't ask me, it's kinda obscure to me too. Tested in Chrome, Opera 11.5/12, IE 7/8/9 and FF7. (index.css)
- Removed IE6 iframe shim support from menu code. The reasoning: IE6 users are noobs. They don't install forums. They wouldn't even notice if a menu item is behind a form element. While I'm okay providing shims for IE6 when it doesn't add code to *other* users, in this case IE6 represented a 25% overhead for the menu code, and 5% of the script file. For everyone. Now it's gone. Good riddance. (script.js, index.ie6.css)
* Made delimiters more generic for the false/true JS minification trick. Saves 7 bytes off the gzipped script file. What? A byte is a byte. (Subs-Cache.php)
* Positioned menus 3 pixels further down the top-level entries, to give more breathing space to the menu arrows. Feedback welcome for Wine. Works fine in other skins. (script.js, index.css)
* Droid Sans has no italics, so adding a small hack for that until I'm through with that font and switch back to something else. (Warm/index.css)
! Forgot to fix the additional JS file list for IE6 in Wine -- only Warm and Wuthering were done. (skin.xml)
(6 files, 15kb)
! Most browsers didn't like my latest changes to menu paddings. Removed an old min-height: 0 hack that seemed to bother them... Yeah, don't ask me, it's kinda obscure to me too. Tested in Chrome, Opera 11.5/12, IE 7/8/9 and FF7. (index.css)
- Removed IE6 iframe shim support from menu code. The reasoning: IE6 users are noobs. They don't install forums. They wouldn't even notice if a menu item is behind a form element. While I'm okay providing shims for IE6 when it doesn't add code to *other* users, in this case IE6 represented a 25% overhead for the menu code, and 5% of the script file. For everyone. Now it's gone. Good riddance. (script.js, index.ie6.css)
* Made delimiters more generic for the false/true JS minification trick. Saves 7 bytes off the gzipped script file. What? A byte is a byte. (Subs-Cache.php)
* Positioned menus 3 pixels further down the top-level entries, to give more breathing space to the menu arrows. Feedback welcome for Wine. Works fine in other skins. (script.js, index.css)
* Droid Sans has no italics, so adding a small hack for that until I'm through with that font and switch back to something else. (Warm/index.css)
! Forgot to fix the additional JS file list for IE6 in Wine -- only Warm and Wuthering were done. (skin.xml)