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Off-topic / Re: Wedge support
« on May 28th, 2011, 05:09 PM »
Yeah, that's me! (I can't get enough of me.)
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Off-topic / Re: Wedge support
« on May 28th, 2011, 03:12 PM »
Quote from billy2 on May 28th, 2011, 12:06 PM
Wedge is sounding very good to press, its only a matter of time until Wedge goes public and the hordes flock here.
I don't see that happening anytime soon, with the pressure the SMF Team is putting over the community...
Just look at how they destroy every single signature with a reference to us.
If I can trust the Facebook page numbers, we have 37 friends, so that's about the number of people (give or take a hundred) who'll be using Wedge eventually. SMF has hundreds of thousands, AFAIK. Not the same league. They're in the 'big boys' league. We're in the independent league (i.e. those who do all the work but don't get the publicity.) At least we don't have to put up with the support. Well, I don't.
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What is your strategy for supporting 16000 Wedge installations
I don't see us having more than a thousand installs at the end of the year.

And with a bit of luck, everyone else will end up agreeing with my desire to remove the 'hack' system for mods, and thus we'll get next to nothing in terms of support requests for mods. (Except for the usual 'Do you have a mod for XXX', to which I won't even bother replying.)
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Nao, Arantor and others will be knackered [1] by this time and I thought it a point to raise
 1. - as in tired
If I can't take it, I'll just go back to my cave and resume work, while others will fill in, take bug reports and transmit them to me.
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Off-topic / Re: Wedge support
« on May 28th, 2011, 03:07 PM »
Quote from Arantor on May 28th, 2011, 02:18 PM
It's not for nothing that I've been going by the nickname Gruffen over on SimpleDesk, which naturally gets shortened to... :lol:
Interestingly, that's the exact same reason I'm not changing my nickname to Butters. :P
Posted: May 28th, 2011, 03:02 PM
Quote from Makar on May 28th, 2011, 02:48 PM
Will the organized support of the national versions?
Short answer: no.

Long answer: if the community requests for something and it makes sense, then yes they'll get it. But right now I'm developing for myself and about a dozen other people (i.e. those who give me feedback over my work.) And they all speak English fluently, so there's no point for it. As a rule of thumb: if it takes time to do and it's no fun and nothing justifies doing it, then we won't do it. We're not the 'SMF Team' who strive to be seen as 'professionals' but never release a thing. We're doing our thing for ourselves. If it ends up being a hit, then we'll devote some time into building something of a community. Right now, it's for Wedge friends and enthusiasts. And it'll be less pressure to us, too.
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Other software / Re: SMF 2.0 final THIS MONTH?
« on May 28th, 2011, 12:39 PM »
I don't find it ridiculous. There are some bugs that are easy to overcome (or simply don't occur that often), which in some case is preferable to moving forward with a flawed fix.

What I find ridiculous, however:
- getting a bug report for something that happens a lot + a perfectly working fix, and not applying it....
- constantly insisting that you'll fix everything (when clearly this problem has already caused your software to be delayed by 3 years...)
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Features / Re: New revs
« on May 27th, 2011, 11:12 PM »
rev 790
(1 file, 6kb)

! Don't animate menus if the mouse cursor exits the menu zone and immediately comes back to it through the same menu entry. (script.js)

* Some code optimization to help minification... Although, funny story, it fares worse in the gzipping stage. Yay. (script.js)
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Features / Re: New revs
« on May 27th, 2011, 10:17 PM »
rev 789
(61 files, 44kb)

+ Added $context['session_query'] = $context['session_var'] . '=' . $context['session_id'], which should save some valuable CPU time concatenating these strings into URLs... There were over 300 occurrences to modify. (Load.php and all other files in this commit. Should allow for an easy mass-revert in case problems arise.)

(As per our discussion a few weeks ago!)
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Off-topic / Re: Kung Fu Panda 2 (Possible Spoilers)
« on May 27th, 2011, 09:45 PM »
I'll be waiting for the video release... Liked the first one more than I expected, but don't know if I would watch it again.
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Features: Security / Re: Dynamic CAPTCHAs
« on May 27th, 2011, 10:56 AM »
We could however set a delay to a couple of seconds. I suppose some bots could fill in a form and crack the captcha instantly, while a human definitely can't...
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Features / Re: New revs
« on May 26th, 2011, 11:33 PM »
rev 787
(1 file, 4kb) (actually just an if() test added...)

! Well, in the end, I STILL get to re-introduce an IE7 hack... Glitch otherwise happens when opening an item without resizing it, and showing a multi-line description. Stupid hasLayout! (zoomedia.js)
Posted: May 26th, 2011, 11:26 PM

rev 788
(1 file, 5kb) (just reverting the previous addition, and moving a line around...)

! I really must insist on removing these hacks, sir... Just hoping I'm not breaking Firefox 3.5.7 beta 2 for Ubuntu 1.03 alpha 7 by doing this. I've seen stranger things you know. (zoomedia.js)
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Other software / Re: SMF 2.0 final THIS MONTH?
« on May 26th, 2011, 10:30 PM »
Same thought.
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Features: Theming / Re: WeCSS: the Wedge CSS parser
« on May 26th, 2011, 10:29 PM »
It never will and it's for the best. Just like jQuery for JS, we need a higher level library for CSS and that what wecss is aiming to be!
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Features: Posts & Topics / Re: Automatic Quote splitter
« on May 26th, 2011, 10:27 PM »
Thanks :)
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Features / Re: New revs
« on May 26th, 2011, 11:50 AM »
rev 786
(7 files, 11kb)

+ Added support for 'glass' outline type in Zoomedia. It's also enabled by default, at least for now. (Aeva-Gallery.php, Aeva-Gallery2.php, Aeva-Subs-Vital.php, Media.language.php, zoom.css)

! Zoomedia didn't comply with the expand duration variable. Also made sure to change its default from 250 to 800ms. Let's enjoy these animations, shan't we? (Aeva-Gallery2.php, Aeva-Subs-Vital.php, zoomedia.js)

! Found the reason for the IE7 bug... 'overflow: hidden' triggers hasLayout and messes up with its width. Setting it to hidden after calculating the width does the trick. (zoomedia.js, zoom.css)

! Zoom out animation wasn't correctly resetting the overflow value either. (zoomedia.js)

- Removed a debug line. (zoomedia.js)

- Removed closeOnClick option (will never be used, seriously.) (zoomedia.js)

NB: the new trick is tested in IE6, IE7, IE8 and Firefox 5. Haven't tried in other browsers... Please do it for me? :angel:

NB²: do you like it if I separate the changelog lines with extra line breaks like on this page...? Is it more readable or just not worth it?
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Features / Re: New revs
« on May 25th, 2011, 03:27 PM »
rev 785
(3 files, 5kb)

+ Added two tentative new hooks in the topic display loop: display_prepare_post and display_post_done. (Display.php)

! Some of the user menu code was prepared even if no menu was to be displayed. (Display.php)

! Some browser still had issues with the sidebar transmorphing code. (index.css)

- I don't see any reasons to add a meta description that's exactly the same as the page title. Waste of bandwidth. (index.template.php)
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Features / Re: New revs
« on May 25th, 2011, 03:24 PM »
I'm committing in three small thematic batches -- if it's any more readable...

rev 784
(2 files, 7kb)

! Made sure that // comments in CSS files are stripped if they're at the beginning of a line, regardless what they're followed by. (Subs-Cache.php)

* Prevented jQuery from being re-minified. Saves processing time and gives better results. (Subs-Cache.php, jquery-1.5.2.js)