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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on May 22nd, 2011, 04:30 PM »
Actually the actor is Scottish and he only refrained himself from using his accent when shooting ;)
Tennant isn't particularly exciting in the beginning, but he'll grow on you, don't worry. If only with Blink, Silence in the Library, and the ending to Waters of Mars. (That's where I definitely thought, "unbeatable actor for the Doctor." Too bad he was about to leave!)
Tennant isn't particularly exciting in the beginning, but he'll grow on you, don't worry. If only with Blink, Silence in the Library, and the ending to Waters of Mars. (That's where I definitely thought, "unbeatable actor for the Doctor." Too bad he was about to leave!)
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Features: Miscellaneous / Re: What's a hook?
« on May 22nd, 2011, 04:26 PM »
Hmm, makes me think we should add hooks at post preparation time...
If only to enable mods to add their own entries into the user menu, things like that.
If only to enable mods to add their own entries into the user menu, things like that.
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FAQs / [FAQ] Re: Why are there so many features? / Isn't that bloated?
« on May 22nd, 2011, 04:16 PM »My first post here, and I am already impressed by the amount of work that has already been done to improve on SMF. Personally I have used SMF for about 6 years, with each version release I am frustrated by the lack of excitement from new features, functionality etc - I end up questioning whether the upgrade time I had spent testing/implementing was really worth it.
In my opinion, you can never have too many features and so I'm feeling really positive about Wedge being packed full of them! My only hesitation with 'featured' apps is that features get neglected, so long as each piece of functionality is kept up to date, I suspect that Wedge will be the most popular PHP forum on the net!
Aeva Media still needed some work, so I didn't abandon it -- I just moved it to the Wedge platform, because I was certainly no longer going to work for the benefit of the SMF platform after all the time I wasted helping it.
Having read the background behind the formation of Wedge, I'm rather disappointed with the SMF team for kicking out two guys (even if Nao can be a controversial character :D)
The reason why they kicked me out is because I started going public about what most people knew -- that vblamer45 was a real talent-less money-hungry jerk. I think there's some kind of understanding among the SMF team that he's untouchable or something. Every time someone wanted him to be kicked out of the team, they got kicked instead. I have to say -- such consideration for a jerk is impressive. Not commendable, but impressive.
Anyway -- in these situations, the only things you can do are to either just give up, or do your own thing by yourself. I was lucky enough to have Pete join me on this endeavor.
As for the flame wars that made my name -- again, not controversial at all. I'm just making my points against jerks, be they nazi sympathizers or plain, simple clueless nincopoomps. Just because I care about freedom of speech, doesn't mean I will let people say stupid things without any reaction.
that have clearly contributed massively to the codebase and evolution of SMF - I wonder whether their v2.0 Final will be rejoiced, or rejected by their fanbase.
p.s. great domain name!!
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Features / Re: New revs
« on May 22nd, 2011, 08:17 AM »
rev 780
(4 files, 10kb)
* Zoomedia now properly resizes a zoom box to the viewport height when needed, and gets rid of the description to save space. (zoomedia.js)
* The aelink class is no longer a class for links but for the link container in item descriptions. Cleaner this way. (Subs-Media.php, media.css)
* Avatar selection code was too big when it could be done in 5 lines. Uh. (Profile.template.php)
* Server-based avatar selection box was too large. Now it should be better integrated. (Profile.template.php)
(4 files, 10kb)
* Zoomedia now properly resizes a zoom box to the viewport height when needed, and gets rid of the description to save space. (zoomedia.js)
* The aelink class is no longer a class for links but for the link container in item descriptions. Cleaner this way. (Subs-Media.php, media.css)
* Avatar selection code was too big when it could be done in 5 lines. Uh. (Profile.template.php)
* Server-based avatar selection box was too large. Now it should be better integrated. (Profile.template.php)
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on May 22nd, 2011, 07:53 AM »
Ah, Eccleston was so cool... Nice first season. But the show really gets cult status IMO around the end of season 3. At that point it becomes something like, 'there have been so many good episodes so far, let's hope the next one doesn't disappoint in comparison!'
Breaking Bad is 'hardcore'? I've never watched the show but how different could it be from Weeds, for instance? (I've only watched the first Weeds episode and no BB because, well... I'm not interested in the subject.)
Breaking Bad is 'hardcore'? I've never watched the show but how different could it be from Weeds, for instance? (I've only watched the first Weeds episode and no BB because, well... I'm not interested in the subject.)
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Off-topic / Re: Everyone Hiding?
« on May 22nd, 2011, 12:22 AM »
Hint: it's not in my butt. (Thankfully.)
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Features / Re: New revs
« on May 22nd, 2011, 12:18 AM »
rev 779
(17 files, 26kb)
! rev 778 didn't use westr::htmlspecialchars where needed. (Packages.php, Subs-Members.php)
! A $_POST was being tested after checking whether the corresponding $_REQUEST was set. (Subs-Login.php)
* French translation. (Errors.french.php, index.french.php, Modlog.french.php, Profile.french.php)
* I thought I'd optimized all of the labels... Apparently not. I'm just doing this one okay? (Profile.template.php)
! $.length() doesn't work. It's $.length, not a function. Also optimized code for compressed size. (topic.js)
! Button strips don't have child divs, they use unordered lists. Also, the default class for them is floatleft, not floatbottom. (topic.js)
! User box user names were being shown on top of zoom boxes. (sections.css, zoom.css)
! Removed useless right padding from stat months/days. Way better in small resolutions. (sections.css)
! It's add-on, not package. I think. (Modlog.english.php)
* Spacinazi. (ManageServer.php, Aeva-Gallery.php, Profile-Modify.php, index.language.php)
* Ugly CSS. (ManagePermissions.template.php)
Please read the changelog above and review the code fixes!
(17 files, 26kb)
! rev 778 didn't use westr::htmlspecialchars where needed. (Packages.php, Subs-Members.php)
! A $_POST was being tested after checking whether the corresponding $_REQUEST was set. (Subs-Login.php)
* French translation. (Errors.french.php, index.french.php, Modlog.french.php, Profile.french.php)
* I thought I'd optimized all of the labels... Apparently not. I'm just doing this one okay? (Profile.template.php)
! $.length() doesn't work. It's $.length, not a function. Also optimized code for compressed size. (topic.js)
! Button strips don't have child divs, they use unordered lists. Also, the default class for them is floatleft, not floatbottom. (topic.js)
! User box user names were being shown on top of zoom boxes. (sections.css, zoom.css)
! Removed useless right padding from stat months/days. Way better in small resolutions. (sections.css)
! It's add-on, not package. I think. (Modlog.english.php)
* Spacinazi. (ManageServer.php, Aeva-Gallery.php, Profile-Modify.php, index.language.php)
* Ugly CSS. (ManagePermissions.template.php)
Please read the changelog above and review the code fixes!
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The Pub / Re: Front Page Something other than a board listing.
« on May 21st, 2011, 11:36 PM »
Template overrides aren't needed per se-- could simply be a page pulled through SSI.php.
Wedge.org currently uses the same method as Noisen though: I hacked into BoardIndex.template.php to show my custom stuff in it. It's a bit ugly and won't be done this way in Wedge, of course.
Thing is, Dragooon is working on a portal for Wedge right now, and I do see myself including it in Wedge eventually -- he's a capable coder and honestly I could do with extra developers because it seems like it's never going to end for me, eheh.
So, we'll have to see.
Wedge.org currently uses the same method as Noisen though: I hacked into BoardIndex.template.php to show my custom stuff in it. It's a bit ugly and won't be done this way in Wedge, of course.
Thing is, Dragooon is working on a portal for Wedge right now, and I do see myself including it in Wedge eventually -- he's a capable coder and honestly I could do with extra developers because it seems like it's never going to end for me, eheh.
So, we'll have to see.
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Off-topic / Re: Everyone Hiding?
« on May 21st, 2011, 11:31 PM »8861
Off-topic / Re: Everyone Hiding?
« on May 21st, 2011, 10:07 PM »
Daily stats are for all boards ;)
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on May 21st, 2011, 09:24 PM »
Double episode so I'll wait till next week.
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Off-topic / Re: Everyone Hiding?
« on May 21st, 2011, 06:53 PM »
Good for you. It's past 6PM here in France so I hope it didn't spend all of my money partying for nothing!
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FAQs / [FAQ] Re: Why are there so many features? / Isn't that bloated?
« on May 21st, 2011, 04:46 PM »
Yes it is. Everything we removed is documented I believe. Karma etc.
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Features / Re: New revs
« on May 21st, 2011, 03:23 PM »
rev 777
(8 files, 23kb)
* Rewrote most of Zoomedia to make it more solid across all browsers, especially when it comes to the double click behavior, and making sure any CSS changes to zoom box padding won't affect the JS code. (zoomedia.js, media.css, media.opera.css, zoom.css)
* CSS details. (other/wip/text-overflow.js, post.js, script.js)
* Saving a few bytes at compression time. (topic.js)
@ Left to fix: zoom box descriptions in small viewports. I don't really know how to fix... I was thinking of 'simply' resizing the box to make it fit *and* keep the description height the same (otherwise it will overflow), but come to think of it, it'd probably be smarter to actually hide the description because we could use that size, and simply show a "Details" link along with some indication that it has a description.
What do you think?
(8 files, 23kb)
* Rewrote most of Zoomedia to make it more solid across all browsers, especially when it comes to the double click behavior, and making sure any CSS changes to zoom box padding won't affect the JS code. (zoomedia.js, media.css, media.opera.css, zoom.css)
* CSS details. (other/wip/text-overflow.js, post.js, script.js)
* Saving a few bytes at compression time. (topic.js)
@ Left to fix: zoom box descriptions in small viewports. I don't really know how to fix... I was thinking of 'simply' resizing the box to make it fit *and* keep the description height the same (otherwise it will overflow), but come to think of it, it'd probably be smarter to actually hide the description because we could use that size, and simply show a "Details" link along with some indication that it has a description.
What do you think?