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Other software / Re: SMF 2.0 final THIS MONTH?
« on May 7th, 2011, 08:42 AM »I would say it depends. I see that my normal gifs (not animated) are sometimes bigger than the png counterparts. I lol'd about that bug report. But honestly, does that even count as a bug? :hmm:
GIFs are usually bigger than the PNG equivalent (especially PNG-8). But not that much. Usually, big GIFs are caused by unoptimized palette handling. Just look at how SmushIt can reduce a GIF size by half sometimes. Also, the original reason for going PNG instead of GIF was because of the patent around GIF. Well, it no longer is an issue, since the patent has expired AFAIK.
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Other software / Re: SMF 2.0 final THIS MONTH?
« on May 7th, 2011, 07:54 AM »
Who are you talking about?
(oh and the post you linked is by LexArma. He's here, too!)
(oh and the post you linked is by LexArma. He's here, too!)
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Features: Theming / Re: New theme
« on May 7th, 2011, 07:49 AM »
Yeah screenshots are a possibility. I'll do them after the feature list is done. Or so.
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Features: Forward thinking / Re: MySQL only!
« on May 7th, 2011, 07:47 AM »
Okay... Technicalities came to our help for once ;)
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Features: Forward thinking / Re: MySQL only!
« on May 7th, 2011, 12:32 AM »
Yeah, SMF's implementation of a user-defined find_in_set was pretty funny...
Had forgotten about the Sqlite stuff. How exactly did the PHP/MySQL duo manage to survive the PHP license change then? I don't remember ever using mysqli_* mysqlelf...
Had forgotten about the Sqlite stuff. How exactly did the PHP/MySQL duo manage to survive the PHP license change then? I don't remember ever using mysqli_* mys
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Features: Forward thinking / Re: MySQL only!
« on May 7th, 2011, 12:05 AM »
I guess it's mostly a matter of saying, "look, we support everything and everyone". Or perhaps the dev in charge of SQlite integration was himself playing with SQlite at the time. Or something. It just doesn't add up...
Plus, the simple fact that SMF requires an *empty* parameter[1] at the beginning of query lines has always been preposterous to me. It doesn't help anyone. At all.
Plus, the simple fact that SMF requires an *empty* parameter[1] at the beginning of query lines has always been preposterous to me. It doesn't help anyone. At all.
| 1. | Used only in a few internal queries... |
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Features: Forward thinking / Re: UTF8 only!
« on May 6th, 2011, 09:29 PM »
Yep, hopefully it will handle everything, including Aeva Media fields. (Which, amusingly, were always in ISO-8859 because at the time I didn't get a thing about UTF... It was my kryptonite... Now it's my slave!) (Well, maybe not my slave, but at least it respects me.)
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Features / Re: New revs
« on May 6th, 2011, 07:39 PM »
rev 762
(1 file +1, 95kb)
* Now using jQuery 1.6 instead of 1.4.4. Keeping the old file in the SVN for now, we never know. (Load.php, jquery-1.6.js)
(What? I'll show the SMF guys I can do single-file commits, too! :niark:)
(1 file +1, 95kb)
* Now using jQuery 1.6 instead of 1.4.4. Keeping the old file in the SVN for now, we never know. (Load.php, jquery-1.6.js)
(What? I'll show the SMF guys I can do single-file commits, too! :niark:)
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Features: Miscellaneous / Feed links
« on May 6th, 2011, 07:33 PM »
Feature: Feed links
Developer: Arantor & Nao
Target: users
Status: 90% (some links don't work. Needs further investigation.)
Comment:
Inspired by the Noisen implementation of blogs, we added these feed links in the sidebar (as well as support for topic subscription.)
You'll always see at least two links for the entire site: latest posts, and latest topics. Then, if you're inside a board, you'll get additional links for latest posts & latest topics in that board. Visit a topic page and you'll get another additional link for latest posts in that topic.
:edit: Wedge now links to Atom feeds by default. They're as widely supported as RSS 1 nowadays, and are generally better in every respect. Support for Webslices and smf custom feeds has been removed, due to lack of interest from both users and developers.
Developer: Arantor & Nao
Target: users
Status: 90% (some links don't work. Needs further investigation.)
Comment:
Inspired by the Noisen implementation of blogs, we added these feed links in the sidebar (as well as support for topic subscription.)
You'll always see at least two links for the entire site: latest posts, and latest topics. Then, if you're inside a board, you'll get additional links for latest posts & latest topics in that board. Visit a topic page and you'll get another additional link for latest posts in that topic.
:edit: Wedge now links to Atom feeds by default. They're as widely supported as RSS 1 nowadays, and are generally better in every respect. Support for Webslices and smf custom feeds has been removed, due to lack of interest from both users and developers.
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Features: BBCode / More tag
« on May 6th, 2011, 07:32 PM »
Feature: More tag
Developer: Arantor & Nao
Target: users
Status: 100% (believed to be complete.)
Comment:
The [more] BBC tag can be used to set a clear break between a post's introduction and its main body. If present, the post will be cut at the more tag whenever it's shown outside the actual topic page (including RSS feeds.) Very useful for blog posts. Or whatever, really.
Developer: Arantor & Nao
Target: users
Status: 100% (believed to be complete.)
Comment:
The [more] BBC tag can be used to set a clear break between a post's introduction and its main body. If present, the post will be cut at the more tag whenever it's shown outside the actual topic page (including RSS feeds.) Very useful for blog posts. Or whatever, really.
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Features: Posts & Topics / Auto-embedding
« on May 6th, 2011, 07:31 PM »
Feature: Auto-embedding
Developer: Nao
Target: users
Status: 99% (completed. By its nature, the site list will need updates to keep up with the web's evolution.)
Comment:
Based on Aeva Lite, this is the only auto-embedding tool you'll ever need. (Feel free to disagree, but then again you're free to be stupid :niark:)
There's not much to be said... It's just there, it's enabled by default, it works great with 200+ sites, but most people will know it as "the thing that magically embeds my YouTube videos and Google Maps when I post their URLs." Oh, and yes, it also supports the recent youtu.be URLs.
Developer: Nao
Target: users
Status: 99% (completed. By its nature, the site list will need updates to keep up with the web's evolution.)
Comment:
Based on Aeva Lite, this is the only auto-embedding tool you'll ever need. (Feel free to disagree, but then again you're free to be stupid :niark:)
There's not much to be said... It's just there, it's enabled by default, it works great with 200+ sites, but most people will know it as "the thing that magically embeds my YouTube videos and Google Maps when I post their URLs." Oh, and yes, it also supports the recent youtu.be URLs.
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Features: Security / Dynamic CAPTCHAs
« on May 6th, 2011, 07:31 PM »
Feature: Dynamic CAPTCHAs
Developer: Arantor
Target: users, admins
Status: 100% (complete; by its nature, more captchas will be added in the future as needed.)
Comment:
A captcha is a script that shows an image with usually some text in it, and asks you to confirm what the image says. It's a relatively effective measure taken against spam bots, but it only works as long as bots aren't updated to be able to decrypt the captcha. For that reason, new captchas need to be used as soon as one is found to be ineffective against non-human spam.
Wedge gets around this by implementing a more robust captcha system. It's built as a plug-in system that allows you to write your own captchas, or simply drop in new captchas written by others. One captcha = one file in the captcha folder. As simple as that. Wedge includes 10 new captchas, some of which use animated GIFs built dynamically.
Developer: Arantor
Target: users, admins
Status: 100% (complete; by its nature, more captchas will be added in the future as needed.)
Comment:
A captcha is a script that shows an image with usually some text in it, and asks you to confirm what the image says. It's a relatively effective measure taken against spam bots, but it only works as long as bots aren't updated to be able to decrypt the captcha. For that reason, new captchas need to be used as soon as one is found to be ineffective against non-human spam.
Wedge gets around this by implementing a more robust captcha system. It's built as a plug-in system that allows you to write your own captchas, or simply drop in new captchas written by others. One captcha = one file in the captcha folder. As simple as that. Wedge includes 10 new captchas, some of which use animated GIFs built dynamically.
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Features: Theming / New theme
« on May 6th, 2011, 07:30 PM »
Feature: New theme
Developer: Nao
Target: everyone
Status: 100% (complete; details are updated as I feel like it.)
Comment:
Gone are Core, Babylon, Classic and Curve. None of SMF's themes had our preference. So we took the (pretty good) Curve codebase and built a new default theme upon it, using HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery.
Its main goal is to be easily extensible, which is achieved through the new Skins feature. See below, as well as the 'Forward thinking' section. Wedge's theme is both beautiful and has the cleanest possible code.
Developer: Nao
Target: everyone
Status: 100% (complete; details are updated as I feel like it.)
Comment:
Gone are Core, Babylon, Classic and Curve. None of SMF's themes had our preference. So we took the (pretty good) Curve codebase and built a new default theme upon it, using HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery.
Its main goal is to be easily extensible, which is achieved through the new Skins feature. See below, as well as the 'Forward thinking' section. Wedge's theme is both beautiful and has the cleanest possible code.