Site Updates - Aug/Sept 2007

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Socoder -> Off Topic -> Site Updates - Aug/Sept 2007
Sun, 05 Aug 2007, 07:44
Jayenkai	I'll keep track of these, so I don't forget! 1) Want a subdomain-esque thing for peeps to visit? https://Socoder.net/YourUserName eg Jayenkai! Redirects to your Blog page, where I've also added your 15 latest Showcases, too. 1.b) Want a nice URL for a Workshop entry? https://Socoder.net/Workshop/Name of Workshop Entry eg TileSlam Not much use for that one, but this new ability will be added to other things in due time, so look forward to other additions.. 2) Added "Pages" onto blogs, so you can see older entries! 3) Background stuff to make everything run (hopefully!) a little swifter. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sun, 05 Aug 2007, 14:09
TheMadProff	Nice, thanks Jay... Now I'll have to think about something to write about -=-=- ''It works, but I'm not sure why it works...''
Thu, 09 Aug 2007, 06:22
Jayenkai	Frontpage tweaked to make the Pick of the Week's higher up. I shrank the 7 item news down to just 2 (since there's never any news!) and added a More News link for people who inexplicably want to read old news! There's now a Preview button. Nearly works, but is slightly dodgy with the [[code]] BBCode! Typical! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sun, 12 Aug 2007, 19:03
Forklift_Fred	Well it's nice to come back off holiday and see a couple of positive changes for a change Last year I went back to work and my office had been reorganised I've kind of missed the preview option at times so a big thank you from me -=-=- Come rain or shine...
Mon, 13 Aug 2007, 02:45
Jayenkai	Quick search added. Uses the Google Search API. Nothing fancy, just a quick search, hence it's name. I'll get round to doing a proper search sometime. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Fri, 14 Sep 2007, 15:23
Forklift_Fred	Is the [Code] issue going to be sorted in the Preview? I only ask because I was trying to do some ASCII art for the "Block Breaker Block Collisions" thread but it didn't work so I made an image. Then Teasy did it and I remembered your comment here... If I know that it will work, despite what the preview shows then I'll happily go ahead in future but it's a bit off putting when a preview fails. Or maybe add "[Code] boxes will not show correctly until posted" after the Preview link? Just a couple of thoughts -=-=- Come rain or shine...
Fri, 14 Sep 2007, 15:33
Jayenkai	That a good idea, actually. I might cheat and do it that way I'd actually forgotten that the bug existed, so I might have a play around with it tonight.. See if I can get it sorted/cheat my way to ignoring it. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Sat, 15 Sep 2007, 11:08
Teasy	Actually, for me, at the moment, the Preview thingy does work a bit, or at least good enough to see what it'll kinda look like. ( Although I use UED for ASCII art ) But sometimes you have to click the Preview button twice in succession to make everything show up. It does put those extra <br> tags in code boxes, and an extra line between each line (like the <br> tag), but just imagine these are not there.. I can imagine the code for this 'bug' in the Preview feature, so fixing this will probably not be that hard.
Tue, 18 Sep 2007, 02:28
Jayenkai	Code/Preview Bug (hopefully) resolved. Also, I found this nice Image Resizer on a forum, today, so figured it'd be nice here. Had to do a bit of tweaking to get it working right, but I got there in the end. Slight drawback, when you shrink the image afterwards, it doesn't rescale the tables in all browsers, (Firefox!?) so things look a bit untidy afterwards.. Still, it's not the worst thing in the world, and it saves having to keep right clicking all the images! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Tue, 18 Sep 2007, 09:08
mike_g	For me when this page loads. The book is drawn unscaled, it then takes some time for it to shrink. I'm using firefox here.
Tue, 18 Sep 2007, 09:16
HoboBen	You could just use some max-width CSS tags to start with perhaps, which might solve mike's problem. I have to cook dinner now. Fun. -=-=- blog \| work \| code \| more code
Tue, 18 Sep 2007, 09:26
Phoenix	Or you can add some Javascript. When the user clicks the full-view link, you store the width of the table: var table = document.getElementById( 'theForumTableName' ); var tableWidth = table.offsetWidth; --v When the image is shrinked again you do this: table.style.width = tableWidth; --v
Tue, 18 Sep 2007, 13:34
Forklift_Fred	For me when this page loads. The book is drawn unscaled, it then takes some time for it to shrink. I'm using firefox here. I think that's how it works: Opens it full size then scales it down. The delay may just be the time taken to finish loading the whole page? I can confirm that it works 100% in Opera and 90% in Firefox. That is to say, it loads full size then scales nicely but, as you say, after expanding and contracting the table stays oversized. And yes, the preview now works Thanks Jay! -=-=- Come rain or shine...
Tue, 18 Sep 2007, 14:07
Phoenix	[code ] Test [/code] This won't work. [code ] Preview [/code] --- Try to preview the above (without the spaces, duh). It doesn't look quite right. I'm a real pain in the ass, ain't I?
Wed, 19 Sep 2007, 13:02
Forklift_Fred	Interesting variation. Preview: Post: I actually prefer it in the preview manner! At least the contents of the boxes is right though. -=-=- Come rain or shine...
Wed, 19 Sep 2007, 14:55
Jayenkai	I think I'll just dump a huge "Preview don't work very goodly" notice on, and have done with it! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Wed, 19 Sep 2007, 15:02
Phoenix	That's odd, Forklift_Fred. It doesn't look that way on my computer. On my computer only the 'Test' will show up; no code boxes or anything else.
Wed, 19 Sep 2007, 18:24
Forklift_Fred	Perfect! Inconsistency! The W3C thrives on it Browser? Mine's FireFox. May be a caches CSS thing... I am starting to guess now though! -=-=- Come rain or shine...
Thu, 20 Sep 2007, 08:17
Phoenix	I found the problem; it comes when you click preview multiple times. I'm also using Firefox, but that doesn't matter since it's an issue with the script.