Posted on 04/08/2008 3:05:23 AM PDT by John Robinson
Just installed a quick change to the pings page. It brings it more in line with what it is expected to look like. One particular change is the "greening" of comments from you, to more easily differentiate something you've posted vs. something posted to you. Not so sure about the way that looks, so please give me feedback.
With this update the tabs on the pings page get memory: the page will remember the last tab you have selected. This tab memory will be extended across the board. I'm currently reworking the 'tag' index pages to accommodate this.
I'm also trying something new with regard to time. We will try using your computer's clock to set the time zone. This uses JavaScript, if you don't have JavaScript enabled you'll see "04/08/2008 2:31:48 AM PDT" (etc), but if you do you'll probably see something more like "Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:31:48 AM" [for an eastern time zone.] I'm leaving it up to your computer to format the time stamp, so your experience may vary. These new time stamps will be extended across the board as I update the hundreds of locations where the time is displayed.
The very next update (probably a day or two away) will stomp out the last of the "More" bugs, enhance the search function, and quite possibly extend the 'manage blocks' page with new blocks and a better interface to select them.
In future updates we'll have the ability to add multiple pages to our profiles. And each page will be versioned-- you'll be able to restore previous versions of a page should something go horribly, horribly wrong. This is actually a precursor to a larger project, which will allow multiple people to collaborate on website projects. Think of a profile page on steroids, complete with custom sidebars, an upload area (images, possibly sound clips) and whatnot.
On the less visible side of things, I will be consolidating the internals quite a bit... we've managed to gather similar functionality across a large number of programs. I'd very much like to tidy that up. For example, there are 4 or 5 different 'thread programs' used on the site, each with their own posting programs, etc (example: the state boards.) It would make my day if I could bundle up all these distinct functions into one place. The presentation-- how you will see things-- may be different for each type of thread, but the underlying data structures and logic (and routines like spell check) will be consolidated. This will be a huge change to the internals (if only because I'll be fiddling with 50+ million comments in our database.) Once that is implemented we'll have editable comments and articles.
Anyway, somebody shut me up, I'm rambling now.
Currently have the new index code (aka Latest Posts) installed. Tabs have memory, next time you visit you'll see the last tab you had visited. Additionally, each tab on the index page remembers its brevity setting. So you can have articles with text, and activity and comments with headers only, if that is what you prefer.
I moved the "RSS" link and sidebar control (now called "Add to My Page") down to the bottom of the page. Just really didn't need to take up precious top real-estate for those things.
Currently "Add to My Page" is non-functional, you'll get the manage blocks page but the current listing will not be added as a block. And some of the "More" links are still bugged. Those are the next tasks.
Thanks for the heads up on that score. Tried dinking with it before and gave up in frustration. Maybe things are easier now.
Ok, think the cascade is fixed now. Had an open tag in certain configurations of the options.
I fixed the exceptions.
Thanks for your kind words and especially all your kind labors.
My feeble words you’re always welcome to.
Prayers ongoing for JimRob.
What a splendid prayer! Thank you! I don’t have time right now, but I’ll Personal Message you later about my dear Vanya’s struggles -— and his strengths.
Thanks, John. I really like the ‘Mark all as read’ along with the ‘New Pings’ / ‘All Pings’ tab.
The marquee tag? Evil! I may open up the HTML restrictions on profile pages... somewhat.
for this url, -http://beta.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index, im getting this
Sorry, an error occurred. The error has been logged.Still receiving this
I like it, good job!
Thanks John!!
Ok, it’s really fixed now. I think. Um. I hope.
It’s not hard, mostly it’s that things are placed differently than in the other browsers. I like the ‘Panel’ that aligns along the left side and has icons for bookmarks, contacts, notes, transfers (downloads), history, etc. Clicking on an icon will open that vertical panel. Clicking it again closes it, allowing for a more open window. Also, tabs can be tiled or cascaded nicely.
The only problem I have so far is the ‘Rewind’ icon on the main toolbar. Instead of going to the initial window for that tab (for example ‘Home’), it goes to the base page of the most recent website visited. You have to keep keying it to get back to square one.
Along with that same issue, I’ve noticed that when I open my Comcast mail in the same tab as my home page (Comcast), I can’t return to my home page using the ‘Rewind’ or ‘Back’ icons. I’ve gotten around that by opening my Comcast mail in a separate tab, then closing it out when finished.
It seems that as much as a browser may have going for it, there’s always something to complain about...
Your hoping it works worked. Nice.
Thanks thanks.
Sounds interesting.
True, true.
Especially on Mircoslop foundations.
Yup. Good on Mozilla.
And yes marquee is most evil.
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Thanks John. That would be great. Hope the marquee will be one of them though. Why is it "Evil"?
Any chance you can get a quote box as some forums have, eliminating the cut & pasting and <i) we have to do?
The Marquee and the blink tags are one of the most obnoxious tags ever approved by the W3C. May they parish a long and permanent stay in deprecation. Now if we can get the browsers to ignore them and show them as mere inline tags.
Like your maid - very lively. ;)
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