Jon, where were we with the changes to the CSS site? I'm not at my email and I don't remember if there was something I was supposed to be doing.
I kinda want to switch over.
Please...Wesley...why can't I stay?
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§ ita § - Jul 02, 2007 11:11:42 am PDT #1338 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jon B. - Jul 05, 2007 7:32:09 am PDT #1339 of 4673
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Sorry, ita. I saw your post on Monday, but was running out the door and then forgot about it.
If I recall correctly, the only problem I had with the CSS formatting was that if-there-is-a-very-long-string-of-unbroken-text-it- makes-the-columns-overlap-with-each-other-in-some-browsers. Since there are other issues with really long unbroken lines (like horizontal scroll bars) that usually cause the poster or a stompy to fix the offending text anyway, I would say that we can go forward without fixing it.
Ideally, it would be nice to have the separate 2-column CSS separate from the 3-column CSS, but I don't think it's necessary.
t on edit But of course now I can't seem to replicate the problem... Grrr....
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2007 7:37:13 am PDT #1340 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cool.
I'll find a quiet moment to switch things over. Late one night soon, probably.
Jon B. - Jul 05, 2007 7:41:02 am PDT #1341 of 4673
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There's also the quickedit defaults that didn't seem to be consistent with the current site. "b" should default to "strong". I know you disagreed, ita, but I think it's confusing to the user if the default for a "b" shows up as italic.
Also, the "]" indent doesn't seems to do anything.
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2007 7:47:56 am PDT #1342 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The ] is parsed into t blockquote --I have no idea why that's not showing up onscreen.
As for what b parses to--like I said--I don't care enough to fight for it.
Jon B. - Jul 05, 2007 8:26:48 am PDT #1343 of 4673
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The ] is parsed into <blockquote> --I have no idea why that's not showing up onscreen.
I guess that's a bug, then?
As for what b parses to--like I said--I don't care enough to fight for it.
Does not caring mean that you'll change it, or that you can't be bothered to change it?
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2007 8:31:55 am PDT #1344 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I guess that's a bug, then?
A confusing one. I mean, the HTML has t blockquote and t /blockquote in it, and the tag isn't overriden by the CSS as far as I can tell.
As for the t b change--already made.
DXMachina - Jul 05, 2007 9:13:59 am PDT #1345 of 4673
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Note: I fixed a long piece of unbroken text in Jon's post #1338 that was giving me a horizontal scroll bar in Firefox.
Jon B. - Jul 05, 2007 9:32:14 am PDT #1346 of 4673
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I fixed a long piece of unbroken text in Jon's post #1338
Ha!
the blockquote thing is weird. I'll have to compare the b.org source vs. the css.b.net source and see if i can spot any meaningful differences.
Jon B. - Jul 06, 2007 1:05:47 am PDT #1347 of 4673
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ita -- I looked through the source code, and I have no idea why the blockquote tag isn't working on the css server. So I made a small change to the code. In the same way you grepped the ">" to be a cite tag, and then defined "cite" in the stylesheet, I made the "]" quickedit into a dfn tag and added it to the stylesheet.
It was a simple change, but let me know if I did anything stupid.