Eddie "Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!" Aug 25, 2005 6:08:32 pm PDT

As noted above, I'm volunteering to code for B.org.

Eddie, I suggest you use the email admins link and send them a reminder, as posts about helping might get lost in the postings shuffle (especially if they are very busy with lives and stuff). I'm sure they appreciate your willingness to assist/code.

Is anyone else having trouble with the "Jump to the first post on this date:" function? The month and day fields are there. But the day field has no number nor space. When I click the down arrow, an empty box pops up.

Is that happening anywhere other than natter?

Eddie -- let me look at the task list and see what you might be able to help with.

ita, I just checked a few threads, and it seems normal (here, Bitches, Buffy&Angel, Great Write) everywhere else I've looked.

The Veronica Mars thread has the same problem, ita. They're both pretty new threads. I don't know why I felt compelled to point that out, I just did.

Other threads I've checked, that are okay:

Music; F2F, Literary; Tech; Jossverse; Sang Sacre; Fan Fiction II; Book Club; UnAmerican; Buffista Fic 2; Movies; Boxed Set; Minearverse; Firefly; LotR; Spoilers; Lost; Spoilage Lite; Firefly Spoilers; and all of the right hand threads.

I'll have a look, Cindy. Thanks for the research.

So .. it's the triangles, then? Circles? Squares? Something that doesn't mean anything else?

Are we talking about the folders again? Because I'm still anti-triangle.

ita,

Thank you for giving me the chance to work on the site. I appreciate the trust involved and will do my best to provide good quality product that will make everyone's experience enjoyable.

I took a look through the Buffista Requests and found a project that would serve well as a trial/initiation project and should be fairly trivial to implement.

It's the large font type for the compose box to aid visually impaired people. ita "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Dec 22, 2004 3:38:48 pm PST Not all browsers will increase the font size of the compose box (IE in particular), so it's necessary to code the capability.

What I propose to do is add a field to the member profile table called comp_font (composition font) which will be an unsigned tinyint (0-255) and the default value will be 10. This field will be made available via the Set Profile page. The user could set their composition box font (the textarea I'm typing in now) to 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 or 20 via a select box.

The current html for the textarea box would be modified so that the rows and columns would be proportionally increased (or decreased) to accomodate the requested font size (via php magic). The textarea would be implemented like so:

<textarea cols=10 rows=4 style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 30px;">large font</textarea>

I've tried this code in Firefox 1.0.6, IE 6.0.2900 and Opera 8.02 all on XP Home w/ SP2 and it works. I don't have access to other platforms to test.

Please let me know either here or at my email address if this sounds like a good course of action. Thanks again, and I look forward to working with you and the other Admins.