Mal: Does she understand that? River: She understands. She doesn't comprehend.

'Objects In Space'


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Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.


Topic!Cindy - Aug 30, 2005 2:36:18 pm PDT #457 of 4671
What is even happening?

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.


§ ita § - Aug 30, 2005 2:37:49 pm PDT #458 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Topic!Cindy - Aug 30, 2005 2:39:47 pm PDT #459 of 4671
What is even happening?

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


Topic!Cindy - Aug 30, 2005 2:48:27 pm PDT #460 of 4671
What is even happening?

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.


§ ita § - Aug 30, 2005 6:00:27 pm PDT #461 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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?


Kristen - Aug 30, 2005 7:08:38 pm PDT #462 of 4671

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


Eddie - Aug 30, 2005 7:17:01 pm PDT #463 of 4671
Your tag here.

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.


Eddie - Aug 30, 2005 7:23:22 pm PDT #464 of 4671
Your tag here.

Oh, and if we're discussing folder iconography, I would think a couple stakes instead of a triangle would be more thematically appropriate.

Also, why not "Dusted Threads" instead of "Closed Threads"? Maybe that's too cute. Sorry, it's the chocolate malt talking.


DXMachina - Aug 31, 2005 3:20:56 am PDT #465 of 4671
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

One thing we still need is a way to search for a user name by their e-mail address in the admins interface.


§ ita § - Aug 31, 2005 3:58:05 am PDT #466 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

We still need a lot of things ... my biggest beef right now is the tag closing code. What we have now is better than nothing, but it frells up the HTML with abandon. Just in a less destructive way.

That's what I was going to parse out.

I know the larger font is a good idea, but I don't feel people fiending for it.

As for the searching for e-mail addresses -- it is important, but can be mitigated for th emoment by routing all those requests to me and I can poke through the database.

I'm thinking we should have an admin page, where all our sundry links are collected, so that left column doesn't get too long.

The other thing I'm jonesing on is cleaning up the CSS and removing much of the deprecated formatting in our HTML. DX, you can't really get your font stuff without that, and I know you want that muchly.