I'm getting 404's on all those links, ita.
One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up!
Mal ,'War Stories'
Buffistas Building a Better Board ++
Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Sue - Dec 03, 2005 10:55:31 am PST #770 of 4671
hip deep in pie
§ ita § - Dec 03, 2005 10:57:07 am PST #771 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Check again, Sue. I forgot I was posting from the test site. URLs should be good now.
Sue - Dec 03, 2005 11:34:28 am PST #772 of 4671
hip deep in pie
Oooh, it's even more work friendly. I like it.
So, the customization would be limited to certain things, like font and font size right? I couldn't have blood dripping from my B.org logo if I wanted.
§ ita § - Dec 03, 2005 11:40:50 am PST #773 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No, no extra blood!
Actually, my modifications do require an extra graphic, so they're not something one can implement without web space.
The current requests are font and font size. Since my boss once walked up behind me at my desk and asked about "That Buffy show" gesturing to my screen, I thought a graphic free version might be useful too.
But giving a selection of pre-made stylesheets and allowing someone to set their own base font size/style/other small tweaks are two different mechanisms, and I'm not sure how they'd play together.
Eddie - Dec 03, 2005 1:54:52 pm PST #774 of 4671
Your tag here.
Heh: I'm imagining a "Stealth Buffistas" style where you could put in fake graphics and scatter text thoughout the page to make it look like A Study of Rhibosomes in the Human Genome or Apples in the Classroom: Juvenile Kickbacks and the Fairness of the Curved Grading System or CNN.
Gris - Dec 03, 2005 3:03:11 pm PST #775 of 4671
Hey. New board.
I'm taking a glance at the stylesheet and source code now, ita, (at least, the one i got from www.buffistas.org/html/buffista.css) and I'm not seeing how you got rid of the graphics in your personal sheet. A hint to get me started? Mostly just because I like playing with this stuff, not for any particular reason.
§ ita § - Dec 03, 2005 3:26:04 pm PST #776 of 4671
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I didn't do it on this site, D. A bunch of PHP and HTML had to be changed too, so it's in a test environment.
Though -- getting rid of the graphics was easy enough: img {display:none}
Eddie - Dec 03, 2005 4:19:31 pm PST #777 of 4671
Your tag here.
I've noticed fairly frequent double postings. One fix to this problem is to lookup the text of the last post in a thread, take the SHA hash of it and compare it to the SHA hash of the pending post. If they are the same, then don't post the pending message.
SELECT posttext FROM threadtable ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1
if (sha1($posttext) === sha1($newposttext)) die();
Also, the SQL could be tightened up even more by limiting the query to only the user's posts.
Tom Scola - Dec 03, 2005 4:35:16 pm PST #778 of 4671
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Detecting duplicate posts is a race condition. Your method might reduce dupes, but not eliminate them, and it would slow down the board.
P.M. Marc - Dec 05, 2005 5:01:47 pm PST #779 of 4671
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Is anyone else seeing italics overflow starting here?
Ailleann "The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time..." Dec 5, 2005 12:52:19 pm PST
I can't for the life of me see anything in the post that would be causing it.
firefox 1.5 for the Mac.