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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
We've got a fair amount of people who have webspace of their own. Surely we can get some volunteers and spread the archived threads around so no one person takes too big of a hit.
Now, once we start having to archive Phoenix Board threads, that's probably going to put a dent in searchability, but it's still doable, right?
I have webspace I'm not yet using, because I'm lazy and haven't shifted my site to it. I think I've got 200 megs and a fair amount of bandwidth.
I stand corrected. Dammit.
Re: tagline-character-counting scripts:
we need to have it count hard returns as two characters, not one.
But I fixed that ages ago.
I put a version up for testing at [link] a few days ago.
It gives annoying messages, but just for debugging purposes. It finds the length, then checks for returns and adds one to the length variable for each one it finds.
I just would like it tested on Windows and *NIX computers because I'm not quite sure what "\\r" means on other platforms. We might need to use ("\\r" or "\\n") for instance.
Did you tell me you'd done that? Last I heard, you said you were going to do it. I'll check it out.
It's not working on my Windows ME machine. It's still treating returns as one character.
Correction: It's doing something in IE, but not in Mozilla.
Sorry about the confusion. From memory, I said something ambiguous like "want to check it out?".
It's not working on my Windows ME machine. It's still treating returns as one character.
OK so if you put in text with returns, it says "original length x", and then the next dialog that appears says "adjusted length x"?
OK I'm looking at it in Mozilla too and you're right, it doesn't see any linebreaks.
I'll tweak it.