Good point, DX. I'm assuming they're not and I fixed it.
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Jon B. - Dec 21, 2002 9:28:41 am PST #2204 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
DXMachina - Dec 21, 2002 9:52:38 am PST #2205 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
You da man!
Jon B. - Dec 21, 2002 3:46:22 pm PST #2206 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I've been thinking about the requests/complaints about the posting font. I'm pretty sure I could write code that would allow a user to override that font with his/her own choice of face and size. I'd put two selection boxes in the Set Profile page (one for font face, the other for size). If they're filled in, There would be an extra couple lines of code at the top of every page that would redefine the default style. I should probably do the same for the fixed-width font style so that they stay consistant.
This would require adding a text field to the user class. Let's call it "css" or "custom_css". Length 255 would be sufficient.
ita - Is this a project I should take on? If so, can you add that field to the user array?
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2002 3:51:04 pm PST #2207 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Before we start on anything, we should get a list of all outstanding requests, and stuff that's been partially implemented. I can say up front that I'm absolutely terrible at that sort of listkeeping. But right now we have competing code trees, and I'm way out of touch on what's considered priority.
Then we can get back into mods. And hopefully in a less ad hoc way, with actual releases or somesuch.
Jon B. - Dec 21, 2002 4:02:35 pm PST #2208 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Sounds good. The only things I've got outstanding are the threadsuck utility and the list-userids-and-emails thingie. Are there others?
Noumenon - Dec 21, 2002 4:10:54 pm PST #2209 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
I think the ability to view 10000 posts at a time covers threadsucking, though I haven't tried it.
Jon B. - Dec 21, 2002 4:27:20 pm PST #2210 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I think the ability to view 10000 posts at a time covers threadsucking
It's OK as a workaround, but it's not so user-friendly to do it that way. I've written some functions and designed some pages that will be much easier to use.
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2002 5:34:33 pm PST #2211 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There are a whole lot of requests that people have made that I've completely forgotten to keep track of. I tend to prioritise by a) coolness to code or b) easiness to code, and that's no good.
Michele T. - Dec 21, 2002 6:27:55 pm PST #2212 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I'm comfortable having my last name used, actually -- I keep saying I'm going to reverse-engineer wireframes (information design schematics) from the GIFs I did and put them in my portfolio...
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2002 8:13:39 pm PST #2213 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Speaking of requests -- there have been a couple requests to change the behaviour of the thread links on the RH column -- which take you only the last post of the thread in question.
I'd like to throw this up for some more feedback. I never want to read the last userpagelimit - 1 posts, and always scroll straight to the bottom every time I click on a link with no new posts. So, selfishly, I'm very happy that these don't make me have to do that.
I'd been assuming that since no one mentioned it until just a while ago, that it was accepted behaviour.
Is this true, or wishful thinking?