You guys had a riot? On account of me? A real riot?

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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.

To-do list


Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 7:44:24 pm PDT #573 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

email incoming, ita. I'm having some php fun.


Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 8:27:28 pm PDT #574 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Finally starting to catch up with all the requests.

From Tom Scola "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Sep 19, 2002 8:45:36 pm EDT

The text entry box, and the instructions above it, and the "post message" button, should all be left-aligned in the middle column.

If we do this, the text entry box will have to be about 25% narrower, like the one on the edit-your-post page. Otherwise, folks with low-res monitors (640x480) will have to scroll right, which is a big usability no-no. Is a narrower text box an acceptable trade-off?


Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 8:43:44 pm PDT #575 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

From Sophia Brooks "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Sep 28, 2002 8:52:59 am EDT

Is it possible to add the HTML that makes us able to do the pretty links to the lovely HTML instruction pop-up?

Done! Also added to the how-to page.


Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 8:52:25 pm PDT #576 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

From John H "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Sep 28, 2002 8:07:48 pm EDT

I've just noticed, when trying to make an HTML list come out as

A)
B)
C)

that I can't, because Jon B's set an override for all List Items in the style sheet to

list-style-type: disc

Removed!


§ ita § - Oct 07, 2002 8:53:17 pm PDT #577 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

God man, you're on fire!

resists urge to feel like a slacker

types "coding time" for this weekend in her PDA.


Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 8:56:38 pm PDT #578 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Whatever happened with that issue of font sizes not being able to be overwritten by browser preference? I thought I read a post where that was resolved, but now I can't find it. Was I supposed to change something in the style sheet?


§ ita § - Oct 07, 2002 8:57:43 pm PDT #579 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

No -- not resolved. It's the pixels in the stylesheet.


Jon B. - Oct 07, 2002 9:05:13 pm PDT #580 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Well, changing pixels to points (i.e. px to pt) does not work. I just tried it and all the text got HUGE (I'm using Mozilla). If anyone knows how to fix this, I'm all ears.


Jessica - Oct 07, 2002 9:15:02 pm PDT #581 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Pixels and points are different size things, so you have to change the numbers too -- I've always just used trial-and-error until the sizes kinda matched. (The other problem is that points are read much more varying-ly across browsers and platforms, so it's a lot harder to get the board to look pretty for everyone.)


amych - Oct 07, 2002 9:15:41 pm PDT #582 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Proportional sizing. IJS.