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

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Wolfram - Aug 26, 2004 8:42:08 pm PDT #8191 of 10000
Visilurking

I was also firefoxing if it makes a difference.


Sean K - Aug 26, 2004 9:06:22 pm PDT #8192 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

And, if memory serves correctly, I think Jessica is Firefoxing at home, so it may be a Firefox issue.


Gus - Aug 26, 2004 10:52:17 pm PDT #8193 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Unbalanced delimiters on href's should no longer be a problem in the test playground.

Next up: line choppage.

eta: Line choppage installed.

BTW, the line choppage works one way for Opera and Safari, and another for everyone else. Both are brutal. Long URL's (45+ characters) are doomed on Opera/Safari. All the other browsers should be able to use long url's.

Long url's seem to be preserved, in every browser.

eta: Hang off on testing ...


Karl - Aug 27, 2004 12:19:11 pm PDT #8194 of 10000
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

I hereby nominate Gus for the position of Weremonkey Rock Star.


Gus - Aug 27, 2004 6:21:38 pm PDT #8195 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Thanks, Karl.

Calling all testers. Whats in: tag closing/ordering, url protection in hrefs, and a protection for all browsers from too-wide words.

If you want to be a tester, just drop me a line.

Nebbermind. Still busted.


§ ita § - Aug 28, 2004 7:52:31 am PDT #8196 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm going to go ahead with getting them to upgrade our Plesk (which'll give us a more recent version of PHP).

Later on we can explore upgrading MySQL.


Liese S. - Aug 28, 2004 8:32:46 am PDT #8197 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Sounds good.


Gus - Aug 28, 2004 3:48:06 pm PDT #8198 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Alright. Features available for test:

1. tags should auto-close

2. tags with attributes values (color="blue", href="dogmeat", etc.) should auto-balance the delimiters (href=dogmeat" becomes href="dogmeat" ).

3. Words longer than 30 characters will be force-hyphenated. Long urls are protected from this.

4. URL's entered like this: [link] will be rendered into link . This prevents long URL's from stretching the screen sidewise.


DXMachina - Aug 28, 2004 3:53:35 pm PDT #8199 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Gus, can we make the "link" a little more obvious. When I do it manually, I use the format "[http://www.link.com...]," which is a format John H came up with back when. You don't have to do it that way, but the brackets would help make the link stand out, especially if placed in a line. Maybe "[link]"?


Gus - Aug 28, 2004 5:21:32 pm PDT #8200 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Maybe "[link]"?

No sweat. It's in.

eta: ION: If I was installing a button/link to the maps, where would I put it? I'm thinking the linker will be a form that posts the userid along.