You got fired, and you still hang around here like a big loser. Why can't he?

Cordelia ,'Chosen'


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


Connie Neil - Feb 16, 2005 3:14:10 pm PST #9621 of 10000
brillig

you can wait until DX does his magic tidying and download the archived ZIP file.

How ... prosaic. No cool cyberNinja moves or super-secret passwords or anything. Oh, well.


DXMachina - Feb 16, 2005 3:16:28 pm PST #9622 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I can put passwords on the zip files to make them more difficult to get into. Would that suit your requirements?


Connie Neil - Feb 16, 2005 3:30:28 pm PST #9623 of 10000
brillig

No, no, don't put yourself out, but you're kind to offer.


Jon B. - Feb 16, 2005 5:23:56 pm PST #9624 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Jon -- will there need to be any changes to the current style sheet to prep it for being overriden by user-selected fonts and font sizes? Changing it from point sizes, or making everything relative to some single starting point?

Are we allowing the changing of font size or just the face? I thought it was the latter. In any case, last time the idea of switching to relative font sizes came up, I did some research and determined that the current stylesheet methodology of explicit point sizes was best in terms of browser compatibility. I suppose I should just try out my sample pages with various different fonts in the stylesheet and see how they look.


§ ita § - Feb 16, 2005 7:05:06 pm PST #9625 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Are we allowing the changing of font size or just the face?

The current request is for both.


aurelia - Feb 16, 2005 7:38:54 pm PST #9626 of 10000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I don't really know much about this stuff, but can't people change the size with their browser? Or is that only some browsers?


Lyra Jane - Feb 17, 2005 5:20:49 am PST #9627 of 10000
Up with the sun

If you change the size with your browser, you have to change it back when you go to another site.


meara - Feb 18, 2005 6:26:26 am PST #9628 of 10000

I'm suddenly having odd problems where if I just go to the main page (b.org), it's fine and fast, but if I'm in a thread, and try to click on the "message center" link at the bottom of a page, it tells me it can't load it. Is this the board hating me? The wireless connection being freaky? Or evil, lurking?


Lee - Feb 19, 2005 7:40:48 am PST #9629 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

A couple of days ago, DX asked if anyone was finding that some messages got skipped when you post, so that when you post something you only see the post immediately before yours, instead of everything new.

DXMachina "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Feb 16, 2005 7:42:09 am PST

It's happened to me a few times lately.


§ ita § - Feb 19, 2005 8:17:12 am PST #9630 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hmm. That's not the same as what DX described. Can you tell me which post of yours triggered that?