Sat Apr 20 22:32:44 2002
Today I've been busy hacking away at the board. It's actually been fun, oddly enough, but I did make a full backup of pegasus3d.com just to be on the safe side.
Well, here are the changes:
1. Member list added! From the main banner or the forums list page, you can click on "Memberlist" to get to a page that will show Top 10 posters by postcount (default), full member list by postcount, full list sorted alphabetically, by registration date, status (rank) or by last post date, list of active users, list of banned users, and a full list sorted into the letters of the first name. This seems to work really well!
2. Link button added to posts: Every post has a "Link" button that will open that post (basically the thread but with the browser page focussed on that particular post) in a new window. You can use this as a cut and paste URL to link to a specific post, not just a thread, from any other part of the Web.
3. New post redirects you to the end of the thread! This is something I really wanted. When you finish a reply, there are four choices now: Back to your post, back to the thread, back to the forum, and back to the forum index. The first choice will be selected automatically if you wait a couple of seconds. This returns you to the exact point of your post in the thread, even if it is on a different page in that thread!
4. Text in the code tag now word wraps properly. Before, as PeterB found to his chagrin, text inside a code tag will not word wrap at all, screwing up the table width for the whole thread and forcing an annoying series of edits. This no longer happens.
5. New shortcut for the "biggrin" smiley. On ars and other boards, the standard : D (without the space) is a shortcut to a big grin. Now it works that way on OSY as well. You can still use : biggrin : of course, if you really want. I can add other shortcuts if anyone can think of any good ones. :D
All these improvements... and the cost to you, the loyal OSY member, is exactly $0! Number of banner ads and popups... well, that's still 0 and will remain so forever.
Yes, OSY is a small group with an even smaller group of active posters. Yes, it can get dead from time to time. But what other forum gives you this kind of feedback from the forum owner? How often does Caesar give you a custom avatar, or fix a nasty Infopop bug?
Anyway I am about to go out and enjoy the sunshine a bit... have fun!
Sat Apr 20 22:46:20 2002
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Sun Apr 21 01:49:40 2002
[color=blue][size=100]WINTACULAR[/size][/color]
That is all.
Sun Apr 21 13:10:45 2002
4. Text in the code tag now word wraps properly. Before, as PeterB found to his chagrin, text inside a code tag will not word wrap at all, screwing up the table width for the whole thread and forcing an annoying series of edits. This no longer happens.
I wanted a big long line. That was the point. But the stupid thing:
(a) put smilies into the code.
(b) ignored whitespace
I clicked edit and unticked the emoticons box to get rid of the smilies, but that seemed to result in the insertion of redundant newlines.
MOST UNSATISFACTORY.
Sun Apr 21 13:30:41 2002
Sun Apr 21 18:51:37 2002
Um, no.I wanted a big long line. That was the point. But the stupid thing:
(a) put smilies into the code.
(b) ignored whitespaceI clicked edit and unticked the emoticons box to get rid of the smilies, but that seemed to result in the insertion of redundant newlines.
MOST UNSATISFACTORY.
Erm, but didn't you want word wrap in code tags? I thought that's what you asked for.
The emoticons are done on a per-post global search and replace, so yeah, you have to uncheck emoticons in the post or they get shown everywhere, code tags or no (I could change that, but it seems like a lot of work for a relatively trivial gain)
The redundant newlines weren't inserted by the board, they were inserted by me, manually, to try and fix0r the post so it didn't fux0r the table width. Now the code just wraps like any other text field.
Sun Apr 21 22:11:06 2002
Sun Apr 21 22:31:26 2002
Erm, but didn't you want word wrap in code tags? I thought that's what you asked for.
The emoticons are done on a per-post global search and replace, so yeah, you have to uncheck emoticons in the post or they get shown everywhere, code tags or no (I could change that, but it seems like a lot of work for a relatively trivial gain)The redundant newlines weren't inserted by the board, they were inserted by me, manually, to try and fix0r the post so it didn't fux0r the table width. Now the code just wraps like any other text field.
You might as well not have code blocks if you're going to put extra newlines in.
Sun Apr 21 22:35:34 2002
Since there was no way to word wrap within a <pre> tag, I took the tags out and just left the code tags as a simple shift to a fixed-sized font (Courier)
If you want the <pre> tags back in, then you get no word wrap. If you want word wrap, then you get no <pre> tag. Unless you can figure out another way of doing this?
Mon Apr 22 03:42:10 2002
Mon Apr 22 14:02:27 2002
from Jeremy Reimer posted at 11:35 pm on April 21, 2002
Well, here's the deal. It turns out that the code blocks were already being put in <pre> tags. But the fact that they were in <pre> tags meant that long lines fuxored up the table spacing. This happens in any web page where you use a <pre> tag, as I found out.Since there was no way to word wrap within a <pre> tag, I took the tags out and just left the code tags as a simple shift to a fixed-sized font (Courier)
If you want the <pre> tags back in, then you get no word wrap. If you want word wrap, then you get no <pre> tag. Unless you can figure out another way of doing this?
Make it so that each entry gets its own table. This way, we don't have word-wrap, but one entry being hugely wide doesn't make all the others hugely wide.
But seriously, it *must* use <pre> tags.
Mon Apr 22 17:09:42 2002
Making each post in an individual table might be trickier. I mean, I can add the <TABLE> <TR> </TABLE> tags into the template easily enough, but I don't know how it will screw around with other things, and I'm not sure how to make it so the page will still auto-resize to a browser window for some posts and not others.
However, it might be worth it to figure this out, as it would kill two birds with one stone: large images will no longer screw up threads either. (I should note that both code tags and large images currently and have always screwed up Infopop, so if I can do this it will be yet another feature win that OSY has and they don't)
I'll look into it.
Mon Apr 22 17:34:20 2002
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Tue Apr 23 09:29:31 2002
:(
Tue Apr 23 11:34:22 2002
I can't afford the 0$ so i guess i cant use the new features.
[color=purple][size=200]HA HA!![/size][/color]
:sagrin:
(Edited by Imitation Gruel at 4:35 am on April 23, 2002)
Tue Apr 23 11:36:00 2002
Tue Apr 23 13:31:46 2002
If he'd turn on HTML we could use CSS and have 200px fonts all over. ;)
Tue Apr 23 13:41:34 2002
the ont size limit is 7
Hmmm....
Edit: Apparently so.
(Edited by Imitation Gruel at 6:42 am on April 23, 2002)
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