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bahri · Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 101 Location: Malta

Hi!
May I add my -- THANK YOU -- for the RSS feed addition.

bahri

PhiLho · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject:

One major annoyance in phpBB is the BBCode editor. Mostly in Firefox, as I saw...
When I click on a tag button, it always add the code at the end of the message. Well, not exactly, if I selected some text, it is able to surround the selection with the starting and ending tags.

I finally took a look at the code, and was surprised to see rather low quality JavaScript. I thought that code in such popular open source software would have been much improved.

Another surprise, Mozilla/Firefox support is actually present, but the code to add the tags at the end of the message is actually deliberate if there is no selection... I find this counter intuitive and improductive.

So, I changed the code were needed, but I need some feedback before going further.

Do you think we should keep the current behavior (with minors fixes)?

Should we insert at caret position, but keep the two times tag insertion, ie. click once to insert the opening tag, changing the button, then click another time to close the tag?

Or, my preferred solution would be to insert both opening and closing tags at caret position on each click, moving the caret between the two tags.
This allows to easily add nested tags: click on B then on I, type a word, it will be bold and italic.
To add a bold sentence, just click on B and type, and go after the tag to continue in normal font.
To boldify a sentence, put the caret at the start, click B, Shift+Click after the ending tag and drag'n'drop it (or copy/paste it) at the end of the sentence.

Seems to be the more natural way of inputing data, but it can break some habits.

So, what do you think? The question is mainly aimed at Chris, since he is the guy that will patch phpBB with the code I will provide. But I suppose third party opinions might count too.

In all case, I will try and change this editor on the fly with GreaseMonkey, at least it might work in other forums...
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Thalon · Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 640

Great! THX!!

Edit: My Browser (Mozilla Firefox) doesn't show any RSS-Symbol anywhere (even not in Adressbar).
Where could it be found?

Thalon
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PhiLho · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:41 pm Post subject:

I can see the orange symbol on this very topic, on the right of the address bar (Firefox 1.5.0.4).
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Thalon · Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 640

Thx PhiLho!
I have updated my Browser. Now I can Feed the Forum as well Smile

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Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5009 Location: imaginationland

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@PhiLho

Have you seen my recent post about GeSHi on the first page? What do you think about it?

btw. how do you reference a posting by URL?
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PhiLho · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:32 pm Post subject:

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Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10465

Here's the method to jump directly to a post:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=65022#65022
.. or (in the AHK forums only):
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/post-65022.html#65022

PhiLho · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:10 am Post subject:

OK, so I will make my mods and try to apply them with GreaseMonkey (haven't made personal scripts yet).
For those with Firefox or having other means (Proxomitron, Proximodo, JunkBuster, Privoxy, WebCleaner...), I will provide my mods.

As for the way to reference a post, the easiest way is to right-click on the little page-like icon on the left of "Posting:", which is a link to this post.
Choose the menu item looking like: "Copy the address of this link" and you will get in the clipboard an URL like: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=64823#64823
As JSLover pointed out in the past, if you want to be nice, you can also add the topic number which is in the address bar:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9822&start=15
so the final URL will be:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9822&p=64823#64823

Note: I still have the auto-redirection in the preview, ie. if I preview this very message, Firefox will jump to the referenced topic. This is annoying, and since the preview page appears only briefly, I cannot see what in the source is making this problem.
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PhiLho · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:20 am Post subject:

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SKAN · Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 5595

Dear PhiLho, Smile

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10465

(this post was moved from another topic)

I haven't been developing much lately due to focusing on site issues and improvements, namely:

The site's search form has been improved to include the forum. This makes it easier for casual visitors to find what they need (since there is now a wealth of relevant info in the forum, thanks to you all). In addition, the search is in some ways more powerful than the forum's own search because it sorts by relevancy and has an option for exact phrase.
The ongoing fight against spam continues. The latest problem is bots that automatically register lots of usernames on the forum (I think I found some mods to block them).
Although server reliability has improved lately, there are still problems. Since I'm commited to having the site on a stable server, I'll rehost the site again if it becomes necessary.