Comments on: James 2.7

By: Jason L

Jason L — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:07:27 +0000

Yes, that's RSS XML. I guess that 'About' is a little misleading, but the links are using the standard icon for an RSS feed.

By: Bumface the Brave

Bumface the Brave — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:18:07 +0000

Possibly. Does xml look like this:

http://i62.photobuck... .../tommm.jpg

If so, yes.

By: Jazmeister

Jazmeister — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:31:17 +0000

Does it look like xml?

By: Bumface the Brave

Bumface the Brave — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:39:53 +0000

Someone might have mentioned this already, but I've just noticed. I clicked About>Everything feed button wotsit, and it just came up with a load of jargon. Maybe it's just me. Whatever.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:48:19 +0000

Yeah, I've looked for a workaround but no luck so far. That plugin seems to have schizophrenic feelings about whether a trackback counts as a comment or not, and it's an absolute beast of a chunk of code to sift through.

Not too serious - I do want trackbacked posts to rise up - just slightly confusing you've already read the comment.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:12:18 +0000

Bug: When people post pingbacks (I think? That's still a concept I don't like or understand), the post bubbles up on the recent comments list but instead of the pingback the last 'real' comment is shown. Current example is I Played Through Episode Two Etc.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:35:04 +0000

Damn. I can switch it off for IE 7 too, but then it'll only be active for 76% of James readers. 40% of those would benefit greatly, 38% would benefit slightly. Those who wouldn't benefit or wouldn't see it at all would just find images load much more slowly, and since that's 40% of everyone, it doesn't make a lot of sense to go with it. Shame. IE has no good reason to ignore proportional image sizes - it has the tech to scale them, it just refuses if doing so would render them smaller than original size.

By: HoW Monty

HoW Monty — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:11:57 +0000

Tom, the medic post didn't work for me in IE7.

By: James

James — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:01:20 +0000

I took "Comments are no longer displayed beneath posts on the main page - just the latest one." to mean that only the first post would have comments displayed on the main page, not that only the first comment would be displayed. Which still solves the "where is the second post" problem, since it will be at the end of the big block of comments.

By: Jason L

Jason L — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:46:57 +0000

I approve, although there's no strong feeling either way. It works here in FF3. We're back to the right column intruding if zoomed, both on that post and this, but I'd like to be clear that I don't consider that a major problem in itself - only if it's the same thing Lack said he was having all the time in FF2.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:22:40 +0000

Elite James Testing Squad, as I've come to call anyone still hanging out in this thread: do you want to try something for me?

http://www.pentadact... ...f-medicine

I've gone back and reconjigulated an old post to try a new way of using screenshots. I'm interested to know whether a) it works for you and b) you approve of it. It's something that simply can't be done in IE 6, so I've set it up not to bother if that's what you're using. BrowserShots suggests it also doesn't work in IE 8, and won't let me test IE 7, so if you have either of those I'm all ears.

It's just an experiment at the moment, I thought until recently it couldn't be done at all.

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:12:04 +0000

I didn't mean it like that, I meant what seems to be going wrong O.o

By: Jason L

Jason L — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:59:50 +0000

Maybe he said in the post about the redesign.

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:00:48 +0000

Hang on, what exactly are you trying to redesign here?
Nothing seems different from before except and extra bar, and a different format of comments...

By: Jason L

Jason L — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:42:12 +0000

This predated the ego-highlighting and exactly replicated the problem in Lack's shot - the right column boxes intruding into the center by a few tens of pixels. You have it fixed here now, well done.

By: HoW Monty

HoW Monty — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:56:10 +0000

Oh dear.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:53:23 +0000

Dammit!

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:52:38 +0000

Fixed it, for me at least - it was that image I embedded, the extra indent made it too large.

But mostly I'm posting this to check nothing breaks if I comment twice in a row now.

By: HoW Monty

HoW Monty — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:51:13 +0000

Nice redesgin. Shame the PCG bloggers don't all write in the magazine. Lousy Richard Stanton and Rachael Penny.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:26:27 +0000

I think that's an exciting new problem, Jason, assuming I'm seeing what you're seeing. That the main and right columns smoosh together, but don't significantly overlap like they used to. I have a nasty feeling my ego-highlighting caused that one. Formerly Muffin: welcome to my life. Need a dialogue option for "Ignore everyone and spout tediously detailed coding gripes," though. Nonomu: I got rid of the Comics box because I just haven't been reading any of them consistently enough to recommend lately. Qwantz is the only one good enough to make it into the other list, which is basically the best eight things on the internet. I've always wanted to put all the outgoing links on the left hand side, but I couldn't back when browsers had to load that column before they'd start rendering the main content - Flickr, Google Reader and Twitter all frequently stall.