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Well the best part of a brute force solution is that if it hasn't worked yet you just keep doing the same thing even more forcefully.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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Relax, my email is working fine.
I was just thinking that in order to help diagnose members' email problems, it might be helpful to have a Test button next to each email address on the Settings page. Clicking this button would send a test email message to the address.
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Good idea. Its now working fine for me as well.
The word "politics" describes the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures."
जय हिंद
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Or you can momentarily change the email address to your alternate address and then change back. That would make it 'Unverified' causing a 'Send Verification' link to appear for you.
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage Tech Gossips
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
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Excellent idea. Added to the TODO.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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My turn to complain: Why is the graphics forum under the Product Lifecycle heading?
...surely "Database and SysAdmin" would be more appropriate?
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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Well, maybe "sucks" is too strong a word but...
My eye is dragged from left to right to left to right, all separated by a massive banner ad (which I'll probably ignore) and then the "Lounge" is placed hard right. It's confusing, I can't easily find what I'm looking for because I have three areas of the screen to check (separated by the aforementioned banner ad)... this is headache inducing!
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You can please some of the people, some of the time, so in the end I made it the way that works most inuitively for me because at least I can be sure someone is happy!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It's not the people you want to keep happy, just me At least you didn't do some kind of esoteric Bob interface! (the old one was better though!)
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martin_hughes wrote: Bob interface
Poke his right eye for C#
Poke his left eye for Database
Tickle his belly button for the Lounge
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Just don't pull his finger.
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Maybe you could implement a "Cylon" mode, where Lounge slowly moves from far right to middle, and then back again. This would also reduce the number of drunk Lounge posts, since drunks wouldn't be able to hit it.
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KITT had that too, right?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KITT[^]
I always wanted a black sports car, some LEDs, and a "whoosh" mp3 player under the hood [*].
Iain.
[*] I know it's a "bonnet", but it'd probably be an american car...
Codeproject MVP for C++, I can't believe it's for my lounge posts...
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Sorry, but my patent trumps your copyright.
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Yeah if you had a wide screen (mine's 24" wide) that is a problem. I usually go to the lounge by dropping down the URL from the address bar - so I avoid having to shift my eyes and mouse cursor a wide distance every time I want to see if someone's posted a not-safe-for-work image or joke in the Lounge
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Is the smiley broken? It doesn't seem to work in all fora.
(Even posts about it seem to wind up in the wrong forum.) (That was meant as humor, apparently I had originally posted elsewhere, thinking I was here.)
modified on Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:20 PM
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: It doesn't seem to work in all fora
Send me an example?
PIEBALDconsult wrote: Even posts about it seem to wind up in the wrong forum
?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I just tried it here[^].
While browsing (the search won't find them ) I also saw one of :p and one of
(Using IE7)
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A few days ago my screen, when reading CP forums, started moving up and down, blinking and flashing in all kinds of ways. Now it seems this has become intended behavior. Well I can tell you I hate it.
I hate it.
A hyperlink is supposed to move you from one page to another page; you expect a total window repaint and hope it will be quick and with minimal visual pollution.
Most of the other control types, such as a drop down, when clicked should not influence anything above it, it should simply operate from where it sits downwards. And the pointer, which was on top of the control when it got clicked, should still be where it was, on top of the control, after the click.
On the CP forums, the message titles are supposed to operate like a drop down, they expand/collapse part of the page, they should not, repeat not, cause any vertical motion.
Example: go visit the poll results page, and try to have a look at some of its messages. While any of them could simply open and close, when clicked, the page first gets repainted with Bob and the "Survey Results" title (so the subject line you just clicked is now off-screen), then it moves again to a position almost identical to where you were before. Crazy. Absolutely crazy. And useless, counter-productive. Creating headache, nausea and seasickness.
I want the old way back, that one worked great, the new one stinks.
To make myself clear, I do not want the "feature" further "improved", debugged or whatever.
I want it taken out again.
BTW: I use FF3 most of the time, have a DSL internet, and use normal forum layout; the system
I use most of the time runs Vista and has a 1440*900 monitor.
It may well be that other systems, browsers, providers, layouts etc result in better or worse
behavior, I couldn't care less. It may also be that some people like the change, that does not
make a difference either. For me it worked fine the way it was, there was no need to install
this harassment, and it does not work the way it is now.
If someone really wants it, make it optional and off-by-default. Don't inflict this on everyone.
PS: in general "optional and off-by-default" is the one and only approach for new features;
let users decide individually what they like and dislike.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get
- use the code block button (PRE tags) to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets
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Luc Pattyn wrote: Example: go visit the poll results page, and try to have a look at some of its messages. While any of them could simply open and close, when clicked, the page first gets repainted with Bob and the "Survey Results" title (so the subject line you just clicked is now off-screen), then it moves again to a position almost identical to where you were before. Crazy. Absolutely crazy. And useless, counter-productive. Creating headache, nausea and seasickness.
That's freaky but I'm not noticing reloads on any of the other forum pages..
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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Yep I agree - the automatic page scrolling is horribly annoying Very often it's hard to focus on a post because it moves up in the middle of your reading it.
I think Shog has something to do with that though - so it's not fully Chris's fault. In my opinion, automatic scrolling is nearly as bad as browser resizing as it forces you to reposition your eyes.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: I think Shog has something to do with that though - so it's not fully Chris's fault. In my opinion, automatic scrolling is nearly as bad as browser resizing as it forces you to reposition your eyes.
FWIW, the "automatic scrolling" has been around for... a long time. According to archive.org[^], it was in place at least as early as December of 2007. There have been four changes in the last week: the first broke the previous behavior (resulting in an extremely unpleasant "jitter"), the second restored it, and the third changed the behavior from "instant-pop-the-whole-message-into-view" to "smoothly-scroll-the-message-into-view-over-the-course-of-400-milliseconds". And the final change restored the classic behavior (instantly pop the message into view).
The final result is the same: only messages that would be wholely or partially out of view trigger the scrolling. IMHO, this is essential, as without it moving from a long post to a shorter one below it can easily result in the entire message ending up out of view (moving from a short post to a longer one below it is hardly better, as you must then manually scroll the full message into view).
Again, the auto-scroll logic has been around for over a year until it broke suddenly a few days ago due to an unrelated site update. After which, i suggested using the smooth-scrolling animation because to me it seemed to reduce the jarring effect of the page suddenly scrolling to a new position when switching to/from a very long post. Initial feedback was good; now it seems, not so much. C'est la vie.
Citizen 20.1.01 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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