[Freddy]

A block that pulls information from the media section, latest picture, comments or whatever you can think of Freddy.

Also done.

[DaveMorton]

Ok, here goes.

While viewing the forums, Firefox complained (politely and quietly, of course) about some errors, and in reading the error console, and from doing some poking around, I've found the following problems in your stylesheet (In Themes/bluelight_smf20rc5b/css/index.css):

Code: CSS

CSS errors for AI Dreams:

.latest h3
{
	font-family: tahoma, helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 1.6em;
	color: #D37316             <---------No semicolon
	font-weight: bold;
	padding: 40px 0 20px 10px;
	margin: 0;
}

p.fstyle
{
	line-height: 1.5em;
	font-size: 0.8;           <---------------- 0.8 what? Need cm, em, ex, in, mm, pc, pt or px  for any number value other than zero.
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0 0 2em 0;
}
p.fstyle2
{
	line-height: 1.4em;
	font-size: 0.8;          <---------------- See above, same issue
	padding: 1em;
	background: #f6f6f6;
	border: solid 1px #d8d8d8;
	margin: 1em 0 2em 0;
}
p.fstyle3
{
	line-height: 1.6em;
	font-size: 0.8;          <---------------- Yup! here, too. :(
	padding: 0 1em;
	margin: 0;
	color: #555;
}

.staticreplybox
{
	width: 100%;
	left: 0;
	position: fixed; 
	bottom: 0;
	border-top: solid 1px #000;
	height: 100px; 
	background: #f0f0f5;
	padding: 0;
	opacity: 0.92;
	-ms-filter:"progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=92)";
	filter: alpha(opacity=92);               <------------------------------- This is just an incompatibility thing in Firefox. Nothing to do unless you want to do conditional CSS, which I don't generally recommend. But I thought I would point it out. :P
}

Now, considering that Google's search page contains (easily) more than 5 times this number of errors in their CSS, four CSS errors is laudable. I just thought you deserved to know.

[Freddy]

Cool, not too bad at all.  Bloc, the theme maker did a good job then

I'll adjust those in a minute.

Were you using the Firefox 'HTML Tidy' plugin to spot those ?  I like to run sites through that myself when I get a chance, very nifty little tool.

I think I will leave the filter one as it is for now.

Many thanks 

[DaveMorton]

Nope. I do things like that "the hard way", and just use the error console. It's amazing how useful it is for finding crap like that.

[Freddy]

Oh righto - well if you want something easier here's what I use :

http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/

When installed there's a little icon down the bottom right of firefox that tells you if the page parsed okay.

I've fixed those css errors now, thanks 

[DaveMorton]

Any time, Freddy. I've got your back.

[Data]

A block that pulls information from the media section, latest picture, comments or whatever you can think of Freddy.

Also done.

Sorry I haven’t replied to this earlier, had a busy day here.

Its neat, the rounded corners are pleasing on the eyes too. 

[Freddy]

No problem, glad you like it 

[Freddy]

I think I have done all the requests now and reinstated the usual features, anything I missed ?

[Freddy]

Seems not 

[DaveMorton]

While I wouldn't go so far as to say that the forum is now perfect ( wouldn't want your head to get stuck in doorways now, would we?), I have to admit that it's as close as I would like to see it.

[Freddy]

I try to avoid the big head    There's always something to do or that needs improving.

Glad you like the forum in it's new form 

I'm thinking of updating the Chatterbot Collection too.  It's been around 3 years since I did it last.  At the moment I am toying with linking the books and movies up to Amazon, so it's possible to see a description of the item and purchase options.  You can pick up a lot of reasonably priced things on Amazon.  It would also allow me to show reviews too.  The Amazon API is quite good I am finding despite a few odd decisions on the way they present data.  We'll see...

[Data]

You mentioned linking the books and movies to Amazon before Freddy, if I remember correctly you were going to get it done by the end of the week 

I still think it’s a good idea.

Over all the site seems to have everything needed, maybe I would like to see the share tool back, at the moment we can only send topics to Facebook, but that’s no biggie. 

[Freddy]

Haha 

Well I would like to get it done by the end of the week, but it's doubtful as I went down a javascript blind alley.  You know in the chatterbot collection we have something like 700 movies....well previously I provided links to order them by title and also by year of release.  So far so good, but I thought to myself, why send the data more than once...why don't I just send the data one time and have the user's browser do the sorting.  Sounds doable ?  Well it is doable except it was too much for poor old Firefox.  Sorting an array of 700 titles melted it lol - over 20 seconds to respond. Even Chrome had a little whimper but staggered in a bit quicker.  CPU usage went up drastically in the process.

I never knew javascript was so burdened.  It should be easy to sort an array out in a split second on 4 cores.  Sadly not the case.  It looks like javascript is only good for simple stuff.

So before I bore you any more I'm going to do it all on the server and just deliver the pre sorted data (I know Dave will say 'I told you that a while back')...but now I know 

Yes I think we need the share button back, thanks for reminding me.

[DaveMorton]

{assiduously remaining silent - tongue bleeding - OWIE!!!}