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Offline ZylonBane

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What, the fact that the text gets smaller? That's on purpose, and I see no reason to change it.
So quoted text being less legible is a feature? Quoted text already gets a different background color AND horizontal rules. Making the text smaller on top of all that seems like overkill.
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Offline StratComm

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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to HLP 3.0!
Chrono, you've got two options.  :yes: :yes2:

Finally I get the chance to check this out properly.  It's good to have the forums back up, and I'm sure the remaining bugs will get worked out soon enough.  The thing that's going to take the longest time to adjust to I think is the reordering of the content forums, since I had gotten into the habit of checking them based on position alone.  But excellent work overall!
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Offline Black Wolf

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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to HLP 3.0!
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"Sanger"?

And the colour tag cannot be "fixed", for two reasons: One, it's not broken. It's spelt properly, because we're on International English here on the Internet. Two, we cannot add a "colour" tag in SMF. Get over it. You don't have to type it in anyway.

You can't add custom tags? Well that's utterly ridiculous. If you can add custom tags (and I know for a fact that you can) then a [colour] tag can not be difficult, as it's just a custom tag triggering a HTML command. I'll use the incorrect spelling (I'm curious as to how American English became "International English" when it's used in, what, two countries officially?) for the moment, but I'm looking around trying to find out how to make it work, and I have no doubt I'll eventually figure it out.
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Offline StratComm

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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to HLP 3.0!
Could you add a "colour"->"color" mapping into the word (or smiley, or whatever) filter so that when black wolf types [colour] it gets translated to [color] before the code is parsed?  Or does that happen the other way around.
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Offline Black Wolf

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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to HLP 3.0!
Sanger, sorry to say it, but you're well and truly off your game these days.

Go into sources/subs.php.
Find the color tag
Copy and paste the array directly underneath it.
Change it to "colour".

Works like a charm, already tested. It took me and my brother about seven minutes to figure out.
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Offline phreak

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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to HLP 3.0!
Don't feel like reading through 160 posts just want to say some things

1) Site looks awesome
2) Classics section on main page is off limits.  Make it visible and put the Clangers thread on there ffs.
3) Where's the 50 posts per page option?
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Offline Setekh

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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to HLP 3.0!
Hey BW, look. I know Mike's a bit firm on this, and who knows if he'll implement your fix or not; however, because you've been so persistent with this, I'm going to give you a present. I'd like to add how interesting it is that Black Wolf and burlywood both have the same acronym.

Anyway, you'll have to quote my post to accept the present.
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Offline CP5670

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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to HLP 3.0!
I didn't even know burlywood was a color. And I thought I was pretty good with color names after solving Herman Toothrot's "philosophical puzzle" in Monkey Island 2. :D

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Misaligned? Website images being pixelated?? Neither IE nor Firefox resize images regardless of what font-size or screen DPI resolution you have... one pixel equals one pixel to them. Can you explain your problem better?

I'll post a screenshot of this a bit later. I have no idea why it happens.

In any case, messing with the dpi and font settings makes no sense for just one site. The thread index and main posts look fine but there is no reason to have all the other fonts so small. For example, the thing where it says "Hard Light Productions Forums  »  Hard Light Productions  »  Hard Light  »  Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to HLP 3.0!" appears at the both the top and bottom of the thread; the size at the bottom is how it used to be, but at the top it's much smaller.

While I'm at it, the one thing that used to be small before and was appropriate that way has now become bigger, the edit postscript added on when a message is edited. It might be better to leave that the way it was.
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Offline Fury

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Guys please, calm down. No flaming and spamming. Play it nice. Thank you.

 

Offline Setekh

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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to HLP 3.0!
This thread is too long/flabby/old to serve its original purpose. Sticking a locked thread of the original post up the top of Hard Light and officially leaving this one for dead. :p
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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to HLP 3.0!
Just got back and...WOW!  :jaw:  You all did an amazing job!  Love the new scheme. ;)
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Offline Setekh

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Thanks, Marauder. Enjoy the shiney-ness... it's like playing SCP for the first time with shinemaps installed. ;)
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Offline Sandwich

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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to HLP 3.0!
Jeez, no need to yell. :p Compared to the old forums, there are about ten times as many profile options, and I haven't even noticed half of them yet.  I think there was a little bit of truth to the sentiment that they just seem a little too busy. 

Yeah, I know. And I wasn't yelling, I was making sure that everyone saw that part of my post, since I'm sick and tired of answering questions people can answer for themselves if they know where to look - I merely told 'em where to look. :)

[q]And the colour tag cannot be "fixed", for two reasons: One, it's not broken. It's spelt properly, because we're on International English here on the Internet. Two, we cannot add a "colour" tag in SMF. Get over it. You don't have to type it in anyway.[/q]

Right, I'd just like to point something out here. Firstly, there is no set language on the internet and in fairness, it's not our fault the initial speakers/writers of "international" (read:en_US) English were too lazy to spell properly. :p

Besides, you're Israeli, you should be demanding a Hebrew colour tag. :D

First off, I'm American-Israeli. :p So there.

Secondly, American English is the international language, like it or not. And the Internet is definitely international. So there. :p

Thirdly, there is no thirdly. :p

Quote from: Sandwich
Neither IE nor Firefox resize images regardless of what font-size or screen DPI resolution you have... one pixel equals one pixel to them.
Ahem. IE -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> Multimedia -> Enable Automatic Image Resizing

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What, the fact that the text gets smaller? That's on purpose, and I see no reason to change it.
So quoted text being less legible is a feature? Quoted text already gets a different background color AND horizontal rules. Making the text smaller on top of all that seems like overkill.

Changing font size and/or screen DPI settings has zero effect on Automatic Image Resizing.

And quoted text is smaller because one level is fine, and still legible. Two levels is still ok. Beyond that, it's your problem. :)

Sanger, sorry to say it, but you're well and truly off your game these days.

Go into sources/subs.php.
Find the color tag
Copy and paste the array directly underneath it.
Change it to "colour".

Works like a charm, already tested. It took me and my brother about seven minutes to figure out.


Thanks for the tip - I'll do that when I have the time. At 3:15am last night (when I replied above), I was exhausted, and wasn't thinking beyond the "Custom Tag" mod's abilities in SMF, where arguments (such as WHAT color to use) are not carried over from tag to output.

In any case, messing with the dpi and font settings makes no sense for just one site. The thread index and main posts look fine but there is no reason to have all the other fonts so small. For example, the thing where it says "Hard Light Productions Forums  »  Hard Light Productions  »  Hard Light  »  Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to HLP 3.0!" appears at the both the top and bottom of the thread; the size at the bottom is how it used to be, but at the top it's much smaller.

While I'm at it, the one thing that used to be small before and was appropriate that way has now become bigger, the edit postscript added on when a message is edited. It might be better to leave that the way it was.

It's not something for just one site, it's the proper settings for your computer. I'll explain more later if you wish, no time now.

As for all the different sizes of things, yes, they're mostly known issues that are very low on the priority list. That said, keep in mind that I didn't take the vB HLP theme and change it. I took the default SMF theme and HLP-ized it. So some changes are inevitable. ;)
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Offline Fury

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Well done guys, thread locked.

 

Offline Fury

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Thread will be opened any second now and offending posts were deleted due to a request from one of the members.
I hope I don't have to regret this.

 

Offline Grey Wolf

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First off, I'm American-Israeli. :p So there.

Secondly, American English is the international language, like it or not. And the Internet is definitely international. So there. :p

Thirdly, there is no thirdly. :p
It's really sort of funny that American English is the standard when it's not even standardized :p
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Offline Flipside

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Heh, well, we got both bases covered now, so everyone can be happy :D

 

Offline vyper

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Well, that didn't take long. :D
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Offline Grey Wolf

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I blame my experience in the Rift. And Ghostavo <_< >_>
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Offline Sandwich

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Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Welcome to HLP 3.0!
Testing...

There, that works. And guess what I found... :nervous: SMF supports specific colors such as (and green, and blue, and black, and white...) as well as... uhm... & ... :nervous: :-* :-*
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill