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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 04 October 2006 : 06:15:04
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muzishun,
which validator are you using by the way ? only most of them are pretty crap and full of bugs so do not tend to validate very well anyway. |
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MarkJH
Senior Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 October 2006 : 13:01:11
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My comment was not aimed at your efforts, but rather at Mark for even attempting to validate it as XHTML when it isn't
I was checking some pages that I was trying to get valid and I put it through just for fun. Anyway, it did show me how much work muzishun has put into his XHTML Strict valid version of Snitz!  |
Bandlink.net - http://www.bandlink.net/
Bandlink Music Forums - http://www.bandlink.net/forum/ |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 04 October 2006 : 13:03:50
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Originally posted by MarkJH
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My comment was not aimed at your efforts, but rather at Mark for even attempting to validate it as XHTML when it isn't
I was checking some pages that I was trying to get valid and I put it through just for fun. Anyway, it did show me how much work muzishun has put into his XHTML Strict valid version of Snitz!
I understand MarkJH, and have done the same myself  don't want muzishun getting the wrong impression from my comment that was all. |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 04 October 2006 : 19:32:40
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I don't think I got the wrong idea. My main thing is that I wanted to challenge myself and see what was possible. Honestly, the conversion of the code wasn't too hard. The hardest part is validating pages with lots of forumcode, and still allowing that forumcode to be reconverted for editing posts and whatnot.
My plan, as I said before, is to add some of the more popular mods and differentiate my version a little from the base version of snitz. I'd like to think that there are people out there looking for the same as what I am. Of course, I could be delusional, and just have a deep desire for ASP punishment... we'll see. Either way, this has turned out to be a fun project, however much of a headache it is at times.
I think the HTML encoding and the paging issues on topic/forum.asp are the last major hurdles for the forum, at least things aren't being found as quickly as the first bunch of stuff. Once I finish those, I'll post over here with a finalized ZIP of this version. Then I'll start working on MODs. I'd like to encourage people to sign up and help me continue to test this as I add to the code. Compared to many here, I am very much a newbie to Snitz and ASP.
Thanks again, all. |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 04 October 2006 : 19:58:47
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| Oh yeah, and the validator I'm using is the one made by the W3C. I figure if they make the standards, their validator will be the most accurate. I do most of my validating by copying the generated HTML into their form at http://validator.w3.org/ |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 04 October 2006 : 20:14:16
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| yes I agree, however it does have a few bugs but definately is better than most |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 04 October 2006 : 21:22:10
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I'm pleased to announce Release Candidate 1 of the Eternal Second Snitz forums (whew! gonna have to figure out a catchy name that isn't so long  ). At this point, the forum is nearing completion. All of the pages should validate, and there should be no functionality lost from the base code. If you find any bugs, please continue to post them over in the Bug Reports forum.
Here is a link to the ZIP file for Release Candidate 1.
Still to come:
- testemailcomponent.asp and whereami.asp - These pages are included in the standard tools.zip file with all Snitz forums. Since they aren't used as much, I haven't included them just yet in this version of the code.
- Minor tweaking of some of the visual kinks. The Quick Reply box as well as the posting box display a large black line at the top or bottom (in Internet Explorer and Opera). This is due to the way the <form> tags are set up. I'll work on getting them to display the way Firefox does (i.e. - without the black line).
- MODs, MODs, and more MODs
Thanks to those who have been helping, and I hope we'll continue to attract more traffic as I work on this more and more. |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 05 October 2006 : 03:35:44
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The Quick Reply box as well as the posting box display a large black line at the top or bottom (in Internet Explorer and Opera). This is due to the way the <form> tags are set up. I'll work on getting them to display the way Firefox does (i.e. - without the black line).
you need to move the opening and closing form tags so they are outside the table tags rather than inside the td tags |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 05 October 2006 : 10:17:49
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| That's exactly what I was thinking. And, it's fixed, by the way. Zip file updated. |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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muzishun
Senior Member
United States
1079 Posts |
Posted - 14 October 2006 : 23:01:09
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New version released! I've got it figured out how to get MODs installed and still require minimum work when installing a fresh version. Luckily, I didn't have to delve into the setup.asp and related pages.... that would have been a nightmare.
Read the original post above for updated information. |
Bill Parrott
Senior Web Programmer, University of Kansas
Co-Owner and Code Monkey, Eternal Second Designs (www.eternalsecond.com)
Personal Website (www.chimericdream.com) |
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