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posted by on Monday March 06 2017, @10:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the post-bills-here dept.

Okay, we've all had our weekends and I at least am ready to jump back onto the coding horse. Refresh my memory of what we still have that's either properly broken or is otherwise behaving in an entirely unsatisfactory manner. I think Flat-mode links to individual comments are still broken. I know we need to replace the "noupdate" behavior with explicit "update" behavior. I'm thinking I can get the colors on "*NEW*" comments' subject bars brightened up so that you can ditch dimming and still have easy visual feedback if you like fairly quickly. I'm considering (nearly (can't do "N replies below Threshold)) precisely replicating Nested and adapting the old javascript to it if you care to run it. But what am I forgetting?

Discussion to a minimum here, please, so it doesn't distract from having an all-in-one-place list of things from this release that still need addressed.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Tuesday March 07 2017, @01:40PM (2 children)

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 07 2017, @01:40PM (#475993) Journal

    Using Threaded-TNG, Breakthrough -1, Oldest First.

    I marked a comment as "Interesting" and clicked on the Moderate button, I was presented with a new page which did NOT have the RHS (Right-Hand Side) slashboxes. So what? It made the width of the comments larger and the font size proportionally smaller... to the point that it was not readable on my mobile.

    Changed selection from "TNG" to "TOS" and clicked the "Change" button. Page redisplayed WITH the RHS slashboxes presented. (Haven't tried this but would be curious what would happen if I did NOT change display mode, but still clicked "Change" button... Would the RHS appear or not?)

    ISTR having seen similar behavior when I replied to an existing comment.

    Still trying to wake up; please take with portion of salt.

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  • (Score: 2) by paulej72 on Tuesday March 07 2017, @02:41PM (1 child)

    by paulej72 (58) on Tuesday March 07 2017, @02:41PM (#476026) Journal

    Will look into it. Mobile device support has been a PITA for us. It mostly works, but devices like to resize text based on stuff that we do not set in our CSS. It makes it hard to debug and fix issues like this.

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    • (Score: 2) by martyb on Wednesday March 08 2017, @12:26PM

      by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 08 2017, @12:26PM (#476407) Journal

      Yes, mobile support is a long-standing issue. (I looked into it a bit back when TheMightyBuzzard took a stab at it. We couldn't find a deterministic approach to determine with certainty whether a user was accessing the site via mobile or desktop system.)

      This is unrelated to that.

      Simply restoring the display of the RHS slashboxes, which for some strange reason is being suppressed in this case, would solve the small font display issue.

      Specifically, I see the NON-display of template: sidebox;misc;default for these blocks:

      1. story_info-block"
      2. user-info-block
      3. moderation-block
      4. mylinks-block
      5. related-block

      No longer suppressing the display of these (or, alternatively, restoring their display if this is custom code created to emulate the old display) would solve the font problem -- the font size is just a symptom of this suppression/non-display.

      I hope this clarifies things.

      P.S. I have watched with amazement as you have investigated these bug reports and coded up "indistinguishable from magic" ways of making CSS do things I'd never imagined possible. We are so fortunate to have you and TheMightyBuzzard and NCommander working on this site.

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