Comments on: Adding a site preferences panel

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:09:18 +0000

Go ahead Ali; the "howto" is online for the purpose of sharing. I do encourage modification so it's not a straight copy, but you're free to use the switch icon (which I modified from the Apple Developer kit anyway).

By: Ali Blackwell

Ali Blackwell — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:07:19 +0000

Hey, the site prefs thing is seriously COOL! I'm going to put it on my site this weekend. Do check it out next week. I'll fully credit you in the About this Site page (www.newtheatre.org.uk/site.php). However, if you're unhappy about any of it, do get in touch with me. May I use your Site Pref switch please? I'm rubbish at Photoshop!

Cheers,

Ali Blackwell

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:17:05 +0000

Hi Bruce, Sorry about all of that stuff but I really didn't mean to 'steal' it. I just wanted it to be easy. I've updated the page and put a pretty little message at the top about your site and tutorial. check it out.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 07:58:20 +0000

Hi Sam. Yes, an Opera user has pointed that out to me. I did even download Opera to see for myself. My previous site had fixes for IE and Opera; I've only recently added fixes for IE6 and below since 1/3rd of my visitors are using IE (incidentally, the IE fixes make use of the !important declaration, as suggested by Jasper here). At present Opera users (all versions) make up just 1% of my visitors. Before I can justify spending time bending web standards to that browser's quirks, Opera would need to get a bit more popular. I'm not knocking Opera... but the prefs panel is a non-essential part of the site Opera users can do without. I seem to recall Opera had problems with K2's Ajax commenting too.

By: Sam S

Sam S — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:30:54 +0000

Hi this prefs thing looks good, except in Opera. I havea seen a few such things like this. They all have the same issue in Opera.

I will be having a more indepth look at the tutorial in the near future

But just wanted to ask if you were aware of the opera issue; if you care? and if you have any ideas

looking 4ward to reading and playing with it - S

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 12 May 2006 21:45:03 +0000

Thanks Rob,

You asked, you get! I've added it, after a moments pause to mull over what kind of anti-generic schizophrenic mix "Indie Pop Rocks!" might be...

Congratulations, by-the-way, on your engagement. I wish you happiness :-)

P.S. No Ajax, just the Prototype and script.aculo.us JavaScript libraries (which can be incorporated into static pages), and none of those XMLHttpRequest calls so essential to "Ajaxiness". I'm also (still) a little confused about what Ajax is and isn't (ditto the DOM); some folk seem to link it with anything vaguely interactive or animated.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 12 May 2006 20:33:31 +0000

Holy crap, that's really cool, Bruce! I love how the form drops down very smoothly. Smells like ajax to me. ;-) One recommendation for your radio stations: Indie Pop Rocks.