Using iPhone, desktop view, and I noticed something weird at the top of the screen.
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Using iPhone, desktop view, and I noticed something weird at the top of the screen.
you mean the open in app bit? its to use the forum through tapatalk i think
I thought that at first, but it's not in the usual format that you get on iPhone, and clicking the close icon does nothing.
then i give up
That there, my friend, is the price you pay for using Apple.
:p
James.
Use tapatalk app... It's even easier than the online site
Its a popup to get you to use the tapatalk app. Both iphone and android have been experiencing formaing issues on a variety of thier browsers with this popup on many forums. Badgerandblade has the same issue as well as a variety of other forums....
It's more likely to be tapatalk's fault than the browser.
I upgraded to the latest version of tapatalk as soon as they released it, just a couple of hours before this thread. And they still haven't fixed the protocol violations of their client, even though it's been two months since I notified them, so as far as I am concerned they are incompetent, lazy or just idiots.
You are correct. It is tapatalk, not the forum.
I seem to have better success using Crome as my browser ymmv.
I added a profile picture and i dont understand why it doesnt show up when i post like everyone else's
Probably because it's the avatar that shows next to the posts not the profile picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smithbobbylee
BTW I turned off that notification - if they want the free advertising at the very least they ought to make a proper ad. I guess they insist on only one way to get the correct feedback - the hard way.
Ok. Thanks gugi. I got it now. Its a picture of my 2 year old using his first shaving kit. LOL
That's the NSA app. Leave that alone, they use that to build the shaving database.
Yay! It's finally gone!
Didn't realize it was still there after I put the setting to off 5 days ago. I was doing something else and saw that the whole checker is still getting loaded, so I just removed it from a more global place. If you'd told me the banner is still there I'd have done this sooner.
I guess they suck even more than I thought. Arguably it is a rather useful app, but there really is no excuse for this kind of misbehavior. I have very little tolerance for incompetent coding and even less for abusive.
I didn't think it was possible!Quote:
Originally Posted by gugi
On a related note (one which I thought this thread might have been created to address), what the heck is this at the top of my screen?
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To the OP. I have figured it out!! I am also on an iphone and that comes up when you try to access this forum while you are in private browsing. Turn the PRIVATE button off and refresh the page.
It says 'google custom search', except that the styling on your computer is bad (that's the default from Google). On my browsers it looks different, so I guess the question is why your browser doesn't see or understand the overrides that I put. Here is how it looks for me:Quote:
Originally Posted by hoglahoo
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Except... the "styling" is --No_Side_Ads -- one of the standard SRP interface themes, and not something user-configured (can we even do that?)Quote:
Originally Posted by gugi
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Firefox/26.0 on Linux Mint 11
I made the changes in the default style which is also parent style to the 'no side ads'. Probably it didn't carry over because the template I changed was overwritten in the child style, so that took precedence.
It's a pretty simple and straightforward hierarchy, so it's not totally dumb. But there is quantization on somewhat logical basis which means without a sophisticated system to propagate changes on the fly throughout the hierarchy you get inherent conflicts like this (i.e. the only way to determine whether a change in the parent style should propagate to its children is if the quantum where that change occurs hasn't been modified in the child).
I can always disable the 'no side ads', though. I already forgot what were the changes that I created the 'Straight Razor Place', but I set that up to evaluate those changes before putting them in the base style. The no ads one is different - Eric created it to, well, have no ads, but that may need to be reconsidered.
Happens with the ---Straight Razor Place theme, too; only the --SRP Default and --vbulletin themes display the Google "thingy" properly. Sigh. Was something broken?Quote:
Originally Posted by gugi
See the more details I updated my post above.
I do not have the ability to support multiple styles, so I do only one, "SRP default". The 'Straight Razor Place' child and the vbulletin default are only there for testing, and the 'no side ads' was done by Eric.
What changed was, that I updated the google search to asynchronous, but they have a lot more hardwired styling that they do not provide interface to change, so it has to be overridden with external css. Which is where the hierarchy and atomization of the stylesheets comes into play. The styles share enormous amount of overlap, so we have them structured in a hierarchy. But that doesn't guarantee that a change in the parent will propagate down to all children. (The google search propagated, the styling didn't - they are in separate encapsulations and the capsule with the code itself is not overridden in the children styles, while the capsule with the styling is.)
BTW the vbulletin default has no google custom search, the ads do not load, etc. because it's just that, the vanilla vbulletin style which lacks the custom code that implements those.
I can live with that (I guess ;) )
Old 1950s saying .......... Like it or lump it ....... :pQuote:
Originally Posted by hoglahoo
I guess. But it's ugly and wrong, and every time it appears it's as if it's the first time (making it uglier and wronger). Like the man said, if I don't like it I can eat across the street. So I'll "lump it", 'cuz I don't want to sacrifice the 20% of my SRP screen width that is "sequestered" for intrusive/non-existent vendor ads, while suffering the indignities of visually "lengthened" posts and the automatic rescaling (read: shrinking) of accompanying graphics (or their lack of detail and reduced value as visual aids).Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
Perhaps (once again) the solution is removing the vendor-ad "feature". As the old saying goes: "You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead." (and SRP members can find their own way to vendor websites)
As Nelson Rockefeller said, "There is no such thing as a free lunch." So the vendor ads, paying as they do, for our having the pleasure of viewing and participating in this site, will remain to be seen, unless there comes to be an alternative way of funding our good pleasure here on SRP.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHoren
Alright, I got the message - you guys don't like the quality and I agree - it looks horrible, that's why I spent a couple of hours figuring out how to make the google's freebie look good. We are not paying for the custom search, and so we are not getting any support, which means that I have to figure it out on my own. I think I've done enough to make it look good on the main style and I am not willing to do anything more about this at this point.
So, I've removed the experimental styles that do not live up to the standard.
I'm gobsmacked. I cannot believe that a 20% loss of body/post/text width was worth "fixing" a visually-ugly Google search-entry "thingy". Amazing. I'd rather pay for an annual subscription, then lose inches of valuable screen "real estate" (browser extensions block offensive vendor ads). Gobsmacked, I tell you. :shrug:
May be some day you could trade no ads for a subscription, but that's not an option right now and the support comes entirely from the advertisers.
I agree, I don't like the ads being back on the side but you don't bite the hand that feeds you. Gugi thank you for all the work you and the others do to keep this place up and running! No complaints will be heard from me about the way y'all have this place set up until I'm sent a bill for membership.Quote:
Originally Posted by gugi
We are always interested in constructive feedback how to do things better. Of course the only thing we can promise is consideration, usually there are pluses and minuses to anything, so it's a matter of balance and ultimately it is about what would advance the mission of this site. Many changes have taken us months and years to figure out, but I think it is usually better to do things right than to do them fast (unless there is urgency to the matter).
We are very grateful to the site sponsors, who pay the bills, they are only a part of what makes SRP successful - without the members, the mentors, the moderators we couldn't do it either. And there is a ton of support that is completely invisible behind the scenes.
As one example we have a huge numbers of generous members who donate to the monthly raffles, or simply quietly donate or lend items behind the scenes to people in need. Or welcome beginners, often complete strangers, in their homes and help them get started properly. A lot of those almost never get recognized, but they are of enormous importance to SRP being the great place it is.
So, I just wanted to point out that there is a lot of great work that goes unnoticed. Ultimately almost all of us want the same thing and are willing to help as much as we are able to. So, let's keep doing that and try to work together for the same goal.
First and Foremost: I'm a complete Mastodon about computers!! I've read this entire thread and didn't understand Any of It!!Quote:
Originally Posted by gugi
However I know that the members who work behind the scenes aren't paid and what they do-they do for the good of the many!! And I Thank Them! :bow:
I'd once sent an email to Eric at 2AM Pacific time expecting him to receive it when he got up in the morning and I believe that he's an hour ahead of me!
Correction!! He's two hours ahead of me!
Lo and Behold, he shot a quick message back saying the 'they' were working on something with the website and it needed to be finished that night and he'd give me a longer reply later!
That's dedication!! And I know that it wasn't just him but many others from all around the globe working together to make it happen for guys like me!!! :tu
Enough!
Thank you again!
Roy The Mastodon!!
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