Hi,

1.

If you remember, the option to disable the various JavaScript style elements was temporarily added to help debug all of the extremely slow page rendering and JavaScript timeouts that were being spit out when I updated the look of DaniWeb a couple of months ago.

Narue and others were experiencing timeouts where their web browsers would seemingly hang, but I didn't know what was causing them. So to help figure it out, I added the option to turn off each of the JS elements one at a time:
Turn off rounded corners
Turn off dropdown menu
Turn off hover tooltips

It turns out that, for all members who were complaining, it was the rounded corners that were the culpreit. The hover tooltips and dropdown menu don't cause any browser slowness.

In doing a quick run through the database, I noticed that the vast majority of members had disabled "rounded corners". Very, very few (fewer than 10) disabled one, or both, of the other two options.

Therefore, I went ahead and permanently turned off the rounded corners option yesterday, and so there was no reason to have this option in the control panel anymore. I don't feel there is a need to clutter up the control panel for just 10 out of 200,000 members.

However, in its place, I did add an option to disable ALL JavaScript, DHTML, and AJAX on the site in one massive swoop. This is useful to those with slower computers who just want quick forum browsing without all of the dynamic bells and whistles that slow down their web browsers. Not only does it disable the dropdown menu and hover tooltips, but it also disables all of the other dynamic-like forum features, such as AJAX quick reply (when things change without having to refresh the page), etc. It is nearly exact to the way that CProgramming is currently set up.

2.

Without AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), JavaScript is no longer used to let you interact with the server without having to refresh the page. Therefore, you can no longer double click on a folder icon and have something be changed in the database without reloading the page.

3.

Without DHTML dropdowns, the links are located at the bottom of the page. Clicking on the Forum Tools link at the top now scrolls you down the page to where they're located. This is the same way that CProgramming does it.

Cheers,

Dani

Very good Dani

Damn it, my spellchecker has got disabled again. I don't know why but any changes made to anything related to Javascript messes up with the spellchecker big time.

I guess the three options being merged into one is the cause of this.

I'm sorry, but I'm still incredibly confused how the SpellChecker is related to anything. I don't have any suggestions for you at this time.

~s.o.s~ is right, the spellchecker is now automatically disabled within the WYSIWYG editor. If you switch to plaintext mode, however, it comes back. I'm using Firefox.

I believe this is the problem that people were experiencing in the past. I'm not sure, as I don't use Firefox or a spell checker.

I don't post anymore... but I do occasionally browse. The floating popups are very annoying, like having tape stuck to your fingers. Please reinstate the option to disable popups.

Yeah. Popups bad. Me no like. Gross!

Part of it was also there to get rid of that maddening bumble box that follows the cursor around. It is now annoyingly BACK!

I want the hover tooltips GONE!!!!!

No, but the hover tooltips just drive you crazy with visual interrupts.

I want the dropdowns, but hate the tooltips.