Posts by Dani

If it was only 30 mins, it has to be some type of one-time glitch. Let me know if it happens again.

The bar only seems to be appearing when you are looking at a thread, for me it disappears when I am looking at a forum thread list which is a fairly ittitating feature in a navigation bar.

That's very odd. It should always be there.

Firstly, we did make a change to cookies about a week ago where everyone was logged out. I started a thread about it apologizing. :) So if you've had your browser open for over a week, then that's the reason why.

Secondly, to prevent against spam, you cannot submit any forms after a few hours of inactivity on the site. That's probably what you're referring to.

We currently don't keep track of how many views each article has received. I ran a poll somewhat recently asking if people wanted this, and most people said that they wouldn't find it useful.

Ah, I got rid of Favorite Forums because I was under the impression it wasn't a heavily used feature. You can just use the top navigation menu dropdown links, and many people complained that the "favorite" forums it showed weren't where they wanted to go usually.

It's funny because it's always existed.

I guess it is very unobtrusive because we've had it for two years and you just noticed now. In any case, it's a good way to easily see latest articles that match your interests, or your own recently viewed articles, or quickly go to your own posts. It's like your own personalized toolbar.

We've always had the bar, for at least the past 2 or 3 years. You don't find it useful?

Please provide links and the members in question. Thanks!

Inline code is generated by using the HTML tag <code></code>. According to the HTML standard, the code tag does not preserve whitespace.

Code blocks are generated by wrapping the code tags with preformatted text tags, which are used to preserve formatting and whitespace. Therefore, code blocks are generated using the HTML tag <pre><code>...</code></pre>, as explicitely recommended by Google.

One of the most important features of the Markdown language is its cleanness and cut-and-dry separation of context and formatting. Therefore, using   for formatting/design reasons actually goes directly against both the W3C's guidelines for HTML 5 and proper SEO guidelines.

If I wanted to fix this "bug", then on the server-side we could replace all spaces within inline code with  . However, I don't think I want to do that since it would go against the W3C's standard that inline code collapses whitespace.

HUH? What were you trying to test?

You're right. I forgot that inline code strips excessive whitespace. :( It's the HTML standard.

Hmm ... strange that the markup language would remove them.

Test: ' ' Hmm ...

You cannot have any code-like characters, such as curly braces, outside a code snippet.

Hi,

Thank you for your concerns. We were having a LOT of problems with the old system, and therefore switched to a new system. In doing so, it significantly affected our Google traffic, which is the cause for the decline in posting activity. We haven't really "driven people away" with our new system. Rather, we just have far less traffic coming in from Google in the first place.

As Jorge mentions, it seems like you accidentally zoomed out in Chrome. From the Tools menu, click Zoom to 100%. You can also hold down the Ctrl key and scroll the mouse up. That's probably how it accidentally happened in the first place.

Sorry for the frustration :(

I tried that link, my entire screen turned white, pressing Esc did nothing, so I killed the browser in Taek Manager.

Sorry AD, I meant for only Walt to go there. That page doesn't have a front end and so your page is supposed to just be white.

Try going to this page: http://www.daniweb.com/messages/js_empty_inbox

Hmm ... the database says you have one PM still. Hmm ... this looks like a bug.

It should be 80x80, not sure why it would be deformed as long as you upload a square avatar.

I don't remember you had that a few years back because I go to your site a few times a year to look up stuff.

In the past, it only would pop up as a result of a Google search, so if you typed the URL in directly, it didn't show. Now it pops up regardless.

It seems you have good intention to have non members to sign up.

And it works ;)

I don't want to be nosy but how long the trial basis?

Long enough to compare the additional new members gained from the popup as compared to how many people complain or find it annoying, and to ensure that we don't lose Google traffic as a result of it.

We've had this for at least five years. We got rid of it last year due to being hit by Google Panda and some backlash from people who don't realize you can click right out of it, but thought we were putting a login wall in front of our content, which we're not doing.

Unfortunately it seems you got that idea too :( You can click right out of it to close it.

I put it back on a trial basis because it increases conversions by so much, it's hard to not have it ;)

Incidentally, we have our own similar feature to SO here: http://www.daniweb.com/stats/get_badge

Even if we did allow images within signatures, we would never allow third-party images on the site (which is what you are requesting). Firstly, this could easily lead to broken images on the site over time, if the external websites no longer exist. Page load times are now relying on a third-party server. And, the biggie, is that it's easy enough to spoof a mime type that there would be no protection from viruses, third-party cookie injections, and all sorts of nasty things.

It would be nice if you put the standard Facebook login button in the purple ribbin at the very top when not logged in so that people can easily see that he/she can login with Facebook.

It is??

Addendum:

The way the Facebook Login feature works is, upon being clicked, it acquires your Facebook email address. Then, if there is a matching DaniWeb member with the same email address, it logs you in. Otherwise, if there are no matches, it creates a new account for you based on that email address. Then, upon subsequent clicks to the Facebook Login, it does find a match from then on and proceeds to log you in.

Regardless of whether your account was created through the Facebook Login, or you've been a member for ten years, you can always log in both ways, and alternate between them. The only caveat is that if the account was created for you, you need to first create a password for yourself in your profile to do normal login.

You're not using the same email address for both of them. IF YOU WERE, Facebook would have automatically logged you into your Ancient Dragon account. You would then be able to switch back and forth between Facebook login and traditional login to the AD account.

AD's email is ancient.dragon@<snip>.com
mel.stober (and facebook) are mel@<snip>.com

It's a new feature, as of last weekend.

You can now log into the site with either your existing credentials or with Facebook.

http://www.daniweb.com/search/query/simple-encryption/58/code?q=site%3A%2A%2Fsoftware-development%2Fvbnet%2Fcode+simple+encryption

I know it's really pathetic, but I just had a dream about that. I had to sift through all my code putting an exit(); after all my header redirects. I haven't done it for real, but that was last night's nightmare, I kid you not. I need to get out more.

Use your url

A lot of members tend to be hesitant with doing this for fear of being labeled a spammer.

Also there are people like me who want to get help with work-related problems without disclosing my company.

You can always use http://www.example.com :)

He just wants to play with client-side browser scripts (a la Greasemonkey) to get rid of it.

You need to completely remove the following snippet of code if you want to revert back to a standard text editor:

<script type="text/javascript"> <!--
var myEditordani<THIS IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING RANDOM> = CodeMirror.fromTextArea($('#dani<THIS IS GOING TO BE THE SAME SOMETHING RANDOM>').find('textarea[name="message"]').get(0),
    {
        mode: 'markdown',
        lineWrapping: true,
        tabSize: 4,
        indentUnit: 4,
        matchBrackets: false,
        keyMap: "daniweb"
    }
);
//--> </script>

If you want to keep the editor (which is tab-aware, etc), but just not have the color highlighting, just change the line mode: 'markdown', to mode: '',.

You just did. This is a thread entitled "Hi".

I ask why can you not have a single 'upward arrow' and 'downward arrow' that both adds/decreases rep and upvote/downvote counter?

It was never like this. Just clicking on the arrows gives you a vote. Only a vote WITH comment affects reputation.

Looking at the graph in your member profile, which charts your change in reputation against your posts, it looks like you haven't had a lot of reputation lately because you haven't posted lately.

What happens when you try to login?

Try clearing your browser cache.

You need two loops: An outer loop to keep track of the rows, and an inner loop to keep track of the number of asterisks per row.

Right now, you have an outer loop that is keeping track of the rows. But you need to replace that cout line with an inner loop to not just print one asterisk, but to loop through printing a variable number of asterisks.

You Canadians are weird :-P

Bug fixed, thanks!

http://www.daniweb.com/search/query/pagination/17/code?q=site%3A%2A%2Fweb-development%2Fphp%2Fcode+pagination

http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/shell-scripting/113

The editor that we use was designed to only work with monospace fonts. I was being stubborn, and insistant that I get the editor to work with a mix of non-fixed and fixed-width fonts. Unfortunately, the editor wouldn't have it and it was causing the floating cursor bug, the drifting cursor bug, and the incorrect tab width problems. I've finally waved the proverbial white flag. But I'm NOT giving up! I'm NOT, I tell you!

Touche :) Have to leave soon to go to a father's day bbq but I'll def post when I get home.

Check line 22 of the index.php file

Sorry about that ... it's another case of a file that is supposed to be out of sync on the dev server and production server. Essentially the file that says to show php strict warning messages is set to enabled on dev and is SUPPOSED to be suppressed in production.

Regardless, the bug's been fixed. :)

Still struggling with the offset cursor bug. I'm usually really good at CSS, but this is royally kicking my ass!

The offset cursor bug becomes prevalent when a line of code wraps to the next line.

The offset cursor bug should be fixed. I'm confused what you mean by fixed width spaces? I don't really understand the screenshot you posted.

Actually, I'm 90% sure it's part of ComScore.

They're third party, and I'm not seeing them at all, nor can I confirm who is running them, or any details of it.