Talk:Catprog's Favorites - Revision history

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2008-07-03T08:20:39Z

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	Dude, Im loving the look of the page.		Dude, Im loving the look of the page.

	--[[User:~~75.154.95.48~~\|~~75.154.95.48~~]] 04:19, 3 July 2008 (EDT)		--[[User:Devin\|Devin]] 04:20, 3 July 2008 (EDT)

75.154.95.48 at 08:19, 3 July 2008

2008-07-03T08:19:23Z

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	The prototype's looking good. Only suggestion that comes to mind offhand now is to add a space between TF types to allow them to break onto separate lines when the screen's too narrow to contain everything on a single line. You might also want to use → (&rarr;)for the arrows, or perhaps upload an arrow image, to make it look more "professional". And of course you may want to fiddle with the table's styling, I threw the padding and vertical rules in there just to make it easier to see where everything was in an earlier version. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 23:36, 18 June 2008 (EDT)		The prototype's looking good. Only suggestion that comes to mind offhand now is to add a space between TF types to allow them to break onto separate lines when the screen's too narrow to contain everything on a single line. You might also want to use → (&rarr;)for the arrows, or perhaps upload an arrow image, to make it look more "professional". And of course you may want to fiddle with the table's styling, I threw the padding and vertical rules in there just to make it easier to see where everything was in an earlier version. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 23:36, 18 June 2008 (EDT)

			Dude, Im loving the look of the page.

			--[[User:75.154.95.48\|75.154.95.48]] 04:19, 3 July 2008 (EDT)

Bryan: /* Formatting */ add HTML code visibly so people don't have to click edit to see how I did that.

2008-06-19T03:37:47Z

Formatting: add HTML code visibly so people don't have to click edit to see how I did that.

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	::::::Certainly, anything on Wikimedia Commons is pretty much by definition available under a free licence. Though Shifti doesn't support SVG so I've uploaded a PNG version: [[:Image:External.png]]. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 15:49, 18 June 2008 (EDT)		::::::Certainly, anything on Wikimedia Commons is pretty much by definition available under a free licence. Though Shifti doesn't support SVG so I've uploaded a PNG version: [[:Image:External.png]]. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 15:49, 18 June 2008 (EDT)

	The prototype's looking good. Only suggestion that comes to mind offhand now is to add a space between TF types to allow them to break onto separate lines when the screen's too narrow to contain everything on a single line. You might also want to use → for the arrows, or perhaps upload an arrow image, to make it look more "professional". And of course you may want to fiddle with the table's styling, I threw the padding and vertical rules in there just to make it easier to see where everything was in an earlier version. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 23:36, 18 June 2008 (EDT)		The prototype's looking good. Only suggestion that comes to mind offhand now is to add a space between TF types to allow them to break onto separate lines when the screen's too narrow to contain everything on a single line. You might also want to use → (&rarr;)for the arrows, or perhaps upload an arrow image, to make it look more "professional". And of course you may want to fiddle with the table's styling, I threw the padding and vertical rules in there just to make it easier to see where everything was in an earlier version. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 23:36, 18 June 2008 (EDT)

Bryan: /* Formatting */ looking good, just a few more little suggestions.

2008-06-19T03:36:21Z

Formatting: looking good, just a few more little suggestions.

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	::::::Certainly, anything on Wikimedia Commons is pretty much by definition available under a free licence. Though Shifti doesn't support SVG so I've uploaded a PNG version: [[:Image:External.png]]. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 15:49, 18 June 2008 (EDT)		::::::Certainly, anything on Wikimedia Commons is pretty much by definition available under a free licence. Though Shifti doesn't support SVG so I've uploaded a PNG version: [[:Image:External.png]]. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 15:49, 18 June 2008 (EDT)

			The prototype's looking good. Only suggestion that comes to mind offhand now is to add a space between TF types to allow them to break onto separate lines when the screen's too narrow to contain everything on a single line. You might also want to use → for the arrows, or perhaps upload an arrow image, to make it look more "professional". And of course you may want to fiddle with the table's styling, I threw the padding and vertical rules in there just to make it easier to see where everything was in an earlier version. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 23:36, 18 June 2008 (EDT)

Bryan: /* Formatting */

2008-06-18T19:49:30Z

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	::::: can I use this one http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:External.svg for the external column?		::::: can I use this one http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:External.svg for the external column?

			::::::Certainly, anything on Wikimedia Commons is pretty much by definition available under a free licence. Though Shifti doesn't support SVG so I've uploaded a PNG version: [[:Image:External.png]]. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 15:49, 18 June 2008 (EDT)

Catprog: /* Formatting */

2008-06-18T01:35:56Z

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	:::: Finally, that icon request is rather open-ended. :) What types of TFs did you have in mind? I've occasionally poked around looking for a good set of icons to use in the TF type headers for Bryan's picks, but haven't had much luck and don't want to spend the time to create them from scratch simply for a little eye candy. Even the genre icons were a pain to come up with, and I deliberately chose very expansive and fuzzy categories to divide things into. Unless you know of a good set of images under a suitable license I'd recommend using plain old text for the TF type column. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 01:46, 17 June 2008 (EDT)		:::: Finally, that icon request is rather open-ended. :) What types of TFs did you have in mind? I've occasionally poked around looking for a good set of icons to use in the TF type headers for Bryan's picks, but haven't had much luck and don't want to spend the time to create them from scratch simply for a little eye candy. Even the genre icons were a pain to come up with, and I deliberately chose very expansive and fuzzy categories to divide things into. Unless you know of a good set of images under a suitable license I'd recommend using plain old text for the TF type column. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 01:46, 17 June 2008 (EDT)

			::::: can I use this one http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:External.svg for the external column?

Bryan: /* Formatting */

2008-06-17T05:46:57Z

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	:::Plenty of experience with html (not much on the design side) and little wiki markup. On the icon side I would like one for each type of transformation. Also is it possible to set it up so that I only have to add each story 1 and then a list of the new additions in the last month is shown? Also it doesn't see to want to sort properly on some of the columns (ignoring the difference between template and non-template rows). one example is the favourites column title 6. [[User:Catprog\|Catprog]] 00:33, 17 June 2008 (EDT)		:::Plenty of experience with html (not much on the design side) and little wiki markup. On the icon side I would like one for each type of transformation. Also is it possible to set it up so that I only have to add each story 1 and then a list of the new additions in the last month is shown? Also it doesn't see to want to sort properly on some of the columns (ignoring the difference between template and non-template rows). one example is the favourites column title 6. [[User:Catprog\|Catprog]] 00:33, 17 June 2008 (EDT)

			::::It appears that the sorting code doesn't deal with non-textual information such as those columns with the icons. I've "tricked" the code into sorting the length column by adding some text with display:none styling, so that it won't be shown to the end user but is still accounted for by the sort function. The other columns could be fixed up in a similar manner.

			:::: I see you went with parser functions to set some of the columns with more limited numbers of options, if you're into that sort of thing there's also a #switch statement you might want to look into (never worked much with it myself).

			:::: Why not simply add stories to your table in chronological order? If you insert new entries at the top, when people first come to the page the newest entries will be shown first but if they want to sort by some other criterion they can click a sort button.

			:::: Finally, that icon request is rather open-ended. :) What types of TFs did you have in mind? I've occasionally poked around looking for a good set of icons to use in the TF type headers for Bryan's picks, but haven't had much luck and don't want to spend the time to create them from scratch simply for a little eye candy. Even the genre icons were a pain to come up with, and I deliberately chose very expansive and fuzzy categories to divide things into. Unless you know of a good set of images under a suitable license I'd recommend using plain old text for the TF type column. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 01:46, 17 June 2008 (EDT)

Catprog: /* Formatting */

2008-06-17T04:33:16Z

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	::Have you looked at the template's coding, and/or the possibilities for styling the table? I don't want to assume too much about your level of comfort and familiarity with HTML and wiki markup, but on the other hand I know it's annoying to be talked down to (even unintentionally) so I'm not sure what level of guidance you'd like. I could add HTML comments explaining various features, if you like, to help you with modifying the code to change how it looks or to add the author field where you'd like it. And finally, if you've got any requests or suggestions for additional icons, let me know. [[:Category:Icons]] may have a few that you might find useful that aren't currently in use on Bryan's picks, and new ones can be created or uploaded from free sources fairly easily. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 02:17, 16 June 2008 (EDT)		::Have you looked at the template's coding, and/or the possibilities for styling the table? I don't want to assume too much about your level of comfort and familiarity with HTML and wiki markup, but on the other hand I know it's annoying to be talked down to (even unintentionally) so I'm not sure what level of guidance you'd like. I could add HTML comments explaining various features, if you like, to help you with modifying the code to change how it looks or to add the author field where you'd like it. And finally, if you've got any requests or suggestions for additional icons, let me know. [[:Category:Icons]] may have a few that you might find useful that aren't currently in use on Bryan's picks, and new ones can be created or uploaded from free sources fairly easily. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 02:17, 16 June 2008 (EDT)

			:::Plenty of experience with html (not much on the design side) and little wiki markup. On the icon side I would like one for each type of transformation. Also is it possible to set it up so that I only have to add each story 1 and then a list of the new additions in the last month is shown? Also it doesn't see to want to sort properly on some of the columns (ignoring the difference between template and non-template rows). one example is the favourites column title 6. [[User:Catprog\|Catprog]] 00:33, 17 June 2008 (EDT)

Bryan: /* Formatting */

2008-06-16T06:17:11Z

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	: An oversight on the author field. [[User:Catprog\|Catprog]] 10:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)		: An oversight on the author field. [[User:Catprog\|Catprog]] 10:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)

			::Have you looked at the template's coding, and/or the possibilities for styling the table? I don't want to assume too much about your level of comfort and familiarity with HTML and wiki markup, but on the other hand I know it's annoying to be talked down to (even unintentionally) so I'm not sure what level of guidance you'd like. I could add HTML comments explaining various features, if you like, to help you with modifying the code to change how it looks or to add the author field where you'd like it. And finally, if you've got any requests or suggestions for additional icons, let me know. [[:Category:Icons]] may have a few that you might find useful that aren't currently in use on Bryan's picks, and new ones can be created or uploaded from free sources fairly easily. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 02:17, 16 June 2008 (EDT)

Catprog: /* Formatting */

2008-06-15T14:42:46Z

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	I've also whipped up a very basic template for adding rows in a standardized manner. I inserted one as an example. I used raw HTML in the template because MediaWiki's preprocessor can get complicated sometimes when dealing with templates and tables, this way there's less opportunity for odd results. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 04:06, 15 June 2008 (EDT)		I've also whipped up a very basic template for adding rows in a standardized manner. I inserted one as an example. I used raw HTML in the template because MediaWiki's preprocessor can get complicated sometimes when dealing with templates and tables, this way there's less opportunity for odd results. [[User:Bryan\|Bryan]] 04:06, 15 June 2008 (EDT)

			: An oversight on the author field. [[User:Catprog\|Catprog]] 10:42, 15 June 2008 (EDT)

Talk:Catprog's Favorites - Revision history

Devin: *grumble* Must remember to log in first...

75.154.95.48 at 08:19, 3 July 2008

Bryan: /* Formatting */ add HTML code visibly so people don't have to click edit to see how I did that.

Bryan: /* Formatting */ looking good, just a few more little suggestions.

Bryan: /* Formatting */

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