Aug 19
No more scrolling…
2004 at 09.14 am posted by Veerle Pieters
Just an announcement. I’ve done a small update on the comment’s page. If you hit the preview button of the comment form you’ll be immediately directed to the comment preview under the article, you don’t need to scroll all the way down to see it. Also if you click the comments link you’ll jump directly to the comments, also no scrolling anymore. Thanks for the tip AkaXakA ;-)
UPDATE : I’ve also added an “Add yours” link with a matching icon next to the “Comments” title. If you click on this you go right down to the form. And “look Ma” there is also a new update icon ;-) Enjoy!
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that’s weird. I was actually thinking about that the other day, and was contemplating whether or not I should suggest it. Great job on your site, and excellent job reading my mind :)
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no it doesnt. it goes to the top of the comments. not the comment form. i think you need to move the anchor link down to the form. :)
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Jenny, if you click “comments” it is meant to read the comments that’s why it jumps to comments. But maybe I should add an “add your comment” link… Voilà ! You asked it and now you got it hehe :-)) Thanks another nice tip!
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hmmm.. I don’t think preview works. When I hit preview absolutely nothing happens!
Ohhh… I see now… I love the concept but can I make a suggestion to the implementation :-)?
How about you either:
* highlight the part of the page my comment has been added to so it REALLY stick out or
* just put an edit and post button underneath the added comment… but I prefer my first suggestion.
Keep up the really good work my friend!
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Great improvements! I’m curious how do you make this nice icon? Do you use some vector based program or something else?
Keep up the good work :)
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It works for me :)
Nice very nice…
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@John, I’m afraid I’m not a PHP guru like Dunstan Orchard :-) He has done an amazing job on his comments. So for things like that I’ll need a specialist.
@sipke, I drew them in Photoshop using the pencil tool.
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Ahh! You followed through on my advice!
You don’t have to thank me for the tip, I’m too flattered you took the time to implement my suggestion…
The ‘Add Yours” button is also a good idea, although I first read ‘Up Yours’...but that’s just me probably. The little icon accompanying it is nice too.
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I’d just like to say, since about last week I think, you did a change on your site that made all the form input boxes, and textarea boxes really wide/long in FireFox 0.9.3 for windows, They actually leak over the next column and are about twice the size as normal.
Just thought I would let you know. But great site otherwise ofcoure…
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@Rob: Strange since this seems to be a thing that only happens at your end as you can see in this screenshot. I’ve tested it on Windows XP with Firefox 0.9.3. The thing is that I didn’t change anything that would effect those input boxes. So don’t know what to do here. Sorry.
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Hmmmm, wierd, check this screenshot of how it shows here
Screenshot
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Just did some more testing, happens in Mozilla 1.8a3, Mozilla 1.7, Firefox 0.9.3 (Moz 1.7), Firefox Nightlies (Moz 1.7.2), Netscape 7.2 (Moz 1.7.2), .... and Opera 7.54, I wonder what causes it, is the width set using CSS?
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@Rob: Indeed how strange! The only update I did on this blog are the implementations that I did yesterday and as I understand from your comment the problem was already there before those updates. Before that, the last edit was when I designed this site.
Most of the visitors here surf with Firefox, last time I checked only 44% used IE. So I can imagine if this was a bug I would have got several people telling me this. On our machine it’s fine with the same browser. Don’t know where to look and what to do.
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Sorry about the multiple posts, but I found out why…
The other day I was looking at Jeffrey Zeldman’s site, and noticed he was using the MAC font “Lucida Grande”, so I thought, I would do a Google search for that font, install it, and see if his site would look nicer, which it did…
But Now I just found out, that your site uses “Lucida Grande” too, and the PC version must be slightly different, so it has thrown the input boxes out of size.
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@Rob: Yes the width is set by CSS for those in the margin.
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Probably best to leave it then, it’s my fault for installing a MAC font on a PC.
I normally use width:100% on input boxes. However that also adds several pixels because of the 1px border and/or padding. To fix this, I normally use a right margin of -2px or a bit more.... depending on the situation.
It’s a shame that input boxes do not accept a combination of display:block and width:auto where they should behave just like any other box object, unfortunately input boxes are always hard to style across different browsers.
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Rob: If I am not mistaken you have Lucida on PC but not Lucida Grande. That font is very similiar if I recall correctly. I suppose once you take the font out everything should be fine again.
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Already did that, and it’s fine
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I’d like to know at least a little information about who is behind this site. Is there any such information?
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Hi VizStorm, sorry I don’t have an “About” page. I’m planning on adding one in my next design (whenever that will be). I’m a graphic designer from Belgium. I’ve started as a freelancer in 1992, I’ve been creating websites since 1997 and have my own company called Duoh!. But if you are a member you can look that info up under my name in the “Members” section ;-)