Two Portal Enhancements

[jgannon]

Brandon, you're the man. This is great.

[Jeffrafa]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

I think you may have bigger problems than that if your full time OS is Linux!

Say what you will - I'm just proud to be free of Microsoft's grasp.

I Made the final plunge just over 6 months ago. So far full immersion is not so bad - some things are still a bit of a challenge (like dual screen requires some tricky xorg configurations), but a lot can be achieved with a base install and Automatix - no command line needed.

- Jeff

(There are still a few key apps I half to go back for, like CAD. But hey - there's always virtualization if dual boot isn't desirable.)

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by Jeffrafa

Say what you will - I'm just proud to be free of Microsoft's grasp.

I Made the final plunge just over 6 months ago.

My hat is off to you....good job!

I don't mind using MS products, somehow I manage to stay out of their grasp. Maybe because I'm content to use their old products.

[whytheheckme]

Got another issue... Screenshot posted.

No Title!!!

Jacob

--Remember, Good posts deserve good Rep!

[Brandon Martus]

It's fixed now (I think).
-Brandon

[whytheheckme]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

It's fixed now (I think).
-Brandon

Great. Thanks.

Jacob

[Nate Laverdure]

Problem: these preview tooltips are huge and kind of annoying.

Is there an option to limit thread preview size? Maybe we could have a spinner in User CP that determines the maximum number of words or characters in the tooltip.

Or better yet, in lieu of a tooltip, display a small (javascript?) preview pane that appears after hovering over a title in the portal. The pane could be movable, scrollable, expandable, and copy-and-pasteable to dynamically adjust to how much of the first post the user wanted to read.

Or even better still, steal one from TiddlyWiki (sans the fancy animations) and display some of the first post (again, a spinner might be useful) right after a thread title when it is clicked in the portal. When another thread title is clicked, make the old preview pane go away, and make a new one appear.

Just a few ideas. Thanks for all your work!

[Schnabel]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

I'm not bashing anything.
Who in the corporate world uses Linux for anything other than a server?

Delphi! My dad told me that the computer that he uses at work runs Linux. I do beleive that this is a burn!

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Nate Laverdure

Problem: these preview tooltips are huge and kind of annoying.

It sounds like you are using Internet Explorer [6], as this is one of the only browsers that does not automatically truncate the tooltips for items to only one line.

Solution: get Firefox 2.0! Now, your tooltips will be will be limited to a single line, without any need for Brandon to make some code modifications and/or add unnecessary Javascript to an already heavily modified vBulletin.

[Nate Laverdure]

I am using Firefox 2.0. I forgot that I am using the Long Titles extension (I originally got it so I could read the entire tooltips on the xkcd comics). The only negative side effect is that it produces some ugly-looking blocks of text on CD. So ignore my complaint-- if I get sufficiently annoyed, I'll just turn the extension off.

Edit: Mozilla bug 45375 and Firefox bug 218223 (which cause long tooltips to be broken with "...") are both fixed in Firefox 3.0alpha4 and SeaMonkey 1.1beta. So with the release of FF 3.0, my problem will soon become everyone's problem. Just a heads-up.