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Thursday October 27, 2005

Shoutbox is opened ! - 1:12 pm
Site Issue , Site Updates , Web Hosting - DaRen

The shoutbox is in the navigation menu on your left hand side if you cant find it. I've always wanted to code a shoutbox and it's in my TO-DO list since I started my site long ago. But since it's not the most important thing, it's dragged until recently I begin to lay my hands on it.

The shoutbox is embeded inside a IFRAME...so...? SO I DIDN'T EXPECT ANOTHER BANNER WILL SHOW UP INSIDE THE IFRAME TOO !!! The banner there is making the shoutbox and me looking stupid...grrr...

whatever...anyway, like the commenting system, it's implemented with some simple abuse-protection. You can only post a new shout message 1 min after the previous shout of yours, double posting is not allowed too.

ps: design and layout are "stolen" from ShoutMix, however, all the codes are written by myself, so the copyright thing ? duh, you decide...

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Thursday October 27, 2005

Major site updates - 3:12 pm
Browser , Site Issue , Site Updates , Standards - DaRen

Recent site updates:

fully XHTML 1.0 compliance (except the banner part from my hosting company)
changes in some parts of the layout
fixed the css/templates to make layout displayed corrently with Opera, FireFox and IE
CAPTCHA (code verification) added to comment section
shoutbox added (along with a stupid banner)
fixed some broken bbcode parsing (eg. the [list] tag) and other codes
added a lot of administration/management features to my admin control panel

Some findings

Im using 3 browsers, Opera, FireFox and IE6 to test my site, a normal routine, and I found that:

Opera Smartest and fastest browser, although weak security support in early versions, but using the latest version 8.50, you can do things like online banking without trouble.
Firefox A browser that is build 'strict' and doing things in 'strict' mode. I'm not saying this is bad, but sometimes it shows that the browser is somehow dumb, but still a lot better than IE in many ways. One thing I dislike about FireFox is how it handles the cache, clicking a "Back" button and your previous data in a form is lost and you need to retype EVERYTHING.
IE6 Im using IE 6, haven't test out the latest IE 7, nothing much to say about it. Any human being who knows how a computer looks like, they surely seen IE in action or at least used it once. Good thing about IE ? they're everywhere...

No chance to use a Netscape browser, not really not having the chance, just that I'm lazy to download and install a 4th browser in my computer. Netscape Communicator was my first choice back in the old days until Opera is born.

Also found a free online XHTML conversion service, not tested.

Quote (from PSE, the website):

Translate a block of HTML, XHTML or XML script and turn it into a format compatible with XHTML. If you have tried translating old HTML into XHTML you will understand what a time consuming exercise this can be. Ensuring all tags are closed and attributes are quoted is tedious work. Finding where alt tags are missing from images is even harder. This utility also formats the document so that proper tag indentation is used, but without interfering with the visual appearance of the document.

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