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Occasionally LGF readers ask about the purposes of the icons at the bottom right of each front page article. “What do those things do? If I click them, will they hurt me?” they ask, plaintively. Nope, they’re not gonna hurt you. Here’s a quick reference card: (Some of the ...
Yes, that image replacement and CSS rollover effect has now been applied to the row of icons at upper right of each comment. You must now reload the page to install the proper Javascript and CSS files.
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Icons, Image Replacement, CSS, HTML, Accessibility
The image replacement technique about which we pontificated at length yesterday has now been applied to the entry rating buttons (not the comment ratings... yet). If you still haven’t fully recovered from the annual festivities and have no idea what we’re talking about, these are the rating buttons that are ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Icons, Image Replacement, CSS, HTML, Accessibility
We’re improving the infrastructure around here again. One visible change is the disappearance of the little blue word balloon icon (), that showed up next to the number of comments at the bottom right of each front page article; it was redundant, because clicking the number of comments went to ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Icons, Image Replacement, CSS, HTML, Accessibility
We have some new icons in that little information area that shows up at the bottom right of each post; they replace the text links that used to be in that section. The number of comments for each post is now shown with larger digits, followed by the icons: ...
The spinoff links redesign is complete, with styles to match the rest of the site. Gone are the clunky HTML tables, replaced by nice, clean, relatively semantic markup. Stinky Beaumont says they look like the kind of spinoff links his mom would have baked. But he had a weird mom. ...
Tech Note, Icons, Graphics, Design, Spinoff Links, LGF Blog Engine
The icons for rating front page articles, comments, and spinoff links have been redesigned for a more consistent (yet colorful!) look. And of course, once I started tweaking the rating buttons in Fireworks, I had to redesign the Favorites and Report icons as well, to make them match the style. ...
Here’s an open thread for whatever needs discussin’. More tweaks to the new “avatar” feature: * GIFs with transparent backgrounds will still be converted to JPG format, but now the background canvas for the image is preset to white instead of PHP’s default black, which produces a better image most ...
Nearly 3,000 comments on the new “avatar” feature, and it appears to be a solid hit. I’ve fixed a number of bugs since releasing the first version, so if you had problems, please give it another try. Here’s an overnight open thread to facilitate experimentation. For more information: New Feature: ...
As usual, when code is released into the wild the bugs begin to frolic. I’m tidying up loose ends in the avatar system, and I’ve also added a feature that will come in handy if you’d rather not wait for all those little pictures to load on the longer threads—you ...
Our latest little enhancement is a feature that lets you upload a “personal icon” (often called an “avatar” in geekspeak) that will be displayed when you post a comment, next to your username. If you don’t upload an avatar, the default tiny green football will be displayed, as it always ...