CAG Site upgrade - thread 1

[gh2008]

... Oh bum, I'm using Chrome these days and the toolbar isn't compatible. Webbyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!! ;razz:

 

Are the pages rendering ok for you in Chrome??

Clicking 'Go Advanced' in the Reply really messes up and there are lots of other big 'niggles' in Chrome for me

 

And I was trying to search the thread for 'Chrome'

The results came back, but all they did was refer to the thread as a whole rather than the individual posts

Errrr why search a thread and not have posts returned ....

[gh2008]

Tried that sweetie - all I got was a thread from the BG about drinking loads of vodka whilst making a Christmas cake

 

I've done a forum search and that hasn't brought my thread up either

 

try google with

site:consumeractiongroup.co.uk and then your search words

 

that will only search the site

[gh2008]

Done that gh - only brings up my most recent thread on Cabot

 

PM me with what you are looking for if you want and I will find it for you

[gh2008]

how do you edit your signiture now?

Been on the "about me" page, clicked "edit about me", but it does nothing?

Any suggestions

 

Top right of page - click 'My Settings'

 

or this link might work hmmm the buttons above the edit box don't work in Chrome - (can't replicate it so don't worry)

 

here's the paste link http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/profile.php?do=editsignature

Edited August 7, 2010 by gh2008
cannot replicate the buttons not working

[gh2008]

Looking further into 'the Chrome issue' it seems to be the javascript 'popupctrl' that is causing the problems.

On page load all the controls are expanded into scrollable lists

You can click on a control and it will disappear, however, on mousehover (or in/out whatever it uses) there are also very strange things happening, especially with the thread tools & search box.

Mousehover over thread tools once it is 'docked' and the search nox disappears and all controls shuffle to the right, mouse hover over the search button and the box reappears.

 

There is obviously something fundamental in the implementation of the popup controls that just doesn't get on with Chrome's engine.

 

Unfortunately I'm not a web programmer nor Javascript - give me an embedded 8051 assembler problem and I'd be onto it ;-) although I am just starting to have a look at C# & WPF

[gh2008]

The words LOOK like English...

 

tell me about it

[gh2008]

more info re the popupctrl in Chrome

 

it doesn't actually 'popup' it 'pops into' the exiting layout

 

(I think this may be the fundamental problem with them)

[gh2008]

Ok, enjoying ladylike-wise my satisfaction at it working the way I was hoping for. Hooray! *daintily waves a flag*

 

Oh no the 'power of success' going to her head now ;-)

[gh2008]

from my limited knowledge of web programming - is the popupbody style missing?

 

Looking at this site & the vbulletin forum (which works fine in Chrome) the inherited style for a popupbody is missing on here

[gh2008]

Don't know if this helps, but these are the style properties (as Chrome sees them) for the 'Thread tools' popupctrl element

 

The main difference it seems is the display properties and the alignment ones

 

Vbulletin - works ok in Chrome

 

CAG - doesn't ;-)

[gh2008]

I can see the popupbody style in our css - line 1306 of pete_common_headinclude_v1.css . I see what you mean about the difference with vbulletin.com, I'd been working more on the idea that we had a missing 'display:none' to hide the menus by default

 

For some reason Photobucket won't show my 2nd pic but if you want to look at the inheritance tree for the CSS for that element, I've got them here http://s904.photobucket.com/albums/ac241/gh2008_photo/

[gh2008]

I can see the popupbody style in our css - line 1306 of pete_common_headinclude_v1.css . I see what you mean about the difference with vbulletin.com, I'd been working more on the idea that we had a missing 'display:none' to hide the menus by default

 

The problem is, for some reason Chrome is not 'finding' the .popupbody class in the style sheet (nice thing about Chrome is that you have a really good set of developer tools builtin so you can see what it is actually doing)

 

As to why it is not finding the class in the file ... Normally I would guess at a missing closing brace or something like that, but can't see anything - very frustrating and not having the source I am limited as to what I can do to help

 

Good luck in finding it - I will still keep looking.

[gh2008]

very dirty fix to the 'Chrome issue' is to move the .popupbody class from line 1306 and put it in earlier in the file - I've got it working with it in at line 66

(and yes I did create a local static webpage and css file so I could 'play )

[gh2008]

Google is your friend http://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?221592-Wolfy-vs-Howard-Cohen-C-L-Finance

[gh2008]

Yep, 'pat on the back' Webby Chrome is now usable - there are still a couple of style niggles when rendering in Chrome which I'll try and hunt down

 

Biggest difference with the site as a whole is SPEED !!!

 

re the Chrome fix - amazing what a single quick 'n' dirty fix can do

 

real job is finding out why it wouldn't work before

 

don't you just love IT

[gh2008]

I still have a couple of niggles, but as they're mainly visual tweak, they can wait.

 

Which visual niggles Bookie? I can help with those as I can just update my 'offline' page and style sheets and work with those

 

Chrome seems to be very fussy with the layout of the stylesheets whereas IE, FF, Opera all seem not to care so much.

& lets Webby concentrate on the 'real issues' well the ones that affect everyone

[gh2008]

 

and

 

 

as you can see, no biggie. ;-)

 

Ok, the first can be fixed by editing the template file, finding the line which produces this

</pre>
<li class="popupmenu">View First Unread&nbs

 

and changing it to

</pre>
<li class="popupmenu">View First Unread&nbs

 

i.e. an &nbsp after Unread (I know another 'dirty Fix') just gives a little more space for the image which is a background image and Chrome renders it very tight to the text.

Fix tested in Chrome, FF, IE

 

What's wrong with the 2nd one Bookie - can't see for looking

[gh2008]

If you use FF or Chrome then AdBlock is your friend (sorry site-team but I find them very annoying as well)

[gh2008]

Another niggle, when someone is quoted there is a link to their post, looks like this . That is only linking to the 1st post in the thread at the moment.

 

This one is a major issue.

 

Basically when the site was upgraded (I guess) the database was re-indexed. Problem is with deleted posts etc etc the original indexes would have had posts 'missing' gaps in the index.

When these get re-indexed these gaps are closed up.

 

So, the problem is that the historic threads have the index to the quoted post 'hard coded' into the page. And now the index number doesn't make sense.

 

An absolute nightmare to fix IMHO, and moreso as time goes on as each post made since the upgrade will be reusing post #s from the original site.

 

I may be completely wrong though I am just a user on here

[gh2008]

The 'ad issue' is easily solved, but that is obviously a decision that has to be made by 'the boss'

 

It clearly doesn't work where it is, and it can easily be put underneath the last post or down the left beside the last post. Or slightly more involved, formatting the quote to 'give it room'

I'm sure this will be sorted once the 'real usability' issues are dealt with.