https://www.icyphoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=8754
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mort
Mon 22 Oct, 2012 14:37

Working On A Games Thing
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I just finished the install php for a games thing I'm playing with.

Here's a html demo - What do you think?  -  Maybe too plain.  :twisted: 

http://members.iinet.net.au/~cranky65/install.html

Oh! and it's best with FF whatever and IE 9. :P


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Joshua203
Mon 22 Oct, 2012 15:05

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Looks nice Mort, the dragon image should be a little wider though (or the box less wide)

EDIT:
oooh and it's a bit confusing where you tell not to add slashes while you already added http:// in the text block  :shock:


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mort
Mon 22 Oct, 2012 21:42

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[quote user="Joshua203" post="57169"]oooh and it's a bit confusing where you tell not to add slashes while you already added http:// in the text block  :shock:[/quote]

[b][i][size=14]Picky![/size][/i][/b]  :mrgreen: 

Just for that I'll change it to "Do not add trailing slashes" just for the http//. :P

About the width? [i](You don't say what browser you are looking with)[/i] Can you take a snapshot for me please,  because I can't see anything wrong. :(

[i][color=crimson]Unless I go and by a monitor that will work with the old box I've got in the shed.[/color][/i]   :lol:


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Joshua203
Tue 23 Oct, 2012 22:02

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Picky? ... me?? :lol: 

I think you don't need a screenshot anymore for image/block width since it seems to be fixed already (I viewed it with IE9 and Nightly to compare).

I'll try and make some crossbrowser screenshots tomorrow for some other irregularities that I did not notice yesterday (alignment of the dropdown boxes compared to the text boxes)  :wink:


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mort
Wed 24 Oct, 2012 00:56

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[quote user="Joshua203" post="57187"]Picky? ... me?? :lol: [/quote]
No, just fussy like I am.  :lol: 
[quote]I did not notice yesterday (alignment of the dropdown boxes compared to the text boxes)  :wink:[/quote]
I may have to make a new column for those because FF and IE9 see the padding differently. :(

Edit:

Should be all fixed - Thank you.  8)


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Joshua203
Wed 24 Oct, 2012 10:51

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[quote user="mort" post="57190"]
Edit:

Should be all fixed - Thank you.  8)[/quote]
I think you've added the IF IE line to correct it, right?
This still leaves chrome, safari and opera looking different.

For example, this is what chrome looks like:

 [img]http://www.icyphoenix.com/files/images/5259/chrome_example.jpg[/img]


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mort
Wed 24 Oct, 2012 13:43

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[quote user="Joshua203" post="57193"]I think you've added the IF IE line to correct it, right?[/quote]

Of course I did. And still am for the sake of about 6px difference. :P

And thanks a lot for the picture, as it forced me to install chrome. :(

And it was the inputs were shrinking and not the selects moving. Anyway, it should be Ok this time.  :oops:  

Thanks again Josh.  :mrgreen:


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Joshua203
Wed 24 Oct, 2012 13:53

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I'm sorry to disapoint you again, Opera now looks completely off (worse than it was)

 [img]http://www.icyphoenix.com/files/images/5259/operascreeny.jpg[/img] 

On the upside.. all the other browsers mentioned earlier look similar now  ..sofar sogood, you're welcome  :wink:
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EDIT:
Since you must have done a quick edit already, here's the second result in opera:

 [img]http://www.icyphoenix.com/files/images/5259/opera2screeny.jpg[/img]


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mort
Wed 24 Oct, 2012 14:18

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The first pic you snapped was when I changed the template and hadn't uploaded the changed css files - Jeez, talk about BAD timing.
 :lol:  :lol: 

How many of the %$# :censored:  browsers do I got to look at!  :censored: 

Back soon - Watch this space.  :lcop:

[b][i]I'm back - -[/i][/b]  :lol: 

My friend, Opera doesn't know what modern html looks like yet. :(

Opera likes this:

<input type="text" name="games" [b]size="46"[/b] value="12" />

The others prefer:

<input [b]class="inwidth"[/b] type="text" name="games" value="12" />

And I ain't going to play any more just for "Opera" :P


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Joshua203
Wed 24 Oct, 2012 18:03

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I can imagine Mort, goodluck with your "Games thing"


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mort
Wed 24 Oct, 2012 21:38

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Thanks for the input my friend.  :mryellow: 

But this is what drives one nuts.

All of the pages I made are WC3 compliant, [i](But the Tooltip wrecks that with the install template)[/i] and here we have Chrome that can't see what three other browsers see.

So how does one change WC3 compliant markup and css to suit a mediocre browser like Chrome and not screw up the others.

Even [b]min-width: 450px !important[/b] is ignored by Chrome, while I don't even use it for the others anyway.

 :cry: 

[spoiler] [img]http://www.icyphoenix.com/files/images/8840/grrrrr.jpg[/img] [/spoiler]

[b]Edit:[/b]

I did some Googling and found that Chrome has a problem with cells in tables and the only way I can fix it is to fix the table width to XXXpx etc.

And I ain't about to do that because it will end up looking like Limun's calendar problem on different resolutions. ;)


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Joshua203
Thu 25 Oct, 2012 10:32

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In my own portal a fixed width is used for the left and right blocks and a % for the center, if the center can't shrink enough for any reason I get a horizontal scroll in any browser I test with.
Maybe that is an option for you Mort?


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mort
Thu 25 Oct, 2012 11:50

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I use max-width: 200px !important; for the side columns - And if Chrome can't decipher that, and other people are having the same problem, then I feel loath to accommodate fixed width in a fluid-width theme just for Chrome.

;)

[b]Edit:[/b]

I bit the bullet and made the center fixed width because I couldn't stand it after trying all other possibilities just for  :censored: Chrome.

 :lol:


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Mighty Gorgon
Sat 17 Nov, 2012 08:33

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Very nice website [b]mort[/b]!

It's a pain dealing with blocks width over different browsers... I spent hours on this topic and sometimes I still cannot render something how I would like to.


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mort
Sat 17 Nov, 2012 10:46

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Thanks, Luca  :mrgreen: 

I also note that I have a "New" member :P

But the demo gives a better picture of how it really works because it has header, footer and above and below game ads that work on the principle if(!empty - parse this. [i](Actually all of the Ad-Blocks work on the same rules).[/i]

http://bitzagames.com/demo/index.php

Not only that each game can also be sponsored individually with the above and below ads and up to three "side" ads.

Anyway, it's called Bitza Games because it is exactly that - A bit of this and that and even some of Icy Phoenix.  :lol: 

If you want a copy of the Demo - Just ask and I'll make a zip (45mb) available.

And something I was going to look at in the near future, when and if I ever finish cleaning it up is to drop it into Icy Phoenix as a toy using a new page, because just one VAR handles all of the core files.


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Mighty Gorgon
Sat 17 Nov, 2012 10:53

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You did a good job for what I can see.

I'll be glad to have a look at your package, thanks. :)


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mort
Sat 17 Nov, 2012 23:04

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It's in the mail...  :mrorange: 

If anyone else who [b][i]contributes here[/i][/b] wants a copy to play with - just PM me.


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TheSteffen
Sun 18 Nov, 2012 13:00

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Very nice site [b]mort[/b]  :up: 

Found one thing
http://bitzagames.com/demo/index.php?action=blog

Pages: [1] [1] ?


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mort
Sun 18 Nov, 2012 13:12

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It actually means page 1 of 1 ;)

The first "red page 1" only tells you what page you are on.

If you look here:

http://bitzagames.com/arcade/index.php?action=browse&ID=10&page=4

You'll get the picture.  :mrgreen: 

I was going to paginate it something like Icy Phoenix uses, but my Grand-kids liked it the way it is where they can jump to any page without the "Next 5/10 first/last" etc.   :lol:

Maybe if I changed Pages to Page -> It would probably be better. Don't know - I'll have to ask the Jr managers who issue all the instructions. ;)

[b]Edit:[/b]

But now you've got me thinking that I could rewrite the pagination script to give the "Current" page its own css class, and may put that on my "Things to do/look at" list. ;)


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TheSteffen
Mon 19 Nov, 2012 22:49

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[quote user="mort" post="57497"]But now you've got me thinking that I could rewrite the pagination script to give the "Current" page its own css class, and may put that on my "Things to do/look at" list. ;)[/quote]
Right, in my opinion that should be better  :mricy:


