You're not clicking the image, you're clicking the a element, which happens to match up exactly with the image. I provided a working, downloadable example.
[neo]Whoah![/neo]
I wrestled with that for a while...can't belive the solution was apparently so simple.
If you guys want to try and make an XHTML version of the site that looks identical to this one but uses spans \ divs \ whatever I'm game. It just has to be cross platform\browser compatible. I'm a fairly open developer and I welcome input, that said, I don't do well with people second guessing me. I know that if I used tables, transparent gifs, jpgs, and HTML 1.0 the site would be identical in all browsers. This site is unique in the fact that we can push the limits a bit. Right now it isn't all ready, but eventually I imagine this site being XHTML + RSS compliant. I have more to post about this, but it will be later, for now I demand sleep.
You could just code it in nothing but pure XHTML Strict/CSS and use something like Dean Edward's IE7 scripts to make it work with IE5/6 (plus it fixes the whole alpha transparency/PNG issue with IE). A website that sticks to standards should work in the other major browsers (Opera/FF/Mozilla/Safari) without any real issue.
uhm.. it's reloading again, but not the forum's index page this time
edit: actually, it's only happening in SE++
edit2: now it's happening randomly in the whole forums. aah!
edit3: I think I might be going crazy, error's gone again o_O
Edit4: Aaand back, it just happened while editing this post
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edited November 2005
I don't think this was happenening yesterday...
But I notice this morning that the comic search is only searching the comic titles. I can't search on any keywords that describe the comic.
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The links near the top of the page (comic, archive, forum, etc.) do not function at all using Konqueror.
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edited November 2005
FYI - regarding the autorefreshing in Opera. It seems there are some reports on the Opera forums of this, and it usually has something to do with hash references and maybe javascript (like location.href='#1023010';)
At a glance, I'm not seeing anything here like that, and I certainly don't know why it would suddenly change this week... But here's the thread references over at Opera.com, in case they might help:
About the Adblock... maby try doing a search for all blockable elements and see if there is a spacer in there... another board i frequent has a stupid 1pixil wide spacer in the middle of the banner so just removing the banner doesnt get rid of it..
if u tried that... maby there is something else simular that P-A uses?
either way it should come up with something if u go to the "List all blockable elements" thing
The newspost headers don't scale properly when I increase text size in Firefox. The fix for thijs would be to change the .fullpostheader class from "height: 60px;" to "min-height: 60px;". This should work properly in IE 6, Opera, and Firefox, but I'm not certain about anything else.
The effect of the change would mean that when I increase font size, the title bar will increase in height to hold the Title, Date, and Author of the post.
FYI - regarding the autorefreshing in Opera. It seems there are some reports on the Opera forums of this, and it usually has something to do with hash references and maybe javascript (like location.href='#1023010';)
At a glance, I'm not seeing anything here like that, and I certainly don't know why it would suddenly change this week... But here's the thread references over at Opera.com, in case they might help:
I'm actually getting a different problem when posting. I keep getting a "connection closed" error message at the entered successfully screen. Gimme a sec and I'll see what it says when I post this and then edit.
EDIT EDIT: It also does this on editing. It still loads the page fine, and then redirects back to the thread fine.
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you're = you are
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
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The site was loading random images the first time I opened it today. Funny parts included Gabe's Av on Tycho's newspost and on Gabe's post? A giant <- Back button. Also happened on the forums when I opened Games and Technology, and every topic had a lock on it. Oh I wish I had hit print screen on that one.
Every time I load up the main page in Firefox (1.0.7), it wants me to download index.php and I do get the occasional 500 somethingorother error. I saved index.php to my hard drive and it went away, but I don't think that's a good solution.
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edited November 2005
I'm not sure what the criteria was for choosing high-res over low-res comics for inclusion in the new single-res interface, but this one:
I noticed most of the news-post fixing stuff I mentioned is in there. Thanks!
EDIT: ampersands broken again
However, I apparently missed one. In Gabe's post about the PoP comic, there are a bunch of "& #8217;"s (without the space between # and &) where there should be apostrophes.
Also, the forum software apparently accepts &#(number);, and sends it through Example: ß
When will the madness end?
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edited November 2005
That's a unicode HTML entity, and it is perfectly valid XHTML.
I don't know if it's just me, but I'm unable to navigate through the comics backwards past Aug 28 of this year, the back button just takes you back to the same comic repeatedly.
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edited November 2005
Already been mentioned, in this very thread I believe. You can continue on if you go change the URL yourself, but there is still a bug there that alpha has yet to fix.
I keep getting "Document contains no data" errors using Firefox randomly when I use to forums, and on the main page. Not sure if this is related to any other complaints or not. It's being a real bother, seeing as I can't even remain permanently logged in on the forums.
In my RSS feed there is a new post by Tycho called "There's Some Blue For You" and he says "Tycho: I know it's been requested. (CW)TB.." But when I click on it it's not on the main page anywhere. Oh hey it's there now. Nevermind.
One thing I'm noticing is that while the page-text is loading super duper fast, the entire page (graphics and everything) is feeling like it loads slower than before.
For some reason I notice it more in IE than in Firefox. I don't know if that has to do with the way it handles caching, or if it is just more noticiable because the png's take a moment to snap into transparent mode, or what.
When doing a shift-reload, so as to force it to reload all the graphics, I'm counting slowly to about 5 or 8 before everything loads.
The ads might be a bit slow (3rd party servers for the lose), but the rest should all be very snappy. We just changed the kernel buffer size for the OS from 64Mb to 512Mb (and we will move it to 1Gb tommorow) the results should be noticible immediately (the server load has dropped in half) we are running at 78% CPU free right now with a load average of 0.31.
I'm sure that put to the task, the forumers could find all of them within a day, but I don't know if that is pointless, if you have some better way of identifying them.
Actually, if I could have a list of comics that are broken by the weekend, I could probably manually fix the database entries by Thanksgiving.
Anyway, they aren't consitent in the way they end tags. I have some scripts that will be helpers, but it isn't automated.
Sounds messy. If they were only doing it at the end of paragraphs it would be easy, but if they do it all over the place then you've definitely got a headache.
You know, if it's nothing more than updating and cleaning HTML, you've probably got enough coders on the board to distribute it. Just hand out a spec sheet (to make sure everyone's on the same page), put up an FTP site and let (trusted) forumers chew through the old posts for you. Fossils like myself who used to code HTML back when a text editor was the standard software would finally have a use again!
I might take you up on that. Such an endevour would be a bit risky, but I think I could convince robert of it. Let me think of a way to do this securely and I'll get back to you. vi for the win.
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[neo]Whoah![/neo]
I wrestled with that for a while...can't belive the solution was apparently so simple.
You could just code it in nothing but pure XHTML Strict/CSS and use something like Dean Edward's IE7 scripts to make it work with IE5/6 (plus it fixes the whole alpha transparency/PNG issue with IE). A website that sticks to standards should work in the other major browsers (Opera/FF/Mozilla/Safari) without any real issue.
edit: actually, it's only happening in SE++
edit2: now it's happening randomly in the whole forums. aah!
edit3: I think I might be going crazy, error's gone again o_O
Edit4: Aaand back, it just happened while editing this post
But I notice this morning that the comic search is only searching the comic titles. I can't search on any keywords that describe the comic.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/11/14
I know there is at least one other.
EDIT: Oh man, this is getting really annoying.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
At a glance, I'm not seeing anything here like that, and I certainly don't know why it would suddenly change this week... But here's the thread references over at Opera.com, in case they might help:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=65952
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=103271 (read the very bottom post in this thread, especially.)
EDIT: could it be this line of code that appears on the "Your message has been entered successfully" page?
this is priority one, people
if u tried that... maby there is something else simular that P-A uses?
either way it should come up with something if u go to the "List all blockable elements" thing
The effect of the change would mean that when I increase font size, the title bar will increase in height to hold the Title, Date, and Author of the post.
I'm actually getting a different problem when posting. I keep getting a "connection closed" error message at the entered successfully screen. Gimme a sec and I'll see what it says when I post this and then edit.
EDIT: It says
Connection closed by remote server
http://www.penny-arcade.com/forums/posting.php
EDIT EDIT: It also does this on editing. It still loads the page fine, and then redirects back to the thread fine.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
Search the blockable elements for the #DIVs that contain the ads.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/11/12
is the high-res one, and is busted. The low res one is still fine:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20031112l.gif
EDIT:
Here's another. This one, it chose to use the mobil comic for some reason:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/11/26
if it had picked either the low or high res version, we'd be fine.
Another possible cause of the Opera reload bug could be the strangeness in the headers the server is returning:
Why is the date being sent twice? More relevently, why is Connection set to both keep-alive and close?
EDIT: ampersands broken again
However, I apparently missed one. In Gabe's post about the PoP comic, there are a bunch of "& #8217;"s (without the space between # and &) where there should be apostrophes.
Also, the forum software apparently accepts &#(number);, and sends it through Example: ß
When will the madness end?
it's very annoying that every single link to a comic in the entire universe is now broken
And there's blue behind the news posts. Woo hoo!
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/pngopacity/
Hope it helps you too.
I did implement the line height change, we will see if anyone notices.
I might take you up on that. Such an endevour would be a bit risky, but I think I could convince robert of it. Let me think of a way to do this securely and I'll get back to you. vi for the win.