Animation graphics in the text field (page 3)

SEAKEN2001

Haha, yeah, this did turn out to be a very funny topic! But I admit I was just pretty damn irritated at all the moving graphics while I was trying to read some serious stuff.

BTW, while I'm complaining [g], it is also irritating to have to scroll back and forth to read. I will usually skip the topic if I am forced to scroll to the right. Plmkrzy, your horrizontal line causes this, as do large photos posted into the thread by other folks. I realize this is not a techy site and I have no intenton of trying to fit everyone in to my perfect little window. I know why these things are happening because I am a computer techy. All I am doing is ranting. Please don't take any of this personally.

(BTW, Simon, if you are reading, I can make some suggestions about how to aleviate these screen problems that are caused by improper use of HTML and poor understanding of pixels. Since you allow HTML in the text posting area you have lost control of formatting. I suggest that you explore creating a few different skins, and one at least that will display all graphics elements as place holders. This would allow for those who prefer to skip the cute little pictures or have slower connections).

Hey, Rocky and Mrs. Rocky, my computer's just fine, and I have a high speed connection. I can watch movies on my PC if I want to. But I much prefer the text mode when doing forum discussions. I'm a hold over from the old days when text is all we had. Oh, and LB's animations were great!

Valis, no, sorry to say that I was usually the one giving the drubbing. I didn't treat her very nicely, along with here brothers, when we were kids. We thought she was a pest. She's just getting back at me!

Princess, I do love you and appreciate your jabbing me here. I'm glad it turned out to be a light-hearted thread since I was pretty pissed when I wrote it. Ha!

Sean

mrs rocky2

Sean - I'm a UNIX techy myself, love scripts and commands. Not big into Windows. Give me a database where I can run some nifty queries!

Mrs R

Simon

The sideways scrolling is already taken care of in the next version where eash post is in it's own table rather than all in the same one so one wide post will only affect itself. I may look at making the change to the current version while I have some changes in the pipeline.

One of the changes I've just done is to no longer store signatures as part of the post (which saves space). Instead, they will be appended when the posts are displayed. This means that changing your signature affects all past posts as well and, more importantly, people will have the option of NOT showing signatures if they don't want ('cause they are separate).

SYN

(BTW, Simon, if you are reading, I can make some suggestions about how to aleviate these screen problems that are caused by improper use of HTML and poor understanding of pixels.
Simon knows what he's doing!

Since you allow HTML in the text posting area you have lost control of formatting.
Erm, no, it is more because images are allowed!

I suggest that you explore creating a few different skins, and one at least that will display all graphics elements as place holders.
????? What do you mean? This site doesn't have "skins"! If you don't want to see "graphics elements", all you need to do is disable the "Load Images" option in IE (I assume you're using IE). All browsers have an option to turn off images, although these days that might not be a terribly good idea. Unfortunately IE doesn't have a site-specific image-disabling feature, so you're pretty much stuck with that.

This would allow for those who prefer to skip the cute little pictures or have slower connections).
Use LYNX!

On a side note, has anyone here ever tried using this site with Lynx? How well does it work?

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SEAKEN2001

Thanks Simon, sounds like the new version will be more user friendly.

Syn, I hear what you are saying. But I really do not want to set my browser to turn off images or run more than one copy of the browser just for this site, etc. I realize that resources may be limited and I am sure Simon does know what he is doing and understands that I was only filling the suggestion box. On Delphi Forums I have several controls that I can use to create different looks, similar to "skins" in a media player. I like the idea of having the option of looking at a site in full multi-media or a plain text version. I realize this is more work for the web developer but it does broaden the base of viewers.

I have not tried Lynx for quite some time. I would like to get that working again on another box. I messed around with it in DOS but think I will go with UNIX this time around.

Mrs Rocky, is Unix the only OS you use? I have several boxes around here and want to start using Unix on some of them. Haven't had the time to set it up yet. I use Windoze only because it's what everyone else uses around here. Personally, I miss CP/M and DOS. But I don't do much but use these things anymore. Haven't fiddled with programming and system data for quite some time. I use mostly applications like desktop publishing and photo editing these days. But I still dabble in DBMS and just love to get into databases. Send me an e-mail and tell me what kind of work you're doing with databases.

Sean

willy_think

"Spam! Spam! Spam! don't you have anything with out Spam in it?"
*thinking*
"well we have eggs and Spam. that only has a little Spam in it"

The Great and Powerful Oz:

pay no attention to the man behind the curtain

plmkrzy

McDonnalds is coming out with a SPAM burger!!!
And who said they couldn't get any worse!

.........................It's the silence between the notes, that make the music.....................

ballistic

OK YOU CAN TURN IT OFF.

In IE just go to tools menu, internet options, advanced tab, and untick "play animations in web pages".

DONE - END OF STORY.

SEAKEN2001

Yes, ballistic, that does work. But I like to use the same browser for all my web surfing. I have to remember to go into Tools/Options on each site depending on whether I do or don't want animations, etc. It's only on discussion forums that I prefer text only and I bounce around to other sites where I do want to see the animations, etc.

Like I said, it was just a rant. I'm a hold over from the days of text-only messaging and it just irritates me to have all these images all over the place while I'm trying to read. Thanks for the tip though. Maybe I'll just train myself to turn on and off that switch when I get bugged. Hey, there's an idea. Why don't we have a button on the toolbar that will turn this and other settings on an off without havinf to go through the menus? Maybe the latest versions of IE have this feature?

Sean

Dutchie

Hi Sean, I thought this post had died. Well, not only did it not die but it got funnier and funnier.

I would just like to take this opportunity to apologize for butchering your name. Please forgive me. I am old and I need new glasses. I even have a gray hair to prove it. Maybe two, I'm not sure. Kind regards.

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