Brian
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Posted on Mar 24 2011 08:56 PM
Ok guys, my large to-do list is finally getting under control. There are still a few bumpy spots and some bugs to squash, but now I can start thinking about new features. Does anyone have some ideas?
I was thinking about adding a "what's new" page that would give you one stop shopping for the last 30 or so forum posts, the last 10 news stories, comments, downloads, links, new members, etc.
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websurfer
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Posted on Mar 27 2011 07:37 PM
Sorry if this has already been addressed, but I just tried to paste an image from image shack (my usual) and it just kept posting as a bunch of code instead of the image. Have there been issues linking to images?
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Brian
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Posted on Mar 27 2011 08:53 PM
websurfer wrote:
Sorry if this has already been addressed, but I just
tried to paste an image from image shack (my usual) and
it just kept posting as a bunch of code instead of the
image. Have there been issues linking to images?
We don't use BBCode anymore. Check out this post.
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Brian
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Posted on Mar 27 2011 09:01 PM
All you need is the URL to the photo, i.e.
http://example.com/something/else/blah.jpg
In most browsers, just type ctrl-p, then paste in your URL.
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Apr 06 2011 08:27 PM
BeachBumScott wrote:
Will the tabs in the downloads section be coming back
for those of us that use them?
I still needed to print some out.
The tabs and some downloads are now back (by popular request).
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RK
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Montreal, Kwee-bec
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Posted on Aug 16 2012 08:11 AM
Hi Brian,
I use RSS to read most posts, but the smileys don't seem to show up in the posts. Most of the other pictures posted show up in my reader. I wonder if there's a simple fix, perhaps the link posted in the feed is not quite right.
I may be the only one using the RSS, but just thought you might like to know.
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Brian
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Posted on Aug 16 2012 08:34 AM
Hi RK. That's interesting - I use Google reader to read forum posts on my Android phone and I see the smileys. What reader are you using?
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RK
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Montreal, Kwee-bec
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Posted on Aug 16 2012 08:44 AM
I use Outlook. Some of the pictures take a while to show up, but I've never seen a smiley come in.
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Brian
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Posted on Aug 16 2012 08:48 AM
I'm not sure what to tell you. You may want to try a different reader. I've checked the feed and the smileys are correct HTML image tags. I can see them in Google reader on the PC also.
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Brian
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Posted on Aug 16 2012 08:51 AM
Using Firefox on my PC, I can also see the smileys when I visit http://surfguitar101.com/feeds/forums/
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RK
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Montreal, Kwee-bec
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Posted on Aug 16 2012 08:53 AM
No problem, I was just wondering. I'll check my Outlook settings.
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RK
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Montreal, Kwee-bec
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Posted on Aug 16 2012 10:32 AM
The code received in my html email for the smiley above is
<img alt="Smile" src="/media/smiley/images/smile.gif" title="Smile" />
Note that the src does not include http://surfguitar101.com.
As a test, I saved the email as a file and then loaded it in my browser [which displayed the alt text Smile, which would be nice to see in outlook]. If I change the link in the file to the following it loads correctly in my browser:
<img alt="Smile" klzzwxh:0002/media/smiley/images/smile.gif" title="Smile" />
The problem with the RSS feed is that the post is received as an email entirely independent of the website, so it can't resolve the path [I could add the path and some smileys to my machine!].
Could the full path be added when people insert smileys? Then when the RSS sends the post, it would be complete. Don't think it's the end of the world for me if I don't get the smileys, though. I just thought you might be interested.
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Aug 16 2012 11:27 AM
Hmmm. I guess I am confused about your reader environment. What do you mean by html email? Your reader should be using the URL http://surfguitar101.com/feeds/forums/ to retrieve the feed. Because I am using relative paths for the smiley's should pose no problem, because your reader should know the source for the feed is http://surfguitar101.com and it should be able to retrieve the image. I don't understand how email figures into this. Can you explain?
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Brian
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Posted on Aug 16 2012 11:43 AM
Well I did a bunch of googling and I see that different readers do different things with relative links. And I ran our feed through a validator, and it had this to say:
In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendation.
line 16, column 24: description should not contain relative URL references: /media/smiley/images/cool.gif (3 occurrences)
I will look into generating absolute links for the smileys.
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RK
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Montreal, Kwee-bec
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Posted on Aug 16 2012 01:56 PM
Great! I didn't mean to give you extra work, but figured you might be interested.
Re: email, I just meant that the posts seem to show up the same as email messages, and I couldn't find any option to specify that relative paths refer to the originating website, if you know what I mean.
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Brian
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Posted on Aug 16 2012 07:45 PM
Well I'm not an expert on RSS but it seems like Outlook is being a little stupid here. But I'll add it to the to-do list.
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RK
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Montreal, Kwee-bec
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Posted on Aug 17 2012 11:28 AM
I won't argue about the point about Outlook. However, as a workaround I followed my own suggestion and copied the smilies to my local drive and they show up fine. 
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Brian
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted on Sep 01 2012 03:24 PM
OK RK, going forward all new posts will have absolute URL's for smileys.  Thanks for reporting the issue.
(It might take a few hours for this to take effect -- the smilies are cached and the cache has to expire before the change will be seen)
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RK
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Montreal, Kwee-bec
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Posted on Sep 04 2012 08:41 AM
Looking good, thanks!
I must admit that in the meantime I copied the smilies to my machine, but every now and then a new one would show up missing and I would add it.
It's better the new way, of course.
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crumble
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Guildford England
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Posted on Mar 25 2018 08:08 AM
On SG101 welcome screen an revived thread appears with Brian marked as last comment maker but when the thread is entered there is no sign of Brian and the last entry is dated Nov 28 2013.
The thread: "My Jaguar won't stay in tune - WHY?"
It happened once before a few weeks ago.
Last edited: Mar 25, 2018 08:11:34
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