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dG_

Posted: 05 April 2007 12:33 AM

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Well, I’ve finally put it all together

Just published this project: www.linksport.com.pt tonight and, of course, powered by CI. It’s a portuguese sport portal.

It’s all runing using the ADODb library founded somewhere in the wiki (I do love ADODb)

Comments apreciated

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coolfactor

Posted: 05 April 2007 01:45 AM

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Nice work! Just some feedback:

- neat Ajax menus!
- the “Favoritos” link doesn’t work in my browser (using Camino, which is a Firefox derivative)
- the “grassline” doesn’t stay at the bottom of the page (in my browser)

Example:
http://www.linksport.com.pt/modalidade/equitacao/escolas-hipismo

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Fuseblown

Posted: 05 April 2007 08:05 AM

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I like the site a lot! (Even though I can’t translate Portuguese ). I agree with coolfactor on the menus, I like those too. The soccer ball (futebol, I guess? Sorry for being too American, lol) clock at the top is a nice touch as well.

Everything works fine in Firefox 2.0.0.3 on my end.

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dG_

Posted: 05 April 2007 10:04 AM

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Thanks for all the comments, I appreciated and glad you guys liked it.

About those issues, coolfactor, I don’t know that Camino browser, and, as I understood, it’s a mac version, right?

I did test this site under IE6, IE7, FF1.5 and FF2. It works everything ok, however, since camino is FF derivative it should work also. The “Favorites” function was supposed to be cross-browser, but since I don’t have other browsers to test it, I’m kinda limited

Here’s my JS function for the bookmarking:

function dwBookmark(title, url) {
    if (window.sidebar) window.sidebar.addPanel(title, url,"");
    else if (window.opera && window.print) {
        var mbm = document.createElement('a');
        mbm.setAttribute('rel','sidebar');
        mbm.setAttribute('href',url);
        mbm.setAttribute('title',title);
        mbm.click();
    } else if (document.all) window.external.AddFavorite(url, title);
} 

PS, Fuseblown, yeap, Soccer

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coolfactor

Posted: 05 April 2007 02:29 PM

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AddFavorite() seems to be an IE Javascript function, not part of the ECMAScript standard, and FireFox (the browser) has adopted it. The function doesn’t seem to work in Safari either (the #3 browser on the market).

I should correct my statement that Camino is a derivative of Firefox, that was wrong. However, Camino uses the same Gecko rendering engine.

All in all, a minor point that won’t affect too many of your visitors. Given that browsers today have more advanced bookmark (aka “Favorite”) management beyond a simple menu, I rarely add items to that menu, and wouldn’t use a link on a web page to add one anyway. I’d be curious to know what percentage of people use such a feature, as it’s always intrigued me that such a feature would crop up in JS.

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Konstantin [rus]

Posted: 05 April 2007 02:53 PM

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I have problems with footer in ff2 =) so it’s not only Camino bug)

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dG_

Posted: 06 April 2007 07:57 AM

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Konstantin [rus] - 05 April 2007 02:53 PM
I have problems with footer in ff2 =) so it’s not only Camino bug)

Totally right! I didn’t test in FF2 when the page has scrolling (I have a big screen :D) ... hmm.. that’s kinda odd actually, it’s a absolute div positioned at the bottom.. I’ll check on it anyway, thanks for notice that

BTW, coolfactor, your curiosity game me an idea :D ... I’ll think I’ll make a hits counter of that Favorite.. I’m curious too if people actually use that.

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Iksander

Posted: 06 April 2007 09:24 AM

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I like it too (the clock is my favorite).

Couple crits:

Why are you using a table? CSS should be just fine to do the same thing…

Why is your JavaScript directly in the body? Why not make it a separate .js file and link it?
(I don’t know much JavaScript, so if there is an in-crowd technical reason why, then ignore me)

I know you know about the grass line already - just figured it would help to let you know I get the same thing in FF2 on Linux Ubuntu.

Cool site though…

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dG_

Posted: 06 April 2007 09:32 AM

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About the bottom grass, yeah, I know and I’m workin’ on it

About the old-fashion table concept.. Well, I started by creating a tableless design but I’m kinda new on css and at some point I couldn’t keep everything ok on both IE and FF, and since I had a short deadline for this project I hadn’t the time to study that. I’ll re-publish a tableless layout asap tho.

About JS, yeah, I do have a function in the body element that could be in my JS library, however, I didn’t included that already ‘couse I’m still working on that function for other purposes.

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dG_

Posted: 06 April 2007 09:47 AM

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Grass fixed

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ztinger

Posted: 06 April 2007 04:53 PM

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dG_ - 06 April 2007 09:47 AM
Grass fixed

I have a similar problem. How did you do it?

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dG_

Posted: 06 April 2007 08:08 PM

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css:

body {
 height: 100%;
}

html>body div#skel {
 height: auto;
}

div#skel {
 min-height: 100%;
 height: 100%;
}

div#footer {
 position: absolute;
 margin-bottom: 0px;
 bottom: 0px;
 height: 30px;
} 

html:

<div id="skel">
 <div id="contents">bla bla bla</div>
 <div id="footer"> </div>
</div> 

I have more than this, of course, but this get your started

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Code Arachn!d

Posted: 26 September 2007 08:25 AM

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I know I’m slow at seeing the link - but I love the site - looks great…

can you elaborate on how you’re building the css? It looks like you’re calling a php file and I’m curious why - and what exactly it’s doing…

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ELRafael

Posted: 26 September 2007 08:34 AM

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i like the system of images

http://www.linksport.com.pt/esimples/showpic/src/img579-im2.jpg/w/180/h/155/zc/1/q/190
(apesar da url ficar muito grande)

but looks like a good site.

strange, we talk the same language, but is soo diferent! desporto = esporte)

ah, the css file, you only change the extension of css (style.css to style.php)... no problem

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Code Arachn!d

Posted: 26 September 2007 08:39 AM

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yes the images are very neat - I love that idea - because it would give the ability to get really crazy with caching… ah the visions are endless

but what i’m curious about is if there is any benefit to calling all the css together? is this file just pulling different css parts together and parsing them? I see the advantage being that you can get themable css this way - but i’m just curious what the reasoning is…

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Posted: 26 September 2007 08:42 AM

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Usually when a stylesheet is referenced as a .php file it’s because there is some dynamic generation in there.

For instance, let’s say you had all of your colors stored in a database, you could do something like this:

<?php
  // Tell the client this is a CSS file
  header('content-type:text/css');
  // Set an expiration, so the client will cache the stylsheet
  header("Expires: ".gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s", (time()+900)) . " GMT"); 

  // Get config information from database
  $query = $this->db->get('config');
  $config = $query->result();

  // Below is our stylesheet - using values from above database
?>
body {color:<?= $config->body; ?>}
a:link, a:active, a:visited {color:<?= $config->link; ?>}
a:hover {color:<?= $config->hover; ?>} 

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