Kitz Forum
Announcements => Site Announcements => Topic started by: CurlyWhirly on July 25, 2011, 07:43:00 PM
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... has disappeared since the forum upgrade.
I assume this is common knowledge or is it only happening on my computer ? :-\
(https://forum.kitz.co.uk/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi56.tinypic.com%2F345zvyr.jpg&hash=af5b432b8290eab8cad73e829c9cf1701afc5ef4)
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As far as I can see, the 'Mark Unread' button is a toggle, and when a message is not yet read it reads 'Mark Read'.
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As far as I can see, the 'Mark Unread' button is a toggle, and when a message is not yet read it reads 'Mark Read'.
Oh, I don't remember seeing it like this though ?
Having said this, my memory isn't as good as it once was !
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What browser?
The background in last 'button' in the row not appearing seems to be a common occurrence.. particularly in Firefox/chrome. If it happens it will always be the last button. It seems to be related to a caching problem and does eventually clear upon a refresh.
It seems to happen each time I change the skin or edit the CSS so if its your first time here since the new skin that could also be part of it.
Ive already spent a while looking at the CSS (the button set is based on the SMF maintab CSS) and that part isnt anything Ive changed myself. Ive not been able to sort out a fix... as the cache seems to pick up the old button style from the old forum because the 2 templates are similar... and cant find the image for the last button hence the blank.... and doesnt right itself until a hard refresh.
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Edited to add.
I suspect it may be because both the old and the new forum have the same variable for the maintab and therefore if its cached it tries to display the button set from the old forum. The last button in the row though does have a very slightly different image this time though to make it appear rounded and the 'old last button' is no longer there to display, so thats why you see the blank.
Hopefully once you have the new images + CSS cached rather than the old, this problem should disappear.
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What browser?
Firefox 5.0
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yep FF 5 and chrome were the 2 browsers that seemed to be caching the old CSS for me too.
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Thanks kitz, it's no problem.
I can live with it even if it doesn't correct itself ;D
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Try doing Ctrl + F5 to do a hard refresh + force a new cache
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Try doing Ctrl + F5 to do a hard refresh + force a new cache
Thanks, that worked !
RESOLVED
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yay :)
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Ive already spent a while looking at the CSS (the button set is based on the SMF maintab CSS) and that part isnt anything Ive changed myself. Ive not been able to sort out a fix... as the cache seems to pick up the old button style from the old forum because the 2 templates are similar... and cant find the image for the last button hence the blank.... and doesnt right itself until a hard refresh.
Just in-case it matters, don't forget on the old layout you changed on the font page the button for "Show all post" to be in the centre of the page instead of on the right-hand side by the "mark all read" button.
I'm not asking for it to be changed again, just a polite reminder.
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>> the font page the button for "Show all post" to be in the centre of the page
Yes... on the old forums I'd made quite a lot of personalised and custom hacks over the many years I was using SMF1.
Unfortunately what I didnt realise at the time is many custom hacks can stop SMF upgrades working properly.
For example if theres a security update to perform, SMF will check your existing template (theres lots of them) and if the code on your template doesnt exactly match the template which is going to be updated then the upgrade will fail and it has to be done manually.
Early this year I found myself in the situation that practically when ever there was a security patch to be done I had to look through reams of code and edit everything by hand, sometimes this could take hours as even though Id made some notes... I couldnt properly remember what Id done years ago.
The huge amount of custom mods and hacks I had meant that I couldnt even carry out the normal upgrade from SMF1 to SMF2... and its why I had to scrap the whole forum and start afresh and something which took weeks to do and meant quite a lot of downtime when compared to an automated upgrade. :(
With this install, Im going to keep it at 'clean' as possible and only install mods that can be installed/uninstalled via the package manager. (Custom skins are different to actually editing the templates). I thought I was so clever doint all the edits I did on the old forum... little realising that I was storing up a pile of problems years down the line. I learnt a harsh lesson that way and its not one I intend to repeat :D