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Discussion Testing
Posted by Brian Sexton at 11:50am (UTC) on Thursday, May 28th, 2009
This post is specifically for testing discussion during the continuing development of my design for Hard-Pressed. Please try the discussion functionality (currently enabled for all users without requiring any login credentials) and let me know what you think—especially if you think something needs to be fixed.
Below are lists of issues of which I am already aware and planning to address (I will probably edit them as development and testing continue).
Miscellaneous Known Issues
- I am still refining the look overall. Things like sizing, spacing, coloring, and line styles are all subject to change.
- I don’t like the date and time text, the fact that it is a “permalink”, or the fact that wp_list_comments() barfs it out where it does (after “says:”), so I’m still tinkering with that.
- The form runs up against the content-footer or the page-footer when it is below all discussion.
Known Browser Support Issues
- Rounded corners currently work only in Mozilla- and Webkit-based browsers (e.g., Firefox and Safari, respectively) and they kick in only after a page is fully loaded due to the way I am loading the CSS (i.e., I’m loading vendor-specific CSS via JavaScript so it doesn’t trigger validation error messages).
- The form’s visible input and textarea elements do not appear next to their labels in most browsers regardless of location. This seems to be due to the way browsers implement max-width. Firefox displays the form as expected in its default location, but Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer do not. In most cases, visible input and textarea elements wrap when the form is within a discussion post.
- Safari 4 allows the textarea to clip multiple containers when the form is within a discussion post.
Known Text Issues
- I should probably add text about Gravatars, including disclosure that WordPress queries the Gravatar service with e-mail addresses.
- Allowable markup is not currently listed.
- There is currently no disclaimer about discussion posts being non-authenticated and thus, easily spoofed (and convincingly so with Gravatars).
- I haven’t yet posted any rules. I should probably do so.
Thanks in advance for any testing help and for sharing any opinions and suggestions!
Discussion
11 Responses
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I think it is safe to say, however, that I have probably annoyed him at least once or twice.
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Erin says:
Yes, we all hate you because you are so perfect.
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The footer is looking good Brian .. I like your “neglected” sites concept! Have you tried the comment boxes without the dotted borders just color contrasts [box and backgrounds] … ?
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Thanks for looking and sharing your thoughts, Sneh! I adapted the footer from my portfolio site. I plan to make the WordPress theme version widget-ready so it will be easy to customize for different sites.
I am still tinkering with the colors and border styles and one of the things I’ve been thinking about doing is making all of the discussion-section borders solid except for the border around the form. I’ll probably also try some gradients for the backgrounds.
I don’t like how the rounded corners stack, but I am not sure if I should bother specifying different corner radius values for each possible depth right now (WordPress currently allows ten). I have more pressing tasks for the design and the theme.
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Thank you! I’m still not crazy about the discussion post headers, I’m still trying to figure out how best to implement alternating styles for inner discussion posts (WordPress assigns several classes to each), and I do still have some tinkering to do with spacing and maybe text sizes and so on, but I am much happier with the new look than I was with the old.
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Mike Wayne says:
The Gradient looks cool, kinda miss the dotted lines on the comments thread though…
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The dashed borders were never really meant to be permanent, but they could be easily restored with minimal CSS modification. Conceptually, I think it might make sense to reserve four-sided dashed borders for dynamic elements such as the response section, which repositions on the page according to the response location. That seems to be a pretty common use for dashed borders.
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Discussion is closed for this item.
Squares! Wonderful Squares!
First!
What I really want to say, though, is that WordPress and the GPL are the best, you are overly critical, and I hate you. In fact, everyone hates you. You suck.
(Just kidding. This is a test by Brian to see if spoofing with WordPress and Gravatar is as easy as it seems.)