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#1 2010-03-30 04:03:20

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Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

I hesitated to re-use the old thread, but it was mostly about transient DNS issues so I'm stating a new one.


I've just updated the site (http://xyne.archlinux.ca/) with quite a few backend and frontend changes. Some most important changes are:
*) The [xyne-any] repo is now located at http://xyne.archlinux.ca/repos/xyne-any so users must update pacman.conf
*) All "info" pages have move from /info/$pkgname to /projects/$pkgname. I'm redirecting requests for now and will gradually update all references.
*) I've almost certainly broken quite a few file and image links here on the forum.


I've tried to organize the site a bit more and make it easier to navigate (I'm happy with the nav tree in the right column). I'm considering adding a news page and maybe an RSS feed to keep people posted about my projects and repos, and anything that might be new on the site. Content on the site is now written in markdown (as opposed to my own custom system, which, although less tedious than html, was still a bit of a pain for larger documents), so I'll probably be adding things to the Notes and Scripts section on a regular basis.

I ran into a last-minute problem when uploading the new files. It turns out that the local server I was using to test the system was newer than the remote one and I had been using features that it didn't have. I've written an ad-hoc script to work around this but it may have bugs that I'm not aware of. This would affect content above all, so if you notice anything strange, please let me know.


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#2 2010-03-30 04:14:02

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Re: Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

The arrow doesn't quite align at top...


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#3 2010-03-30 04:23:52

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Re: Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

Can you post a screenshot?


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#4 2010-03-30 05:10:48

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Re: Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

vM3psZQ


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#5 2010-03-30 05:26:12

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Yay for font issues...  I get slight gaps in the vertical line.

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#6 2010-03-30 05:30:29

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Re: Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

Looks just fine to me (front page only for now).


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#7 2010-03-30 05:42:01

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Re: Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

Thanks, Ghost. Reload the style sheet and let me know if it lines up now. I've explicitly set some style attributes using "!important" in case they weren't respected.

What browser are you using? Do the following standard box-drawing characters line up?

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#8 2010-03-30 06:11:53

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Re: Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

That fixed what I was seeing.

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#9 2010-03-30 06:15:02

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Looks good Xyne, nice update, really do like the application listing.


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#10 2010-03-30 06:17:21

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Re: Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

Doesnt line up for me either google chrome


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#11 2010-03-30 06:18:03

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Same problem on Chromium.

No problem on Firefox .

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#12 2010-03-30 06:28:42

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I've rewritten it to align to the left. Does that fix it?


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#13 2010-03-30 06:32:05

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It's OK now on both of them smile Nice work smile

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#14 2010-03-30 06:32:05

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Yep all fixed now

Site looks good Xyne.


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#15 2010-03-30 07:03:54

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Thanks for the feedback smile


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#16 2010-03-30 07:26:30

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Fixed for me!


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#17 2010-03-30 15:43:03

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Re: Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

http://browsershots.org/

Maybe this site is useful for checking the layout on multiple platforms/browsers.

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#18 2010-03-30 16:20:41

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Re: Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

Xyne,

The site looks great. It's very cool.

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#19 2010-03-30 16:33:03

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Re: Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

That is quite useful, albeit a bit slow. Thanks, Urfaust.

As far as I can tell, the layout generally works on most browsers.


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#20 2010-04-02 15:13:50

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Re: Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

The sidebar doesnt work in opera 10.10
i see a (very) thin strip of it with right and left arrows underneath
tNDB4NA
and the box drawing in #7 doesnt line up either

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#21 2010-04-02 17:02:13

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If the box drawing in #10 doesn't line up then it's a bug in Opera. If others can confirm this, it should be reported upstream.


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#22 2010-04-02 17:39:04

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Re: Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

Hmm, it seems weird on latest Opera 10.5x, so I guess it's not completelly fixed:

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#23 2010-04-02 19:10:15

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Re: Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

I can confirm that on Opera (i use vimperator(Firefox) but i had an Opera installed and so i checked it).
Actually it seems that it does render the menu correctly but only gives it a few pixels width. If you go with the mouse in it and highlight the words you can 'scroll' in it sideways, which shows that the menu is there completely. The links in it also work.

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#24 2010-04-03 06:49:39

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Re: Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

The difference in the rendering between Opera 10.5x and 10.10 indicate that it is indeed Opera's fault and that they're working on it. If someone finds a pure xhtml+css solution (i.e. not a user-agent hack) to force Opera to render it correctly without changing how other browsers render it, then I'll gladly implement it.



@all
Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it.

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#25 2010-04-03 10:10:07

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Re: Xyne's Arch Linux Stuff - update

Not sure if you're concerned with how it looks in Windows 7, but I thought I should point it out either way (main issue boxed in black):

xyne-site.png

Running on Windows 7 Professional , x86_64, Firefox 3.6.1.

If you'd like my suggestion on how to best fix the site, what I usually resort to is an if-based PHP script to dynamically generate the css file according to OS, browser, and so forth.
In case you want an example, this is the most recent styles.php file I've put together:http://lswest.pastebin.com/Gg659kts.  I realize I have some redundant if-statements in there, but that's simply because I was testing the file and haven't yet re-written and uploaded all the changes I discovered.

Of course, you'll probably be able to come up with a better platform-agnostic css file than I could.

Besides that, great site.  Very useful tools on there too!

Last edited by lswest (2010-04-03 10:11:53)


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