HUGE CHANGES FOR JGO - PLEASE READ!

[heX-]

Awesome.
Can I suggest something?
New buttons on the SMF theme , cos' i can't find the New Thread . Post etc.. butttons.
Thanks.

[moogie]

Weeee! I want Java syntax highlighting for the code tag!

That would be damn good!

how about being able to upload jars and or embed applets to posts?

Good work! Go team JGO!

[steveyO]

how about being able to upload jars and or embed applets to posts?

+1 Million.   Calm down, calm down Stevey!!

Edit - I found some pretty interesting stuff in the JGO archives,  I think Chris is being a little harsh on himself 
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.java-gaming.org

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[kappa]

Can we wait with the features requests at least until we're on the new forum

- By Friday of this week.

Expected downtime: 2-3 minutes.

You can write that down and hold me accountable If anything goes wrong, it'd be my fault.

*set your alarm clocks for Friday 17th December 2010 at 00:03am

You can write that down and hold me accountable If anything goes wrong, it'd be my fault.

* Shapens axe.

[gouessej]

Thank you for the good work ChrisM and Riven 

[size=8pt]maybe embeded flash video  (esecially for shwocase) would be nice  [/size]

No! Use Java to do it there, JMC for example but no Flash here please.

[Spasi]

Thank you Riven, Chris and Charlie.

My only request is to be able to add members in an ignore list that hides their posts/topics/etc.

[Riven]

* Shapens axe.

Oh ye of little faith.


Again, again: everybody that thanks me and ChrisM, must also thank Charlie, or they will be banned for evah.

[pjt33]

Thank you, Charlie.

Sorry about Candy Mountain.

*runs away*

[DzzD]

Big thanks & Clap to Charlie !

[nsigma]

Thank you for the good work ChrisM and Riven 
No! Use Java to do it there, JMC for example but no Flash here please.

How about (almost) neither. 

HTML 5 video tags with Flash (or Cortado at a stretch) backup would seem to be the way forward at the moment, and there's a few players out there to do this automatically now, though it's not that difficult.

Or, given the overheads, just allow embedding from elsewhere.

And of course, THANKS!!!

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[DzzD]

nowadays only flash video is the way to go ....

[Riven]

Weeee! I want Java syntax highlighting for the code tag!

Done.

Except in MSIE. I just gave up. Right there. The SMF <> JsSyntaxHighlighter combo is unstable, and I had to write a bunch of javascript to get it working in Firefox and Chrome. MSIE shows the non-highlighted version now, instead of crashing

[nsigma]

nowadays only flash video is the way to go ....

I don't think that's true anymore.  <video> tags with a Flash fallback is the way to go, and it's the way that a lot of open-source and commercial players seem to be going.  Remember, there are numerous devices that don't have Flash nowadays (bloody Steve!), not to mention IE is down to less than 50% market share and <video> is coming in IE9.

However, all that's OT in a way.  The ability to embed video from YouTube, Vimeo, etc. would be more useful, and not put strain on the JGO server.

[Riven]

The ability to embed video from YouTube, Vimeo, etc. would be more useful, and not put strain on the JGO server.

Just to be absolutely clear: JGO will 'never' host videos.

[kevglass]

How "just" applets then?

Kev

[DzzD]

Just to be absolutely clear: JGO will 'never' host videos.

too bad  , but that end the debat...

[nsigma]

too bad  , but that end the debat...

Seconded, but I suppose it's not that hard to link to things!

Except in MSIE. I just gave up. Right there. The SMF <> JsSyntaxHighlighter combo is unstable, and I had to write a bunch of javascript to get it working in Firefox and Chrome. MSIE shows the non-highlighted version now, instead of crashing

Would http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/ be a possibly more stable solution?

[Alan_W]

Good luck with the migration.
My thanks to Chris, Charlie and Riven.

Now if you could do something about the weather in the UK...

See you on the new site soon 

[Riven]

To clearify: what if the forum gets slashdotted. I am not willing to take the risk of paying a 'surprise' bill.

YouTube (and the like) is all we need.

If somebody else would offer hosting for videos, that would be fine by me. I could integrate it to JGO so that the videos would be streamed from your server.



Regarding applets: maybe. It might have a applet-launcher in front of it, which would check whether your JRE is up to date. I don't want the JGO visitors to be infected by drive-by attacks in rogue applets.

[kappa]

Nice, we're now on the lovely new server

[teletubo]

wohoo !

[appel]

Amazing, it worked I like it.

[Nate]

Weeee! I want Java syntax highlighting for the code tag!

Done.

Except in MSIE. I just gave up. Right there. The SMF <> JsSyntaxHighlighter combo is unstable, and I had to write a bunch of javascript to get it working in Firefox and Chrome. MSIE shows the non-highlighted version now, instead of crashing

Yaaaay! Thanks Riven! No one uses IE anyway.

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Edit: wierd delay and screen flash as the page loads. I imagine there is some PHP somewhere so the highlighting could be done serverside, but then beggers can't be choosers.

Edit: Looks like this would be the way to do it serverside:
http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Highlighter

Edit: Are all the old posts lost? Edit: Nevermind, I see everything now. Wierd.

Edit: looks like editing works.

[pjt33]

How often is the "epoch" for the purposes of "Show unread posts since epoch"?

[Riven]

How often is the "epoch" for the purposes of "Show unread posts since epoch"?

It's just a shortcut to "show all unread posts"

[ChrisM]

I see Riven could not wait to make the jump!   It looks great!

[Riven]

I see Riven could not wait to make the jump!   It looks great!

Wait what? It was Friday 00:00:00 in my timezone

[Eli Delventhal]

I see Riven could not wait to make the jump!   It looks great!

Wait what? It was Friday 00:00:00 in my timezone

Haha, well awesome. Looks good. Nice work!

[Gudradain]

Nice change

[SimonH]

OK, I'm impressed! But... isn't that logo a bit small? (I had to find something - I hate being proved wrong!)