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| What ever happened to the "Jul X" project? |
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It's not that it's "not easy", it's more that it's... impossible.
It might be easier to do if this forum software literally wasn't hack on top of hack, but as it is that would be many files edited with all kinds of bizarre cross-dependancies and all kinds of other tomfoolery...
Even putting in the might HTML5 sticker won't be done unless I can figure out how to move the database over accordingly, as last time we tried to do that we ended up with an irreversably corrupted DB and that is NOT GOOD.
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Originally posted by NightKev
What ever happened to the "Jul X" project?
Life.
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That actually brings up another issue.
It's really hard to work on Jul, because it's popular, and when it breaks, it makes a huge mess.
On my board, I get nobody but 5 people who are bored, and a handful of posts we don't care a lot about, so I can afford to play around fixing all kinds of bugs, while being hit by a number of nasty new ones due to the aformentioned cross-depencency madness.
I may try messing with the HTML on mine to make it a bit cleaner, myself, but to make it HTML 5 would require going through each and every file, editing it, checking that it worked, and continuing on through all zillion files that make up the board.
Which, on this board, is sort of infeasible, especially since the wrong move here could break all kinds of things (Like &tags&, the reporting bot, etc.)
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Originally posted by Milly
- Adding the doctype and lang="en": easy enough, just add it to layout.php ... but there's some chance it might break post layouts that depend on quirks mode (no doctype)
HTML 4.01T specifically breaks table tag heights, which iirc at least some people used.
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Originally posted by Metal_Man88
That actually brings up another issue.
It's really hard to work on Jul, because it's popular, and when it breaks, it makes a huge mess.
On my board, I get nobody but 5 people who are bored, and a handful of posts we don't care a lot about, so I can afford to play around fixing all kinds of bugs, while being hit by a number of nasty new ones due to the aformentioned cross-depencency madness.
I may try messing with the HTML on mine to make it a bit cleaner, myself, but to make it HTML 5 would require going through each and every file, editing it, checking that it worked, and continuing on through all zillion files that make up the board.
Which, on this board, is sort of infeasible, especially since the wrong move here could break all kinds of things (Like &tags&, the reporting bot, etc.)
Well, all they'd have to do then is make another copy of Jul up somewhere and edit that one, then once things work, copy the changes over to the live copy. |
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That requires managing changes and keeping a copy of what I did, especially in the case I do something with the database. You give me too much credit.
It also doesn't help that the codebase powers two seperate forums seperated by a very flimsy hack.
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 | | | | | Originally posted by Xkeeper
It also doesn't help that the codebase powers two seperate forums seperated by a very flimsy hack.
I'm getting tempted to just lock and archive my board (again) so we don't have to worry about it anymore. It's not like it's getting any actual use.
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