Getting stylish!
Posted by Jesse Andrews on Nov 23, 2008
This week has brought a new site header, script header and lots of other improvements. Thanks to all of those who helped make it happen!
Most importantly I want to thank avg whose bio on his user page was a script tag. The HTML sanitizing code wasn't being used for the bio field until a few minutes ago. If you find security holes in the future please email me directly before posting them on the site.
The site forum has had lots of activity recently with style, grammar and xhtml improvements. Script authors implementing improvements as userscripts is particularly helpful (recent examples by khopesh, pwlin and jerone) since it allows easy testing and comments from other users.
Site performance has been good (in my opinion), but the server is on the edge of not being able to handle the traffic. I'm working on improvements behind the scene to the caching mechanisms as well as moving to multi-server setup before the end of the year.
Future improvements will focus on the forum (which has layout issues), the rating system (quick thumbs up/down rating of a script to complement detailed 5 star reviews), and a group/categorization. I'll write more about those in the future.
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Getting Stylish.
Anyways I'm loving the new layout; black and orange are my colors.
can't wait for further changes.
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@jess,
can you include the 'userscripts updater' in the site itself?
(available only to register users)
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Excellent stuff, despite the fact it's broken the script I wrote for this site. :)
I really like the additions. One nitpick: on the dropdown menu at the top (when I hover on my username) it looks like "public" and "profile" are two separate links because of the spacing. This also applies to "favorite scripts" and "monitored topics". Obviously when you hover over them you realise they are one link, but still, if they could be differentiated somehow from the others (or make the dropdown wider?) that would make the site 0.03% better. Cheers!
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Wow userscripts doged a bullet there. We could have had an xss worm running around.
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ya - that stuff is SCARY - I've woken in the night once with a nightmare about a XSS hole - which turned out to exist (last year)
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One thing i didn't knew, and I hope others will use it.
If you subscribe to the RSS feed of your favorite scripts, everytime the script is updated you get notified on your rss reader.
So there's the update system. :)
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what am i doing here?
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great info Jeton.
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I don't like this too much:
It seems like there is a separate "Management" link.
If that menu was a little wider, it'd be more convenient.
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I don't really see what you're trying to say about the "managment link"...
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@dob, I don't have this problem, but you better post this in the forum.
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it is because of the shortness of the name combined with the new styling... I'll get a fix out
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@jesse + dob
I had the error too.... it's fixed now ;)
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Could you please left align the drop-down user menu?
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@Jesse Andrews I don't know what the minimum number of character is a user can register (3?), but you can use that as a starting point to count from there in the old situation.
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it felt odd when you have short names to have it left aligned and it feels just as weird to have it right aligned with a long name :(
do I make it conditional? Or is there a better design that doesn't suck for anyone?
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maybe give the menu an exact width instead of relying on the length of the name, and left align it. Conditional also works though.
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right-align is ok... if it bothers too much, do an userstyle or userscript...