[geeklog-devel] Dynamic Comments...

[Vincent Furia]

Dirk, the reason why the collapsing icon isn't showing up is you
having anonymous comments turned off and this piece of code:

        // hide reply link from anonymous users if they can't post replies
        $hidefromanon = false;
        if( empty( $_USER['username'] ) && (( $_CONF['loginrequired'] == 1 )
                || ( $_CONF['commentsloginrequired'] == 1 ))) {
            $hidefromanon = true;
        }

        // this will hide HTML that should not be viewed in preview mode
        if( $preview || $hidefromanon ) {
            $template->set_var( 'hide_if_preview', 'style="display:none"' );
        } else {
            $template->set_var( 'hide_if_preview', '' );
        }

Hides the entire "reply to" section of code, including the collapse
image, from anonymous users when anonymous comments are disabled. 
Fixing it could be as easy as changing the theme around.  I'll look
into it a bit...

I already knew this would not work for IE < 5.5 (all versions).  I'm
not sure what is going on with Opera, can anyone with Opera for
windows check it out?

So, in summary, I think safari will probably work after we fix the
anonymous user problem, as will OmniWeb 5.1.  IE < 5.5, iCab, and old
versions of OmniWeb will probably never work as they don't support
xmlhttp.  Opera will take some looking into...

As for the character sets I have no idea what could be messing with
that... Can someone with experience with character sets and PHP take a
look for me?

Thanks,

-Vinny

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:04:31 +0100, Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de> wrote:
> I wrote:
> 
> >One odd issue, though: It seems to be messing with the character set.
> >When I collapse a comment and expand it again, all of the German umlauts
> >have turned into question marks
> 
> The same thing is happening on geeklog.info:
> 
> <http://geeklog.info/article.php?stor
> y=20020829000431524&mode=dynamic#comments>
> 
> And now for the browser compatibility test (fasten your seatbelts ...):
> 
> - The collapsing icon doesn't show up in Safari. You can expand comments,
> but then the icon vanishes.
> 
> - The same thing happens in OmniWeb 5.1.
> 
> - Doesn't work at all in Mac-IE 5.2.3: The collapsing icons don't show
> up; the expanding icons do show up but don't work.
> 
> - The exact same thing happens in iCab 2.9.8
> 
> - The collapsing icon doesn't show up in Opera 7.54u2 for Mac. Expanding
> doesn't work (switches to "Loading ..." and stays there).
> 
> - The exact same thing happens in OmniWeb 4.5 and iCab 3.0.0 beta 227.
> 
> From Opera, I get the following error message in the JavaScript console:
> 
> Event thread: onclick
> Error:
> name: TypeError
> message: Statement on line 61: Expression did not evaluate to a function
> object: xmlhttp.open
> Backtrace:
>   Line 61 of linked script http://geeklog.info/dynamic.js
>     xmlhttp.open("GET", fragment_url, true);
>   In unknown script
>     loadFragmentInToElement("http://geeklog.info/comment.php?
> mode=fetch&cid=192&full=true", "192");
>   At unknown location
>     {event handler trampoline}
> 
> To summarize: On the Mac, it currently only works on Gecko-based
> browsers. I did use the latest versions available of those browsers (and
> in some cases another, older version).
> 
> bye, Dirk
> 
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