Dolphin 7.0.1 is coming soon
Boonex is close to releasing a new build of Dolphin 7.0 with a lot of fixes and improvements. Most of the tickets were closed and Boonex decided to install the demo version for test purposes. You may find it using the following link http://www.demozzz.com/dolphin701b Also, you are free to download the development version of Dolphin 7 from the public SVN.
SVN: svn://svn.boonex.com/dolphin/trunk
username: guest
password: guest
But, since it turned out that the download from the SVN is a little bit complicated for regular users, a separate archive was prepared (revision 13794 date 16.03.10) from SVN.
Note.
1. DO NOT INSTALL OR UPGRADE YOUR LIVE SITES WITH THIS VERSION. NO FURTHER IN-BETWEEN UPGRADES OF THIS VERSION WILL BE AVAILABLE.
2. The SVN is updated on a regular basis several times a day. So, if there are errors in your installation you may need to wait and download a newer version a few hours later.
If you found some problems, feel free to discuss them in the Dolphin Betas And RCs forum with the other members. If a number of users have the same issue then you may post a bug report ticket in the Boonex Trac. It should be checked and the problem fixed by Boonex developers shortly. If you post the detailed description of the issue and the way it can be reproduced it will speed up the process.
Thank you in advance.
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- Still cannot embed video
- Still using tables - this is 2010 not 2000 - should use div + span
- still using inline style attributes
- W3C validation fails miserably - 161 Errors, 14 warning(s)
- CSS validation just as bad (the custom java hacks do not degrade correctly)
- Also - The vertical scroll bar should be forced on, or the number of menu items in drop down menus reduced as when hovering over them on see more
- Still cannot embed video
- Still using tables - this is 2010 not 2000 - should use div + span
- still using inline style attributes
- W3C validation fails miserably - 161 Errors, 14 warning(s)
- CSS validation just as bad (the custom java hacks do not degrade correctly)
- Also - The vertical scroll bar should be forced on, or the number of menu items in drop down menus reduced as when hovering over them on see more
There ya go - 2 more for the list.
/DM
Stroll on...
CSS can not yet duplicate everything a table can do.
I just don't get this table issue.
Tables were an early adaptation for controlling layout, as quite simply - they were all there was at the time. People adopted the use of grids to lay out web pages, it was a practice that was widely accepted, and at the time it was a revolution. But times have changed, see more
Tables in select places see more
Just look - http://demozzz.com/dolphin701b/m/videos/browse/album/-/owner/kabmir
And what is that "dash" do there???
Oh, gushhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
It's not bad css, it's bad js I reported this problem 2 months ago, and no one is taking it seriously..... even though it affects every single Dolphin 7 site. I fixed this on my own site by modifying the js function that calculates the width of the dbTopMenu. Ther is more info in the ticket and 2 threads that it references.
http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/ticket/1668
I spend a lot of my job working with standards - Australian standards, British standards, European and international standards. They are there for a reason, an important one - commonality.
If everyone follows the standards - in our case browser manufacturers, web coders, designers, wysiwyg editors, software houses, everything is fine, life is easy, things work as they should.
If people do not follow the standards, then we end up with issues like Internet Explorer see more
With a website, there is unfortunately no obligation to do the same, except in one instance - to provide accessibility. Most countries / states have strict laws governing disabled persons - things like wheelchair see more
HL - I accidentally deleted a nice wordy response to you whilst jumbling everything around to fit :(
Yes you are correct - the width element is actually generated by javascript (god only knows why) - my guess is that the issue it is trying to address is to stop the tab text from wrapping. BUT - this is not the correct way to do this - there are several CSS only solutions to this issue - some of them pretty basic too.
My opinion - it's a typical softie trait see more
To pick up from your example of the gas appliance, and to tie it up with what I'm on about, imagine this scenario:
50% of houses on the current market have not been built to work properly with standard gas appliances. You are a gas appliance manufacturer, and have loads of retailers and workshops who buy the goods from you and take care of installing the said appliances. see more
Hello
Looks like FF displays the content differently when zoom is used.
OK. We will investigate the issue and fix it.
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Best Regards
Anton Lesnikov
AQB Soft
As such, I intend to take every measure within my power to bring it all down, as soon as I have my desk a bit more clear and the finance department sufficiently set up, see more
Has nothing to do with zoom - zoom has no effect on how it is rendered. probably more to do with not testing in all browsers.
ahhhh - web standards - got to love 'em
@Code Satori - education is the simple solution - most folk do not know the issues associate with IE6/7 - and some web-devs too it would seem.
http://www.justinroberts.com.au/put-ie6-out-of-its-misery-a-list-of-anti-ie6-websites/
Thanks for that link, I'll need to go over those sites with a bit more time see more
Then how do you explain the dbTopMenu rightmost item appearing and disappearing as you zoom in and out?
DeeEmm; Excellent point! --- will go and integrate a little browser edu notification box into my own wares right away. 6 & 7 need to go down... Any more practical ideas on how to further this, please post'em in.
this is necessary for french market ...
@code satori - you could go buy the mod I have in the marketplace - lol
Don't you think these sorts of mods should be available for free as a public service though? Education is the key as you noted, and the wider the availability, the more we all stand to gain in the fight against the machine.
and i still have problems with the 7
@CodeSatori - Should it be free?. Perhaps. But I already give too much away for free. I do, however make a point of banging on about how bad IE is as often as I can. So, in a way, I feel justified that I can charge a little for it. - In reality, If people want to invest a little time, they can easily work out how to do this themselves, if they want to invest a little more time, they can even make it look elegant, or perhaps see more
http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/#topic/bug-Archive.htm
http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/#topic/bug-Compose-a-new-message.htm
http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/#topic/oubtox-trange.htm
http://www.boonex.com/unity/forums/#topic/why-can-not-see-our-own-photos-in-cooliris-.htm
@houseperu; I think that's the general idea there, 7.0.1 is coming precisely BECAUSE you have problems with 7.0.0. =)
Cupid mails has to be sent as soon but not before the new member is approved and having Active status...
Thanks a lot ;-)
Did you create a ticket in the Trac?
Just wondering if this upcoming release of D7 will have resolved the huge issues with IE8? The majority of my members typically use Internet Explorer as their first choice.
Seems like some of us are too quick to criticise and too slow to praise....been around for too long to accept the illusion of "perfect".
Dee Emm: if you can do better then do it. Stop your witless babble - as if PHP and CSS were ambrosia. LOL!
for the money i am paying i expect it to work on the most common browser
IE7 / IE8 compatibility is not really negotiable with the current browser market shares. You have a bit more slack when it comes to admin-only areas, but user front-end should be IE7 compatible.
Agree, that websites should cater for all browsers.
Anyway, back to the original topic, I look forward to D 7.0.1.
Internet Explorer (54.50%;)
Mozilla Firefox (30.96%;)
Google Chrome (5.61%)
Safari (5.27%)
Opera (2.10%)
Other (1.78%)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
While I can totally appreciate that Internet Explorer is losing major ground due to its many issues, it cannot be helped if the majority of my members are still using it.
And the fact that my members actually pay their hard earned money to use my site does not give me the right to take away their free choice and force them into using a browser not of their choosing. At the end of the day the customer is right and this software SHOULD work with ALL browsers of significance no matter see more