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samglover posted:Pullquotes and blockquotes are different things. A pull quote isn't really part of the content like a blockquote is. A pullquote is basically a typographical teaser. They also look nice. Yes, but then you use aside like suggested. Its a quote, so semantically you want it treated as such by the RSS. Couple it with aside and you have your semantic meaning, then use classes to make it look nice.
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In line with my earlier comment about Bootstrap and the like being what I need to get something decent looking out quick (given that I really don't like frontend web dev) and then if the project gets to the point I can get someone who actually enjoys this stuff... Anyone have anything good or bad to say about working with the SmartAdmin template/theme/doodad? I may just do it from scratch, but it would be very easy to convince myself to just use that thing. I just need to come up with something professional looking to show someone.
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Thermopyle posted:In line with my earlier comment about Bootstrap and the like being what I need to get something decent looking out quick (given that I really don't like frontend web dev) and then if the project gets to the point I can get someone who actually enjoys this stuff... If you don't enjoy fronted design, a bootstrap theme like that could be a good choice. That one is supposedly pretty good, but once you get into the templating with that kind of theme, you run into some flexibility limitations / tradeoffs for your design. Since I have no aptitude for good front-end design, I'm a big fan of these kind of theme packages. I find myself running into some customization issues where I'm editing or overriding the theme author's own LESS code or even their javascript, which hurts if I ever want to upgrade the theme if they provide free updates.
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Thermopyle posted:In line with my earlier comment about Bootstrap and the like being what I need to get something decent looking out quick (given that I really don't like frontend web dev) and then if the project gets to the point I can get someone who actually enjoys this stuff... Use the poo poo out of it. Functionality of your site is going to be the most important thing and if you can focus on that first you can do as many re-design/re-styles as you want later on.
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Nov 18, 2014 13:59
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Perhaps a random question, but does anyone have experience doing development work via smartphone tethering? Since I started freelancing I've been spending way too much time in my apartment and am slowly going insane. There are a few coffee shops nearby that are nice to work at, but the combination of their lovely internet + VPN brings things to a crawl and I can't get anything done. Thus, the only times I'm able to go there are when I have a lot of stuff to do that doesn't require an internet connection (which, needless to say, isn't all that often). I'm curious about speeds and bandwidth usage. I do the majority of my development work locally, but I do need to be able to commit stuff, SSH/SFTP to various servers to make changes and Google crap without spending minutes at a time waiting for things to load.
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Nov 18, 2014 21:39
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If you got 3G you should be fine, it's around 7 MBPS and the latency isn't very noticeable. Just make sure your phone is plugged in cause it drains the battery real quick. I would imagine there are also USB sticks that come with prepaid bandwidth though that might be phased out now that everybody has smartphones.
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kedo posted:Perhaps a random question, but does anyone have experience doing development work via smartphone tethering? Since I started freelancing I've been spending way too much time in my apartment and am slowly going insane. There are a few coffee shops nearby that are nice to work at, but the combination of their lovely internet + VPN brings things to a crawl and I can't get anything done. Thus, the only times I'm able to go there are when I have a lot of stuff to do that doesn't require an internet connection (which, needless to say, isn't all that often). SSH sessions suck a little but are surprisingly usable. Moving small/medium assets is no problem at all. Pushing > 25 mb will be a pain, though. Overall it's very usable with some exceptions. Personally I go to a bar and use their WiFi if I feel like getting out of the house.
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Thanks both, I'll have to look into it in that case. Much appreciated!Gmaz posted:I would imagine there are also USB sticks that come with prepaid bandwidth though that might be phased out now that everybody has smartphones. Yeah, I thought about one of those standalone devices, but I think I'd rather just use my phone. One less thing to carry around, and the ability to legitimately put at least part of my plan on the  company credit card is a nice perk.revmoo posted:Personally I go to a bar and use their WiFi if I feel like getting out of the house. I've tried about four places nearby and they're all terrible. I supposed I could always go to Starbucks and use theirs (it usually seems to be a bit better), but I don't want to be one of those people.
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Nov 18, 2014 22:37
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I've never used public wifi that approached the good bandwidth and latency I get out of a decent 3g or 4g connection.
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Nov 18, 2014 23:29
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Careful using WiFi on planes.
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That's why I go to bars. All the coffee shops around here are jam-packed full of hipsters on their Macbooks and have weird WiFi rules and issues. I can go to the local pub and be the only one there for four hours and have unfettered WiFi access. Also burgers and beer.
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Question about SVG icons. I'm designing essentially a theme website for one company, that they're going to use to roll out about 30 "microsites" for different events they host. The website uses about 25 different icons throughout, mostly custom made, mostly 2 colour. I don't need to support ie8. What I've done is convert all icons to SVG, linked all the SVG data in one place, then referred to the SVGs as so: code:code:code:Setting the icons up like this has made a huge difference in speed - far fewer http requests (1 versus like 25 if I were using pngs), the svg sprites file is like 11kb (whereas using png's would have been >50kb, not allowing for stuff like making retina versions etc). Also means I can just change a sass colour variable and have them done, rather than manually changing the colour of all the icons and resaving png's. Thought this was working fine, but tested from home last night and the icons are all displaying as black, which I believe is the "default" svg colour. I've tried removing all references to "fill" from inside the SVGs, but to no avail. Just tested on another computer, and it's working fine in Chrome, but appears black in IE11. Any idea how to fix this? Essentially, the svg's aren't taking the fill property from the CSS in some browsers. Edit: to clarify, the multiple sites need to be rolled out fairly rapidly, all with different colour schemes, so the other main benefit I wanted is that I can just change the colour variable $primary-colour or whatever, and have the SVGs change colour with the text (though they use multiple colours, so an icon font isn't an option). Edit 2: Fixed it, a stupid mistake. I was targeting the id of the icon, I should have been targeting the class. Phew! For anyone not currently using them, SVG icons are good. Chris! fucked around with this message at 11:00 on Nov 20, 2014 |
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Nov 20, 2014 10:24
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Does anyone know anything about electronic signatures? I just got asked to quote for a site that would include an "e signature module" and I kinda have no idea what that means. I guess the only way is to sign up to one of the e sig companies (digisign etc) and embed their forms etc? No way to do a free / self-hosted version? fuf fucked around with this message at 14:14 on Nov 20, 2014 |
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Nov 20, 2014 13:52
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My understanding is you basically just put a form where they have to manually type out their full name, which you then store as a row in a database table that contains their signature plus timestamp and details (might as well store their UA and ip address). This would generally be for their users when they're signing up or engaging them for services.
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Nov 20, 2014 14:13
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revmoo posted:My understanding is you basically just put a form where they have to manually type out their full name, which you then store as a row in a database table that contains their signature plus timestamp and details (might as well store their UA and ip address). But they have to draw their signature on screen or something right? I can't find anything about how to implement that on your own site, just a bunch of companies that want you to pay monthly to do it on theirs.
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Nov 20, 2014 14:18
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There's Adobe Echosign https://www.echosign.adobe.com which allows you to "Embed signable forms in your website" on their Enterprise level - but doesn't list pricing for that level of system, might be overkill for what you need?
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fuf posted:But they have to draw their signature on screen or something right? I can't find anything about how to implement that on your own site, just a bunch of companies that want you to pay monthly to do it on theirs. No you literally just put in a input type text and have them type out their name. Seems kinda flimsy but as far as I know courts have upheld these things as valid.
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Chris! posted:There's Adobe Echosign https://www.echosign.adobe.com which allows you to "Embed signable forms in your website" on their Enterprise level - but doesn't list pricing for that level of system, might be overkill for what you need? Thanks but yeah I doubt they'll want to fork out for that. revmoo posted:No you literally just put in a input type text and have them type out their name. Seems kinda flimsy but as far as I know courts have upheld these things as valid. haha that's really weird. I'm waiting to hear back on what they actually need it for. 
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Well as I've been told, a signature is legally the intent to sign, not what you actually draw, so in that capacity I see how just typing it in would work.
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haha turns out they just want a petition that people can add their names to. I should have clarified before jumping the gun. Thanks for the advice anyway
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Just wanted to add that one time at the old job I did an e-signature thing and one of the requirements was that the page had to make them check a box (literally input type="checkbox") before clicking the submit button for some reason and I've noticed since that this is a very common pattern for similar forms.
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I've been asked to look at a really ancient form that submits data through an code:Am I right in thinking that 'mailto': only really works if you have a default mail client set up (thunderbird or outlook) or are capable of setting up a default email address on Chrome/Firefox? This is a public facing form, so if that's the case it's not the friendliest way to get form data from our clients.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:I've been asked to look at a really ancient form that submits data through an At least in a Windows environment, clicking a mailto:mail@mail.com hyperlink in a browser will open your default mail client. If you have not set up a default mail client, I believe Windows will try to connect to an outlook server. edit: in Chrome, I clicked a mailto hyperlink and it opened gMail in a new tab 
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Jake Blues posted:edit: in Chrome, I clicked a mailto hyperlink and it opened gMail in a new tab Brace yourself for this, you would have missed it. They got bin Laden.
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That form should probably be changed to something a little more modern. mailto is unreliable in my experience... I've had a lot of clients in the past say things like, "Why does this link open Outlook when I click it? I don't use Outlook, I use Yahoo mail..." or whatever because they haven't set up their browser to send mailto links to their web mail. Jotform is pretty easy to implement from what I've heard. Never used it myself, but I have a few colleagues who use it. There are a lot of other services like it. I tend to prefer stuff like that over PHP mailers because the risk of important mail getting lost in someone's spam folder (or even worse, rejected by the server entirely) is lower, and even if that occurs there'll be a copy of the email in a database somewhere.
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I'll have to check out Jotform. I use mailto because I'm too lazy to learn anything more complex.
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I use mailto on simple contacts. If it's a technological hurdle for someone I probably don't want to be talking to them.
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I actually stopped using mailto: for the very reasons described; no guarantee of a mail client, inconsistent handling of it depending on OS etc. But now actually might be the time to bring it back, especially since on mobile you have to have an email client/address working to have any kind of other functionality.
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What scaffolds/generators do people use? I like the idea of Yeoman, but it just confuses me further cause adding new dependencies is nearly impossible.
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Pollyanna posted:What scaffolds/generators do people use? I like the idea of Yeoman, but it just confuses me further cause adding new dependencies is nearly impossible. You can use the --save flag ("$ bower install <package> --save") when adding something, which will add the package to your project and add it to your bower.json so it will be included when other people pull the project from github.
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enthe0s posted:You can use the --save flag ("$ bower install <package> --save") when adding something, which will add the package to your project and add it to your bower.json so it will be included when other people pull the project from github. See I did this and then it never actually got included in my dist, even with grunt bower/grunt wiredep.
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Pollyanna posted:What scaffolds/generators do people use? I like the idea of Yeoman, but it just confuses me further cause adding new dependencies is nearly impossible. Generally none, because IMO Yeoman is horrible. The theory's ok I suppose, but you're dependent on someone else's hosed-up idea of their perfect workflow: eg say I would like a React starter to play with, but the developer has decided on Bower and Require rather than NPM and Browserify and hosed if I want to go back to trying to figure out Require. There's that many competing APIs, I'd rather just use the NPM modules I know, bundled via Browserify, and plug through Gulp if necessary. Occasionally you hit on a generator built by a developer with the same taste in tools, so at that point I generally install, copy the setup and forget it was done via Yeoman. poo poo, even stuff like Rails scaffolding isn't terribly useful, and that does the same predictable thing every time regardless. >:-(
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Man all this talk about deployment tools. I remember when you had HTML, the javascript was inline, as was the CSS (assuming you didn't use built in things like <TD ALIGN="LEFT">).
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Scaramouche posted:Man all this talk about deployment tools. I remember when you had HTML, the javascript was inline, as was the CSS (assuming you didn't use built in things like <TD ALIGN="LEFT">). I thought I'd managed to leave all that years behind me and then in my current job I've ended up having to produce unique HTML email templates and Jesus Christ
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Pollyanna posted:What scaffolds/generators do people use? I like the idea of Yeoman, but it just confuses me further cause adding new dependencies is nearly impossible. I wrote a bash script that asks me a bunch of questions (Are you using Javascript in this project? Are you using React? etc.) and then poops out a gulpfile for me and runs all the npm commands I'll need to get going, creates my directory structure, then opens index.html, site.scss, and app.js in MacVim for me.
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What is the deal with styling disabled options in a select? Is this a thing that you used to be able to do but can't anymore? Because I'm seeing all kinds of examples on stackoverflow and the like that are supposed to work, that just don't (in chrome, at least). For instance this (all three methods shown) works in firefox, but not safari or chrome. Styling selects in general seems like kind of a pain in the rear end.
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jackpot posted:What is the deal with styling disabled options in a select? Is this a thing that you used to be able to do but can't anymore? Because I'm seeing all kinds of examples on stackoverflow and the like that are supposed to work, that just don't (in chrome, at least). For instance this (all three methods shown) works in firefox, but not safari or chrome. Styling selects in general seems like kind of a pain in the rear end. It is. Basically JavaScript is the way to go. Use jQuery UI or something to turn it into a HTML/CSS/JS equivalent and then you can style the various parts without issue.
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What's the consensus on using flexbox nowadays? caniuse.com says the support is generally pretty good, and it's just for an small(ish) desktop/mobile app I'm working on for a local gym, but recent experiments with android devices and flexbox left me somewhat...concerned.
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Bastard posted:What's the consensus on using flexbox nowadays? caniuse.com says the support is generally pretty good, and it's just for an small(ish) desktop/mobile app I'm working on for a local gym, but recent experiments with android devices and flexbox left me somewhat...concerned. I wouldn't use it without at least checking a site's browser demographic beforehand. I haven't done a lot with flexbox - what did you find in Android, I'm interested?
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