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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am
Posts: 7935
Location: Manchester.
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Yep, Shift and click opens it in a new window. Cheers pal.  _________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker  Sorry  I'll behave now. Promise 
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| Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:31 pm |
 
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm
Posts: 4876
Location: Newcastle
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I'd seriously ask about why they havent upgraded to IE7 or even 8. Some pretty bad security risks in using dated software unless there is a real need for it... _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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| Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:44 pm |
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AlunD
Site Admin
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:12 am
Posts: 7011
Location: Wiltshire
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In most cases its down to teh fact that they have custom software written to work in IE6 that won't work in anything else. Yes I know it scrap but its teh real world sad to say.
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| Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:30 pm |
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Fogmeister
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:35 pm
Posts: 6580
Location: Getting there
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I still feel that it would be better to have it open in a new tab/window.
Like I said the source site is not related to the destination site so they should open into different windows by default.
I may have to find a way to overwrite the css for the site and use my own that opens links into new tabs. It's fracking annoying when it doesn't.
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| Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:37 pm |
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm
Posts: 5150
Location: /dev/tty0
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I doubt phpbb is standards complaint (XHTML), but I know that under XHTML 1.1 there is no way to open new tabs by default. Reading the spec it was part of the design, that the user should have control of how their browser handles events.
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| Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:10 pm |
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saspro
Site Admin
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:53 pm
Posts: 8603
Location: location, location
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Thread stickied.
Please post ideas here instead of PM'ing me, this way all the site admins see whats needed and can work together (and might give me a couple of hours off)
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| Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:20 pm |
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AlunD
Site Admin
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:12 am
Posts: 7011
Location: Wiltshire
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It is allowed but you should have a text warning that it will open in another window
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themcman1
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:54 pm
Posts: 572
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It is actually, well the default style is. *I think*
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AlunD
Site Admin
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:12 am
Posts: 7011
Location: Wiltshire
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There are a few very minor issues but yes all the themes are basically compliant  Which the old site never was. I'm really looking forward to testing their new one next week:D If its not I will really enjoy taking Dennis apart and going to the DDA over it 
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Fogmeister
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:35 pm
Posts: 6580
Location: Getting there
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Given the fact that my web dev knowledge just about covers how to make tables in HTML can you not just set the target for a link to be "blank"? Or has that been got rid of?
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| Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:34 pm |
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
Posts: 10022
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I may have missed this but I have difficulty differentiating between previously read posts with no updates and read posts with new replies. I then have to look at the time and date of the last reply to figure out whether I need to read it or not.
Too much after a day's work!
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| Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:57 pm |
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Fogmeister
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:35 pm
Posts: 6580
Location: Getting there
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I just changed the skin for the site.
Grey circles = no new posts.
Blue circles = new, unread posts.
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| Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:58 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
Posts: 8767
Location: behind the sofa
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Me too. I found the default skin totally confusing, which probably goes to show I've spent far too much time over at Dennis. _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
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With a blue-grey background, all the circles look the same colour to me! EDIT: How about spacers between the Meeting Place, the computer-related forums, and the none-computer-related forums? _________________He fights for the users.
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Dragon
Has a life
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 5:00 pm
Posts: 16
Location: Exiled in Staffordshire
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One thing I have come up against in the bit tech forums is the difficulty of returning to a thread, so can we have somthing like the system of monitoring we had in CPC _________________ Was Welshguardsman in the old place
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