development corrupts

what happen to the layout?

em, one word: ScrapBook. It's a crap!

Uploading is confusing, it gets into this numerous FB_in thing, and I cannot, for the life of me, think of how to organize it in one go. Seriously, I think LJ needs a KISS expert.

After I know how to organize it, using it the next time, I have to stop and think again about how should I organize it! It's very frustrating.

Then the filenames! Why does LJ.com change it to random string? I admit even flickr.com does that, but their uploading scheme is so easy, people forgave flickr.com for that.

And probably tag system, it needs the merge function.

sorry for rambling.

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ripps818.livejournal.com

I concur.

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Oh god, I don't even bother with the scrapbook. The way the album/subalbum links default is counterintuitive. And the album pages just plainly look bad.

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afuna

Hm, the way the album/subalbum links default? What do you mean?

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I cannot WORD! this enough. Scrapbook is terrible and managing your pictures is far too difficult. Also I hate that eljay pics don't have tag extensions (.jpg, .gif) as it makes cross posting a whore to do.

And yes to tag merging.

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afuna

You can actually add the extensions, and as long as it's the proper extension, Scrapbook won't mind :)

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Yes, but at times I'll forget which ones I used! I wish it acted more like photobucket or even flickr in making sharing more user friendly.

I'm surrently using a layout I found in mintyapple (or was it lj_nifty?) that customizes your scrapbook to look like your current layout, but some of the original elements are missing but I'm not sure which. aNyhow, it's very pretty, but not very user friendly.

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afuna

Oops, forgot to reply. No worries about the rambling! In fact, if you think of more stuff, go ahead and make another comment, even if it's just over a tiny irritation. I've been listing down a fair amount of those, heh.

As for the layout, I'm trying to do some data collection somewhere else using ?style=mine, and I'm too lazy to switch layouts all the time. (The only things I need are the permalink, entry ids, journals, and dates, which is why those are the only things I kept in, heh.)

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I'm trying to do some data collection somewhere else using ?style=mine

*Giggles*

I planned to to suggestion post for scrapbook, but procrastinator in me delete it. XDD

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or better:
Scrapbook.

sorry for posting this junk comment XDDD

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afuna

Hee! i giggled. *is twelve*

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Hmm. Well, the custom css box only holds fairly short and simple stylesheets. I still have to host mine (from

irinafan) on Ripway.

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huh? which one?

grrliz that made layouts in

thefulcrum has long CSS too, but it's fine with the CSS box.

LJ used to limit number of characters in the CSS box, it doesn't anymore, AFAIK.

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The ones for Expressive that she made in

cartonage here get a bounce from the css box. I've tried.

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I just found this page with google.com: http://community.livejournal.com/s2styles/402830.html

It seems like only 17KB is accepted at this point by the LJ system. And the style from

irinafan is 23KB. However, looking at her CSS, many, many declarations can be simplified, for example these two:


#content-inner {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}

#alpha-inner {
margin: 0;
padding:0;
}

can be combined into:


#content-inner, #alpha-inner {
margin: 0;
padding:0;
}

And many more tips to optimize the code, however I (cliche) don't have the time now.

And the fact that the CSS itself is already 23KB, it makes more sense to host it in ripway.com. Why? Because browser will store the CSS file in a cache and will access that instead of opening a HTML file (your LJ) + 23KB extra baggage, every *single* time. Saving time and bandwidth in your part (and people with limited internet access) and less burden on LJ server.

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Much clearer now. Yeah, glazed over the css. Grateful for the clarification. And no worries. I cribbed her code because I fell out of love with Flex and am too busy with my R/L job to learn Expressive (I haven't even seen the layout layer). ;D

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I'm not a fan of Expressive (http://ephi.livejournal.com/1152.html) myself. Personally, I think it has way too many unnecessary divs.

Which is why I struggle for a year to come up with my current layout in

ivles and then the comment page scared me. XDDD

This tool (http://flumpcakes.co.uk/css/optimiser/) shrunk the file to 18KB, but they don't groups selectors with the same declarations. And those image replacement CSS can be simplified too.

I wish you good luck! ;-)

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afuna

The problem with the custom CSS box is actually that S2 has a problem with really long strings. Passing on that information as well, though, because I agree that it's counter-intuitive :)

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Afuna, I adore your tag script but one thing that happens is when I click a tag it kind of jumps back up to the top causing me to have to scroll down again. This is especially frustrating when the next tag I need is right by the last one I just clicked! Heh, have you gotten any feedback about that behavior?

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afuna

Hm. No, this is the first I've heard of it. Try installing the latest version? Not sure whether it's what you have right now. If that doesn't fix it, comment back.

(I'm actually using another version with autocomplete, but am still working out one thing, so have not posted up the autocomplete up)

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OOH! That's what I was waiting for! I would loooooooove and autocomplete. I WILL SO HELP YOU TEST THIS!

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afuna

Hee. I can send it to you if you want ;) And i cannot take credit for the autocomplete as it was done by

ciaran_h.

I've been thinking of using a library for autocomplete, actually, but have been waiting for a particular Greasemonkey feature which... might be some time in coming. So I might push ahead with this one instead, but there are a couple of things I need to get clear such as what happens when you have fuzzy matching. (that is, say you have a tag called "fandom: eyeshield" and you type in "eyeshi", I'd want that to autocomplete to "fandom: eyeshield". But then it might conflict with, say, a tag called "eyez", so er. That part is really not clear.

And i know of one bug where it will not submit the form if the last tag in the textbox is not followed by a comma. Again, have had no time to dissect.

Anyway, tell me to which email, and I'll send over the script that I'm using? *G*

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stickykeys633 @ livejournal

Just put afuna somewhere int he subject.

I'll have to check it out and see what you mean. I'm thinking more of autocomplete like firefox has where you start typing, and if there are multiple choices it creates a box where you can click which one is appropriate. Yours seems to be almost an actual autofill which is defintiley interesting and agreat start.

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