Should this be an emote?
(http://i35.tinypic.com/5lxeyp.gif)
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 10, 2011, 04:26:26 AM
Should this be an emote?
(http://i35.tinypic.com/5lxeyp.gif)
Is he headbutting, fucking, or a little bit of both?
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 10, 2011, 04:29:32 AM
Is he headbutting, fucking, or a little bit of both?
Does it really matter?
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 10, 2011, 04:32:33 AM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 10, 2011, 04:29:32 AM
Is he headbutting, fucking, or a little bit of both?
Does it really matter?
I suppose not, just wanted to know what it would express.
I am in favor.
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 10, 2011, 04:34:01 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 10, 2011, 04:32:33 AM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 10, 2011, 04:29:32 AM
Is he headbutting, fucking, or a little bit of both?
Does it really matter?
I suppose not, just wanted to know what it would express.
I am in favor.
I took a minute and blew it up.
He's humping that tree.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 10, 2011, 04:34:43 AM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 10, 2011, 04:34:01 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 10, 2011, 04:32:33 AM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 10, 2011, 04:29:32 AM
Is he headbutting, fucking, or a little bit of both?
Does it really matter?
I suppose not, just wanted to know what it would express.
I am in favor.
I took a minute and blew it up.
He's humping that tree.
:lulz:
Still in favor
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 10, 2011, 04:35:40 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 10, 2011, 04:34:43 AM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 10, 2011, 04:34:01 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 10, 2011, 04:32:33 AM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 10, 2011, 04:29:32 AM
Is he headbutting, fucking, or a little bit of both?
Does it really matter?
I suppose not, just wanted to know what it would express.
I am in favor.
I took a minute and blew it up.
He's humping that tree.
:lulz:
Still in favor
I'm thinking :treefucker:
It should be used to signify yet another noob who's gonna tell us all about Discordia and how we're doin' it wrong.
reminds of a guy I knew in the SCA. We called him Ramrod. He would hump trees when liquored up screaming 'SAY CAR RAMROD!!!"
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 10, 2011, 04:37:30 AM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 10, 2011, 04:35:40 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 10, 2011, 04:34:43 AM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 10, 2011, 04:34:01 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 10, 2011, 04:32:33 AM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 10, 2011, 04:29:32 AM
Is he headbutting, fucking, or a little bit of both?
Does it really matter?
I suppose not, just wanted to know what it would express.
I am in favor.
I took a minute and blew it up.
He's humping that tree.
:lulz:
Still in favor
I'm thinking :treefucker:
It should be used to signify yet another noob who's gonna tell us all about Discordia and how we're doin' it wrong.
:lulz: OMG it's perfect for that!
TREEFUCKER YES!
That poor tree.
That tree was asking for it. It didn't even have any leaves on, for chrissakes!
Quote from: Jenkem and SPACE/TIME on June 10, 2011, 06:59:16 AM
That tree was asking for it. It didn't even have any leaves on, for chrissakes!
:lulz:
:lulz:
If it's halved in size.
Clicking the emote box already crashes my browser more times than not. I have to look up the codes via the admin panel.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 10, 2011, 04:26:26 AM
Should this be an emote?
(http://i35.tinypic.com/5lxeyp.gif)
Yes! :lulz:
Cain, I'll shrink the bastard as required.
Quote from: Jenkem and SPACE/TIME on June 10, 2011, 06:59:16 AM
That tree was asking for it. It didn't even have any leaves on, for chrissakes!
This wins an internet. :lulz:
In addition to resizing, maybe crop off the right side of the image. Doesn't seem to be anything going on over there.
Here's 80 kB
(http://i.imgur.com/KgDWm.gif)
57 kB
(http://i.imgur.com/m0twX.gif)
and 35 kB
(http://i.imgur.com/oyqm3.gif)
This is a useful site for editing small animated gifs: http://www.online-image-editor.com/
I think no smaller than 80, otherwise you lose the motion of the tree branches at the top.
It's the little things, you know.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 10, 2011, 03:26:54 PM
Cain, I'll shrink the bastard as required.
Thanks. And thanks Net, for doing the shrinking too.
What about this one?
(http://i.imgur.com/DNBje.gif)
It stands for someone doing something stupid and trying to play it off even though it's obvious.
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on June 12, 2011, 12:23:45 PM
What about this one?
(http://i.imgur.com/DNBje.gif)
It stands for someone doing something stupid and trying to play it off even though it's obvious.
This one's a breeze... :weltburger:
Those kids have gaping black holes where their eyes should be.
If anything, it needs to be named :zalgo:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 12, 2011, 04:25:38 PM
Quote from: Weltbürger (NSFW) on June 12, 2011, 12:23:45 PM
What about this one?
(http://i.imgur.com/DNBje.gif)
It stands for someone doing something stupid and trying to play it off even though it's obvious.
This one's a breeze... :weltburger:
:lulz:
Quote from: Cain on June 12, 2011, 04:29:42 PM
Those kids have gaping black holes where their eyes should be.
If anything, it needs to be named :zalgo:
All Belgians are like that.
Belgian hipsters were clearly into Zalgo before it became big and popular.
The only Belgian Hipster I can think of is Plastic Bertrand. (Probably Welty's Grandfather)
I haven't been to Belgium for a while, but actually I expect the streets there to be fucking loaded with hipster kids. What they lack for in taste, they make up for in herd mentality, so I think it's a done deal. Especially given the funny language.
Quote from: Cain on June 10, 2011, 07:48:39 AM
If it's halved in size.
Clicking the emote box already crashes my browser more times than not. I have to look up the codes via the admin panel.
It's been on my to-do list to fix the appearance of the emote popup box for a long time.
I've made some changes now, I'm pretty happy with them. It's the simplest thing that could possibly work, but it looks kinda okay IMO.
The most important change is that I fixed the layout of the emotes:
Unfortunately, a browser cannot know the true dimensions of a picture before it downloads the first bits of it (the headers say how big it will be). This is what causes all the crazy shifting and jumping around while all the emotes load, the browser has to keep updating the layout of that page as new information on image sizes drips in. I expect this to be somewhat CPU heavy, and it's just annoying because you can't click anywhere if the thing you want to click on keeps jumping around.
Unfortunately, the forum database table that contains the emote info doesn't keep track of the image dimensions either, so I can't fix the HTML to tell the browser what the dimensions of each image will be beforehand.
So the only thing to stop the shifting/jumping was to fix the preview pictures of the emoticons at a fixed size. I didn't want to actually enlarge or shrink them that would make the really small "smiley" style classic emotes look terrible. So what I did was give every emote its own 120x120 pixels box and put the picture in that box, at original resolution, centered and cropped to the box.
I think 120px strikes a good balance between showing enough of the larger emotes, while not having the smaller ones swim in a sea of white-space.
Unfortunately it means you only see a part of the really large emoticons, but I don't think that's really a big deal. The important part is that you can see them in the post, and that you can easily recognize and select the right emote from the popup-box, and I think this solution works for that.
One thing I still notice is that in Firefox, the emote box still slurps quite a bit of CPU. That's probably still because of the large amount of large animated GIFs inside that window. Opera seems to deal better with it, though. Well, try it out, and if it still drags your computer to a crawl, or even crashes the browser, there's still some more solutions I can come up with (replacing the large animations with static JPG thumbnails), but they require more work.
Finally, the emote popup now shows both the code for the emote as well as the description that goes with the emote (as entered in the admin panel). Seems pretty useful that way, and we might want to consider making some of the descriptions a littlebit more ... descriptive, now? :)
Feedback = appreciated!
MUCH better, I like, thanks, Trip!
Great to hear it works well for others, too :)
So I've only been able to test this new emote box in Firefox and Opera. If people using other browsers could report that it works or not, that would be great.
I especially fear for those few that are still forced to use the prehistoric IE6 at their workplace (is that still the case for you, RWHN? or did they upgrade to a newer version of IE? cause even Microsoft itself officially stopped supporting it).
Quote from: Triple Zero on June 15, 2011, 12:51:20 PM
Great to hear it works well for others, too :)
So I've only been able to test this new emote box in Firefox and Opera. If people using other browsers could report that it works or not, that would be great.
I especially fear for those few that are still forced to use the prehistoric IE6 at their workplace (is that still the case for you, RWHN? or did they upgrade to a newer version of IE? cause even Microsoft itself officially stopped supporting it).
Works in IE8.
I was wondering about the emote box. Love it. I find it loads a lot faster than the old one did.
Trip, that's bad ass testicle!
New layout = fucking awesome! Thanks Trip!
:cheney: :wade: :hit: :rush: :flush: :winner: :cuntpunch: :nuke:
Just trying to see what this looks like on pixels.
Excellent
PROTIP: hit the Preview button.
This is amazingly awesome. So much faster. Thanks.