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Hi,
I have been thinking to write an article on HTML 5 canvas. I notice that CodeProject article web pages are HTML 4.01 which translates to mean I have to host my HTML 5 canvas animation on another website. Am I right?
This posting is just to confirm this.
Thanks!!
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Wong Shao Voon wrote: Am I right?
No. All it means is that people will have to download your code; which is the standard for articles anyway.
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And is it not better to preview how the code plays before going for download?
I think the OP is asking how to show preview live (other than attaching snapshots).
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Surely if you're writing an article on the HTML5 Canvas you'd know enough to know that the doctype doesn't define if the canvas is available. Look closely at these forums. Notice as you hover over a message, the arrow on the left of each message? That's drawn on a canvas.
However, I'm guessing your point is you want to provide a demo in your article. We don't allow javascript to be hosted live within articles for obvious security reasons, but a downloadable page is just as effective and useful to readers.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi Chris,
I just want to provide the path of least resistance for the viewer to see the animation before reading the article; most readers have the habit of reading the article first, then download the demo. This takes surprise out if they read article before viewing canvas animation. However, I must say the rationale of not hosting live javascript in article, is sound and sensible.
Thanks!
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I have no more information about HTML 5...
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Why is my article, Using jQuery Mobile with MVC and Netduino for Home Automation, not in the competition for the best Mobile article for March?
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The better question why this article is in the list: Async/Await Could Be Better[^]
Did anyone actually read it or it gets selected by its size? The more words the better chanse to get into competition?
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They fixed a bug in the site and got my article on jQuery Mobile in the list. The bummer is that 50 people already voted.
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Can't vote as I already voted - Damn bugs.
In January I got about 30 votes more than the second fellow in C++ category and you know the auditing process gave prize to the second article - no offence, the second article is still good, but I felt a bit sad. And yes, I felt a bit anger, but just let it go and taught of never expecting any thing again from CP. I suppose the votes of CP MVPs are valued more than the other regulars and they have a say in the process.
As a consolation I got in Feb in the Mobile category which I never taught off.
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Thanks for your message! I feel your pain  Congratulations on wining in the Feb Mobile category. You wrote a great 5 star article!!
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Your Home Automation with Netduino and Kinect[^] is one of the best drafted article I have seen. Just don't let your spirits down by this. They will surely appreciate you. After all there are very nice people out there in CP.
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Lakamraju Raghuram wrote: I suppose the votes of CP MVPs are valued more than the other regulars and they
have a say in the process.
CP MVPs have no say in the process. The auditing process looks to see if there has been suspicious voting patterns; you were probably unlucky there. Possibly several people from one organisation voted for you and this was deemed as being suspicious (I can't say whether or not this is true as I'm just an MVP and have no access to the voting logs). I can understand that you were upset, but you should probably have taken this up with the site admins at the time.
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Quote: Possibly several people from one organisation voted for you
May be my colleagues, who have read it and appreciated it even before it got picked up for voting. Now why that should be a problem.
It's a bit strange.
Say if all my colleagues don't find my article worthy and finds the other guys article great and say if they have all voted for him, then for God's sake don't say that the guy's article will be kicked out as suspicious - is this fair ? 
Quote: but you should probably have taken this up with the site admins at the time
But the other article which got prize is one of my favorite for that month. So I just let it go and it wont make any sense at least to me to argue upon this. But to be frank I am a bit dejected 
Quote: have no access to the voting logs
Yup, that is the way it should be. Only few admins should have access.
In spite of this, I still find CP as a great place and the best for sharing the knowledge. I am a great fan of how this site is run by Chris and other supporting staff. I am just addicted to it and I am happy to be so. 
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To answer the implicit question. There have been people, in the past, who created additional accounts just to vote for themselves. This is obviously unfair to people like yourself who let your articles stand on their own merits. The admins look to see if there are blocks of votes from newly created accounting the same IP address and remove them if there are. Unfortunately this can go wrong in the case we just looked at.
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Agreed
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Hello!
I have a few questions in terms of my updated article:
Yesterday I submitted an update of this article[^] with new attachments.
Today (at 02:08, CET) I received the email that my latest changes have been approved.
But why the article status is "draft"? (But I can view the website without being logged in).
And why my article is not in the list "Latest Updates"?
And why highlighting of php is not supported?
And why sometimes I cannot (i.e. being redirected to an empty, white page, even "Browse Code" does not work) download my attachments except the one I did not touched (sporadically, reproduced with Firefox and Chrome)?
If you find spelling- or grammer-mistakes, please let me know, so that I can correct them (at least for me) - english is not my first language...
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Hi Henning,
Thanks very much for your inquiries. I took a look at the status of your article and its possible you experienced a caching issue and the article is good standing. I have also just applied a change to your article and I can see it in the Latest updates. Please let me know if you also see it there as well. The change I applied was changing the language tag "php" to all your code blocks. We'll have to look into why it is not colorizing correctly - thanks for the catch.
As for the Browse Code, I've tried it in both FireFox and Chrome on two different servers and it seems to be working OK?
Please let me know if you have further questions.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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Hi Sean,
thank you for your help!
Now the article is as it should be - it is listed in the Latest updates and the attachments are working fine, too.
BTW: I had changed the language tags to "cs" as c-sharp is very similar to php in terms of syntax-highlighting...
Greetings,
Henning
If you find spelling- or grammer-mistakes, please let me know, so that I can correct them (at least for me) - english is not my first language...
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I could change it back to "cs" if you like?
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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Thanks again for your responding.
If you'll fix the php highlighting in the future, it doesn't matter.
If you find spelling- or grammer-mistakes, please let me know, so that I can correct them (at least for me) - english is not my first language...
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I had read your post which is fantastic informative post and there is no any grammatical mistake...
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Hello everyone,
I've used some <pre...> formatting features as described in Using PRE tags on Code Project. This worked fine until Smitha Vijayan changed it. All highlighting, background and foreground as described in Using PRE tags on Code Project got removed. I was counting in my tips to have these settings respected by the editors. It's a bit annoying that these changes get silently done - no email, no message - nothing.
Please have a look at the two versions:
What can I count on when writing an tip? Is the above mentioned article about formatting in the <pre...> respected by the editors too? I would very much appreciate...
Cheers
Andi
PS: How can I get the formatting restored - it's quite some work to redo (I did not find any way to get to the sources of the former version that was still ok).
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I've spoken to Smitha and we'll restore the formatting. I haven't had a chance to look closely at both versions, but can I assume the latest version has updated content, but that you want the formatting to reflect what was in the previous version?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hello Chris,
I don't get exactly your last question. If you ask what kind of formatting I was using that got removed, here are the ones:
- <pre lang="cs">...<span class='highlight'>...</span>...</pre>
- <pre lang="text" style="background: black; color: white;">...</pre>
some console output...
I know of the issues with too many formatting features applied, but I think the above is more helpful than the one below:
- <pre lang="cs">...<span class='highlight'>...</span>...</pre>
- <pre lang="text" style="background: black; color: white;">...</pre>
some console output...
Cheers
Andi
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