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Chris Maunder wrote: This has been done.
Throwing a bone to opera users, or blocking FireFox users?
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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Cool, I look forward to trying Opera with CP.
Chris Maunder wrote: I'm not going to block Firefox.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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John Cardinal wrote: I also recommend that you ban the firefox browser
Wow! You know that it will cause a civil war in CP don't you?
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All I know is if they are blocking ads then they are freeloaders and should be given the boot or the opportunity to pay a subscription.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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John Cardinal wrote: All I know is if they are blocking ads then they are freeloaders and should be given the boot or the opportunity to pay a subscription.
I suppose you also scold little kids for changing the channel during commercials. 
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: I suppose you also scold little kids for changing the channel during commercials
Do you really?
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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John Cardinal wrote: Do you really?
Yes, I subconsciously change channels or go for a snack or a glass of water or to the bathroom. I still end up watching a good many commercials of course.
And I think it's the same with CP. I doubt if advertisers pay a lot of money (if any at all) to Codeproject for ad-views. They probably pay a lot more per click or if a sale is made through a CP ad click. So if there are people who are never going to buy anything through a CP banner ad, it won't be a loss to Chris and Dave if they block all ads. In fact if enough people do it, it may save them some hosting bandwidth (which can be expensive).
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No, I meant do you really think that I scold children etc etc blah blah.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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John Cardinal wrote: No, I meant do you really think that I scold children etc etc blah blah.
Yes I do 
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"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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John Cardinal wrote: also recommend that you ban the firefox browser due to the adblock feature which is no doubt costing CodeProject significant advertising revenue
 I've always known you hate Firefox, but this is insane.
Cheers,
Vıkram.
Be yourself, no matter what they say.
- Sting, Englishman in New York.
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It was half tongue in cheek, but obviously if Chris can't sell advertising there is no CodeProject.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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Now FireFox users should ask for a ban on Opera. As Opera violates Internet standards by creating 4 connections to the web server instead of recommended 2. Opera users should compensate for the bandwidth they are eating up.;)
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This could go on forever, but I'm sure if I thought about it I could make a good argument for banning all but Opera.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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both FF and IE consume more physical memory and appear to hammer the CPU harder when doing rendering. As a result opera can display a webpage using less power. IE and FF should be banned as being bad for the environment. 
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You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Yeah! Right arm man. Farm out!
What he said. 
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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At this rate Chris will have to ban all browsers and we'd all be staring at the raw HTML. 
Cheers,
Vıkram.
Be yourself, no matter what they say.
- Sting, Englishman in New York.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: we'd all be staring at the raw HTML
Not really. We have the good old simple Lynx browser to the rescue. You can check out Lynx page here http://lynx.browser.org/[^], which now seems to have a Windows Port too.
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Uhh, read my post again. I said we'd be looking at HTML if Chris were to ban all browsers, of which Lynx is one.
Besides, there is such a thing as over-analyzing a joke.
Cheers,
Vıkram.
Be yourself, no matter what they say.
- Sting, Englishman in New York.
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This one is a very good suggestion on Opera browser support and it has indeed brought in a good brainstorming threads. For some reason, today whilst browsing the messageboard, I see the 'Start Thread' by John Cardinal is low voted.
I think there should be some 'Vote Misuse Protection' for messages.
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That's because I was poking fun at FireFox users who, as is the case with most fanatics and zealots, have a poor sense of humour.
"I don't want more choice. I just want better things!" - Edina Monsoon
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: I think there should be some 'Vote Misuse Protection' for messages.
Bah, i'll vote how i want where i want. What's the value in votes if you can only down-vote the obviously worthless posts?
(though fwiw, i didn't down-vote John's post - but he was obviously trying for low-votes)
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- C hris L osinger, Online Poker Players?
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I have some suggestions for Code Project Forum.
#1. I think that searching doesn't work properly.
I posted one thread " how to set CSS class to tbody of GridView " in ASP.NET forum. I have tried to search with the following criteria ~
Keywords : how to set CSS class to tbody of GridView
Posted between : 21 May 2007 and 19 Aug 2007
Author : "Michael Sync"
Search for : "Posts and replies"
I got "No Result Found". It is just searching in normal ways but not working. I think that it would be really great if we are able to search very well.
#2. Searching post by scores
I think that there are a lot of valuable posts in our forum. I wanna read those posts when I have free time. So, it is better if we can find those posts in easy way..
#3. Searching unanswered post by scores
At the same time, it would be great if we get the list unanswered posted based on scores (demand). We should encourage people to vote the question if it is good and useful.
#3. Mark as resolve
Another thing that I like to request beside unanswered post is "Resolved post/Unresolved post". There should be something (let's call "Mark as resolve") that allows the people to mark the thread as "resolve". Because, there are some threads that have no answer even there are some replies for it.
When we have some time, we can find the solution for those unsolved threads. (otherwise, some people will ask whether our forum is useful anymore or not. )
#4. Add Favorite post
I think that this feature is already requested. I would like to request it again.
#5. Better Text Editor
I think that we should look for better text editor for our forum. (I think that text editor from asp.net forum is nice. ) The most annoy thing with this text editor is that we lost formatting if we wanna post HTML code in message. another thing is that it doesn't keep the scroll position when we click "formatting icons". it is really bad if we are writing long reply.
#6. Memebrs searching
Sometimes, I would like to know how many members in our forum are MVP or admin or etc. it would be good if there is any way to search.
#7. Search Engine friendly
As a software developer, I do googling a lot... Even thought microsoft asp.net forum and other forum shows in search result, I never see our forum (codeproject) in Google. Why is it happening like that? Is our forum not Google friendly?
Is this forum Open Source or codeproject software? Is it allowed people to contribute the code to CodeProject forum? Is there any plan to upgrade from asp to asp.net? (I know that there is no problem with ASP. I just wanna know.) Is there any plan to create very large-scale forum open source project that never goes to Enterprise version (a.k.a: paid version)?
Thanks.
-- modified at 21:58 Sunday 19th August, 2007
Thanks and Regards,
Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)
If you want to thank me for my help, please vote my message by clicking one of numbers beside "Rate this message". Why vote? Plz Read it here. Thank you.
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All answer #7 first: The entire site is being rewritten (and is, in fact, currently in beta) in ASP.NET. A massive ground up rewrite that has taken a year and was done in order to finally get over the hurdle of ASP
#1. I think that searching doesn't work properly.
This has been rewritten
#2. Searching post by scores
I'll add this to the suggestions
#3. Searching unanswered post by scores
This is a variation of #2
#3. Mark as resolve
This is something I've been thinking of a LOT. This will be done
#4. Add Favorite post
Added
#5. Better Text Editor
Will be added
#6. Memebrs searching
By type? Sure.
Once we have a stable beta we'll start prioritising the insane suggestion list we have and then the fun will begin. I'm itching to get this stuff done.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thanks. Chris.
Thanks and Regards,
Michael Sync ( Blog: http://michaelsync.net)
If you want to thank me for my help, please vote my message by clicking one of numbers beside "Rate this message". Why vote? Plz Read it here. Thank you.
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