New Sidebar Panel!Wednesday September 5th, 2001We've been working hard on finishing up our new sidebar panel for the site, and we'd love for you to take a look at it. Click the link in the column on the right to add it, and check it out. There are some issues with scrolling, but other than that, it should work well. It lets you check for recent news, as well as build bar ratings and comments, along with links to the rated builds. If you have problems or feed back, feel free to post in talkback, or send mail to Jason. Thanks so much for finally making the response field usable. --Asa Thats got to be the best sidebar I've seen for any site easily. I didn't even think it was possible to make the sidebar look non-sucky! A fantastic use of Mozilla's technology. Shame about the scrolling bug though. Alex fetchBuilds - stuck at M18 screenShots - stuck at M14 and such #5 Re: Can the sidebar on the site itself be updated?by macpeep Thursday September 6th, 2001 1:36 AM As evident from 100 requests over the past two years - no it can't. People have sent emails, volunteered to maintain the screenshot section and what not. But nothing.. No reaction. If it wasn't for the fact that there are still new articles here every once in a while, I'd be seriously worried about Chris Nelson. ;) It would be nice if you could show the date of the build. Or perhaps you could point out if there is a recommend build on the server that is newer than the installed build. I hope that you understand my english ;-) Tobias #20 Re: Re: Can the sidebar on the site itself be updaby kerz Thursday September 6th, 2001 11:57 AM So, I'll point out, while people volunteer to help out and update it, I've only had one person actually follow through. We're working on screenshots right now, and hope to have new ones up by the end of the week. Perhaps it would be better if the controvertial pages (fetchbuilds and screenshots) were just taken down until they get updated. This would undoubtedly shut people up and perhaps give them more incentive to do the work themselves :-) Just a suggestion, David The content font size is too small here. Mozilla sep 06 nightly build, X11 Windowing system. It's just one pixel or so too small. The font looks good in Windows, there must be something wrong with your X11 setup! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! IDIOT IDIOT!!! Will it ever be possible for Mozilla to tell that a link is to an XPI command (or whatever you'd call them), and thus warn you if it won't work without Javascript? I was trying to work out why the link didn't do anything, and eventually realised it was because I'd disabled JavaScript a couple of days ago. I know they look just like any other link, but since Mozilla interprets them curiously, surely it's possible? Actually the more likely direction is that XPInstall scripts should run whether JS is on or off, just as the chrome does. If you want XPInstall turned off there is a pref for that, and it should be a separate issue from whether or not web pages can run JS content. What the heck are you talking about? To add a sidebar, you must execute the following code. window.sidebar.addPanel("Title","URL.xul",""); perferably using an onclick. Which is javascript, no way of denying it. This site also uses extra javascript to detect if your browser can handle window.sidebar.addPanel, if not it tells you to use mozilla 0.9.4 :) To execute chrome is looks like a url just simply chrome://hfjds.xul which isn't javascript in any way.
opps sorry about making it look like a link? whats the way to type a url in mozilla and have it type out the url as opposed to creating a link? I like it. The install only seems to work if you have the sidebar open. Perhaps you should mention this. I had the sidebar collapsed but still active, and it installed fine (it just didn't show up on top) too many ui widgets, different fonts (including bold/colors) for such a small area. ui should look much simpler. preferably all of these tabs should have the same font type/color/size and background. in other words, have a consistent look. IE tab for History looks much cleaner and simpler. that's just my first impression The buildbar section doesn't show what date's builds it's referring to. This imho is a great drawback because I often check the buildbar just to see whether there are any new comments there - if I can see at a glance that the latest buildbar comments are from Sep 4 and today is Sep 6, I know that I don't need to read them if I already did yesterday :) Hi While were all here talking 'My Sidebar' here are some from that CSS Guru Eric A Meyer. http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/sidebar/index.html Really handy tabs for you scripters who need that quick reference. Get rid of that icky javascript array stuff and use some RDF! Then this sidebar will be a true example to all of the power of the lizard. I've actually been trying to get this to work for most of the day, with no luck. As far as I know, mozilla doesn't support having the RDF be remote, which means this won't work. Drat. Way too clusteredthe build bar should just mention the the last day that the build comment is updated. the news, there should be only the news title, and the number of comment. the news abstract would be nice too.
Can a sidebar set cookies? If yes it would be great if the view of the build bars would be persistent. I am e.g. only interested in the Win buildbar. But you have to compress Linux/Mac everytime again. Even better would it be to make the unwanted ones :invisible It should be able to; the sidebar is a regular Web page that has to be reloaded from the server every time its tab is clicked. Now whether the page author still has enough motivation left to make it happen, well that's another story :) I noticed you used a javascript method to add the sidebar to Moz, while back in the days the method I used was that kind of link:<br /> [ a href="http://dirt.netscape.com/cgi-bin/sidebar.cgi?title=Title&URL=http://url/sidebar.html" ] link [ /a ] <br /> <br /> Is this method still supported ? Doh, got to redo the link: [ a href=" http :// dirt.netscape .com/cgi-bin/sidebar.cgi?title=Title&URL= http :// url/ sidebar.html" ] link [ /a ] (I'm trying to understand how that comments board works...) If you tried it and didn't like a few of the nits, give it another try. I updated a bunch of the CSS, and hopefully made it easier to read. I'm working on moving it to outliner, but right now that's on hold because of various bugs. Thanks for the feedback! How about making the mozillaZine logo a clickable link? Its kinda annoying that it turns into a hand icon but clicking it does nothing. Or is it just my POS system doing that? 2001090408 Win32 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98548 Cousin to 86723, occurrs with this sidebar panel. all in a all, a nice side bar, even looks good. but: it just says "good build" et al, but omits the build id. having that information, the sidebar would be real nice. could look like: "build bar for oct 06 2001 || current build id: 2001100503 || windows: blah blah || mac: blah blah || linux: blah blah" or the such. all in a all, a nice side bar, even looks good. but: it just says "good build" et al, but omits the build id. having that information, the sidebar would be real nice. could look like: "build bar for oct 06 2001 || current build id: 2001100503 || windows: blah blah || mac: blah blah || linux: blah blah" or the such. |