Fill up MarkG's TODO List!

[Nikolai]

Spike: Let the poor deity alone...

[Grandpa Troll]

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[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll


ok..im just recovering from a three day virus and now see the err of me spelling ways

Hehe, it's not like the word is plastered over the site or anything.

[Grandpa Troll]

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[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Modo44
The Upload feature eats spaces in names of save files. Perhaps in others too, I don't know, not having uploaded anything else. I need to put "_" instead, to make them names readable. Can this be fixed?

I believe this is due to HTML disliking spaces. IE, if you download something that has spaces in its name initially, a lot of sites will convert them to %20 ... which is why anyone who dl'ed illegal mp3's back in the day (like 1998 we're talking) probably had a lot of songs with names like man%20in%20the%20moon.mp3 and stuff like that

MarkG was kind enough to work it out so instead it just ate the spaces. Perhaps _ replacement would be better, but either way you can't have a space in a filename on a unix server, or as far as i know link to one via HTTP - unix based or not.

[Grandpa Troll]

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[Modo44]

Thanks for the info, Snoopy. Now, if you could tell me, why don't the spaces get deleted in attachments? They seem to use a similar mechanism as the upload, don't they?

[MarkG]

it's not the same mechanism....


and people, please dont spam this thread into something unusefull. thank you

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by snoopy369
but either way you can't have a space in a filename on a unix server

Not true. Unix file systems are very flexible for nameing. As long as you escape the names when you create them. You can have filenames as for instance \*. \>:;<{}()[]&^%,"'
If you have access to any unix enviroment you can try it out yourself.
Just run this command:

echo hi > \*.\ \\\>:\;\<\{\}\(\)\[\]\&\^\%,\"\'

then you can view the file with the comand

cat \*.\ \\\>\:\;\<\{\}\(\)\[\]\&\^%,\"\'

(autocompletion is recommended )

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Gramphos

Not true. Unix file systems are very flexible for nameing. As long as you escape the names when you create them. You can have filenames as for instance \*.

Hmm. I stand corrected. It's FTP and HTTP that have the objections, not the unix server. Been a while since I accessed a unix (non-windows or mac) server ... Although %20 is essentially an escape code for "space" (just not a / code)...

As MarkG says, attachments are not generally transmitted via Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, or even FTP. Mail protocols just don't seem to mind much ... although I have seen some weird things done by them (adding characters here and there, semi randomly...)

And my apologies Mark for making it unuseful ... I'll stop talking about it now

[Rommel2D]

Correct typo in news item about C3C Demogracy game...

[Nikolai]

I'm sure it would help if you actually told him what typo you're talking about...

[Rommel2D]

Actually, I'm not sure it is a typo at all. Is this supposed to be a large multi-player game where different teams run their Civs based purely upon demographic reports they compile?

[Mercator]

2 things:

- I'd like to add a note on the upload feature. When uploading files with a # in it (perfectly legal in Windows, for instance), the link beomes inaccessible (since it's interpreted as an anchor instead). URL encoding the download link should fix that. That would also help with the space thing.

- I know how to fix the irritating horizontal scrollbar people get in Firefox due to the Go(N) button. Change the alignment of the table cell the news drop-down is in to be left-aligned, instead of the right-aligned as it is now. I've tested the result in Opera 7.54, Firefox 1.0 and IE6.0 SP1. It doesn't break or change anything, except getting rid of that damn scrollbar.

[Agathon]

- I know how to fix the irritating horizontal scrollbar people get in Firefox due to the Go(N) button. Change the alignment of the table cell the news drop-down is in to be left-aligned, instead of the right-aligned as it is now. I've tested the result in Opera 7.54, Firefox 1.0 and IE6.0 SP1. It doesn't break or change anything, except getting rid of that damn scrollbar.

Can you please add me to the list of pathetic whiners about this particular problem.

I posted a thread about this, but then I realized that this is the whinge thread.

On the other hand, it is the only thing (aside from the lack of new themes) that bugs me.