Are you using the WYSIWYG editor?
This is happening to a few people, and I’m trying to find commonalities to figure out what’s causing it.
I second this idea. I could take a crack at a few of the icons… I’ll be back.
Yeah, it’s definitely a problem with the WYSIWYG editor. It’ll be fixed in the next update.
I don’t know a damn thing about coding or Beta testing so I don’t think I’d be much help, but I just wanted to say that this thing is going to be AWESOME when it gets done!
Cool. I also just had a suggestion brainstorm:
Dopers can have avatars. However, you can only see them if you view their profile. It seems like you might be able to display them with the badge script.
A lot of people around here hate avatars, so I wouldn’t suggest implementing it until you can optionally turn it off.
Oh, and I hope you haven’t forgot about or decided not to try the ignore button feature I mentioned earlier
BTW, sorry if I’m asking too much. I’m just a bit giddy, since I’ve been hoping for a plugin to tweak the Dope for a long time. I’ve tried to learn on my own, but I’ve realized that I’ll probably need to take structured classes instead of just figuring things out on my own like I used to.
i’m sure wierdaaron can awesomize this, but here’s the basic idea:
// add avatars, if available
$("a.bigusername").each(function () {
var uid = $(this).attr("href").split("=")[1];
var img = '<img src="http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/image.php?u=' + uid + '&dateline=1251343034&type=profile" height="50px">';
$(this).parent().parent().next().html(img);
});
This sounds super cool and I regret that I won’t be able to make use of it since I don’t use firefox. Maybe Google Labs will like the idea and put something out for Chrome.
But I’ll add my two cents anyway.
The doctor icon: http://www.theagorashoppingcenter.com/images/doctor.gif
Atheist icon: Darwin fish
Icon next to video links: http://www.mavromatic.com/images/wof/projector.gif
Or this: http://www.reijns.info/style/img/film.gif
Links to PDF’s need to have the little adobe symbol: http://stopforeclosuremethod.com/images/adobe.gif
Thanks. You see, that’s not so complicated that I can’t figure out what it does. Javascript looked so easy when I first tried to learn it…
Looks like they already did.
Atheist icon: Darwin fish? Many if not most Christians believe in evolution.
I agree, Liberal. When I was a Christian (I am now Agnostic) I certainly accepted that evolution was the best explanation for the evidence. My brother, who is a devoted Christian, is a professional scientist (and a PhD) who accepts that the evidence (which is surely what scientists seek) leads to the unarguable conclusion that evolution and natural selection fit the observations so well that it is untenable to consider any alternative hypothesis.
I am aware that the Darwin Fish has other implications, but I am thinking back to the days of its inception:
If we are looking for a well-known symbol for atheism that can have no other possible tie-ins, we might be looking until the second coming*.
*see what I did there?
The stylized atom. It represents materialism, and therefore by implication atheism. It is the official symbol adopted by the US military and others. It is already established and well known. (Just because someone here didn’t know it doesn’t make it not well known.)
For scientists, a beaker will do.
The atom probably makes sense to philosophers and other deep thinkers, but I can see why us common folk might look at it and scratch our collective head. The word “materialism” makes me think “materialistic”. I would prefer naturalism, although I don’t know what the icon would be for that, either. Maybe a simplified rendering of the Vitruvian Man.
Interestingly, I did an image search for “naturalism icon” and the first hit is the Darwin Fish.
I’ve started a poll on the atheism icon tangent to avoid further hijacking of this thread.
I just pushed out an update that (hopefully) fixes the problem of crazy text getting injected into the WYSIWYG editor, and removes the icon for Amazon links, as the annoying-to-useful ratio was too low. The amazon links themselves still show product image when you hover.
Next I’ll be dealing with PDF links. There’s actually a few things I can do with those: force download instead of opening in Adobe’s stupid in-browser plugin, use Google’s lighter embedded pdf viewer in a modal window (like with youtubes), etc.
When I’m done with links I’ll get back to the user-flagging feature, and BigT’s ignore button request.
I’ve got a cold or an infection or piggie flu or sars or smallpox or cancer or something, so progress has been slow today (mostly relegated to bed, Scribblenauts, and horrendus Dan Brown prose on my kindle), but here’s a preview of the PDF stuff.
Links to PDF files are adorned with an icon (feel free to contribute something better; I’d like to stay away from adobe trademarked symbols as their ham-fisted mishandling of one of the most potentially notable file formats in modern computing makes my insides cry) like so.
When you hover over that icon, you get a hover-preview thing of that PDF’s first page. This functionality is provided by Google via an undocumented hack (of sorts) that I totally just stumbled upon while I was working on the next thing:
When you click the icon, it launches a modal window (just like with YouTube videos) with the linked PDF embedded inside. It’s using a Google embedded PDF viewer (part of Google Docs, actually) and does not require having adobe reader, its stupid browser plugin, or any type PDF software on your computer. Google is just so… I want to make babies with them.
The embedded viewer is very light, not requiring much load time. It has a link to launch a full-page viewer in a new window with more advanced features.
I’ll probably get this update online tomorrow morning.
I made a few icons that are more consistent in design and of uniform size. Not sure if you want to adopt this idea or not, but here they are if you want to look at them.
Those are great, GuanoLad! An excellent consistency, and nice looking.
I’d like the XY, the Cross, the Darwin Fish, the L, and the 99.
What’s the little car?