We want you to spread the SDMB love, and so we’re testing the Facebook Share and AddThis buttons on the SDMB. You should see them at the top of each thread now.
Feedback appreciated.
-xash
Administrator
I like the Share/Email option. It even uses Gmail to compose an email for me. Neat.
To use Gmail (or any other provider, or Outlook) to email a thread:
- Click the orange +Share button
- Click Email
- Click the Gmail icon (or appropriate icon) at the bottom (just right of More)
- It will create an email with the subject and link pre-composed
Works great. I just did it.
Yep…just jumped to the thread via your link. Very nice.
FYI, on my screen the Share text next to the orange button is overlapping the adjacent box and the text reading “Thread tools.” Firefox 3.5.9, Windows XP.
Can you get a screenshot and post it to www.tinypic.com?
WinXP, Firefox 3.6.3 (Chrome looks fine)
For what it’s worth, the text overlaps on my screen in exactly the same way. (Windows XP, Firefox 3.6.3, screen resolution of 1280x768.)
Can you check now? Is it the same?
Still looks the same (for me at least).
Edited to add that it looks OK for a moment, until the + symbol appears. Then the window is too crowded.
Same overlap as Ms Whatsit and Alienhand in Firefox 3.6.3 running under OS X 10.4.11 as well as Vista.
IE 8 under Vista has even more of an overlap than Firefox.
Safari 4.0.5 (4531.22.7) under OS X looks fine.
Chrome under Vista looks fine.
On preview: Just checked Firefox again and it still looks the same.
GT
OK, I think I fixed it. Please confirm. I added hidden white space at the end of the Share button so it doesn’t overlap.
Looks correct for me.
It’s fine now when you’re not mousing over it, but the whitespace gets underlined when you do.
Same as he said.
I’ll third the fine, but whitespace underlined during mouseover.
Doesn’t hurt the functionality, though. I successfully tweeted from the Share button.
I’d be fine, if it was less ugly. Less ugly please.
Yeah, I’m not sure how to fix it, although it is a minor issue.
If there are some HTML gurus in the house who have an idea about why this is happening in Firefox (only, it seems) and how to fix it, let me know. Here’s the code I’m currently using:
<!-- Facebook Share Button BEGIN -->
<td class="vbmenu_control" id="fbshare" nowrap="nowrap">
<a name="fb_share"></a>
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>
</td>
<!-- Facebook Share Button END -->
<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->
<td class="vbmenu_control" id="addthis" nowrap="nowrap">
<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style">
<a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=xashaddthis" class="addthis_button_compact">Share </a>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=xashaddthis"></script>
</td>
<!-- AddThis Button END -->
<td class="vbmenu_control" id="threadtools" nowrap="nowrap">
<a href="$show[nojs_link]#goto_threadtools"<if condition="is_browser('ie')"> accesskey="3"</if>>$vbphrase[thread_tools]</a>
<if condition="$show['popups']"><script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("threadtools"); </script></if>
</td>
Specifically, what do you find ugly? I can change some stuff, for example a smaller Facebook icon, or different AddThis icons (they’re all ugly, I used the simplest one which is the orange plus sign).
ETA: And Facebook is included in the second button, so maybe I’ll remove the Facebook button after a while.
Can you not just put all the entities outside of the tag? You know:
<a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=xashaddthis" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a>