Adding a topbar. (So can we do this or not Pirate Kitty / Morrus)??

[Dragongirl]

The question is, does the broswer run the script properly (Follow the link from the first page to test it). If it doesn't run I can try to find a way to block it.

It works in AOL 8.0
Took 6.5 seconds to load up.

 

[Piratecat]

Does it take 6.5 seconds on every new screen? If so, then it's just too slow, no matter how cool (and make no mistake, it's extremely cool) it is.

 

[Dragongirl]

Does it take 6.5 seconds on every new screen? If so, then it's just too slow, no matter how cool (and make no mistake, it's extremely cool) it is.

Takes that long every times I click the first link. But I don't know how it would behave if it was going to another page on the server instead of starting over.

 

[Psionicist]

22kb equals one smaller signature image, 2-4 avatars or one lengthy post (such as a story hour), so bandwidth is no concern, really.

 

[Fast Learner]

Re: Re: Re: Adding a topbar. (So can we do this or not Pirate Kitty / Morrus)??

It's antiquated pieces of junk like that I am trying to block from loading this script, just in case

And I do know the difference between the two. If you refrain from lecturing me like a child about the differnce I'll refrain from saying you seriously need a real computer.

Well, FYI, the laptop in question is a 2 lb Sony with a WiFi card (utilizing my 500k DSL line) that I cart around my house for browsing message boards. It's running IE 6, so browser detection code certainly isn't going to keep my antiquated piece of junk from loading the menu. It's just Java applets that slow the machine down.

No, it's not the 2Ghz P4 that I do my work on, true. But I strongly suspect I shouldn't have to have that kind of power to read some HTML bulletin boards, should I? Here's a smiley so I can say what I want but not be offensive:

And, since you know the difference between Javascript and Java, but continue to refer to it as "JAVA script" or "JAVAscript," which one are you actually using?

 

[Michael Morris]

Ok, somebody sent me a private command with will allow the browser to cache the code for the top bar. I'm going to incorporate this into the code and if it works then the download will only need to occur once. That removes the last major concern about the topbar (download speed).

 

[Michael Morris]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Adding a topbar. (So can we do this or not Pirate Kitty / Morrus)??

And, since you know the difference between Javascript and Java, but continue to refer to it as "JAVA script" or "JAVAscript," which one are you actually using?

It is a script. A very long one, but just a script.

 

[Michael Morris]

Takes that long every times I click the first link. But I don't know how it would behave if it was going to another page on the server instead of starting over.

That's the nature of PHP - no caching - however I found a way to cache it and just tested it. The script still works - but I'm not absolutely sure it's caching. I'm going to make these changes to the Dusk site. In the meanwhile, please test to make sure it's caching. My connection is so damn fast I have no way of knowing the difference between cached and non-cached files. :\

 

[Jeph]

Ick. It slows down my comp. Okay then, it hurts Mac users, too . . . This doesn't seem like a good idea, as it only flows smoothly for Microsoft users with IE.

 

[Michael Morris]

Ick. It slows down my comp. Okay then, it hurts Mac users, too . . . This doesn't seem like a good idea, as it only flows smoothly for Microsoft users with IE.

How would you know? Don't go around throwing unqualfied statements. This is not going to slow a computer down unless it is already *slow* to begin with. And by slow I'm talking less than 200 mhz.

The initial load will be slow... The JAVAscript file is 50 KB. But if that sounds big, remember that a lot of the avatars and 'sig files are WELL in excess of that.