News Site Public Beta Test

[Michael Morris]

Tonight I have completed the permissions system of ENWorld 2's news site and reopened it to the public. I have about 37 remaining bugs and import system to write before it is done, but at this point I need people to log in, submit news into the new system, explore and see if you can break anything I haven't found or do anything you shouldn't be able to do (like delete or edit a news post that doesn't belong to you).

Browser wise IE 6 and Firefox are tested good - IE 7 is presumed good but untested. Verification of functionality in Safari 3 and Opera 9 would be appreciated though I'll probably check those tomorrow.

Forumwise dev is on 3.7 Release Candidate 1. The code is believed to only have a few trivial bugs but nothing major.

With luck Sunday I will write the importer for existing news.

 

[mhensley]

link?

 

[Mark]

You want us to break this, you say?


http://dev.enworld.org/


Submit scoops and try to mess with them?

 

[FreeXenon]

Validation issues

I am pretty sure that this is really low on the priority list for ya, but it looks like there are only four little issues that keep you from validating:

• URL Encoding of Ampersands
• some LI's are not getting closed somewhere.
• there is an COLSPAN attribute on a div
  <div class="navbar" style="font-size:10pt; padding-top:1px; clear: both;" colspan="3">
• it is not liking ordered lists without a list item
  <ol class="nobullets" id="latestblogs"><div class="smallfont">
  There are no recent entries to display.
  </div></ol>

It looks awesome. Keep rock'n.

 

[Grymar]

What is supposed to happen after you submit a scoop? I added one then tried to edit my scoops and saw nothing.

A bit more information:

Firefox 3 Beta 4
Windows XP SP2

My scoop did not appear on the front page (should it?) and then when I went to edit it I was told that I had no scoops to edit.

 

[Blue]

Nitpicks

Using Firefox 3 latest RC on Windows XP

Little stuff:

The 404 error has a typo for "excluded".

Logging in there throws me out of here and vice versa. Same cookie?

If I go to a page that's a 404, it "looks" like after the pop up that I'm back to the main page (which I know isn't true because the URL changes). This causes some unexpected behavior - people think they are on the main page, go somewhere else, then use the arrow back to get to the "main page" again get the 404 again. I know, in reality it's not the main page it's a different URL that looks like the main page, but it's still unexpected.

Looks good so far, though I will miss having a few days news in one place when if I don't check everyday.

Cheers,
=Blue(23)

 

[FreeXenon]

Logging in there throws me out of here and vice versa. Same cookie?

I am pretty sure that this is expected and was posted about in another thread somewhere.

Helpful, huh!

 

[TerraDave]

Disgruntled Gnomes!

Got that from hitting the articles link. Did a blog post, that worked. Submitted "news", that was a little slow. And where does it go?

 

[Michael Morris]

It's supposed to go into a queue but no test posts have shown up. So there's a bug in the works for tonight. Other comments..

Using Firefox 3 latest RC on Windows XP

Little stuff:

The 404 error has a typo for "excluded".

Logging in there throws me out of here and vice versa. Same cookie?

Yes.

If I go to a page that's a 404, it "looks" like after the pop up that I'm back to the main page (which I know isn't true because the URL changes). This causes some unexpected behavior - people think they are on the main page, go somewhere else, then use the arrow back to get to the "main page" again get the 404 again. I know, in reality it's not the main page it's a different URL that looks like the main page, but it's still unexpected.

It actually is the main page feed wise.

Looks good so far, though I will miss having a few days news in one place when if I don't check everyday.

The calendar on the right column navigates you to other news days one at a time.

What is supposed to happen after you submit a scoop? I added one then tried to edit my scoops and saw nothing.

A bit more information:

Firefox 3 Beta 4
Windows XP SP2

My scoop did not appear on the front page (should it?) and then when I went to edit it I was told that I had no scoops to edit.

The insert didn't occur and I need to figure out why. It should not immediately publish though - that is normal. Submissions must be approved by staff to go public.

I am pretty sure that this is really low on the priority list for ya, but it looks like there are only four little issues that keep you from validating:
URL Encoding of Ampersands
some LI's are not getting closed somewhere.
there is an COLSPAN attribute on a div
<div class="navbar" style="font-size:10pt; padding-top:1px; clear: both;" colspan="3">
it is not liking ordered lists without a list item
<ol class="nobullets" id="latestblogs"><div class="smallfont">
There are no recent entries to display.
</div></ol>

It looks awesome. Keep rock'n.

Blog pages is Jelsoft code, not mine. As long as it works then scoring 100% on validation - while it would be nice, is non-priority. Worrying about it now would be like fussing over the detail work on a car dashboard when the engine has a bad timing chain and won't start.

@mhensley - dev is at http://dev.enworld.org

Thanks guys - More news as it develops.

 

[dpmcalister]

The navigation bar (News|Reviews| Forums|Blogs|Chat|Articles|Event Calendar|Freelance Work|Advertise|Phoenix Project) breaks out to the right (causing a left/right scroll bar to appear) on my machine (tested with IE6, IE8 Beta, FF3 Beta 4, Opera 9, and Safari 3 (for Windows)) which has a 1024x768 resolution.