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Q: What's up with this new forum layout?

Apple-wake up!  What happened to the traditional forum layout?  Was it broken?  People come to a forum to search for information and look for answers by looking through previous posts.  The new layout only lets a person see at most a couple hours of posts on a page (like maybe the last 10?)!  What the heck?  Guess what?  Forums = information.  The new forum layout = white space and white space does not equal information.  If I wanted to answer someone's post I would not even know where to begin because I couldn't find it!  In a mater of minutes the post is rolled back to Page 2 never to be seen again.

 

Basically, the new forum layout *****.  Why was it changed?

Posted on Jun 19, 2016 12:05 PM

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  • by ChitlinsCC,

    ChitlinsCC ChitlinsCC Jun 19, 2016 3:57 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Jun 19, 2016 3:57 PM in response to turingtest2

    Any thoughts yet on Myriad "Regular"? (I actually am a FONT person like Steve Jobs and LIKE Myriad)

    I reminded Robert that the Family is downloading anyway from this Apple stylesheet (isn't it?)

       <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.apple.com/wss/fonts?family=Myriad+Set+Pro&amp;v=1">

  • by batbyz,

    batbyz batbyz Jun 19, 2016 3:58 PM in response to ChitlinsCC
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    Jun 19, 2016 3:58 PM in response to ChitlinsCC

    Got it.  Thanks.

  • by ChitlinsCC,

    ChitlinsCC ChitlinsCC Jun 19, 2016 4:01 PM in response to batbyz
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    Jun 19, 2016 4:01 PM in response to batbyz

    check now

  • by ChitlinsCC,

    ChitlinsCC ChitlinsCC Jun 19, 2016 4:11 PM in response to batbyz
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    Jun 19, 2016 4:11 PM in response to batbyz

    You're welcome.

    That one little exercise will school you on how to edit any style you need to...

    Commenting OUT stuff will be MUCH preferred over DELETING it

    /* this is a comment */

    This will turn OFF a Line

    /*

    .j-td-title strong {font-weight: bold; color: #990000;}           /* Updated discussion content in bold & Merlot*/

    */

  • by bobseufert,

    bobseufert bobseufert Jun 19, 2016 4:23 PM in response to batbyz
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    Jun 19, 2016 4:23 PM in response to batbyz

    " If I wanted to answer someone's post I would not even know where to begin because I couldn't find it!  In a mater of minutes the post is rolled back to Page 2 never to be seen again."

     

    Have you tried using the re-introduced page numbers ?

  • by ChitlinsCC,

    ChitlinsCC ChitlinsCC Jun 19, 2016 4:37 PM in response to bobseufert
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    Jun 19, 2016 4:37 PM in response to bobseufert

    PHEW ! = "Load More" is "NO more" = now THAT was a real pain!

     

    BTW, it does not seem the "New and improved WYSIWYG TinyMCE Rich Text Editor" has a solution for the copy/paste bug, does it?

    screenshot-discussions apple com 2016-06-19 18-35-48.pngSkitch.png

  • by bobseufert,

    bobseufert bobseufert Jun 19, 2016 4:43 PM in response to ChitlinsCC
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    Jun 19, 2016 4:43 PM in response to ChitlinsCC

    And it only took me two years to banish the beast.

  • by ChitlinsCC,

    ChitlinsCC ChitlinsCC Jun 19, 2016 4:49 PM in response to bobseufert
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    Jun 19, 2016 4:49 PM in response to bobseufert

    To be honest, it only took me about 5 minutes... used it as "home base" to open new TABs - THEN, voila! > added "/content" and never looked back! Went straight from Kindergarten to Grad School !!!

     

    BUT... Thank for your heroic efforts on behalf of the "mighty unwashed"

  • by turingtest2,

    turingtest2 turingtest2 Jun 19, 2016 4:56 PM in response to ChitlinsCC
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    Jun 19, 2016 4:56 PM in response to ChitlinsCC

    I should add some info. to the user tip. An advantage of the layout I've used where each line ends with at comment is that you can disable the active code by adding /* at the front of it on the same line. Keeps it all compact.

     

    tt2

  • by ChitlinsCC,

    ChitlinsCC ChitlinsCC Jun 19, 2016 5:52 PM in response to turingtest2
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    Jun 19, 2016 5:52 PM in response to turingtest2

    I would hate that, I think... being and an old scripter, I would want it to REALLY stand out as commented... but that's just me.

    with one on "top" and one on "bottom" it would make gray text jump out at ME, anyway

    It's not like there is a constraint in length of a "page"

    I fear that as easy as it is to get right, it is just as easy to mess up!

     

    EDITadded

    It may that anyone comfortable enough to do anything will have the knowledge anyway?

  • by rccharles,

    rccharles rccharles Jun 20, 2016 10:54 AM in response to ChitlinsCC
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    Jun 20, 2016 10:54 AM in response to ChitlinsCC

    Would be nice if there was some type of conditional css.  There are some site building tools.  One I looked at and Jive uses adds the ability to have variable in your html.  I guess you would call it a macro processor for html.

     

    It's going to be difficult to maintain.  Apple says they will be making "improvements" to this site.  That means constant css modifications.

     

    Found the macro processor.

    Screen Shot 2016-06-20 at 1.53.49 PM.png

  • by ChitlinsCC,

    ChitlinsCC ChitlinsCC Jun 20, 2016 11:51 AM in response to rccharles
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    Jun 20, 2016 11:51 AM in response to rccharles

    A variable in scripting is something like "set MyVariable to SomeValue" - then, later on, all you have to do to invoke the value you set is to say "MyVariable" in the string code

    A variable like ".button-blue" has a LIST of variables "pre-set" - known as Parent-Child programming

     

    I think I have gotten to the bottom of the "Myriad Set Pro" font "family" deal...

    In CSS scripting, a font gets its weight from "normal" or "bold" from a list of values ... 100-900 where 100 is skinny, 400 is the same as normal, and 700 is the same as bold.

    Fonts are "outlines" of the character shape.

    The weight determines the thickness of teh LINE used in the outline

    This is "faking it". A font designer has different shapes for normal and bold. Faking it & font-weight is like the middle drawing

    MF-Lazy-family-expansion-Bd.png

    Apple chose the "Light" version of Myriad Pro as the starting point for FAKING IT

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