Since the past few days, Netham45 screwed the board up a few dozen of times before he successfully tried many SMF mods on Omnimaga. Among them he installed two so far: new versions of quick reply and CODE tags!

While Juju was looking for My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic toys at his local Korvette store instead of helping, Netham45 modified some of the mods he tried to fit our needs and fix some of the bugs. The Quick Reply mod difference with the regular quick reply feature of SMF is that when submitting your message, it doesn't send a request to refresh the entire page anymore: it simplies update the current page through AJAX, like Facebook, reducing bandwidth usage for users and load times. Currently, this new feature is only available on the default forum theme, though. Netham45 is planning to install it on the other ones soon.

Besides that, the new CODE blocks feature now lets you select all the code in them in one click and quickly copy it to the clipboard. The only downside is that the Copy to Clipboard feature relies on Flash, so if you do not have Flash installed, only the Select All feature and the CODE blocks themselves will work fine. In the future, Netham45 plans to add line numbering in those tags, although he needs to make sure line numbers won't be part of copy/pastes.

Other changes might occur soon!

UPDATE (Nov 2nd 3:29 AM): The topic starter is now marked accross the topic view. You will see "Topic Starter" below his avatar.

UPDATE(2) (Nov 2nd 4:12 AM): The rest of the mods are installed. Here is a log of all the changes:

• You can now resize postboxes
• You can now specify a reason for your edits
• The topic starter is now shown in a topic
• Topics now have descriptions
• MOVED topics no longer appear in RSS/Atom feeds, nor the home page
• Quick Reply is now instant, thanks to AJAX
• Code blocks now have line numbers, Copy, and Select All options

Yay for ponies new useful mods! Damn this Quick Reply thing works well.

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While Juju was looking for My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic toys at his local Korvette store instead of helping

lol

This is true though (although it actually happened a few day earlier).. Actually not really, he just happened to see those toys there.

Yeah it was...

Also OMG I need to try this
Works fine for me.

Also the AJAX thing makes stuff easier to ninja...

New Quick Reply post test:

Awesome features, glad to see the code tag updated, after having requested it many times!

EDIT: Didn't work.
Also, the new code tags don't work for me, and I have Flash.

Ephan It migth be Chromium 17 fault actually. It's not a stable release, right?

Ephan It migth be Chromium 17 fault actually. It's not a stable release, right?

Indeed, it works on Firefox 7.1 on the same machine and operating system. I'm still dazzled at why the Copy to Clipboard doesn't work though, since it's Flash.

Actually, there is Javascript Copy to Clipboard implementations, but the code to make it work is both a PITA and is different (or missing) for each browser.