Default theme change

Started by Lazybones, April 20, 2015, 11:52:16 AM

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Lazybones

I have applied a minor change the to default forum theme.

Let me know if you encounter any issues.

Thorin

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Lazybones

Quote from: Thorin on April 20, 2015, 01:43:02 PM
What change it is?


Some beta improvements for smaller screen devices, nothing drastic.

Darren Dirt

By the way on my Android phone the forum is showing up weird -- fine when I show last 10 posts, but if I go to any specific thread then I do not see some things (cant think exactly what, it just looks sparse) PLUS (the biggie!) there is no date-time for each individual post!

Perhaps a recent upgrade broke it and I only noticed today... I am using the same theme as forever (default iirc).


A visual demo tomorrow will clarify if needed... cya then!

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Thorin

Prayin' for a 20!

gcc thorin.c -pedantic -o Thorin
compile successful

Darren Dirt

Quote from: Thorin on June 02, 2015, 07:22:21 PM
Are you using Tapatalk?

Nope.

Maybe the default theme got changed to be Tapatoptimized?

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Tom

Quote from: Darren Dirt on June 03, 2015, 06:45:19 AM
Quote from: Thorin on June 02, 2015, 07:22:21 PM
Are you using Tapatalk?

Nope.

Maybe the default theme got changed to be Tapatoptimized?



As my internet is down I thought I'd check on my phone...

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Melbosa

Mine does that now as well (Windows Phone).  I think it was with the last security patch or something...  the annoying part is the pushed to the left part at the bottom of his screen shot.
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Lazybones

There is a thread in the help section about recent changes I have made to themes.

There was a patch applied were I removed the optional mobile theme and installed the new "responsive" theme that should work on all screen sizes. It should be sparse but not lose function...

Tom

Quote from: Lazybones on June 03, 2015, 04:08:54 PM
There is a thread in the help section about recent changes I have made to themes.

There was a patch applied were I removed the optional mobile theme and installed the new "responsive" theme that should work on all screen sizes. It should be sparse but not lose function...
its certainly trying to be responsive.. But its wrapping/flowing parts wrong. Check threads as well.. It even does weird things in landscape. Maybe some theme files are conflicting?
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Lazybones

There was an update to the default theme released I have just applied it..


Do a full refresh and let me know if it improves things.

Melbosa

Looks fixed to me on my Windows Phone now.
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Lazybones


Quote from: Darren Dirt on June 03, 2015, 06:45:19 AM
Quote from: Thorin on June 02, 2015, 07:22:21 PM
Are you using Tapatalk?

Nope.

Maybe the default theme got changed to be Tapatoptimized?

On this point, no. Tapatalk uses its own plugin which adds the hook for letting you know it is available and in some cases ensuring links redirect to the app if you are in the app. Other than that the app talks to its plugging directly via its own API.

Tapatalk renders the forums with native widgets on each platform for the most part which is why it it fast and different than mobile browsing.

SMF is building proper responsive elements into the next major release however till then they have releases an official theme mod to patch older / existing forums as google announced page rank penalties for sites that are not mobile friendly.

Darren Dirt

Still not seeing date-time of each individual post in a thread.

But I do see that info when viewing Last10posts or whatever.
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Lazybones

Quote from: Darren Dirt on June 03, 2015, 05:27:52 PM
Still not seeing date-time of each individual post in a thread.

But I do see that info when viewing Last10posts or whatever.

It appears that text element is removed below a specific horizontal size... I can confirm it does not appear on my phone and if I re-size in my desktop browser it gets removed before some other elements at small window sizes.

Tom

Quote from: Lazybones on June 03, 2015, 07:24:26 PM
Quote from: Darren Dirt on June 03, 2015, 05:27:52 PM
Still not seeing date-time of each individual post in a thread.

But I do see that info when viewing Last10posts or whatever.

It appears that text element is removed below a specific horizontal size... I can confirm it does not appear on my phone and if I re-size in my desktop browser it gets removed before some other elements at small window sizes.
Thinks are weird even on my 1080p phone in landscape. things wrap wrong, and some things may be missing... I think maybe their css just isn't finished? or is conflicting with the old theme? I dunno.
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Lazybones

Quote from: Tom on June 03, 2015, 10:22:26 PM
Thinks are weird even on my 1080p phone in landscape. things wrap wrong, and some things may be missing... I think maybe their css just isn't finished? or is conflicting with the old theme? I dunno.

You know there is a screen shot feature... things are weird doesn't really help.

Lazybones

This is what I see on my phone.

Tom

This is what I have, and I think it looks very weird :P

Especially since it zooms in like that by default. Bunch of things are missing, and it doesn't seem to actually reflow anything based on the available screen realestate as rotating doesn't change anything (1080p phone has more than enough space to render the forums). Also zooming in/out changes nothing, which is kind of weird...

What probably bugs me the most is all of the added vertical space it adds for no reason, and the missing ui elements, and the font sizes. wow. so tiny. I actually HAVE to zoom in in order to read it, or I would if it didn't load in zoomed by itself... I don't think that zooming is the sites fault, but I haven't seen a setting in this chrome to do it for me (i even tried changing the scaling in accessibility and it only changes the size you get when you double tap, not what size it happens to be loading in, so I'm a tad confused). The last one is one of a thread fully zoomed out to "normal" size. virtually unreadable without giving myself a migraine. Just imagine (or do it) them scaled to a 5.5" display.
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Lazybones

I have removed the responsive mod.. You should get the full normal page now on a mobile device.

Tom

Don't make my complaining change things. if you think its better for you, great :) its just a little annoying for me... And heck, if it makes the tapatalk banners go away, so much the better. ;)
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Lazybones

We have a very small group of users, several of us use tap-a-talk so I personally don't care much.

When it matures more I will put it back on.

Darren Dirt

Quote from: Lazybones on June 04, 2015, 12:24:59 AM
This is what I see on my phone.

file #2 is what I tried describing as well -- and just now I tried and could not duplicate the problem on my laptop (even if I resized window to really small in Firefox).

post-grunch: thanks for reverting back to stable theme! I don't need no steeeenkin' mobile-responsive css if it's flakey :)

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