This Time for Sure Rocky
31/03/06 21:49 Filed in: Plugin
Release
You'll have to Google the title if it doesn't make
sense to you. I'm guessing that only a handful of
people experienced The Rocky and Bullwinkle show.
But anyway...
It looks like it's time for another Beta. Beta 9 introduced us to a couple pretty nasty bugs... there was just no way that I was going to release THAT as the final version. So here comes beta 10...
I'm going to detail the fixes since each one is quite interesting in it's own right -- plus my finger doesn't hurt that much tonight.
No Links
The image blocks before beta 9 were really just highly specialized text blocks with only a single item -- the picture. This was nice because it came with lots of freebies -- like links. It also made for a very complex system of adjusting the pictures. So it had to go... I replaced it with a much simplified mechanism but forgot that the links had gone -- so I reimplemented links for beta 10. Hopefully all is well with image blocks now.
Upside Down Images
Most people probably didn't notice this one. However when exporting images from some software -- particularly if the image had been edited (iPhoto is the best example) the image would end up looking great in edit mode but display upside down in preview mode.
I've made a fix for this and some people who had experienced the problem tell me that it is now rectified -- however the root cause of the issue is still not totally clear to me, so if you do continue to see any sort of upside down images please let me know as soon as possible.
Magic Bullet -- line-height?
You may have noticed that when you increase the font size to very large values (say > 50) there is a noticeable issue with the text overflowing the top of block (in Preview). In a multiline piece of large text the problem continues to get worse. In other words the more lines the more the browser is confused by the large text size.
It's actually quite possible that this is only an issue with some themes, but I think I may have found a solution:
It seems that either by the nature of the theme or possibly the browser default itself, that the line-height is not 1em -- nor even that close. Thus the larger you make the font the more the difference between the line-height attribute and the real line height of the text becomes an issue.
So to solve the issue I've added a line-height attribute to all text that has a style that overrides the theme's.
I suspect for some people this may cause some issues with alignment on their web site and possibly some people who were expecting to inherit a line-height from their theme will now get something very different. However I suspect that for the vast majority of folks it will mean that large text will be much more reliable.
Registration
I've turned on the 4-block hard limit for non-registered users. I hope this doesn't come as too much of a shocker to anyone.
OK, now my broken finger hurts again... time to stop typing.
It looks like it's time for another Beta. Beta 9 introduced us to a couple pretty nasty bugs... there was just no way that I was going to release THAT as the final version. So here comes beta 10...
I'm going to detail the fixes since each one is quite interesting in it's own right -- plus my finger doesn't hurt that much tonight.
No Links
The image blocks before beta 9 were really just highly specialized text blocks with only a single item -- the picture. This was nice because it came with lots of freebies -- like links. It also made for a very complex system of adjusting the pictures. So it had to go... I replaced it with a much simplified mechanism but forgot that the links had gone -- so I reimplemented links for beta 10. Hopefully all is well with image blocks now.
Upside Down Images
Most people probably didn't notice this one. However when exporting images from some software -- particularly if the image had been edited (iPhoto is the best example) the image would end up looking great in edit mode but display upside down in preview mode.
I've made a fix for this and some people who had experienced the problem tell me that it is now rectified -- however the root cause of the issue is still not totally clear to me, so if you do continue to see any sort of upside down images please let me know as soon as possible.
Magic Bullet -- line-height?
You may have noticed that when you increase the font size to very large values (say > 50) there is a noticeable issue with the text overflowing the top of block (in Preview). In a multiline piece of large text the problem continues to get worse. In other words the more lines the more the browser is confused by the large text size.
It's actually quite possible that this is only an issue with some themes, but I think I may have found a solution:
It seems that either by the nature of the theme or possibly the browser default itself, that the line-height is not 1em -- nor even that close. Thus the larger you make the font the more the difference between the line-height attribute and the real line height of the text becomes an issue.
So to solve the issue I've added a line-height attribute to all text that has a style that overrides the theme's.
I suspect for some people this may cause some issues with alignment on their web site and possibly some people who were expecting to inherit a line-height from their theme will now get something very different. However I suspect that for the vast majority of folks it will mean that large text will be much more reliable.
Registration
I've turned on the 4-block hard limit for non-registered users. I hope this doesn't come as too much of a shocker to anyone.
OK, now my broken finger hurts again... time to stop typing.
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