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"Matthew Gerber" <matthew@digitaliris.com> wrote in message news:GqDKA4.8ur@lugnet.com... (...) we (...) encourage (...) is (...) Thanks Matt. :-) A clarifiacation: I do not want to hear complaints about the website design, the code, or anything of (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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In lugnet.cad, Tim Courtney writes: <snip the known to be broken/missing thigs, most of which have likely been fixed by now> (...) Interestingly, I don't see anywhere in this post where Tim requires anyone to critique the new design of the LDraw.org (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That was fast. Thanks again to Jacob for such quick work. I have re-enabled the voting link from the Contests page as well: (URL) Terry K -- (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Tables [was: Re: Font too small for Mac]
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"TWS Garrison" <tgarriso@math.purdue.edu> wrote in message news:Pine.SOL.4.30.0...due.edu... (...) The table issue is being resolved among the website team privately. -Tim (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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About the new, improved www.ldraw.org (...) Isn't the problem with the tables not that they exist, but that they're hard-coded to be 700 pixels wide? I would think that simply using percentages or proportions instead of fixed widths and heights (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) In the Windows Users download page (URL) Stl2dat is reported to be "STL2DAT BETA 9" It has actually version 1.0 as reported when you follow the link (URL) a bug, but a wish in the part tracker : Could it be possible to see a list of reviews of (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Agreed. Netscape (Unix) & fonts have never got on particularly well 8?( but the user should be able to decide what size font to display (and all other characteristics) with hints only from the site developer. ROSCO (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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Picking out the bits I'm qualified for replying to... (...) It's not surprising that these two pages are weird/broken - they never existed before this new web layout. For the new /library/unofficial/, we copied the Part Tracker's Download page. For (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Not too hard. But it would be somewhat slow right now, because it would be searching all the files on the site. I'm working on a new database for the PT, that will include more data (like Author information), and will make it more available (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I tend to agree with you on this. Steve (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I have tested the voting system on the new site, and everything seems to work fine. Those who haven't had a chance to vote yet in the January 2002 MOTM contest can do it at: (URL) "I am an old man now, and when I die and go to Heaven there are (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Noooo! Just make things right. Also, all those annoying, much too wide tables, makes the site almost completely unusable for me (unless I use lynx). If you want to make a multi-column layout, please do it with CSS. Jacob (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Certainly! But I think Tim actually has _tried_ to move closer to the intentions with HTML with this redesign. I have not had time to look properly at the pages yet, so I can not say how close he managed to get. (...) :-) Jacob (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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1. I don't know about anyone else, but the Downloads column of each of the various OS download pages (all of which say "Not Yet Available") make it sound like none of the tools can be downloaded yet. Perhaps it should be something like "# of (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Okay, I've found a few, just in the tutorial area. I'm replying online as requested, but warning, my item #2 could be a little insensitive. 1: In Brad Hamilton's Freeform Camera position tutorial, (URL) , the POV source code of a camera block (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Just to let everyone know... The Model/Scene of the Month competition is on "hold" for a short time. We have to get the scripts and html to all work together again with the new site structure. And we couldn't really do anything until the site went (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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TWS Garrison (...) Agreed...logical markup allows people without a new browser or everything turned off to interpret the site correctly, even if it isn't pretty. CSS still allows you to modify the way the headers and such display, even if it doesn't (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) like the smallest font size is 8 pt. Perhaps Tim should change the fonts to be declared in relative font sizes instead of absolute point sizes. Tim: use TD { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: normal; } (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I've put together a tutorial. It is the first in a series on how I put my LDRAW POVRAY animations together. I'm looking for feedback and mistakes. It's at (URL) if you think it is worthy, feel free to link to it or repost it. (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Out of curiousity, I tried this on my Mac (iMac 333, MacOS 8.6 - yes, I am a ludite). I got the same 'too small' with MSIE 4.5, but got a good font display (I assume the issue is the radio buttons on the right) using Netscape 4.76. Ray (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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