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    Posting backgrounds for cache pages

    in Website

    Posted

    * How do you setup background images on cache pages?

     

    By adding broken HTML to the description.

     

    * What are the limitations?

     

    It is possible you will render your cache description un-readable to a few folks.

     

    * It is a good thing?

     

    It's your cache.

     

    I wouldn't use the trick on my caches, and I've not hunted caches because I couldn't read or print their descriptions before now. Mostly those were down to use of off-site images or javascript rather than backgrounds though.

     

    Purrs... LazyLeopard

     

    [This message was edited by Lazy Leopard on May 23, 2002 at 10:04 AM.]

    Who's in favour of hiding all "found" counts?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Yep, the counts are helpful in judging the probable level of experience of another cacher. I know there's no chance I'm going to be able to catch up with the most prolific hiders nor the most successful seekers, as I'm only getting out hunting one weekend in three at the moment...

     

    Being nosey :) , I'd quite like to see not-found counts, and the counts split into Standard/Multi/Virtual/Locationless/difficulty/whatever too, though I'll accept most folks would find that over-kill. icon_wink.gif

     

    I can also see the case for someone wanting to hide that information from others, though.

     

    Maybe an option, with the default being "show them", would keep most folks happy?

     

    Whatever. (It's no big deal to me.

     

    Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

    Travel Bug Only Caches

    in Trackables

    Posted

    quote:
    I just took it off of Member's Only status
    Come to think of it, Bug Hotels are about the best case I can think of for "Registered Users Only" caches (only visible to folks who have logged in to geocaching.com), if they existed, because if folks aren't registered on geocaching.com then they're not going to be able to grab and subsequently drop bugs...

     

    Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

    Travel Bug Only Caches

    in Trackables

    Posted

    quote:
    I just took it off of Member's Only status
    Come to think of it, Bug Hotels are about the best case I can think of for "Registered Users Only" caches (only visible to folks who have logged in to geocaching.com), if they existed, because if folks aren't registered on geocaching.com then they're not going to be able to grab and subsequently drop bugs...

     

    Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

    Weird consequence of mis-dated logs

    in Trackables

    Posted

    One of my bugs has gathered some extra miles because (presumably by mistake) he was dropped off at a cache before he was picked up from the previous one he was in. The log entry dated April 3rd was actually made on May 5th. As a result he's picked up double-distance on the move between those two caches. The corresponding cache log for the drop-off is dated May 5th though.

     

    Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

    What a brilliant idea !

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    Yeah, go ahead! icon_smile.gif I work at Gatwick (but not in the Airport) and had been meaning to get out a map of the area and try to figure out where to put a bug hotel, but I'm short on round tuits at the moment. I stand half a chance of being able to keep an eye on a cache there though.

     

    The Meridian Snake ammo box wasn't in it's place last time I checked, but I havn't been back recently to have a good look round in case someone just "re-located" it.

     

    Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

    What a brilliant idea !

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    Yeah, go ahead! icon_smile.gif I work at Gatwick (but not in the Airport) and had been meaning to get out a map of the area and try to figure out where to put a bug hotel, but I'm short on round tuits at the moment. I stand half a chance of being able to keep an eye on a cache there though.

     

    The Meridian Snake ammo box wasn't in it's place last time I checked, but I havn't been back recently to have a good look round in case someone just "re-located" it.

     

    Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

    OK UK Geocachers... Do we need to raise the bar a little?

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    Good content can add to the experience. I try to avoid taking nothing and leaving nothing, though on occasions I havn't had anything suitable to trade. I see no harm in taking something from one and placing it in another. It keeps the contents of caches changing. It's also sometimes an idea to leave something without taking anything...

     

    Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

    Weirdness with noscript on new-style index

    in Website

    Posted

    If you view the new-style main index with scripting disabled the mark-up round the dates for the most recent posts in each forum is visible as text rather than being acted on. A quick look at the source shows that the markup is being escaped to death. What shows is:

    [b]May 07, 2002[/b]
    because the source reads: 
    <b>May 07, 2002</b>
    Something's being a bit too enthusiastic icon_wink.gif

     

    Otherwise, it seems to work reasonably well, though the tables look a little bare on account of the border="0" which seems to have taken over...

     

    Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

     

    [This message was edited by Lazy Leopard on May 07, 2002 at 09:29 AM.]

    Weirdness with noscript on new-style index

    in Website

    Posted

    If you view the new-style main index with scripting disabled the mark-up round the dates for the most recent posts in each forum is visible as text rather than being acted on. A quick look at the source shows that the markup is being escaped to death. What shows is:

    [b]May 07, 2002[/b]
    because the source reads: 
    <b>May 07, 2002</b>
    Something's being a bit too enthusiastic icon_wink.gif

     

    Otherwise, it seems to work reasonably well, though the tables look a little bare on account of the border="0" which seems to have taken over...

     

    Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

     

    [This message was edited by Lazy Leopard on May 07, 2002 at 09:29 AM.]

    Clues

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    If you're going to have a clue at all then the cache page is the place for it. Most of us aren't going to be in a position to email an address and wait for an answer while we're out on a hunt, and that's the point at which we're going to find out that we need a clue... icon_wink.gif

     

    Writing good clues is an artform in itself, and a bad clue is worse than no clue.

     

    Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

    Clues

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    If you're going to have a clue at all then the cache page is the place for it. Most of us aren't going to be in a position to email an address and wait for an answer while we're out on a hunt, and that's the point at which we're going to find out that we need a clue... icon_wink.gif

     

    Writing good clues is an artform in itself, and a bad clue is worse than no clue.

     

    Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

    Detail in Cache Pages.

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    quote:
    To put together a site that is truly cross-browser would be extremely dull looking
    Not necessarily. In my experience it's the sites that use the non-standard stuff that more often look like junk.
    quote:
    they all have their own liberal interpretations of the HTML W3C spec.
    ...or more to the point, they all have their own non-standard extensions.
    quote:
    The stats show that the people that don't use IEx are a tiny minority
    ...is 15% a tiny minority? That's the proportion of non-IE users I see hitting one website I maintain.
    quote:
    poor choice of browser
    That's a subjective judgement.

     

    I'll leave the final word to Tim Berners-Lee:

    quote:
    Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

     

    Cheers,

    Lazy Leopard.

    Best Viewed with Any Browser

    Detail in Cache Pages.

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

    Posted

    It's generally a good idea to turn all the scripting off and make sure the description still makes sense. Remember that the more bells and whistles you add, the fewer folks will be able to see the page the same way you do.

     

    BTW, it's worth using generic font names as far as possible; "sans-serif" in place of "arial", "serif" in place of "times", "monospace" in place of "courier", or whatever...

     

    Purrs... LazyLeopard http://www.lazyleopard.org.uk

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