I went to go see that stupid Pan's Labyrinth movie last night. I was so disgusted by it I decided to go to bed afterwards to not allow my mind to associate any of the feelings I was having with anyone or any stuff I was doing;

At some point the server went down and nobody woke me up to check on it. It should be all set now.

--Paul

I fixed the operation aborted error in IE. After a most stressful day of documenting thousands of lines of javascript, I found some spare time and an IE 6 and 7 machine to test the site on and fix the stupid Operation Aborted error that occurs when something is appended to the DOM before it is loaded.

IF YOU USE IE AND COMPLAINED ABOUT THIS MAYBE YOU SHOULD DONATE NOW. I WAS ABOUT 1 SEC SHORT OF JUST REMOVING IE SUPPORT ALTOGETHER. YOU CAN DO THIS BY CLICKING ON THE DONATE LINK AT THE TOP OF THE LATEST ENTRIES LIST.

I do think at some point in the near future the IE 6 support will go (meaning you will be redirected to the strip down mobile/dialup version of the site when visiting with IE 6) unless some people are interested in supporting it, because for me it is a headache and I am really not motivated to always have to get an old machine to test it on.

On an other front I updated the scripts so the site should be a bunch faster. I also have some new faster surebert updates coming out later this week.

I removed transparent PNG support for IE 6 because it was slowing the site down in IE 6 too much. If you hate that get a real browser that can do transparent pngs like opera, firefox, safari, or ie 7

I am going to be updating the ram a little after 5PM today on the server. It will be down for a brief time.

Message Replies
Added new feature so you can respond to messages sent by other logged in peeps directly. Just click the post-it icon in their message.

Mobile site comments page
Updated the mobile sites comment page to use its own comment page that take sthe user back to the journal they are commenting on.

Tonight Windows Updated Me To IE7
Windows automatically updated my windows XP development box to Internet Explorer 7 tonight. This mean sthat the era for IE 6 development is over. I will try and keep support for what is there. But dedicated testing and support for Internet Explorer 6 on estrip is over. I will test everything with 7 this weekend.

Bunch of backend SQL updates should make some stuff faster. . . more to come.

I rewrote 99% of the javascript for the site and compressed it into much more efficient files. Everything accept for the stupid yahoo map loader. I am considering just ditching it as it as big as all the rest of the javascript combined. It won't even cache. I got it down to about 60k of caching javascript for the entire site functionality and then the yahoo stupid maps are another 59k and their javascript does not cache. Argh. Maybe ajay can help with this. For now I just removed it, until I can come up with a better solution.

Now that it is all organized I can more efficiently work on it.

The site should be much faster when switching between journals. One of the problems before was the usersound player was loading the entire song on every journal load even if you didn't play it. So right now I have a button that loads the player when you want. That is what was causing the userpics to load slowly.

There was also tons of other stuff that got cleaned up. On the backend my new system allows me to have really efficient, highly commented code that then gets compressed into tiny chunks of javascript that you download.

If you notice any other problems message paul.

--paul