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TCattitude
06-26-2005, 10:00 PM
¿What this do?
vBulletin already have a thread preview. But only works fine
with IE, and: i don't use IE.
Mozilla Firefox (gecko engine) shows only some characters for
the preview, and not the limit that you put on admincp in
"Length of Thread Preview Text" inside of Forum Display
Options.

So, this DHTML replace the actual thread preview for a
working one in FF1+ (and netscape) IE5+ and Opr7+

See and example jpg attached to the zip file.
The colors and font size are automatic set direct from the
style of your board. The lenght of the preview (in
characters) are controlled from the same setting of the old
threads preview inside the AdminCP.
sabret00the
06-27-2005, 02:40 PM
sounds good, can have you got a firefox screenshot?
TCattitude
06-27-2005, 02:46 PM
sounds good, can have you got a firefox screenshot?

That screenshot is from firefox :rolleyes:
Princeton
06-27-2005, 02:48 PM
good effort but I would like to point out that this will actually BLOAT your forumdisplay...
bandwidth will definately increase (will only hurt if you have many hits to forumdisplay)
browser rendering time will increase (extra html code will slow the rendering of forumdisplay on client side)
TCattitude
06-27-2005, 02:54 PM
good effort but I would like to point out that this will actually BLOAT your forumdisplay...
bandwidth will definately increase (will only hurt if you have many hits to forumdisplay)
browser rendering time will increase (extra html code will slow the rendering of forumdisplay on client side)
My first attempt hack.
So... I kill myself right now :nervous:
Princeton
06-27-2005, 03:01 PM
every day we learn something new

my intentions wasn't to put the hack down ... but to make you aware of the issues

the hack could still be used on sites that do not have high traffic
sabret00the
06-27-2005, 03:43 PM
sorry nevermind i get what you mean now.
jrofosho
06-27-2005, 05:03 PM
i installed it and the page loads quick. good work
Zachery
06-27-2005, 05:18 PM
Sorry, thats just not true, it does work with firefox, the problem is Firefox has a rendering issue with the alt tag :p

TAke it up with the firefox devs
Mr. Brian
06-27-2005, 05:29 PM
*Brian Click Install*
Elmer
06-28-2005, 05:52 AM
My first attempt hack.
So... I kill myself right now :nervous:
omg you just steal works from others, what a shame on you.

Could you tell us what did you change to those JS files? I could tell you every single change made to them.

oooh well...
Kirk Y
07-10-2005, 05:14 AM
omg you just steal works from others, what a shame on you.

Could you tell us what did you change to those JS files? I could tell you every single change made to them.

oooh well...

Was that really necessary? Couldn't you have just PM'd TC?

I like this Thread Preview better than the standard one... aside from the bandwidth and rendering time concerns.
drumforum
07-12-2005, 10:58 PM
Thanks for that man :)
*Install

One thing though, to make this work for your search results:

## In template search_results

FIND:
<body>

ADD BELOW:
<!-- TCattitude's improved thread preview -->
<DIV id="tcthreadpreview" style="visibility:hidden;position:absolute;z-index:1000;top:-100"></DIV>
<!-- / TCattitude's improved thread preview -->
JMH11788
08-01-2005, 09:48 PM
Nice hack...thanks a lot.
Quillz
09-11-2005, 06:44 PM
I just installed this hack. Works perfectly! Thanks for it.
jrofosho
10-13-2005, 06:03 PM
3.0.5?

I would love this hack for the new vB
ForeverForums
04-18-2006, 10:46 PM
Does this display images too or just text ?