Major Additions - vbNews by Mary

vbNews
News Publishing & Book Library System
by Mary
http://www.MadeByMary.com

REMOVED BY THE AUTHOR

[DevinM]

Originally Posted by Tulsa

On the support issue, another member here who also purchased these scripts was having fits over an issue that was not being responded to, I worked with him today (thank goodness he had linked to his site and I could reach him) and got his immediate issues taken care of. While I'm glad I could help this member, he shouldn't have to rely on someone who he didn't pay for his support.

Thanks for the help today! Ive been trying to fix this problem for weeks now.

I hope some issues get fixed.

[Tulsa]

Well considering the fact the editor is open to straight html input and the security risks associated with letting the members utilize these scripts is too great. The options in vbnews in the admincp don't work, you have to remove the hard coded footer garbage to keep it from erroring out, and the tables are a mess. The support has gone south like a duck in winter and yes, people do use MAC's you should consider testing with one.

Oh by all means send me a full refund. Thank you for making that offer here. You have my email address, you just used it last night. I'm sure someone who can write a digishop script can manage a refund through paypal without further intervention from me.

Have a nice life.

[Tulsa]

Originally Posted by DevinM

Thanks for the help today! Ive been trying to fix this problem for weeks now.

I hope some issues get fixed.

You're most welcome Devin and earlier you had asked about a footer error you thought was IE related. I had forgotten about this one. You need to find this code at the bottom of the templates.

<if condition="$myfooter<>''">
  $myfooter
<else />
  $footer
</if>

and make it simply

$footer

This will clear up the footer errors. Now it effectively eliminates that replacement footer but it's not working anyway.

The templates where you'll find this are:

vbnews_article
vbnews_listing
vbnews_main

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Tulsa

Oh by all means send me a full refund. Thank you for making that offer here. You have my email address, you just used it last night. I'm sure someone who can write a digishop script can manage a refund through paypal without further intervention from me.
Have a nice life.

Seems that you continue teasing me as in my site. To send you a refund (something that you didnt admit that I offered you many times), I need PayPal's transaction id. I can't find it by email address, except if you think that I've only some 100s of orders and I can check them one by one.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by Tulsa

You're most welcome Devin and earlier you had asked about a footer error you thought was IE related. I had forgotten about this one. You need to find this code at the bottom of the templates.

I'll appreciate if you keep your hands out of code, except if you'll give full details. And in this case you've to inform the user that modifying the code such a way, must deactivate any option for custom header/footer at admincp.

Also please note:
1.- You're breaking the rules of copyright
2.- Here is not the support area for commercial version.

[lightbox]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

I'll appreciate if you keep your hands out of code, except if you'll give full details. And in this case you've to inform the user that modifying the code such a way, must deactivate any option for custom header/footer at admincp.

Also please note:
1.- You're breaking the rules of copyright
2.- Here is not the support area for commercial version.

Fixing code errors is breaking copyright?
So I paid for software which doesn't work in an acceptable manner,
can't fix it myself and in your support forums many customers don't
get "support"? Also you call me a liar? Holy moses!

This is your business model?

To make it short and precise:
I'll go for the refund option you offered and spend the money for another (more
professional) solution.

[lightbox]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

As long as you don't clarify in which browser/hardware they don't work, I can easily call you liar. All icon tags are working, in all languages (there are 10 languages available).

Are you kidding? What does hardware have to do with required "ALT" Tags in images?
ALT Tags are missing in 10 languages, 10 languages are failing to validate (W3C Validator,
ever heard of that?).
I'm a liar? Wow, what do you expect me to think about YOU after all?

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Again words on the air. What's is your meaning of "as expected". Why you don't use a real example?

What kind of example do you actually need to find out, that of the little functionality in
calender.html, 2 just don't work? Ever tried it yourself? Or would you need a vBnews
installation of one of your clients again to check *lol*?
"previous month" & "next month" just don't work at all ... to make it easier for you to find this amazingly hidden bug

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

That's my design style, visible to all at the demo area. I don't think that I gave a special version to you just to make your life difficult.

Can you imagine how much I'm interested in YOUR design style? What I need is a plugin
that keeps as close as possible to what vBulletin itself and its default layout does.
How about well organized CSS usage, overall XHTML Transitional validity?
This is a fundamental requirement if you try to build vBulletin plugins (and even more if
you sell them with such idiotic copyright restriction regarding code modifications).

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

Never is too late. Have you asked for a refund and I refused it?. No. So ask for a refund and you'll have back 100% of your money.

Why should I have asked, if your holy shining licence agreement says "License fees are non-refundable". So this is my fault also? You actually refused it before I bought it, right? *sigh*

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

That's for laughing.

Believe me, laughing in MY face has gone when I think of the time I spent with this crap.

[dizzy100]

Thank god i never installed this live.

MicroHellas your an extremely aggressive person, it may be a language barrier issue but i find your posts almost always aggressive. Sure a few people have brought up negative points here but then some are paying customers and could do with a little respect. I for one am glad they brought up these issues to reflect how things may be,

I've found many of your mods buggy and frankly coded in a way that isn't always logical. Granted thats my right to decide that and certainly isn't a reflection on your competence but when members bring it up your tone really does start to irate me. Are you not open minded enough to listen to your customers or potential customers ? Or are we all simply wrong.

With using straight to HTML editors (a major security risk if ever i've seen one), reporting here that mods are supported and yet you have to go to another site to have that support, removing mods at will (vbdonator, vbphotovote etc) your simply just using vbulletin.org for advertising only. The mods here can't see it but i can and although i'm fine with that, after all, mod writers should receive compensation either via monies or by appreciation, there is also a level of support that is clearly required if the application doesn't suit what you intended it for.

If someone tries to fix it you shout from the highest plains "Oh you've breached my copyrights". I mean, for goodness sake.

Add to all this your recent spyware in vbPhotoVote (call it what you will but its spyware, simple as and Sony couldn't get away with it either) i'll certainly be avoiding any of your mods like the plague from now on. Imagine if every mod developer took the same stance. Jeeeeeus we'd be dialling so many homes our boards would be slower than a slower thing thinkings its slow.

Sorry but you need to decide whether you want the community to benefit, as other mods developers do here, and aid in vbulletins development, or whether you want to blame members when things go wrong and just make a fast buck. Your business model is your own and only you can decide.

[MaryTheG(r)eek]

Originally Posted by lightbox

Are you kidding? What does hardware have to do with required "ALT" Tags in images?

So, is it the same FF on PC and FF on Mac??... If you say yes, you're wrong. If you say no, that's the meaning of combination hardware/browser
I'm waiting for your order details to refund you the money.

[lightbox]

Originally Posted by MicroHellas

So, is it the same FF on PC and FF on Mac??... If you say yes, you're wrong. If you say no, that's the meaning of combination hardware/browser
I'm waiting for your order details to refund you the money.

Gosh, you don't even understand the easiest.
I'm talking about ALT Tags, don't you know what an ALT Tag is?
XHTML Transitional is the base of vBulletin.
All plugins should also respect XHTML rules!

Based on this, here we go with a small excerpt of errors:

<img border="0" src="vbnews/images/bullet_yellow.gif">

This is non valid markup!

<font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#DED8C8">

This is non valid markup!

<br>

This is non valid markup!

<LI class=text1>

This is non valid markup!

<P class=text1>

This is non valid markup

DOCTYPE definition completely missing
This is not valid markup!

Not to talk about all those uncoded ampersands
This is not valid markup!

Just one example of your work:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...m%2Fvbnews.php
230 errors. Wow, this is record breaking, believe me.
For my site I had cut this down to 0 errors & 4 warnings already.
And now you tell your customers (incl. me), that this breaks copyright rules?

All from YOUR vbnews site within minutes.
If you have the slightest clue of XHTML, you should have seen this a loooong time ago.
All these bugs and issues make me believe, that you don't code properly.
Having an editor which allows complete HTML is the peak of this unpicturesque mountain.

You want to compare?
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...doctype=Inline
0 Errors, validation successful

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...doctype=Inline
This thread here! 19 errors found, easy to fix if you (vbulletin.org) check.