New Music Additions

[mossy]

fair enough..

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by mossy

fair enough..

Trust me mossy, I'm a technology luddite in many respects but when it comes to the newest niftiest web features, you'll need to put away the NCSA Mosaic.

[Rick and Roll]

LMLU looks much better

[VAXman(Admin)]

Originally Posted by Rick and Roll

LMLU looks much better

Yeah, the more feedback I get the better.

As it turns out, some of the browsers do not respect the 'inherit' property on CSS attributes. I set the CSS anchor attributes (anchors are links to other web items) for hover (the mouse over event which shows you that there is a link there) and several other anchor attributes to 'inherit' the color from the font. In the defective browsers, this didn't work. Apparently, when it didn't work, the browser reverted to the browser's default color scheme for anchors. In most of these faulty browsers, this was a deep blue making it very very difficult to read the text.

I had to define separate CSS attributes for the various tags used to overcome this browser deficiency.

AFAICT, the LMLU was fine until I added the Artist/Album sort capability. This is when I defined the anchor CSS attributes to color: inherit;.

What you should see in the LMLU should look like the Latest Forum Posts. The column headings should be 'gold' on the deep blue header bar and the artists and albums should be white like the font above in the Latest Forum Posts. Long artist names and or album names should truncate. When they do, an ellipsis should be displayed. I'm not convinced that all browsers obey this CSS property either. They should, however, truncate without wrapping in the column.

When in doubt, FireFox.

[VAXman(Admin)]

Several people complained about loss of the background colors. I've found and I've corrected the problem. It was a stray comment delimiter in one of the CSS files.

This affected older versions of Safari and M$IE. Strangely, it shouldn't have affected the browser rendering but it did likely due to a parser issue where it handles comments.

[VAXman(Admin)]

I have resorted to doing what I didn't want to have to do but I can't continually fix the database for content added by shows. The SQL query now SELECTs on the source filename as well as other criteria and if the filename contains the folder names for the shows -- Interzone and Receving (which is a common folder for the other shows) -- these will be excluded. Sean sends his show live which creates a filename entry called mms://aa.bb.cc.dd:3690/ (actual IP address elided) which is also excluded by this extensive SELECT clause. The LMLU should now only show tracks added to the Aural Moon library.