Release 1.11.0

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Release 1.11.0

Postby Coder of Admin » Tue Nov 18, 2014 11:36 pm

For my next trick, I'm going to try to summarise 5227 changes into a small release post.

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Text replacements
The text system (chat, private messages, and profile pages) has had a big upgrade, the biggest feature of which is the ability to use a subset of BBCode (just like on this forum). The supported tags are:

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[color=red]Standard color tags[/color]
[colour=#FF0000]Colour alias[/colour]

[b]Bold text[/b]

[i]Italicised text[/i]

[url]http://web.link.without.title[/url]
[url=http://www.darkgrimoire.com]Web link with title[/url]


Edit: All tags should now be case insensitive.

Colour tags
All the old colour tags still work however we no longer support unclosed tags. If you forget to close a tag or accidentally mis-spell the closing tag, the tags will be written to screen. This stops issues where broken URL tags could cause the page markup to be written to the chat window. Some people have relied on the ability to not close colour tags, such as [C-B], to make all text one colour. This was actually producing broken code that your web browser was nice enough to fix for you however some browsers, particularly IE7 and below, tend to be more likely to generate a horrible looking page.

If you really enjoy cheating and are saddened by the need to close your tags, the BBCode tags are auto-closing so, if you were to write:

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[color=crimson]Miranda's dress was a gorgeous shade of Crimson

The trailing closing tag would be added for you. It was going to be a lot more work than it was worth for the old style tags to auto-close so it isn't supported at this time.

Web links
If you don't care about having a title on your links, you can simply write the URL directly without any tag and we'll just show people the domain. In fact, if you are not going to name your link, I would highly recommend skipping the tags since the BBCode will print the full URL and skipping the tags will only print the domain. For example:

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It's a wonderful day to play [url]http://www.darkgrimoire.com[/url]


will produce

It's a wonderful day to play http://www.darkgrimoire.com


where as

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It's a wonderful day to play http://www.darkgrimoire.com


will give you

It's a wonderful day to play darkgrimoire.com


It is important note that, if you want to add a link without tags, it must begin with either "http" or "www". So, acceptable options would be:
  • http://darkgrimoire.com
  • https://darkgrimoire.com
  • www.darkgrimoire.com

You could not, however, use "forums.darkgrimoire.com" but you could use "http://forums.darkgrimoire.com".

Private messages
The replacements system has been extended to the private messaging system. Unfortunately the PM text field is still pretty small but, you know, baby steps.

When sending a PM, you receive one of the notification messages we have been putting around the place so you know it was actually sent (or not).

Edit: the order of private messages now matches your chat settings.

Taming Word
Microsoft Word is the bane of the existence of any web developer who works with user generated copy. When you copy from Word and paste directly into chat or a profile page, the chances are that Word will pass on a whole host of other trash.

While it is nearly impossible to totally clean the junk Word gives us, we are now fixing the main culprits. Please continue to provide feedback and, if we can help further, we will do what we can.

Fight text contrast
The contrast between the fight text and the background was not great enough to conform to WCAG 2.0 AA requirements. The colour has been adjusted just enough to pass this standard.

A lot of thought has been going into issues related to accessibility criteria in the 2.0 build so we don't want to spend too much time here however, if there are other little things we can do to help, please let us know.

Merchant sales
When selling to a merchant, there is now a "Select All" button. Pressing the button with all items selected will de-select all.

Importantly, the sale of equipped and unequipped items is now truly separate. If you select items in both categories, only the checked items associated with the "Sell" item you select are sold. Also, the "Select All" buttons only select within that section.


Phew... okay... maybe not so small a post.
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