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Brian Klug set one of Brian Klug's replies as an official response to "HTML plugin capacity" in PBwiki

Brian Klug replied on January 26, 2008 20:14 to the problem "HTML plugin capacity" in PBwiki:

Hi Seanmac - yes, this is a known issue with the HTML plugin. The limit is about 1000 characters. We currently plan to fix this later in the year .

Brian Klug replied on January 26, 2008 20:10 to the problem "point and click editor is being blocked by our firewall/security setting - getting javascript error" in PBwiki:

Hmm - you can try adding vs1.pbwiki.com, vs2.pbwiki.com, and <your_wiki>.pbwiki.com. If that doesn't work, I'd definitely recommend asking the vendor of your firewall software.</your_wiki>

Brian Klug replied on January 26, 2008 19:59 to the discussion "Fun Wiki Fact - Wiki Gnome" in PBwiki:

What do you call someone who makes BOLD edits?

Brian Klug replied on January 23, 2008 21:35 to the problem "point and click editor is being blocked by our firewall/security setting - getting javascript error" in PBwiki:

Hmm - it depends on on the exact software you are using for network security. In general, if you can add pbwiki.com or *.pbwiki.com to your software's whitelist, that might do the trick.

Brian Klug set one of Brian Klug's replies as an official response to "Can't save pages as PDF, keep getting error: TCPDF error: Fail include: [../common/3rdparty/tcpdf_php4/fonts/][arial.php]. Anyone one know how to resolve this?" in PBwiki

Brian Klug replied on January 22, 2008 22:40 to the question "Can't save pages as PDF, keep getting error: TCPDF error: Fail include: [../common/3rdparty/tcpdf_php4/fonts/][arial.php]. Anyone one know how to resolve this?" in PBwiki:

Hi there - sorry that our PDF export is a little buggy at times. We may try to fix some of these PDF problems later this year. Perhaps you can try setting a different font on your wiki (or creating pages that don't use alternate fonts) and you may have better luck.

Brian Klug replied on January 22, 2008 13:45 to the idea "PbWiki people are good" in PBwiki:

YAY - Thanks!

Brian Klug replied on January 21, 2008 19:46 to the problem "It takes 15 seconds and 117 HTTP requests totaling 435KB to load http://getsatisfaction.com/satisfaction" in Get Satisfaction:

The sprites sound like a great idea. Also you could run a build script that concatenates the CSS into one file (same with JS). Also remove whitespace from CSS and run YUI Javascript Compressor or the Javascript.

"For every load except the initial, fully uncached load" -- unfortunately this is a very common situation. It is also when the first impression is made.

Regardless, 435K is pretty hard to defend :) That's almost half a megabyte for a single web page!

Brian Klug replied on January 21, 2008 18:03 to the idea "The "A new topic was posted" e-mails sent from Get Satisfaction should include the subject of the topic." in Get Satisfaction:

You can always use a Gmail filter or Outlook rule to make sure they don't clutter the inbox (that is what I do).

Brian Klug reported a problem in Get Satisfaction on January 21, 2008 08:57:

It takes 15 seconds and 117 HTTP requests totaling 435KB to load http://getsatisfaction.com/satisfaction

There are a number of performance issues with Get Satisfaction. Even the static servers (2.static, 1.static and 0.static) sometimes take several seconds to serve a single CSS file. But 117 requests is a LOT either way - and 435k pretty much guarantees a poor user experience unless the user has a broadband connection.

Brian Klug replied on January 21, 2008 08:50 to the idea "The "A new topic was posted" e-mails sent from Get Satisfaction should include the subject of the topic." in Get Satisfaction:

Great!

Brian Klug shared an idea in Get Satisfaction on January 21, 2008 08:19:

The "A new topic was posted" e-mails sent from Get Satisfaction should include the subject of the topic.

All the e-mails sent about new topics have the same subject line "A new topic was posted in PBwiki". As a result,

1) Gmail lumps all the e-mails into one thread
2) You can't tell what the problem is by the subject line

Brian Klug replied on January 19, 2008 00:06 to the problem "You should check GS in IE6" in Get Satisfaction:

Great!

Brian Klug replied on January 18, 2008 22:28 to the question "Is it possible to use a Satisfaction widget over HTTPS?" in Get Satisfaction:

I am affected by this as well. We'll have to do extra work to bounce the user to a http version of the page.

Brian Klug replied on January 18, 2008 22:27 to the problem "You should check GS in IE6" in Get Satisfaction:

Hi there. I can reproduce the problem on a Clean, perfectly validating HTML page:

http://klug.pbwiki.biz/s.html

I'm using IE6 and it simply doesn't load.

All I did was copy the widget code directly from Satisfaction into a HTML page and it doesn't load

Brian Klug replied on January 17, 2008 02:55 to the idea "I'm a teacher. How can I get my students logged into a wiki when they don't have e-mail addresses?" in PBwiki:

That's a great approach!

Brian Klug marked one of Paul Singh's replies in PBwiki as useful. Paul Singh replied to the idea "I'm a teacher. How can I get my students logged into a wiki when they don't have e-mail addresses?". Brian Klug and 8 other people think it's one of the best replies.