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CyberSkull marked one of Sara Czyzewicz's replies in DandyID as useful. Sara Czyzewicz replied to the problem "The 'X' section heading is mission on the user services page.".

CyberSkull reported a problem in DandyID on September 11, 2009 13:44:

The 'X' section heading is mission on the user services page.

W, Y and Z. Wait, are we missing a letter?

http://www.dandyid.org/beta/userservices

CyberSkull replied on August 18, 2009 00:43 to the problem "Disturbing lack of proper CSS for images on the services page." in DandyID:

Looks fixed now.

CyberSkull replied on July 25, 2009 01:54 to the problem "Disturbing lack of proper CSS for images on the services page." in DandyID:

Hmm, the verified, delete and external link icons don't have proper stylings applied, though some of them do have an alt tag. Your getting there!

CyberSkull replied on July 25, 2009 00:14 to the problem "Disturbing lack of proper CSS for images on the services page." in DandyID:

That is way better :), but you still have an unnecessary <var>border="0"</var>, and the images are all still missing the <var>alt</var> attribute, a required part of the img tag.

CyberSkull shared an idea in DandyID on July 24, 2009 17:20:

User Name Search

A great feature DandyID should have is a user name search. I want to input my commonly used usernames (CyberSkull, Lord_CyberSkull, DreadLordCyberSkull, DL CyberSkull, and other variants) into DID and have it search it's services for my accounts. Then I just click to confirm that they are actually me.

CyberSkull started following the idea "Few additional services :)" in DandyID.

CyberSkull replied on July 24, 2009 17:12 to the idea "Can DandyID widget's style not be locked in with the service?" in DandyID:

What I am thinking is I'd like to see dandyID look in my current theme for a dandyid.css file and have it use that style overriding the builtin styles.

CyberSkull started following the idea "Can DandyID widget's style not be locked in with the service?" in DandyID.

CyberSkull shared an idea in DandyID on July 24, 2009 17:07:

Service categories

When editing services, I'd like to be able to browse services by category instead of one large list.

CyberSkull reported a problem in DandyID on July 24, 2009 12:26:

Disturbing lack of proper CSS for images on the services page.

I noticed watching my services page load that you aren't using any CSS to define image size for any of the page icons. This is important because every time the browser's layout engine receives an image without any CSS or inline sizing info it must recalculate the page layout to accommodate it. This becomes especially problematic on pages with hundreds of unsized images as the browser must take additional time to reconsider the layout of the area surrounding each image.

Now onto the simple solution! There are 2 ways of defining the image size: implicitly and explicitly.

An implicit declaration relies on some newer CSS declarations (last 2 or 3 years at least):

/* Any img URI containing the string "favicons" */
img[src~="favicons"] {
height: 16px;
width: 16px;
border: 0px;
}


Or a more explicit declaration could be made. Here is the current code for Twitter:

<img border="0" src="http://www.dandyid.org/code/images/miscellaneous/favicons/twitter.png">


A better declaration would be:

img.favicon {
height: 16px;
width: 16px;
border: 0px;
}



<img class="favicon twitter" src="http://www.dandyid.org/code/images/miscellaneous/favicons/twitter.png" alt="Twitter" title="Twitter" />


I hope this is of help to your site design team. Oh, and before I forget, the Delete, Verified and Go icons all suffer from the same problem as well.

This is a great service, but with the large amount of content per-page it is very important to do everything you can to ensure smooth & speedy loading. :)

CyberSkull shared an idea in Delicious Monster on June 12, 2009 20:05:

Add update from Amazon to the ISBN field.

Add an contextual option to the ISBN field to have it be able to update from Amazon.

CyberSkull asked a question in Delicious Monster on June 12, 2009 20:03:

Is there a utility to convert ISBN/UPC/EAN to AISN (Amazon)?

Since apparently Library 2.1 doesn't support directly converting imported ISBN/UPC/EAN numbers to the Amazon number in batch imports, does anyone know of a utility that will do the same?

A comment on the problem "Unable to Import From Text File in Library 2.1." in Delicious Monster:

I haven't done a mass import like this in quite a while, so I couldn't tell you. – CyberSkull, on June 12, 2009 12:03

A comment on the problem "Unable to Import From Text File in Library 2.1." in Delicious Monster:

It used to. In prior versions I could import a batch and it would then look up all the items. – CyberSkull, on June 12, 2009 07:16

CyberSkull replied on June 12, 2009 06:26 to the problem "Unable to Import From Text File in Library 2.1." in Delicious Monster:

I tried it with books using an ISBN header, got the same problem.

CyberSkull reported a problem in Delicious Monster on June 12, 2009 06:18:

Unable to Import From Text File in Library 2.1.

I can't import from a text file. All it does is add an item with the EAN/ISBN, but the refresh from Amazon option is grayed out and I cannot import the data.

Note that the single import works fine.

Any suggestions for this frustrating situation?

A comment on the idea "Ask before reporting a web application" in Wakoopa:

I know the tracker icon is quite visible on the menu bar in Mac OS X when it is colored. – CyberSkull, on October 28, 2008 13:49

A comment on the idea "Ask before reporting a web application" in Wakoopa:

Mainly privacy, yes. Filtering after the fact doesn't help much given that the data would be out "in the wild" at that point. – CyberSkull, on October 28, 2008 13:48

CyberSkull replied on October 27, 2008 21:43 to the idea "Ask before reporting a web application" in Wakoopa:

Then perhaps it shouldn't display a notice but simply have the icon change to indicate it has a question for you. Then you can just click a check box in a list it gives you.