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Posted June 09, 2013
Very good suggestions. Voted must of them
Posted June 09, 2013
The PM system has got to be the worst I've ever seen ;-( Sorry GOG Gods but do I really have to hit refresh or worse, go back to community, before NEW PM's show up? And don't even get me started on missing PM's - the black hole of PM death is giving me PMS ;-p
Posted June 09, 2013
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Momo1991: The PM system has got to be the worst I've ever seen ;-( Sorry GOG Gods but do I really have to hit refresh or worse, go back to community, before NEW PM's show up? And don't even get me started on missing PM's - the black hole of PM death is giving me PMS ;-p
Ow. That can't be good. ^_^;;; Is this really that problematic?.. 'cause I've seen people complaining about missing messages before, but never encountered this myself.
Posted June 09, 2013
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Momo1991: The PM system has got to be the worst I've ever seen ;-( Sorry GOG Gods but do I really have to hit refresh or worse, go back to community, before NEW PM's show up? And don't even get me started on missing PM's - the black hole of PM death is giving me PMS ;-p
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YnK: Ow. That can't be good. ^_^;;; Is this really that problematic?.. 'cause I've seen people complaining about missing messages before, but never encountered this myself.
Gawh, YES - try to contact numerous members or have a serious PM conversation that is more than two PM's long - try it - it's utter insanity. And who knows how many missing PM's - that's the beauty - you don't ;-p

And what is with "back to the future" in some threads where every time you post, you get put back two or three pages? Or sometimes a reply gets totally wiped blank - sometimes I just give up.

Sorry, I DO NOT mean to come off as complaining - I love and adore this forum - but the software running this amazing place is a bit frustrating at times.
Posted June 09, 2013
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Fenixp: "The website should be fully functional without the use of javascript. Searches should be done on the server. The catalogue should be one long page, not downloaded in several steps. Screen shots should be direct links to the image files. New forum posts should be done in the current tab/window."

The page should be created in HTML1, without any dynamic elements. It's the rule.
GOG put their foot in it when the forum allowed you to post arbitrary code and it got executed for everyone who browsed the site with javascript enabled.. which because the site requires it for basic functionality, was everyone.

I'd prefer a site in HTML1 that worked, rather than this flashy crap that is insecure, slow, gets in my way and doesn't work half the time.
Posted June 09, 2013
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xyem: GOG put their foot in it when the forum allowed you to post arbitrary code and it got executed for everyone who browsed the site with javascript enabled.. which because the site requires it for basic functionality, was everyone.

I'd prefer a site in HTML1 that worked, rather than this flashy crap that is insecure, slow, gets in my way and doesn't work half the time.
... and they'd introduce a bug in HTML 1 which would allow arbitrary HTML markup to work, possibly introducing security issues. JS is sandboxed for crying out loud, stop being afraid of technology.
Posted June 09, 2013
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xyem: ...
I voted for probably 3/4 of them. +1
Posted June 09, 2013
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Fenixp: ... and they'd introduce a bug in HTML 1 which would allow arbitrary HTML markup to work, possibly introducing security issues. JS is sandboxed for crying out loud, stop being afraid of technology.
Javascript being sandboxed has nothing to do with it. You could redirect people to any site with delivered an exploit through some other means. You don't have to exploit through javascript itself for it to be benign. It only has to play a part.

There is a massive difference between being afraid of technology and being afraid of people who don't have "does this properly sanitise?" in their test suite using said technology.
Posted June 09, 2013
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You can do redirects with HTML as well you know. Just... No. Limiting core web technology because someone could abuse it is utterly stupid. That's pretty much the definition of being afraid of technology.
Posted June 09, 2013
Voted for a couple.
Posted June 09, 2013
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Fenixp: You can do redirects with HTML as well you know. Just... No. Limiting core web technology because someone could abuse it is utterly stupid. That's pretty much the definition of being afraid of technology.
Yes you can, if you can get unsanitised HTML into <head>. I don't know of any other way that doesn't require javascript.

Perhaps the wishlist item I linked to has given the wrong impression. I'm for having the site be functional with javascript disabled. It doesn't have to have all javascript removed for everyone. But the site should work without it. I dread to think how the site behaves when you have to use accessibility software..

EDIT: Which reminds me...
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Posted June 09, 2013
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Fenixp: You can do redirects with HTML as well you know. Just... No. Limiting core web technology because someone could abuse it is utterly stupid. That's pretty much the definition of being afraid of technology.
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xyem: Yes you can, if you can get unsanitised HTML into <head>. I don't know of any other way that doesn't require javascript.

Perhaps the wishlist item I linked to has given the wrong impression. I'm for having the site be functional with javascript disabled. It doesn't have to have all javascript removed for everyone. But the site should work without it. I dread to think how the site behaves when you have to use accessibility software..

EDIT: Which reminds me...
http://wave.webaim.org/report#/gog.com

:)
Posted June 09, 2013
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amok: http://wave.webaim.org/report#/gog.com

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That's a great tool. Definitely going to be using that in the future. Thanks!
Posted June 09, 2013
Someone in here either doesn't like strippers or coffee. Must be a communist.
Posted June 09, 2013
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xyem: Perhaps the wishlist item I linked to has given the wrong impression. I'm for having the site be functional with javascript disabled. It doesn't have to have all javascript removed for everyone. But the site should work without it. I dread to think how the site behaves when you have to use accessibility software..
Proper use of JS, that we can agree on. That's not really an issue of GOG tho, that's an issue of half the web sadly.
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