Carterlake/AJAX/PHP Template - Color Theme Switcher Plugin

[ALITTLEweird1]

Question on version..In the download file, the version is Version: 1.17  19-Dec-2008

But the changelog.txt file in the download says Version: 1.22  14-Jun-2009


Is the download file up to date with the new changes?

[MCHALLIS]

Yes that is up to date.

This file: include-style-switcher.php rarely changes anymore. The last time it was changed was version 1.17  19-Dec-2008.
In many recent updates, only the css files are updated. Refer to the included changelog.txt, it tells you what changes in each version.

[ALITTLEweird1]

OK..Thanks for clarifying that Mike.

[Objector]

I think I've pinned down the IE7 problem I'm seeing on the wxwuhistory and wxhistory pages to only
the #main-copy CSS statement clear:right;

Am I the only one who has this issue with the new theme switcher CSS and the Saratoga templates?

Can someone explain exactly what is causing this and if there is a fix for it?

I've tried searching and found several past issues that were close to what I'm seeing but not exact.

Thanks

Derek

[MCHALLIS]

Derek,

What is the problem? Please describe it.
Do you have a URL to your page with the problem?

[Objector]

The problem was that as the ajax update of the weather info in the title bar occurred, for some strange reason, the title bar info "mostly" disappeared leaving a "mostly" blank space at the top of those two pages (wxhistory and wxwuhistory). I'm running the Saratoga templates. I sort of fixed it by commenting out the "clear:right;" line in the #main-copy section of all the wide CSS files. Also, it was only happening with the wide themes, not the narrow ones and as far as I can check, only in IE7.

To see what I'm talking about go to either of the two pages below and then change to the "Black Wide" theme. The other themes have the line still commented out.

http://www.daltongeorgiaweather.com/wxwuhistory.php

http://www.daltongeorgiaweather.com/wxhistory.php

For the life of me I haven't been able to figure out what's different on these two pages, other than they end up quite a bit longer than all the others due to the amount of data.

Derek

[MCHALLIS]

The clear:right was put in there to correct a IE7 rendering issue on a MML page.
http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php/topic,39306.0.html

So the clear:right was basically added as a "hack" to fix an issue that only affected IE7.
So one IE7 hack broke something else related to IE7.  

IE8 is out. IE8 has better rendering. IE8 has been pushed on Windows Updates since the beginning of May 2009.
I am going to remove the IE7 hack now.
I will take out the clear:right

Any new issues IE7 rendering (as long as they are not cause by a validation problem) should probably be responded with "upgrade to IE8".

My preference though is for Firefox:
http://www.mikerepairscomputers.com/blog/software/whats-new-in-firefox-3-5/


Version: 1.23  27-Jun-2009
- removed a css hack for IE7 compatibility because it basically caused another IE7 problem.
removed clear:right from main-copy and main-copy-dark
- It is suggested that if you want to use IE, upgrade to IE8, it has many improvements.
To upgrade from vers 1.22: just replace all the css files from this zip file to your server

Download:                  
www.642weather.com/weather/scripts/css-theme-switcher.zip

[Objector]

I agree on Fire Fox being a better choice. Also, I wasn't complaining and hope it didn't come off sounding that way.

Derek

[MCHALLIS]

No problem. I am happy to look into any problem that comes up. 

[aggets]

Hello

I am trying (unsuccessfully) to have some pages narrow and some wide without using the user selector allowthemeswitch I am using the narrow theme for my default but I would like to have some pages use the wide theme automatically when the page loads for when the content is wider than the narrow theme will allow. I tried making a second settings.php file named settings_wide.php set with wide as default with no luck. I do have the wide theme .css file uploaded and page does display wide when I use the theme selector on the menubar. Any ideas

Thanks Andy

[saratogaWX]

The easiest way to force a wide screen for a single page is to add

Code: [Select]

global $SITE;
$SITE['CSSscreen'] = preg_replace('|narrow|i','wide',$SITE['CSSscreen']);
just before the include("top.php") on the page.  It will make that one page using wide aspect and not otherwise disturb the session or cookies for the style selected.

Best regards,
Ken

[aggets]

Perfect Ken thats exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks much Andy