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Corkboard app, all in HTML/CSS/Javascript

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Re: Corkboard app, all in HTML/CSS/Javascript

#61

Doesn't work with some character sets. I just entered: これは、いくつかの日本です Then went away and came back, and all the characters had turned to question marks.

That's strange, Japanese input worked for me. (Chrome / Japanese Win7) Maybe they fixed it?

Nevermind, you can write, just not save. I assume they're using a latin-based field in their DB...

Re: Corkboard app, all in HTML/CSS/Javascript

#62

Doesn't work with some character sets. I just entered: これは、いくつかの日本です Then went away and came back, and all the characters had turned to question marks.

That's strange, Japanese input worked for me. (Chrome / Japanese Win7) Maybe they fixed it?

Do you know if your input method produces unicode? That could be the difference.

Re: Corkboard app, all in HTML/CSS/Javascript

#63
post #38

This thing would be great for story-boarding if it supported images and other media types. IFrame would be cool to be able to bring in external content into one of the notes. With a few more features, you got yourself a winner here. Making the controls contextual to the note could keep it simple. Let me know if you do decide to add other media types, I would be an avid user.

It does support images. Paste an image url into a new note, then hit return. For example: http://corkboard.me/mTJPwxMRha

Re: Corkboard app, all in HTML/CSS/Javascript

#64

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Thanks! Noted. For the image url, are you pressing enter after pasting your URL? Let me know if that doesn't work, and if not, we'll drill down into why it's not working for you (def want to fix it if it isn't).

doesn't matter if i press enter or not.

png and jpg are now working :)

Re: Corkboard app, all in HTML/CSS/Javascript

#65

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That's strange, Japanese input worked for me. (Chrome / Japanese Win7) Maybe they fixed it?

Nevermind, you can write, just not save. I assume they're using a latin-based field in their DB...

That could be the case. I often don't notice encoding issues until my colleagues complain their entries in Japanese are messed up.

Re: Corkboard app, all in HTML/CSS/Javascript

#66

Doesn't work with some character sets. I just entered: これは、いくつかの日本です Then went away and came back, and all the characters had turned to question marks.

I think you mean, "いくつかの日本語"... :)

It still doesn't make much sense, but I don't want to start Japanese lessons here...

Anyhow, some DBMS default the character encoding to ASCII (or ISO8859), not UTF, and Western developers often don't care.

Re: Corkboard app, all in HTML/CSS/Javascript

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post #65

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Nevermind, you can write, just not save. I assume they're using a latin-based field in their DB...

That could be the case. I often don't notice encoding issues until my colleagues complain their entries in Japanese are messed up.

This is one of the first things I test when I find a site like this. Most web developers don't seem to take into consideration things like character sets and encoding, yet they are so important.

Re: Corkboard app, all in HTML/CSS/Javascript

#68
post #66

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I think you mean, "いくつかの日本語"... :)

It still doesn't make much sense, but I don't want to start Japanese lessons here... Anyhow, some DBMS default the character encoding to ASCII (or ISO8859), not UTF, and Western developers often don't care.

I don't speak Japanese, I just went to translate.google.com and entered some text to get a sample. I can't even remember what I entered.

Re: Corkboard app, all in HTML/CSS/Javascript

#69
post #9

Very cool! I need some more colors and other type of post-it (photos?) though before I seriously consider using it...

If you paste an image URL into a note it shows the image

Works for me in Firefox 3.6.12 - I have noticed that you seem to need to add a return after the image URL though.

Re: Corkboard app, all in HTML/CSS/Javascript

#70
post #45

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The zoom in my browser seems to work fine.

for me (ffox 3.5.15 on mac) it zooms the text but not the images, I would expect it to shrink/expand the images as well so you could see more at once.

Do you have View->Zoom->Zoom Text Only enabled?

(OT: you are using an out of date version of ff, latest is 3.6.12)

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