New website for Coccinella, an instant messaging client with a whiteboard
dfgfdgdfgdfg - May 1, 2007 - 20:46
We use Drupal 5.1 for Coccinella's new website. Coccinella is a Jabber/XMPP-based instant messaging client with useful features like a whiteboard. The new website is located at http://thecoccinella.org/ and http://coccinella.im/
The reason we chose Drupal was because it provides nearly everything we need, though we would love to see next features:
- Better Jabber/XMPP integration -- Well, we are a Jabber project, and so we would like to promote Jabber even more by using it everywhere possible. E.g., as a moderator it would be nice to receive every new reply via Jabber together with an in-message form (a so called x:data form) with the question "Is this spam?" and the options "yes, remove this reply" and "no, keep this reply". Note that Maxim Khitrov, the guy working on a related SoC project, may always contact us for feedback, questions, beta testing,...
- Internationalization -- Look at Gallery 2 for a good example of a PHP project with support for multiple languages; it just shows the language verion reported by the browser, and not only for the interface strings, but also it shows the translated content (if available). So, we are waiting for Drupal 6, and we'll hope it is at least as good as Gallery 2's i18n support.
- Less W3C bugs -- Some hint: replace identifiers with classes as they give problems if you use some modules at the same time. We also don't care about Internet Explorer compatibility, W3C compatibility i enough. In fact, Firefox loving people will be happy to hear that so far, for the last week, 62.79% of our visitors are using Firefox, 14.38% Safari, and only 10.27% Internet Explorer (and the number for Firefox is increasing!).
- Even more polishing, especially in the (unstable) modules
So, keep up the good work!
Much too wide
A lot of the content spills over even at reasonable browser widths. Remember that not everyone maximizes windows these days. There's also a weird random horizontal line at the top.
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What do you mean by a weird
What do you mean by a weird random horizontal line at the top?
I know about the other bug. But I've no idea how to fix it, that's why there is an open job for tuning the Drupal theme. So, if you want to volunteer, you're welcome. What it should do intead of overlapping, is showing a scroll bar. At least, I definitely want to stay with the magical number 3 in the design of the website, and so I can't remove the right column (which fixes the overlapping problem).
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"What do you mean by a weird random horizontal line at the top?"
it's a css issue.
a line appears above < table >
commenting out/removing:
table {border-collapse:collapse;
}
fixes it, however I don't know if that will mess up something else in garland.
XMPP module
You may know this already by now but Maxim Khitrov's XMPP API module is available at http://drupal.org/project/xmpp
Yes I already knew about
Yes I already knew about this module, thx, I will test it in September. Maybe I can add some XMPP features to the website before the new Coccinella release at the end of September B-)
wow
I'm impressed with this.
the site I'm working with is just talking about implementing a jabber project of its own, to expand the community we have on our site. This is very similar to what we've been discussing.
I'm going to show the other dev's on our site this thread, and hopefully we can implement something similar.
Any resources you could share on where to get started would be appreciated, and I've just downloaded and started looking at the xmpp module.
thx Can you contact me about
thx
Can you contact me about this? I'm the Dutch speaking webmaster (see people page).