Ladies and gentlemen: 2014 has just started for PPM. And the first action that makes it differ from 2013 was done yesterday, a couple of hours ago.
The main website (not the graveyardmobile one) has been fully recoded, almost from scratch. The look of the site has been minimally changed, but if you ever get the courage of viewing the source code, the difference is absurd there. For the first time ever, I'm proud of PPM's code. I know it is still not perfect, but it is much easier to read, smaller and most of it is properly idented (except for the content generated from the forums, like this news).
The advantages of this change is that PPM should load faster, requires less data to load and it should be simpler to maintain. Likewise the old code, it requires a resolution of 1024x768 or better.
We've tested the site using the latest Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera for desktop. We've als tested it using Internet Explorer 11 and 8. Although the site uses CSS3, it loads correctly on IE8 due to something genuinely awesome called PIE: Progressive Internet Explorer. This thing has saved my life. I've also tested the site with some browsers for Android, such as Google Chrome, Dolphin Browser and Firefox.
The main problem from the site so far is the News Tracker, which may hide some of its information on some browsers under low resolution. It should also not render that fast in Internet Explorer, specially the ones older than 9 that uses PIE. All Android browsers, except for Google Chrome, uses a very low resolution to load the site, which might make some images overlap other elements of the site.
The site might receive some tweaks in the next days in order to sort the News Tracker and the javascript related to show and close elements (it needs two clicks to close them for the first time), but the way it looks like now seems to be very functional and stable. On Opera, it looks better than the previous version.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy and please, report any problems here, so I can try to fix it. I hope it works with Internet Explorer 7 and the one from the Windows Phone, although I don't care if it doesn't work with anything older than IE7. Does anyone uses that yet? If the answer is positive, thereareseveralsolutions to your problem, even if you have restricted access in your machine.
The main website (not the graveyardmobile one) has been fully recoded, almost from scratch. The look of the site has been minimally changed, but if you ever get the courage of viewing the source code, the difference is absurd there. For the first time ever, I'm proud of PPM's code. I know it is still not perfect, but it is much easier to read, smaller and most of it is properly idented (except for the content generated from the forums, like this news).
The advantages of this change is that PPM should load faster, requires less data to load and it should be simpler to maintain. Likewise the old code, it requires a resolution of 1024x768 or better.
We've tested the site using the latest Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera for desktop. We've als tested it using Internet Explorer 11 and 8. Although the site uses CSS3, it loads correctly on IE8 due to something genuinely awesome called PIE: Progressive Internet Explorer. This thing has saved my life. I've also tested the site with some browsers for Android, such as Google Chrome, Dolphin Browser and Firefox.
The main problem from the site so far is the News Tracker, which may hide some of its information on some browsers under low resolution. It should also not render that fast in Internet Explorer, specially the ones older than 9 that uses PIE. All Android browsers, except for Google Chrome, uses a very low resolution to load the site, which might make some images overlap other elements of the site.
The site might receive some tweaks in the next days in order to sort the News Tracker and the javascript related to show and close elements (it needs two clicks to close them for the first time), but the way it looks like now seems to be very functional and stable. On Opera, it looks better than the previous version.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy and please, report any problems here, so I can try to fix it. I hope it works with Internet Explorer 7 and the one from the Windows Phone, although I don't care if it doesn't work with anything older than IE7. Does anyone uses that yet? If the answer is positive, thereareseveralsolutions to your problem, even if you have restricted access in your machine.