http://xfox.digibase.ca/ Site updates for Tails Fans Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:00:00 EST Copyright 2005, XFox Prower http://www.TailsArchive.net/links/tta2.png http://xfox.digibase.ca/ RSS http://xfox.digibase.ca/rss/ 200604301117 A new filtering option is now available for the RSS Feed. You may add "?show=category" (where category can be a keyword used in this Feed). Category examples so far (subject to change) are Downloads, Games, Plush, Redesign, Reverse Engineering, RSS, and Updates. Case shouldn't matter as you type the category. At this time, you can only specify one category to show. More customization options may be available in the future, such as a way to show multiple categories and exclude others. This will allow you to choose only what you want (or if you don't know what you want, atleast know what you don't want) for your RSS reading. The old RSS Feed still exists as a stand-alone Feed. This new Feed uses PHP to search and handle the filters and reads from the old page. Only the old page needs to be updated for the results to show and be filtered for the new page. The URL for the new page is the same as the old (the index page) except for the variation of filtering with the "show" variable. 30 Apr 2006 23:17:00 EST RSS http://xfox.digibase.ca/rss/ 200604092258 The RSS page now validates with the Feed Validator at W3. Although they say the guid tag is optional in their specs, it gives an error if you don't have it. It seems to be exactly the same as the indecisive validator found at http://feedvalidator.org/ but with loading times that may take all day or dropped requests. I find the guid tags most annoying. They can never have the same value as another, and if you make them as "permalinks", then you can't use the same link twice. I'll probably set them to false most of the time and just dump the date into them to ensure no duplications. This validatorwon't even let me use the lt and gt entities, which are supported internally with XML. 9 Apr 2006 22:58:00 EST Forum http://xfox.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=test&action=display&thread=1142824363 http://xfox.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=test&action=display&thread=1142824363 Personal Text is now displayed in the Battle Cards. It hasn't been tested in all modern browsers, but as long as the CSS overflow property is supported, the cards will show as much of the text as they can without stretching. It took a long time to get the overflow working properly in Mozilla and IE since the properly is ignored in td tags. A div at equal width and height of it's parent tag now represents the panel of the cards and handles the overflow. 19 Mar 2006 22:36:00 EST Forum http://xfox.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=test&action=display&thread=1142209334 http://xfox.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=test&action=display&thread=1142209334 The cookie names used in the Battle Cards have changed. Instead of "Cards", it's now "(Username)_Cards". This allows different forum users sharing the same PC to not share the same preference. Now different users can have mixed preferences without overwriting each others' cookie if you don't have multiple user accounts set up in your browser (Such as user profiles in FireFox). 12 Mar 2006 19:36:00 EST Forum http://xfox.proboards21.com/ 200603051124 A bug was fixed today with the Battle Cards that caused the script to abort when a Guest Post was encountered rather than skipping the Guest Posts as it should have done. Because Guests don't have usernames, the non-existing usernames cannot have child nodes. The script now tests first to make sure child nodes exist. Also, the blank panel area of the Battle Cards will be used for personal quotes. Contact info will remain inside the profile but there won't be room for them inside the Battle Cards. The script now reads the text node for this but doesn't output it. Some restrictions will be placed first in order to prevent the card from stretching beyond its design. Font sizes may have to be made smaller and use a fixed-width font. Some BBCode such as tables and other non-text codes may have to be filtered as well. 5 Mar 2006 11:24:00 EST Reverse Engineering http://xfox.digibase.ca/re/megaman/2/gen/ 200602261149 This was one of my first RE projects and a simple one too, so I wanted to fix this up next. It loses the realtime updating per click due to cache issues. Because form values may be stored per browser session (not reset upon page refresh or upon hitting back and forward buttons), form values would not match the result of the graphical output. There were too many onclick attributes too. Disabled form values would also remain disabled. There's now a Generate button with an accesskey shortcut. New images were also added and the layout was changed a bit. Page was moved to a 'gen/' directory. There's currently no "reset" button for the form because it would involve having to hard-write all initial values back into the output after clearing the old ones, but the page can now be refreshed without any cached values not resetting anyway. Maybe I'll just make a reset button that just refreshes the page, but it doesn't really seem needed. 26 Feb 2006 11:49:00 EST Plush http://xfox.digibase.ca/fan/plush/ 200602191124 After receiving 2 Tails plushie pics where the Tails plushies were playing a DS, I liked the idea and got more Tails Fans to do the same with their Tails plushies. http://xfox.digibase.ca/fan/plush/xfox/ds.jpg http://xfox.digibase.ca/fan/plush/xfox/ds.jpg http://xfox.digibase.ca/fan/plush/tails/ds.jpg http://xfox.digibase.ca/fan/plush/odinsafe/ds.jpg http://xfox.digibase.ca/fan/plush/zack/ds.jpg http://xfox.digibase.ca/fan/plush/samdoll/ds.jpg With all these pics, it would be neat to make a parody of the Nintendo WiFi comercials or make collage of them, but I don't have the photoshop skills to do it myself. 19 Feb 2006 11:24:00 EST RSS http://xfox.digibase.ca/rss/ http://xfox.digibase.ca/rss/ The RSS Page has moved to http://xfox.digibase.ca/rss/. I like an index page more than a static filename. I figured it would be better to change this sooner than later as there are more things in store for the RSS Feed here. 2 Feb 2006 01:05:00 EST Forum http://xfox.proboards21.com 200601221452 When a poster with the profile option set to exlude his posts from transforming posts, the script would skip him. But because of that, the incrementing variable that determined the background-color and the action to change the background-color were also skipped. This is fixed now. You'll have to refresh the page to see the fix as the cards remain cached once loaded, even while the server hosting the script is down. 22 Jan 2006 14:52:00 EST Plush http://xfox.digibase.ca/fan/plush/ 200601201143 Formerly known as the "Plush Page", this area is now called the "Tails Plushie Gallery". It's more than just a page, so the new name fits the popularity the section has gained. I'm not sure if "Fan Stuff" is the best name to keep around either, but it seems to have a better ring than "Fan Area". All 30+ Tails plushie galleries had to be updated manually for this change. I should make some sort of PHP footer include that automatically generates a bulletless unordered list based on what page you're on since they all link back to the parent pages, up to the root of the site. 20 Jan 2006 11:43:00 EST Redesign http://xfox.digibase.ca/ 200601202328 Progress of the XHTML conversion will be displayed here. Until further support is found and info is known, the javascript games will likely not change. This is because XHTML restricts certain legacy javascript functions. While I intend to make these pages also fully compliant, no browser out as of now enforces all of the new rules. COMPLETE: /board/*.*, /css/*.*, /download/*.*, /fan/*.*, /gamedata/., /games/., /games/slide/., /gui/*.*. /links/*.*, /php/*.*, /re/. /re/ta/psobb/*.* /re/ta/. /re/ta/gen/*.* /rss/*.*, /updates/*.* REMAINS: /gamedata/*.*, /games/*.*, /re/*.*, /web/*.*. 20 Jan 2006 23:28:00 EST Games http://xfox.digibase.ca/games/ 200512041931 A new Tails Sliding puzzle was made. It's served as application/xhtml+xml instead of text/html, so many script changes had to be made. The scripts now use the mimetype application/x-javascript. Most of the script is loaded externally. Only a little internal javascript is used for puzzle-specific variables. The main script will be shared in the future. The document.write() method is no longer used as it doesn't work with true XHTML. The proprietary IE-only innerHTML property is no longer used either. They are replaced with document.createElement() and document.createTextNode(). The document.images collection array is no longer used as it was dropped from the DOM. This was replaced with childNodes[] of the parent links for each swap. The scripts no longer use window[] to create variable names from loops in the preloading. Instead, an array was created that increments. This should be more efficient since it's all contained in the array rather than several fragmented variables. The empty square was renamed from c2.gif to 23.gif. 23.gif was the piece that was cut from the puzzle. The old script previously preloaded this unused image and had to go out of its way to preload the c2.gif as it was of a different file name pattern. By using the original numbered name, the check function can follow a simpler pattern. The preview button had to be removed since the target attribute is not in XHTML 1.1. Also, because window.write() is removed just like document.write(), it wouldn't be possible. I also can't find anything about the config options to remove the address bar, status bar, etc in the DOM. I would make a normal link to the preview picture, but because it would have to display in the same window, it would ruin the state of the sliding puzzle. This has been tested and works perfect in Mozilla and FireFox. It fails miserably in IE, even when serving as text/html and with text/javascript for the javascript for some reason. I'm no compiled language programmer, but it would be neat if I could make a homebrew DS cart and add touch screen features to this ^_^. 04 Dec 2005 19:31:00 EST RSS http://xfox.digibase.ca/rss/rss.php 200511201700 The XSL stylesheet for this page has changed. The colors didn't mix on the last one. The current stylesheet is a bit plain now though. Only Browsers rendering the page as XML will see the differences. For RSS viewers, the page will view with the layouts the reader uses. More PHP may be added in to filter results by different sorting methods and filters, such as dates and categories. 20 Nov 2005 17:00:00 EST Forum http://xfox.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=test 200510241321 The Battle Card option in user profiles now works. By choosing "yes", it creates a cookie with a expiration time of about 3 years. Choosing "no" will expire the cookie immediately. The cookie is read when the profile page is viewed in order to have the current option preselected. This took some debugging for others to test in order for there to be an Opera workaround, which needed a defaultSelected proprty set to true rather than just selected. So far this still works in IE, FireFox, and Opera. Safari is yet to be tested, and as always, untested on Netscape (if you are or know a Netscape user, let me know). 24 Oct 2005 13:21:00 EDT Forum http://xfox.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=test 200510170054 The Battle Card tables hidden and used for cloning has moved from the global headers and into the individual forum headers. Though they'll have to be entered manually, they won't be appearing in areas that don't need them, such as profiles and the PM pages. This will keep page sizes and unneed script processing down. Headers (Board-specific) have been configured to be loaded before the title bar (welcome / PM box). This allows the scripts to determine if they are needed for that page, and if so, load the external stylesheets and additional scripts earlier on, resulting in a cleaner page transformation after being cached. The hidden tables will also be loaded there. Because the forum separates the global and board headers with a line break, the scripts had to be updated to search an additional sibling forward in the DOM for locating the thread table. All Battle Card images have moved to the gfx directory to better organize the files. The CSS file has been updated for that change. An array of different skins based on other Sonic Battle characters may be available in the future, but if so, only to the customs of the viewer and not on a per-user preference. A Tails theme takes priority. A new option in the preferences exist to enable the Battle Cards in user profiles, but it doesn't do anything yet since I don't know how to use cookies in javascript yet. But they even look like the other "yes / no" options that exist for enabling or disabling signatures. IE couldn't handle a simple setAttribute() with onclick, but luckily there was a workaround while still sticking to the standard DOM. 17 Oct 2005 00:54:00 EST Forum http://xfox.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=test http://xfox.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=test&action=display&thread=1128059058 Various things have been improved and fixed. The major problem with compatibility was that I was replacing a td tag with a div. After wrapping the div inside a new td tag prior to the replacement, compatibility with all browsers I've tested were successful (tested on the latest versions of FireFox, Mozilla, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer). Only a few problems were encountered, which was a cache error in IE. It complains about "object expected" on a random line (sometimes a line that's just ordinary HTML), but disappears when the page finishes downloading all its content and then is refreshed. That's the reason why the script is loaded externally and inserted at the end of the body tag, not to be called until the rest of the page is finished loading. There may be a workaround in the future, but I'm currently satisfied with the compatibility with all other browsers. This issue may be revisited in the future after the rest of the features are done. 3 Oct 2005 23:48 EST Personal http://xfox.digibase.ca/ 200509182315 I wasn't able to update the site at all last week due to my PC being down. The motherboard I ordered was faulty. The old motherboard wouldn't work either, but I didn't bother giving it a try with it being inside the case. Unable to determine the problem anytime fast, I got an HP Media Center PC. I'm impressed with it as far as hardware goes. It has an Athlon 64 3400+, 512mb DDR400 RAM, and a 200gb SATA hard drive, It's quiet and even has a PCI-Express x16 slot. Only problem is how awful HP's service is. They no longer provide system restore CDs, nor is there even a Windows CD included. They store everything on some "protected" (yet explorable) partition of the hard drive and expect you to burn the CDs / DVDs yourself with a program they made. And that doesn't even work. They burn the DVDs but for file verification, it doesn't continue. In 12 hours, it reached 2%. All their service has to say is that their DVD drive (Light Scribe) doesn't work with Memorex, TDK, and many other brands. If I can find an ISO for Windows Media Center, I'll be fine (which would be legal since HP surprisingly did include a COA on the case. They just don't satisfy the rest of Microsoft's OEM System Builder support contract). All files have been transferred from my old hard drive with a USB enclosure. I plan on rebuilding the old PC and switching to Socket 939 instead of 754 and PCI-Express x16 instead of AGP. This system will be a stepping stone for me to migrate to that. I miss being able to watch and record things on TV, so I'll get another ATI All In Wonder card or any other high-end brand and model capable of doing that. I might also save up for an Athlon 64 FX-57 processor too. The old PC will be rebuilt better than ever. 18 Sep 2005 23:15:00 EST Forum http://xfox.proboards21.com 200509052049 The Battle Cards addon for Tails Archive Message Board has been making progress. Username, posts, avatar, and online status are all able to be read by the script. The next phase is to implement a way for the script to replace the existing table with the Battle Card template formatting. The script will not use proprietary javascript properties or methods, such as innerHTML. Everything will be read and written using the DOM. As long as this works in FireFox and standard browsers, I'll be satisfied. But so far, Internet Explorer hasn't encountered any critical errors that prevent it from getting the same results that FireFox gets. I won't complain. But if worse comes to worse and IE can't keep up, I won't be making an additional script to load into the page just for IE, doubling script size. But I would make the script stop running if IE is detected if that's how it wants to play. Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:49:00 EST Redesign http://xfox.digibase.ca/download/ 200509052000 The PHP includes have been updated again. For the XHTML capable browsers, external CSS will be loaded using the ?xml-stylesheet? processing instruction. For the other browser, the link tag will be used instead. This means that internal stylesheets will have to be moved to an external CSS file. This will give the XML rendering the advantage of keeping structure in the page and keeping CDATA sections such as style outside and cached individually. Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:00:00 EDT Downloads http://xfox.digibase.ca/download/ 200507142353 The PNG images used for the Gamecube Save files on the Downloads Page have now been optimized with PNGOut. For most of the images, there has been no change. But a few of them have been reduced to 94% to 98% of their previous size, which was compressed with PNG Crush. Other areas of the site will have their images optimized as well in the future. Sun, 14 Jul 2005 23:53:00 EDT Updates http://xfox.digibase.ca/updates/ http://xfox.digibase.ca/updates/ After converting all the Old Updates pages to XHTML 1.0 Basic in the past few weeks, I discovered that Basic "must not" be served as text/html. I didn't want to lose all the work I put into this, and I didn't want to lose over half of the site visitor's by jumping up to the true XHTML mime-type (As far as I've been able to test, IE 7 and under is the only browser still around that is incapable of rendering XHTML. Mozilla, FireFox, and Safari work; Netscape and Opera are untested. I created a PHP include that will send the pages as application/xhtml+xml for browsers that support it and text/html for IE or any other browser that may not recognzie XHTML. The Updates Page have also moved into their own "updates" directory. All pages also have a link to the current year's updates in their navigation now. Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:35:00 EDT Downloads http://xfox.digibase.ca 200507102346 A Tails skin for FireFox is in progress. So far the install files and packaging is working and stable, but the skin makes no changes from the default. The next step involves changing images, colors, and other style properties. All Tails Fans are welcome to contribute to this project. We need navigation icons in 32x32 and 24x24. Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:46 EDT Forum http://xfox.proboards21.com 200506261200 Due to the high volume of spam created by Tails haters that dedicate their lives to making Tails Fans sad, we made DigiTails an admin in order to help fight the spam. Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:00:00 EDT Reverse Engineering http://xfox.digibase.ca/re/psobb/psobbsid.htm http://xfox.digibase.ca/re/psobb/psobbsid.htm Reverse Engineering Page. I created the first and only one available Section ID Generator for Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst. Many players have shown their thanks for this project. The newest feature adds backwards compatibility with the older PSO games. It also allows you to calculate the IDs of NPC character like KIREEK. A help file has also been added. For help and feature requests, register at The Tails Archive Message Board (http://xfox.proboards21.com) Sun, 19 Jun 2005 18:54:00 EDT Downloads http://xfox.digibase.ca/download/theme/oemlogo.png 200506191852 Downloads Page. The Windows 2K / XP OEM Logo theme screenshot has been updated again with my the latest specs of my PC (Athlon 64 3000+, 2gb RAM). Instructions and support now exist in the theme download. Thu, 19 Jun 2005 18:52:00 EDT Updates http://xfox.digibase.ca/updates.htm 200506191848 The 2005 and 2002 Updates Pages have been changed from XHTML 1.1 to XHTML Basic 1.0. This is intended for stronger support with mobile devices. Sun, 19 Jun 2005 18:48:00 EDT RSS http://xfox.digibase.ca/ta.rss 200506122001 Main Page. The Tails Archive now has an RSS Feed. I'm still pretty new to it, so feel free to recommend a few clients or plugins. I don't know what RDF and other things are either, but I'm going to keep everything here fully valid with what I do know. Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:01:00 EDT Redesign http://xfox.digibase.ca/archive.png 200506122000 Main Page. A new banner now replaces the old one on the main page (both made by GuessWho). Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:00:00 EDT