April 21, 2004

Hi ho! Hi ho!

  • In at 15:00
  • Got a response back on the missing borders. Turns out a:visited doesn't inherit from a:link. So I need to group most of their styles together and only change the text color in a seperate style entry
  • No answer on the NS4 color issue. Bumped the thread and asked for a pointer to page that spells out NS4 color issues
  • Dad requested a customer page color of e0e0e0. I still prefer the blue tinge
  • It appears that Locked Area no longer allows logging in via an html form. They were using the "hidden" username/password in the url method. That's relatively insecure, so most browsers don't allow that, anymore. I might come back to this if we decide we can live with the popup box
  • MojoProtector seems okay. But they never responded to my inquiry sent 8 days ago. Also, I have to admit, it bothers me a little that English is clearly not their first language. That shouldn't affect the quality of the code, but it just feels a little rough around the edges.
  • AdPass looks professional. Sent a question to see if their custom fields can be hidden
  • RegisterMe is also nice looking. Sent the same question
  • PHPAuth on sf.net is just the bare bones, no UI on top of it
  • WebWorkzWare doesn't have custom fields
  • Oops, just noticed the link colors are all screwed up on customer pages.
  • Also, somehow some of the menu buttons got shifted a pixel over and down
  • Turns out the links for everything was using the border and background directives from the menuing styles. Added some "none" directives to turn those off.
  • Wow, this is bizarre. The answer I got back from the AdPass guys:

    - You can very well hide any of the fields from your users.

    - Concerning accessing the database from your own scripts we cannot and will not comment on, as it is against copyright laws. Whether you can find a way to do this on your own is your own choice.


    Huh? How does copyright apply at all? First, who owns the copyright? Second, if the data is just sitting in a database, that's all they have to say. That's not a copyright violation. Third, who would release a product like this and then be upset if I cribbed a few lines of code to make the product actually useful on the site it's legally licensed for?


  • Sent a followup message trying to clarify. Because I just don't get it.

Posted by Mighty at April 21, 2004 03:23 PM