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 Fancy SA Forums is an extension for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox that reskins the SA Forums to be more pleasant, readable, and modern. It's generally styled after the current front page design. It looks like this:     Downloads Chrome Safari (warning: does not auto-update) Firefox* * Note for anyone on Firefox: Fancy SA 0.2 is working through Mozilla Addons approval, which is Balls Slow. If you have a previous version, it will eventually auto-update, but you may want to go ahead and install the new one from the link above. Even if you use that link, when newer versions come out on Mozilla Addons, it will still auto-update. Contributors Me (Chrome/Safari maintainer) Kapinga (Firefox maintainer) SneakingMission (many, many fixes for YOSPOS and more) New in v0.2
Code on Github https://github.com/thomasboyt/Fancy-SA-Forums (Safari and Chrome) https://github.com/kapinga/Fancy-SA-Forums-Firefox (Firefox) abraham linksys fucked around with this message at Jul 1, 2012 around 05:45 |
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ASK ME ABOUT GETTING REAL MAD IN A SECRET SANTA FOR RECEIVING THE EXACT GAG PRESENT I ASKED FOR AND THEN DOING A COMPLETE U-TURN WHEN I REALISED IT WASN'T EVEN THE ENTIRE PRESENT 
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| # ? May 26, 2013 05:38 |
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Anal Tributary posted:Firefox* Woot, this finally went live! I'm not currently aware of any bugs in the Firefox version, so please post here or PM me if you run into issues with it. If you were using the Firefox extension before, this is a new update even from the versions I've posted elsewhere on the forums/Mozilla Addons, so make sure it click the link. The version that's currently up on Mozilla addons was updated for Choochacacko's upgrades, but has some inadvertent bugs as well. Also note that the big header image at the top of each page can now be hidden - click on the "toggle header" link in the top right. Once you've hidden the header, it should stay hidden across restarts and upgrades.
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| # ? Jun 29, 2012 23:01 |
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Stupid question, but can you change the width of the forums? I don't like them so narrow as it causes the thread titles to wrap.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2012 09:37 |
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spog posted:Stupid question, but can you change the width of the forums? I don't like them so narrow as it causes the thread titles to wrap. Same question, I have a fairly wide monitor and I'd like to make it a bit wider so more of the space is being used.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2012 09:40 |
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^What those two said^ I'm getting some sort of issue with the forum width not adapting to monitor size and giving me giant gray borders. on FF14, it's sticking at ~1000px wide on both 1280 and 1920 monitors. Every addon except for fancySA disabled.  
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| # ? Jun 30, 2012 09:47 |
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... Yes, it's a fixed-width reskin. That's the whole point. It makes text less fatiguing to read because it reduces the amount your eyes have to waggle back and forth. It also makes paragraphs more obviously paragraph-like by not spreading them out on two wide lines on a high-res screen. If your larger monitors at arm's length and laptop screens nearby are giving you different amounts of eye-waggle, you can always play with window zoom until you're sweeping the same arc on each computer. The title wrap thing is a credible concern, but don't confuse "Maybe it could be just a bit wider" with "Hey, this should be arbitrarily resizable!" On the issue of title wraps, though, I'm not seeing that even on the longest thread title I can find. Do you have text-only zooming enabled? That'd break any layout. E: Oh, I see it on a single GBS thread with a super-long title if I enable the Compact Mode toggle at the header. Factory Factory fucked around with this message at Jun 30, 2012 around 09:59 |
| # ? Jun 30, 2012 09:54 |
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This is great, and I've been using it in both Chrome and Firefox for a while, but I have a couple of suggestions: 1.) Having a linebreak between the bookmark star and the thread tag doesn't look all that great. The version I have set up in Firefox uses a single line for both (I'm not sure if this is part of that version or some sort of accidental tweak on my end) and it looks a lot better.  Is there any chance of making this how it looks in Chrome? 2.) You mentioned that a YOSPOS stylesheet selector is coming. Will this just be between Green and Amber, or do you plan on adding support for the other styles in the YOSPOS Terminal Switcher? The two extensions simply don't get along at all, and it'd be nice to have MacinYOS going. This might be beyond the scope of this extension, though... 3.) This is Firefox specific, so this is for Kapinga: The YOSPOS stuff seems to have broken horribly with whatever was done to add the "NICE!" buttons. It doesn't seem to be applying the sheet correctly, at any rate:  I'm not sure if this is something specific to my configuration or not, but it still happens once SALR is disabled so it's not that. Not sure if it's worth fixing considering how shortlived that joke will be, but it's probably worth keeping in mind.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2012 12:05 |
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I don't know why I haven't been using this before today. This is such a better way to read about GILF-catching.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2012 13:37 |
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Love this extension, glad to see it's being kept up to date. Great work OP and friends!
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| # ? Jun 30, 2012 14:23 |
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Any chance the header can be fixed for users with Platinum? The Private Messages link causes it to spill over, like this:
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| # ? Jun 30, 2012 15:55 |
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Thanks for the comments, it's always surprising what breaks when other people start using it.The Kins posted:This is great, and I've been using it in both Chrome and Firefox for a while, but I have a couple of suggestions: quote:2.) You mentioned that a YOSPOS stylesheet selector is coming. Will this just be between Green and Amber, or do you plan on adding support for the other styles in the YOSPOS Terminal Switcher? The two extensions simply don't get along at all, and it'd be nice to have MacinYOS going. This might be beyond the scope of this extension, though... quote:3.) This is Firefox specific, so this is for Kapinga: The YOSPOS stuff seems to have broken horribly with whatever was done to add the "NICE!" buttons. It doesn't seem to be applying the sheet correctly, at any rate: Yes indeed, I think I know the problem. I wonder when that broke - it was fine when I made the extension Tuesday. I'll post a fix in a few minutes. Hate to restart my position in the AMO queue, but oh well. Thissa posted:Any chance the header can be fixed for users with Platinum? The Private Messages link causes it to spill over, like this: Which version are you using? Anal Volcano and I both have plat, but this isn't how the top bar looks at all for me. Do you have any extra extensions running/extra options that display more than the default navigation options. The extension is generally expecting the following items in the navigation bar: SA Forums - Search the Forums - User Control Panel - Private Messages - Forum Rules - SAclopedia - Posting Gloryhole - Leper's Colony - Support - Log Out
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| # ? Jun 30, 2012 16:39 |
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kapinga posted:Which version are you using? Anal Volcano and I both have plat, but this isn't how the top bar looks at all for me. Ahh, that fixes it. So I have SALR for Chrome installed, and by un-checking the "Display Configure SALR in forum menu" option, everything works as normal. When Fancy SA Forums is installed, that option instead toggles the "Private Messages" link for some reason (the "Configure SALR" never shows regardless of the checkbox - also SAClopedia stops showing up). Thanks!
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| # ? Jun 30, 2012 16:52 |
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kapinga posted:Have you tried the "compact view" toggle in the top right? This puts the star and the icon on the same line. It should look like the samples in this Imgur. If it doesn't something's broken and I'll need some more info about what you're doing.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2012 16:55 |
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YOSPOS fix posted, you can use the link in the OP or use this one, which should always point to the latest version. Anal Tributary, if you can, please update the OP to the above link. It's no big rush, but it will be easier to maintain this way. Also, to clarify, this is a fixed width style for SA. If you don't want that, you probably don't want to use this extension. Factory Factory is basically correct. Restyling things to prevent excess line breaks could be in the cards, maybe, but it will be almost impossible to guarantee that no thread titles ever had to wrap around. About the only page this is a concern on is the UserCP. Short of getting rid of the buddy list, though, I'm not sure how to fix that.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2012 16:56 |
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Thissa posted:Ahh, that fixes it. So I have SALR for Chrome installed, and by un-checking the "Display Configure SALR in forum menu" option, everything works as normal. When Fancy SA Forums is installed, that option instead toggles the "Private Messages" link for some reason (the "Configure SALR" never shows regardless of the checkbox - also SAClopedia stops showing up). Thanks! Yeah, this is done a little hackishly right now, and we're just making the entries appear or disappear by counting what order they're in. In future versions, we should check for additional entries and get rid of or move them.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2012 17:02 |
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kapinga posted:Have you tried the "compact view" toggle in the top right? This puts the star and the icon on the same line. It should look like the samples in this Imgur. If it doesn't something's broken and I'll need some more info about what you're doing. I'm not seeing the option for switch to compact view, I just have toggle header and nothing else. I'm using Firefox with just this and the adblock add-on.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2012 21:25 |
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CFox posted:I'm not seeing the option for switch to compact view, I just have toggle header and nothing else. I'm using Firefox with just this and the adblock add-on. It only shows up in the thread listings, not on other pages (as in within SH/SC, for example, but not this thread and not the main forums listing). If it's still not there, make sure you've installed the version linked on this page (no restart required, just run it again). If that fails, can you post a screenshot?
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| # ? Jun 30, 2012 21:30 |
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That was it I just wasn't looking in the right place. Thanks for this it looks really great.
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| # ? Jun 30, 2012 23:01 |
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The Kins posted:This is great, and I've been using it in both Chrome and Firefox for a while, but I have a couple of suggestions: quote:2.) You mentioned that a YOSPOS stylesheet selector is coming. Will this just be between Green and Amber, or do you plan on adding support for the other styles in the YOSPOS Terminal Switcher? The two extensions simply don't get along at all, and it'd be nice to have MacinYOS going. This might be beyond the scope of this extension, though... So, I'd like to do this, but the issue is that (a) I need to do some loving around with MacinYOS and AmigaYOS (or whatever it's called) to make them work with the Fancy SA Forums elements and (b) I'd need to implement a YOSPOS style switcher. But that is basically what I was going to do next, so whatevs. kapinga posted:YOSPOS fix posted, you can use the link in the OP or use this one, which should always point to the latest version. Done  And yeah, re: fixed width comments: that's kinda what the thread title is a joke about, because yes, that's always been kind of the divisive bit about the style. Basically, I wanted to maximize readability, and that means fixing the number of words per line. I'll be the first to admit there's more elegant ways to do it (that like 99% of sites do, of course), but with SA's table-based layout and this being a userscript, there wasn't much I could do without a complete redesign.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 05:50 |
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This is a great extension, and it makes the forums a lot easier to read! One minor thing though; is it possible to show how many new posts there are on a thread since I last read it in the User control panel? Maybe in the thread listings too but that's not hugely important. It's not a big deal at all. I just like to know how many new replies there are in a thread.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 07:09 |
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infinite99 posted:This is a great extension, and it makes the forums a lot easier to read! One minor thing though; is it possible to show how many new posts there are on a thread since I last read it in the User control panel? Maybe in the thread listings too but that's not hugely important. These should all be there, we're not messing with the default forums interface for new post counts at all. If you're using SALR to move the new post count elsewhere, my only suggestion for this version is to turn that off and let the default forums display do its thing. Of course, you also will need the "Show an icon next to each post indicating if it has been seen or not" option set to yes in the SA options.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 15:27 |
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This is really nice, good work! Is it possible to make images expand so they are more centered when clicked? Currently in firefox they look like this  When i click a large picture like the screenshot i included it is pretty much half off of my screen to the right.
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| # ? Jul 1, 2012 17:05 |
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lovely Treat posted:This is really nice, good work! Yeah, that's not right. Looks like it's the nature of the timg link that I didn't test. Clicking the majority of the image will resize it to say within the tables, but clicking on the blue overlay will cause the breakout you're seeing. Let me see if there's something I can hack over the standard timg code. Normal (non-timg'ed) images that break tables are linked out to a separate tab... not sure if that will be feasible here or not. E: Doing a quick test of this behavior in chrome, it appears the only difference is that, in Chrome, the whole post will break out of the content box, rather than just the image. Everything is still off to the right, which I don't think I can really avoid unless the image is not made full size. I'm still looking into changing the timg overlay to link to a separate tab. This may be a longer term bug to fix however. kapinga fucked around with this message at Jul 1, 2012 around 18:16 |
| # ? Jul 1, 2012 18:03 |
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Hmmm this was posted in a thread with timg and its already broken the table before you click it. Also something broke with avatars/custom title panel it seems. Firefox with fancysa  Chrome with no fancysa 
Shitty Treat fucked around with this message at Jul 1, 2012 around 20:27 |
| # ? Jul 1, 2012 19:58 |
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Bug report: That's the "Browse all ads" page. Chrome 20.0.1132.47 m (stable) FSAF 0.20 Also using SALR
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| # ? Jul 2, 2012 00:46 |
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I'm torn; the fixed-width is perfect for my portrait monitor, but is a horrible waste of space on my 30" primary. #firstworldproblems I think I'll install it on Firefox only, seeing as that's the only browser I keep maximised on the portrait monitor, but it looks good either way guys! e: oh god, I hadn't started Firefox in like a month and it was on esr updates/version 10 
movax fucked around with this message at Jul 2, 2012 around 00:57 |
| # ? Jul 2, 2012 00:48 |
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lovely Treat posted:Hmmm this was posted in a thread with timg and its already broken the table before you click it. I'm not sure that first image was actually timg'ed, there's no green border. Still it should be getting resized down to fit the forum width. This would show up as a yellow border around the image. I'm also not able to recreate those issues with "a lada bad posts" avatar and custom title. It renders exactly the same way as your Chrome screenshot:  Do you have any other SA or image related addons installed? I feel like there must be something conflicting here. Factory Factory posted:Bug report: Noted, it's happening for me as well on FF.
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| # ? Jul 2, 2012 03:33 |
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kapinga posted:I'm also not able to recreate those issues with "a lada bad posts" avatar and custom title. It renders exactly the same way as your Chrome screenshot: Seemed to be SALR's shrink large custom titles feature which is making that av and title look funny. Has no effect when its only SALR or fancysa. The other image still breaks the tables even with SALR disabled. Shitty Treat fucked around with this message at Jul 2, 2012 around 09:20 |
| # ? Jul 2, 2012 09:17 |
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lovely Treat posted:Seemed to be SALR's shrink large custom titles feature which is making that av and title look funny. I guess I will need to install SALR and check how they're doing that title resize. It's weird, because we don't do anything at all to the user info/custom title box, so I'm not sure why there'd be any problems with it. Can you PM/email/post (e-mail's in the profile) details about your Firefox version and addons/greasemonkey scripts you might be running? The script is clearly crashing on something, which is causing the table-unbreaker function not to run. Sorry you're having so many issues. Edit: you can go to about :support to get a list of all the relevant details. There's even a handy button to copy all of it to the clipboard, although I'd suggest you send that via PM or email. kapinga fucked around with this message at Jul 2, 2012 around 14:59 |
| # ? Jul 2, 2012 14:55 |
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In safari on User Control Panel, every time you hit edit bookmarks it adds another minus image. I imagine this should probably be more like a toggle?
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| # ? Jul 2, 2012 18:42 |
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mike- posted:In safari on User Control Panel, every time you hit edit bookmarks it adds another minus image. I imagine this should probably be more like a toggle? Looks like this is supposed to be a one-time event: if you turn FancySA off and try it, the minus buttons appear and then the "edit bookmarks" button disappears. You have no way of toggling the minuses back off without reloading the page. I'll check into where we're overriding that, it should be fixable in the next release.
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| # ? Jul 3, 2012 13:32 |
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Thanks for the hard work I love these extensions
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| # ? Jul 5, 2012 03:43 |
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This happened in the firefox version today. I disabled SALR and other addons to check if it was them but it still did it. Link to post so you can see if it does it too. http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...4#post405317592
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| # ? Jul 6, 2012 19:44 |
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lovely Treat posted:This happened in the firefox version today. Thanks a ton lovely Treat for your bug reports. I've reworked how tables are unbroken, so issues with large images breaking tables and text overflows should be fixed. Firefox update. This is the same link as is posted elsewhere on the page. Proper behavior at this point: *Large images are resized down to fit the table, wrapped in a yellow border, which will pop the image out in a separate tab. *Clicking on the body of a timg will resize it to fit the table without breaking it *Clicking on the blue box of a timg will expand it to full size, breaking the tables *Text and other content that is too wide will break the table In both cases, "break the table" means that the post body will expand outside of the background column. Nothing should escape out of the post body (like happened in the quoted image). Screenshots:     Also, version 0.2.0 (the original release) has finally passed AMO review. Don't install it. I'm preparing this version to be reviewed shortly. Thanks everyone who have reported problems! kapinga fucked around with this message at Jul 8, 2012 around 18:18 |
| # ? Jul 8, 2012 18:07 |
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Yay thanks for the fixes!
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| # ? Jul 8, 2012 19:03 |
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Still getting some table breaking it seems. Wont link a screenshot as its got a semi naked lady and maybe  for some.http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...124&forumid=179 Is it the quote breaking it and falls into the *Text and other content that is too wide will break the table disclaimer or something else?
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| # ? Jul 8, 2012 22:54 |
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lovely Treat posted:Still getting some table breaking it seems. Nope, it's because the image was an attachment, which I forgot people actually use. They're identified a little differently, and so fell under "something else". Getting the image to be resized is easy, but right now the link doesn't work - you have no way of seeing the full size image. This is a problem Chrome (and I assume Safari) has as well, so getting that fixed is a less urgent matter right at the moment. Update link. I'm not going to push this one to AMO unless there's no further changes before it gets approved.
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| # ? Jul 9, 2012 00:33 |
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The URL in 'package.json' seems to point to an old thread (thread ID 3423378) - should it be pointing to this thread instead?
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| # ? Jul 23, 2012 02:59 |
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Earl of Lavender posted:The URL in 'package.json' seems to point to an old thread (thread ID 3423378) - should it be pointing to this thread instead? You are correct, I forgot to update that. I'll push an update for it in a bit, looks like there's not many additional bugs people are finding...
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| # ? Jul 23, 2012 14:35 |
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| # ? May 26, 2013 05:38 |
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This is really nice! I did notice a colouring issue when you search though:
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