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Well I had a stroke of inspiration today and it occured to me how to make dAmn useable in Safari RSS. (works in Safari 1.3 also) The fix is far from perfect, but it does make dAmn usable!
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1. Download the stylesheet here: Safari dAmn fix

2. Unzip the file, (its called Safari_dAmn_fix.css)

3. Place the file somwhere you can keep it out of the way (once you have installed the fix you can't move the file or you will have to reselect the file in Safari)

3. Open Safari and open the preferences

4. Click Advanced and you will see a drop down box with the text "Style Sheet:" next to it

5. Click this and select Other, in the file box that opens navigate to the Safari_dAmn_fix.css file and choose it

6. Quit Safari and reopen it

dAmm should now work, I know the chat box has some space under it, but this allows the multi-line input to work. (I tested it on 1024x768 and 1280x1024)

Note: The fix is setup to work best for users with a screen resolution of 1024x768 which is the general minimum, see the below Advanced Tip on how to make it look better in higher resolutions.

Known Issue: If you make the Safari window too small the user list on the right and the input bar at the bottom will begin to overlap the chat box.

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Advanced tip: If you find that at the resolution you usually have your screen at that there is too much space under the chat box above the input line open the CSS file and edit <b..damncrc-chat-window {height: 85% !important;}, changing the 85% to a larger number.

Make sure that there is still some space under the chat box when the multi-line input is off to make sure that when you turn it on the input box doesn't overlap the chat box.

I have found using 86% seems to look good with 1024x768 while 91% makes it look good when using 1280x1024 as your resolution.

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:iconargocat8:
oh wow, going to try this
thanks so much for posting this up :thumbsup:

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:iconargocat8:
works like a dream

thanks so much :w00t:

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:iconzeros-elipticus:
:w00t: Glad I could help, hopefully $mccann will have a permanent fix soon. :)
:iconzeros-elipticus:
IN TIGER (10.4)

You must have only ONE tab in the Safai window that dAmn is in!

The second you open a second tab you will get the "init weirdness!" error. I tried and it recreates the error everytime. Open a second Safari window to browse web pages, you can have as many tabs in the other windows as you want. The Java 5.0 update from Apple does NOT fox the problem.

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I also identified a two new issues:

1. My original numbers (ex. 86% for 1024x768) only work for a room with no topic, every line in the topic forces the chat box down under the input bar.

>>> Fix: Open the CSS file and lower the percentage in the .damncrc-chat-window {height: 86% !important;} line.

I found that for a room with two lines of text in the topic 80% works, while 76% seems to work best with 3 lines of text. (it may take some adjusting based on the content of the topic. As a 3 line topic with emotes will be taller then a 3 line topic with just text.)

2. Safari seems to break my fix that prevented the input bar from going under the user list, I think it is caused by long user names in the user list.

>>>> Fix: change the line .damn-lo-col-flex {width:86% !important;} to .damn-lo-col-flex {width:80% !important;} lowering it to 80% seems sufficent to fix it.

Note: at 1280x1024 using 86% will work and the user list shouldn't overlap, at least I have not been able to make it do so. However, at 1024x768 you will need to lower it to 80% to prevent the problem.

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I have updated the zipped stylesheet to reflect these changes as well as included modification instructions inside the stylesheet.

As a plus, Safari RSS (2.0) seems to be able to make live changes to the Stylesheet meaning no restart of Safari is needed after a stylesheet update in preferences, you can actually resize the chat box while you are chatting. :) (note that you must load a new stylesheet to see changes, just saving changes to the current sheet will not work.)
:iconshadowdraco:
ummm, could anyone get IE for macs or firefox to work on dAmn
:iconargocat8:
ideally that is what I would like too

are you using the FF Javascript plugin?
I'm not completely sure I've got it installed correctly as it freezes.

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:iconshadowdraco:
I havnt installed anything extra to IE, sadly its a hard thing to do in school, but i use firefox more than IE which would also help



UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
:iconargocat8:
you could try the Java Embedding plugin, but I suppose not at school ;) [link]

although I think there are some problems still with it :(
apparently there are some code admins with Macs now, so maybe a FF solution is not far off :)

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:iconshadowdraco:
:nod: i will not try that now ;)
thanks :)
:iconkasumichan2003:
Awesome. I'll be sure to text this once I get back home, where my iMac is. :D

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