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Jab [Since 29th November 2002] Started conversation Jul 20, 2004
Would you know of an index of "image buttons" used around dna sites and maybe a few other BBC sites please?
ie. <IMG SRC="<./>/signon/h2g2/images/buttons/signin_slim.gif</.>" ALT="Sign in" />
There are different 'buttons' available by changing */h2g2/* to say */collective/* and it's the *< name > .gif* part I'm wondering about, what are they all called?
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SEF Posted Jul 20, 2004
They are the single-sign-on images for various sites and the associated skins. So as well as the currently standard h2g2 brunel one there's:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/signon/h2g2_classic/images/buttons/signin_slim.gif
http://www.bbc.co.uk/signon/h2g2_alabaster/images/buttons/signin_slim.gif
See also the sets from:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/signon/h2g2/images/buttons/create_membership_slim.gif
http://www.bbc.co.uk/signon/h2g2/images/buttons/closethiswindow.gif
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Jab [Since 29th November 2002] Posted Jul 20, 2004
Hi SEF, I know post 2 was from you, as I've just been to your personal space to check...
I very much doubt you would have said anything offensive, yet as I did'nt see it before it was removed; maybe you could contact me at another 'T' - though I'd need a reminder of the number.
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SEF Posted Jul 21, 2004
You misread the message. I didn't say anything offensive and the post wasn't "removed" in an active sense, ie you weren't seeing it after the event but before the event.
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Jab [Since 29th November 2002] Posted Jul 21, 2004
SEF, sorry, I did indeed miss read the notice yesterday. After checking another few post on the site, I had a second look here. Yes it was in a queue, now *restored.* - If you can restore what has never been? Well, there have been a lot of different strange *things* like "XML error." References to "line 191" and out of sync displayed posted times of late. So hidden tempory is a small bug-bare in the sceme of things. I was looking for a directory of *system* imagaes abound on dna... So thought to ask *oh great collator* of such things. Something along the lines of the sized smiley list you did? In post, the "/images/" section shown without the "http://" to prevent site truncated display of URL. A naming of the normal background colour they are shown on might be handy too?
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SEF Posted Jul 21, 2004
Not a bug but pre-mod. Though there may be bugs there too, I suppose!
TiT was listing a lot of the incidental skin images in various pages on the site. I'm not sure how much organisation there was to that though. I'd only kept some offline listing of things that might be useful, eg the site-switcher I made for my BBCi tester account (when what appeared to be a bug in the software gave me a PS on what had previously been a largely invisible account and then some member of staff had the cheek to move its default site without asking).
Those previous links without the start http bbc bit are:
/signon/h2g2_classic/images/buttons/signin_slim.gif
/signon/h2g2_alabaster/images/buttons/signin_slim.gif
/signon/h2g2/images/buttons/create_membership_slim.gif
/signon/h2g2/images/buttons/closethiswindow.gif
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Jab [Since 29th November 2002] Posted Jul 21, 2004
Ah, well... Suffering *inattentive addle of the inventive with ingenious* is something that could happen to anybody.
I should invite TiT U228046 to post a <./>/path/or/two</.> here?
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Jul 21, 2004
Traveller in Time 
flying in from another thread
"Part two:
You search for something of an image that will change over sites, I though we had a sitefilter 
.
I will see if I can come up with something."
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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Jul 26, 2004
Traveller in Time on his head
"< U500185 > ? "
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SEF Posted Jul 26, 2004
Yes, though it looks as though some images have been deleted/moved at the BBC since I put them in the page.
buttons not blobs
Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired Posted Jul 26, 2004
Traveller in Time on his head
"I should have known it was one of your clones . . .
And indeed I have seen more 'stolen' image-links from the removed sites. Just only the links are left behind after the sites closed."
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Jab [Since 29th November 2002] Posted Feb 4, 2005
buttons not blobs
SEF Posted Feb 4, 2005
Yes, lots. Some are duplicates of old blobs. Some never made it onto the site.
I still haven't decided what to do about listing all of them better on site in a conveniently searchable form. Thread posts are more searchable than articles but the text is then unfixable if there is more information about an image later.
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- 1: Jab [Since 29th November 2002] (Jul 20, 2004)
- 2: SEF (Jul 20, 2004)
- 3: Jab [Since 29th November 2002] (Jul 20, 2004)
- 4: SEF (Jul 21, 2004)
- 5: Jab [Since 29th November 2002] (Jul 21, 2004)
- 6: SEF (Jul 21, 2004)
- 7: Jab [Since 29th November 2002] (Jul 21, 2004)
- 8: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Jul 21, 2004)
- 9: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Jul 26, 2004)
- 10: SEF (Jul 26, 2004)
- 11: Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired (Jul 26, 2004)
- 12: Jab [Since 29th November 2002] (Feb 4, 2005)
- 13: SEF (Feb 4, 2005)
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