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Hi MattF.

That update I was planning isn't ready yet. I'm currently bogged down with tweaking the Calendar mod code

Pls feel free to post up your excellent code in the meantime. I think pkeod will find it of interest - great minds think alike etc...

It's always good to get some extra input into cooking up ways of improving the mod.

The punbb integration is impressive.

But I have a general suggestion: why don't you have some of the usual niceties for ecommerce sites like:

(a) an About page that tells people more about the business, including its corporate ownership (if applicable)
(b) provide ANY contact information on the site, even a valid email address anywhere or
(c) have a privacy policy on site. Etc

Or indeed have anything on site that suggests you are reputable in any way.

And to top it all off, you registered the domain via a domains by proxy service.

Not to put too fine a point on it, I wouldn't (couldn't) trust you at all as a ecommerce partner, because you provide none of the above.

You don't need to cloak things like that. It inspires suspicion and distrust.

I suggest that before you go live, you get a little bit more transparent.

It's probably still a goood idea though IMHO to drop in some sort of PunBB anti-spam solution - even a simple one like the one here - http://www.punres.org/viewtopic.php?id=3439 - may still be useful.

Any cache may cause problems with dynamic services like RSS feeds, I guess. Caches love relatively 'slow moving' pages, not pages that need to show changes all the time.

Anyway, clear your jpcache cache directory on your server of any old previously generated cache files, clear your browser cache, and try again.

Re those IE errors - perhaps have a look at your settings for jpcache too - you might want to check that your settings for output compression aren't conflicting with something that for example Apache may also be trying to do - ie jpcache may be trying to do compression whilst so too may be Apache. IE supports receiving GZIP compressed content very well, but not if it is mangled. Set the compression level to the lower end of the scale and see if that works better.

You also face the issue when using a php app like PunBB (which does come caching of its own) with jpcache that you may see caching upon caching, the results of which may not be OK. Wherever possible, I suggest always ensuring that just one caching/compression tool is at work.

But I am sure with just a bit of tuning, jpcache will probably settle down and start to work reliably.

In terms of other caches, as an alternative maybe check out xcache - http://xcache.lighttpd.net/

A guide to installing it is here:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/libra … fastapps1/

It seems on the way to becoming the cache of choice for a lot of PHP folks, and it certainly is more actively supported than jpcache

No, I'm using an EN language version on Win2K.

I suspect the NYT issue may have something to do with ad blocking at work, if not directly in Safari, then perhaps thru some elements of my [rather Nazi] secure local config. For example, I filter Doubleclick ad sites, which the NYT home page has a few links to, inc a few sneaky invisible pixel links, it seems.

Nonetheless FF, Opera and my tightened up IE still handle the same site and issues much more gracefully, while Safari bungles the display completely.

Excellent. I'm sure that will be very handy for many people.

Cool stuff. Will make it the original mod even easier to admin.

MattF: can you now post an authoritative version of your modifications?

It is a bit hard to track from all of the above (at least for a simple peasant like me) what goes where and when

That's a relief.

Now I can sleep soundly again.

Yep. Nothing is faster than just having a browser window open on one half of the screen and a simple text editor in the other, and just refreshing your browser to see your CSS changes.

However StyleMaster - http://westciv.com/style_master/index.html -  does do a nice live preview, as well as having some other nice editing features.

But in general - you can't beat the following 2 FF extensions: the webdeveloper toolbar, and the 'View Source Chart' CSS/HTML diagrammer. FireBug is OK too, but the webdev toolbar has most of Firebug's functions.

And I agree with you about Opera. Everytime I use it I am more and more impressed - a very elegant product, without the massive bloat and RAM hoggery you see in IE and FF.

If I didn't have to pay attention to the fact that so many web users use FF and IE, I think I would use Opera more.

Thanks for the update. Good to know he is still there, behind the scenes.

Good to hear it works.

Pls consider changing the default 'Columbus' test though if you go live with it.

If an antibot mod is on punbb or punres, the bot/script authors will find out about it pretty quickly, and the default test then won't be much good for long.