After several tests, i think it's good enough to be released.
Please report any problems in this topic.

About the shoutbox:

This post has been edited by truefusion: Nov 23 2006, 09:49 AM

hey true you have a error on IE when you rollover the menu doesn't show up might be the hover bug.

But its not bad though a little big but since all it takes is just a little customizing to fix the width and what not.

To put it simply, that's hot. I could see some cool integration uses for that.

Oh, the smilies have a white background and the shoutbox has a gray one. Or at least it did when I tried.

Hmm, that hover "bug" in IE must be cause the CSS is imported. I'll make one compatible for most IEs, later. And as for the smileys, some of them, having white backgrounds, i noticed that too, but i'm too lazy to go through them and fix them >_<.

Nice shoutbox. You can place your shoutbox at HotScripts. Who knows it becomes a hot favorite.
Anyway, the popup smiley and bbcodes are not working well in Opera browser as well. In Opera, I cannot scroll the popup box. When I mousever the "BBCodes" and "Smiley" text, the popup appears. When I mouseout, it disappears. Hence I'm not able to scroll through the list.

Nice script though. I'll like to have one as well after all the bugfixes.

Opera's scrolling i found different than other browser's scrolling. I tested this shoutbox in Opera more than any of the other browers. I'm not sure if such a problem could be fixed in the Opera settings, but to scroll, you have to continualy click in the scrollable area, and then scroll. It's not really the coding's fault, but the browser's. The box will stay visible, as long as the cursor is over the box, or the link.

But, i'll think about submitting it to Hotscripts.

This post has been edited by truefusion: Mar 24 2006, 06:11 AM

Not an offending one, but I think alot of websites has made such scrollable parts working in Opera. I guess it's the CSS part that is doing the trick and many browsers not understand them. I'm been working on websites on CSS and found that CSS is hard to style a webpage and made compatible with all types of browsers. But the programmer must find a way to get it done so that it is viewed the same for all the browsers. You will realise why many websites look the same for all browsers, because it is done.

It's not easy task to get all to look the same. But experience do count.

I too seemed to have a problem with the list boxes for the bb code and smileys, (using Firefox) then I discovered that the links for the bb codes and smileys go halfway across the page. Therefore, with careful sideways movement of the mouse from the text links it is possible to get to the scroll boxes. I just wonder if it might be easier to have the list boxes centered in their section like the text link is? This way the list boxes *should* appear directly below the text links and would be easier to use. I think it would also be helpful if the lists were clickable which then inserted the code in your shout. The input box for the shout text could be a bit longer too, just to make it easier to see what you have typed before you 'shout' it.

Very nice job True! Wish I could build something like this.

The boxes should center itself closer to the text, if the shoutbox was smaller in width. Cause when first building this shoutbox, i figured that it would be used in an iframe, or something, on someone's site, like seen in most sites. Ratherthan, just have a page of its own, like the preview. As for the insert the bbcodes onclick, i was hoping for this to be javascript free, but, i'll see what i can do in the next version. I'm not a javascript expert, but i'm sure it shouldnt be that hard to find some scripts that do the same thing.