Re: [Ids-devel] IDS bugfixes/enhancements

[Chris S. <chr...@ya...>]

I'd love to see these incorporated into IDS.

Chris

--- timduru <ti...@ti...> wrote:
> Hi ,
> Just thought I would send a small message  about
> some of the modifications I made, 
> well overall I'd like to say that IDS works quite
> well and it's really very useful for my site :)
> 
> Over the years I've made quite a few modifications,
> I think a few users could be interested by some of
> them. 
> Some are just bug fixes,speed optimizations, and a
> few new features and enhancements.
> 
> You can see the modified version running there:
> http://fursuit.timduru.org/view/
> 
> It's based on 0.81 but it shouldn't be too difficult
> to incoporate the modification made from 0.82
> 
> 
> I'm not even sure to remember everything I've
> modified and to get a full list I would have to make
> a more detailled diff with the original source code.
> You know how it is, most of them were quick hacks
> 'on the fly' but they work fine ;o)
> 
> But I'll list some of the modifications I remember
> of below:
> 
> + exif problem, when an image had exif info into it,
>  the thumbnail was including the exif data and so
> making it like 30KB too big. (that one was really
> making dialup user yell ;o)  )
> 
> + speed optimization in non date sorting mode, (as
> it was sorting by date first even in name sorting
> mode, and that can be quite slow on a few thousands
> pictures directories)
> From what I've tested it can be about 15x faster for
> large albums if you don't sort by date.
> 2x only if you sort by date.
> 
> + a few 'software errors' problem fixed, like it
> doesn't stop even if one picture is corrupted, but
> keep displaying the albums.
> 
> + pretty url system
> that one needed quite some rewriting all around in
> the code, but that was one of the biggest complaint
> I was getting from the users: that the urls were not
> really friendly. 
> with the new system the url is just like browsing
> regular directories
> and you can just append ',imagename' to see an
> image.
> (have a look at the online site)
> 
> + possibility to just put a file in an html  file in
> the directory corresponding to an album, so that the
> content is included and displayed in the album
> (it's useful to me as I allow both the image archive
> to be browsed by IDS and raw apache directories, I
> then configured apache to display the same html file
> IDS is now using as the header of the directory, so
> I don't have to enter the comments twice)
> 
> + CGI::Cache compatible to speed up things, (well
> it's not configurable it's either include the code
> or comment it so far, but it's located at the very
> beginning of the code) I've tested it for some time
> and it worked quite well and were making things
> faster. 
> But I then removed it as I update my page quite
> often, so having it cached too much was not the best
> in my case.
> 
> + added the display of the first filename of a
> subpage after the page1...2..3.. at the bottom of
> the album
> + added next and prev page links
> + search function was not working with symlinks
> + cookie changed a bit to make it work with multiple
> virtual hosts, seems to be working , but might need
> some more debugging .. 
> 
> some of the modifications / features are in the
> config file, some others would need some more
> cleaning to be incorporated.
> 
> It might also need some customization for general
> use as some of them are  quite focused on the way I
> use it for my site.
> 
> Well let me know if there is some interest in all
> these modifications. ;)
> 
> Timduru


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