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[TrueSatan]

@ vanstygma

This mod is not version specific...it will support all SMF 1.1.x versions and probably many others as well.

[TeaTephi]

Hi I installed the mod and it's not working?  Tried to log out and different browsers   . . . any help?

[58tbird]

I just tried to install and got a "test failed" "Error in Package Installation" error.

I'm using 1.1.4, default core and here are my packages:

1. Registered Links  1.0      
2. Easy Edit Meta Data 1.0    
3. Registration - Show Gender mod 1.0.0    
4. FavIcon 1.1    
5. BoardHover Mod 1.1.0    
6. Custom Profile Field Mod 3.17    
7. Bookmarks 1.1    
8. Ad Managment 2.3    
9. Admin member list registration date 1.0    
10. SMF 1.0.12 / 1.1.4 / 2.0 b1.1 Update 1.0    
11. SMF 1.1.4 Search "brd" Bug Fix (1.0.1) 1.0.1    
12. Avatar on Member List 1.0    
13. Enhanced Password Reminder 1.0
14. Link Thumbnail 1.0  (not applied)
15. EmailFlash    2.0    

I'd love to have this thing work for me.  Can you help?  Thank you!

[58tbird]

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=230562.msg1482499#msg1482499

[erlend_sh]

LOL It is one of the tiniest but all of my mods are except the two I've taken from Jay. I will add that this should work with ANY version of SMF ever. In fact I expect it will work with 2.0 with nary an issue.

I don't really think features like these should come out-of-the-box no matter how small. It relies on a third-party resource (this hasn't changed yet right?) and it is also a very distinct feature. SMF would end up very bloated if it kept adding features like these by default, as this is not a must have feature in terms of usability or helpfulness, it's merely some fancy eyecandy.

That said and done though, I on the other hand find this mod very interesting I'm running a 2.0 forum but I'll give this mod a swing on my WAMP install.

[KahneFan]

I just loaded to 2.0b4 and it works great!

[Ratiomaster]

I strongly advise against installing this mod on forum, with all due respect to creator the mod have huge security and performance implications :
The problem is that mod uses external js file from highly unreliable source.
This is installed on your default template, so vast majority of your users faces huge security risk - very easy ip and cookie stealing this way.
But this is not all .
Most importantly and this is what happened on my forum, is today i noticed that it loads really slow and tracked the problem down (with yslow firefox plugin) to hxxp:thumbnails.iwebtool.com/src.js?border=004891 [nonactive] . The problem was that iwebtool site was down or unreachable, and it took about 15 sec for firefox to timeout on loading that js, so every page took at least 15 sec to load !!!

In short, Imo this mod should be removed from this site ASAP .

[ディン1031]

I strongly advise against installing this mod on forum, with all due respect to creator the mod have huge security and performance implications :
The problem is that mod uses external js file from highly unreliable source.
This is installed on your default template, so vast majority of your users faces huge security risk - very easy ip and cookie stealing this way.
But this is not all .
Most importantly and this is what happened on my forum, is today i noticed that it loads really slow and tracked the problem down (with yslow firefox plugin) to http://thumbnails.iwebtool.com/src.js?border=004891 . The problem was that iwebtool site was down or unreachable, and it took about 15 sec for firefox to timeout on loading that js, so every page took at least 15 sec to load !!!

In short, Imo this mod should be removed from this site ASAP .

There is no problems with this, the tools from iwebtool are free and normal secure. Normal they are not taking any cookie data. It's your choice to install this mod if you don't like to load scripts from other sites than you should not install this mod. It's everytime you're choice.

Bye
DIN1031

[Schpil]

Hi KGIII

Sorry, I didn't see "Please ask in-thread before PMing"... I've just PMed you. Hope you won't mind...

I'm writing here what I said to you, in case someone else can help me too...

I was able to uninstall iwebtool.

But since then, on every page of my forum, it tries to access "thumbnails.iwebtools.com", and every single page now loads very, very slowly because of that.

I've tried that :

What makes it slow is waiting for the JavaScript to load. Before the rest of the page can load, the script must be loaded. If iwebtool's server is being slow, it will cause your site to be slow.
Try this: In index.template.php, find:

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<script language="javascript" src="http://thumbnails.iwebtool.com/src.js?border=004891" type="text/javascript"></script>

Replace with:

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<script language="javascript" src="http://thumbnails.iwebtool.com/src.js?border=004891" type="text/javascript" defer="defer"></script>


The defer="defer" will tell the browser to only load the script once the rest of the page has finished loading (rather than loading the script as soon as the <script> tag is encountered). This should give it a noticeable performance improvement

But it didn't improve the speed at all!

I deleted the entire script from the index.template.php, and it seems to have solved the problem.

Thanks anyway !