however ...

[jazcyk]

in all three browser.

But only with 'Ask Questions' of course. Not the other two places captchas display.

David: what is your screen resolution. This is plenty of room for it on my screen.

[matteo]

Yours is one of the reasons (see the other one) why it is not under CVS and it is just an hack for testing.
But now you know the set of captcha code letters

Ciao,
Matteo

[david_de]

1024 by 768

[jazcyk]

1024 in width may be too small. I have 1280.

[david_de]

I like being able to see the choice in letters. It indicates what is available. It makes it clear that the 0 zero is not used so it has to be an O oh

Hehe I posted this on my test faq, too many open windows.

[jazcyk]

As long as we have no robot-spam issue I will give priority to readability. So I'll find 2-3 fonts that are very clear. And that's it!

We will undoubtedly upgrade when RC2 comes. Mostly because the administrative backend is so much better. With almost 100 articles the old backend was pretty slow and 'messy'. This is much betteer!

[jazcyk]

I like being able to see the choice in letters

You can also hard-code the .tpl files involved

[matteo]

Mmmhhh... 1024x768, Mozilla 1.4.3, RedHat 7.3.. too far from both your PC setup but... it works quite well
It depends also on your default text size...

But I want to reassure you that if "0" (zero) is not under the set of letters it will be treated as "O": see here

[david_de]

We will undoubtedly upgrade when RC2 comes. Mostly because the administrative backend is so much better.

Yes the Admin section is very nice now. The drop down groups make it fast and clean looking.

I wonder, for future, how hard it would be to select in Admin how many characters and which font files to use?

[jazcyk]

yes - it was a good idea. Mostly because it was mine, of course!


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[matteo]

I wonder, for future, how hard it would be to select in Admin how many characters and which font files to use?

We've also a request of managing the banned words: isn't it jazcyk? .
When everything will work quite fine (== PMF 1.6.0) will also start coding these backend facilities. We are also in need to clean and code the quite alpha PMF 2.0.0.

It wil be just a time issue: so please stay tuned and trust PMF

[jazcyk]

how hard it would be to select in Admin how many characters and which font files to use?

1)
I don't see much use of it. The A-Z+1-9 subrange is available on all localized keyboards as they are ASCII. Any other character may not be. And I would not use anything but letters and numbers!

2)
And users' choice of fonts will be very different, if they choose to replace the ones shipped with the system.

[jazcyk]

well .. now I have seen how big that list is, I might withdraw that proposal.

Actually what I request most now is routines to reduce Disk and Database usage (purge old entries and files in a safe way).

[david_de]

1)
I don't see much use of it. The A-Z+1-9 subrange is available on all localized keyboards as they are ASCII. Any other character may not be. And I would not use anything but letters and numbers!

2)
And users' choice of fonts will be very different, if they choose to replace the ones shipped with the system.

My thinking was, those with low vulnterability could turn the Captcha level down by removing some of the fonts or the number of characters. Those that have had or expect problems could go the other direction.

[david_de]

It wil be just a time issue: so please stay tuned and trust PMF

The best just keeps getting better.