I compiled with D10.2.3
I loaded Tips.tps
I got on the left pan and the right pan TEXT OK.
I took one tip (press the green icon) got gibberish on the right pan

Now that the Delphi tips website is a sub-domain of delphidabbler.com it would be beneficial if the rather garish tips site was toned down and restyled to fit in with the main site better.

Add new credits page, based on the one from the main site.

Tip 40 - Adding component help to Delphi - needs a warning saying it only applies to Delphi 3 to 7.

Mite be nil if nothing yet
add at procedure TMainForm.PopupMenu1Popup(Sender: TObject);
if TV.Selected=nil then exit;

It would be useful if the whole tips database was to be moved back to DelphiDabbler.com - possibly in a tips.delphidabbler.com sub-domain.

The old PHP code could possibly be adapted and the project could database driven again.

This delphi-tips repo could be used to develop the code as a stand alone project that anyone could use and delphidabbler.com could simply import releases.

The existing Jekyll site would need to be completely rewritten to simply redirect to delphidabbler.com.

Since changing URL to https://tips.delphidabbler.com the site's CSS style sheet is not being loaded.

There are two kinds of problematic links:

1. Broken links
2. Clickable links in source code

• Fix broken links
• Delete clickable links in source code

Need to add a sitemap for the tips.delphidabbler.com sub-domain and register it with Google.

May also need authorisation files from Google and Bing.

Current sitemap uses URLs with HTML extensions. It would be better to use canonical URLs sans those extensions.

There are URLs in the tips, either in the text or (possibly) in links, the reference the http: protocol.

Where the referenced sites support https: update the URL.

At the same time drop any "www." prefixes from delphidabbler website URLs.

The source code for Answer 1 in tip 210 has some missing code: probably the class declaration:

type
 

private
  procedure SetParent(AParent: TWinControl); override;
  procedure WMEraseBkGnd(Var Message: TWMEraseBkGnd); message WM_EraseBkGnd;
  ...

I'm guessing this should actually be:

type
   TTransparentPanel = class(TPanel)
  private
    procedure SetParent(AParent: TWinControl); override;
    procedure WMEraseBkGnd(Var Message: TWMEraseBkGnd); message WM_EraseBkGnd;
    ...

Maybe a good idea to add that missing code with a comment saying it's a guess!

On D10.2.3 I had problems when pressing TV to see the text file.
So I had to change a few places to ANSI
If you want my source get in touch or tell me where to send it?

The first paragraph of tip 199 ends in spurious characters as follows: course�

It appears that this could be an encoding issue.

EU cookie consent implementation required.

See implementation for delphidabbler.com, lib-docs.delphidabbler.com and cahamo.delphdabbler.com for details.

Several <a> links in docs\_tips have an offsite CSS class. This is not defined in SASS. Best to either remove the class from HTML or provide a suitable style for it in SASS.

The current cookie management code is from the Osano free plan. This is not true open source.

It would be better to either get a true open source replacement or write some original code.

At present Delphi tips web pages are attempting to load favicons and are logging 404 errors when they fail to find one.

There are two possible ways to resolve this problem.

Option 1: inhibit loading favicons

Adding the following line of HTML to docs/_includes/head.html will inhibit loading an external favico:

<link rel="icon" href="data:;base64,iVBORw0KGgo=">

Option 2: provide favicons

Create different size copies of the simpler version of the new DelphiDabbler logo:

The required sizes are 16x16, 32x32, 128x128, 180x180 and 192x192.

Name the files favicon-xx.png, where xx is the dimension of one side of the image. Place the image files in the /assets/img directory. Finally, add the following HTML to docs/_includes/head.html:

<link rel="icon" href="/assets/img/favicon-16.png" type="image/png" sizes="16x16">
<link rel="icon" href="/assets/img/favicon-32.png" type="image/png" sizes="32x32">
<link rel="icon" href="/assets/img/favicon-128.png" type="image/png" sizes="128x128">
<link rel="icon" href="/assets/img/favicon-180.png" type="image/png" sizes="180x180">
<link rel="icon" href="/assets/img/favicon-192.png" type="image/png" sizes="192x192">

See https://github.com/delphidabbler/delphi-tips/network/alert/docs/Gemfile.lock/kramdown/open

high severity

The word froup needs to be replaced by group or group box in the Question section of tip 122.

The last sentence in the question box of tip 206 is partially garbled:

I would like OnDrawCell to return the inner rectangle of the button look set the colors of the bevel so that they look like a button.

The last part of the page displayed for tip 208 is mono spaced.

Looks like a <code> tag didn't get closed.

Tip 87 has a malformed – HTML entity at the end of the Demo section - it appears in the text as &ndash

Using the URL tips.delphidabbler.com/<n> instead of tips.delphidabbler.com/tips/<n> is much friendlier. Is there any way to do this using the jekyll-redirect-from plugin?

The tip uses bullet lists extensively. The lists look cramped, and any spacing there is breaks the logical grouping.

The lists need to be restyled.

Just before the penultimate code block in tip 192 the end of the following line makes no sense:

If reg is a TRegistry instance already with key open a

Replace with the following?

If reg is a TRegistry instance with an already open key then

There is a minor typo on the 1st paragraph after the title of tip 175

There are a bunch of demos on Assembla.com at: https://app.assembla.com/spaces/delphi-doodlings/subversion/source/HEAD/trunk/TipDemos

These are in subdirectory of a SVN repo. Since there have been no updates to the subdirectory since it was created, there's no need to try to convert the repo to Git. Simply downloading and inserting into a new examples directory of this repo will suffice and no history will be lost.

Note: Any links to the Assembla repo within the tips should be updated to reference this Git repo when the transfer is complete.

In tip 85 there's a link to tip 159 that results in a 404 error.

Rewrite the text in tip 69 so it makes sense!

The Note box at the end of tip 136 should read:

If you want to change a font instead of text...

There's a malformed HTML entity in the 1st paragraph: &quout; that should be "

Dependabot has reported another nokogiri vulnerability, flagged as high severity.

Suggested remediation

Upgrade nokogiri to version 1.12.5 or later. For example:

gem "nokogiri", ">= 1.12.5"

Now that tips.delphidabbler.com sub-domain is up and running, canonical URL meta data would be useful.

Sitemap could do with an update - not been touched for a long time.

Add links to previous and next tips to individual page HTML.

Do this via tips.html template file.

GitHub Pages has been updated to v219.

Worth checking https://pages.github.com/versions/ before updating

Three errors:

1. There is only one question so the question title should be just Question
2. The sentence I want to build a combo box with this options. should be I want to build a combo box with THESE options.
3. The Items property name should be italicised (using <var> tags?)

The site uses pretty lousy titles and keywords.

This will be a big job though: there's a lot of tips to deal with!

Maybe add keywords & description to SQL?

There really should be some kind of search facility, with a search box on every page.

Since the site is static options are limited:

1. Use Google (easiest)
2. Use JavaScript in some way

There's a missing closing parenthesis in tip 60. It's in the first paragraph.

There are a few (at least two) minor typos in tip 216.

It's going to be quicker to find them by reading the tip than listing them here.

Tip 228 is a little difficult to read. The text needs tweaking for readability.

The Question block block in tip 218 says "Question 1", but there is only one, so the "1' is redundant.

There are several minor typos in tip 160.

It will be quicker to read the tip and find them rather than to list them here.

Some of the text in the paragraph following the first chunk of source code is italicized where it shouldn't be.

In 1st paragraph of tip 229 there's the following typo;

paste the fallowing 3 methods

There are also some other bits of the text that need some tweaking. Quicker to read the tip than explain.

The source code of tip 145 is not placed in the usual grey frame.

In tip 112 the Question box begins like this:

Has anyone seen a with a checkbox...

Need to change to read:

Has anyone seen a group box with a checkbox...