Sail, check Hil R. "Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed." Apr 28, 2009 3:34:32 pm PDT again now.
I hope you don't think that I just come over for the spells and everything. I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff.
Willow ,'First Date'
Buffistas Building a Better Board ++
Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2009 2:11:29 pm PDT #2848 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
SailAweigh - Apr 29, 2009 2:15:16 pm PDT #2849 of 4673
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Aha! It is now unmarked. Very good.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2009 2:16:25 pm PDT #2850 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sail, it looks like the date bookmarked field got overwritten in the conversion--sorry about that.
SailAweigh - Apr 29, 2009 2:26:42 pm PDT #2851 of 4673
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I don't think I would have even noticed it if it hadn't been the very first post on the page at the time. I tend to pay more attention to them.
Jesse - May 23, 2009 5:57:36 am PDT #2852 of 4673
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
There's some whitefont spillover in Movies, starting in this post: Strega "Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai" May 22, 2009 11:52:43 pm PDT
§ ita § - May 23, 2009 7:35:50 am PDT #2853 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Question: For those of us amongst you posters that don't use short tags why not? Is the result unpredictable? Inflexible? Confusing explanation? How can we clear things up?
dcp - May 23, 2009 8:26:32 am PDT #2854 of 4673
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I like and use the short tags, but sometimes I want multiple effects, e.g. spoilers or italics within a block quote.
Beverly - May 23, 2009 8:29:57 am PDT #2855 of 4673
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Are the short tags you're talking about the board shortcuts for html? Like line break i whatever you want italicized line break end italics? And the similar trick for spoiler font?
If that's what you're talking about, I don't use them because I usually goof them up. With html, I know and can see exactly what I want the text to do. I sometimes forget to close tags, but I usually catch it myself and go back and fix it immediately. Using the shortcuts, I can't see what it's doing before I hit post, and when it takes me three tries and I still goof it up? Chances are, I'm not going to use the shortcuts.
I realize they're simpler for most people. For me they're not intuitive, I have to practice forever and still may not remember how to use them if I don't have occasion to use them several times a week.
Basically, I try to avoid using italics, bold, or spoiler font. I gave up fake html when we left TT because I always made a mess when I tried to use it the way it's set up here.
I'll make a point to use asterisks and upper case and exclamation points instead of italics and bold, etc., and to avoid discussions where spoiler font is necessary, if using html is causing problems.
Strega - May 23, 2009 4:07:23 pm PDT #2856 of 4673
Oops, sorry about my post -- did I leave the closing tag off? Dur.
I usually use the quick-edit tags, but I thought for spoilers we should use the long version since not everyone wants spoilers to be whitefont.
Jessica - May 23, 2009 4:48:06 pm PDT #2857 of 4673
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The quick edit tag makes the spoilers the same color as the background unless the user has explicitly changed their CSS, so it's the safest way to keep everyone happy.
[eta: That is, there's no difference between 's' and <span class="spoiler"> except extra typing in the second case]