Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.

Mal ,'Safe'


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billytea - Oct 28, 2002 9:20:16 pm PST #1012 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Billytea, see my post above:

Ok. I don't find the scroll thing so annoying, myself; after all, it's only an issue when changing taglines. It seems to me that having to count your own taglines, or having administrators check tagline liength, would be more annoying.

It may be more of an issue that the code on the People site? I regularly had taglines over 50 characters (under 255, though; I had my own ideas about what was reasonable). It's possible to get around it if you want. (Don't know if that'd be the case here, or if there's a simple fix.)


Jon B. - Oct 28, 2002 9:26:26 pm PST #1013 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I think it's not just scrolling. Oftentimes, folks will copy and paste a new tagline. If there are carriage returns in the copied text, I don't think more than the first line will paste into a single-line textbox. With a multi-line textbox, it all pastes in with no problems.


Rebecca Lizard - Oct 28, 2002 9:53:04 pm PST #1014 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

Grr. I hate counting my own characters.

I may be a minion of the evil empire, but I do like MSW's wordcount feature.

Yup, JS free. And not just because we have lynx users. Actually, no. There is JS to put your cursor in the name field on the login screen.

Oh, this is something silly I meant to ask a while ago. For WX, on the login page, you could just tab out of the password box and it'd start processing your login automatically. I just thought that was so cool.

Since there's already one piece of JS on the login page, could there be the one that does that? 'Cause I don't know what it is, but every time I used it it made me happy.


Jon B. - Oct 28, 2002 9:54:48 pm PST #1015 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

You mean hit "enter", not "tab out", don't you? I've never heard of the latter. I don't know how to code the "enter" thing, but someone else probably does.


Rebecca Lizard - Oct 28, 2002 9:56:46 pm PST #1016 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

Dude, check it out. Type your stuff then tab out, or click anywhere outside the password box.


Hil R. - Oct 28, 2002 9:57:31 pm PST #1017 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

You mean hit "enter", not "tab out", don't you?

I know what she's talking about. On WX, you can put the pointer in the "name" box, type your name, then tab, then password, then tab, and it'll log you in. Here, you need to press return at the end of that sequence.


Rebecca Lizard - Oct 28, 2002 9:59:22 pm PST #1018 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

It's just-- tab! I have no idea how it worked, because I don't know anything about that sort of thing, but it made me ridiculously giddy every time I used it. It was so cute.

t rereads last few posts I am such a loser.


Jon B. - Oct 28, 2002 10:13:22 pm PST #1019 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I stand corrected! I looked at the code and it's not too hard to do, but it uses JavaScript. Basically it says, if you're in the password window and leave it (this uses the OnBlur method), AND the username field is not blank, then submit the form.

t edit Actually, it checks that both the username and password are both non-blank.


Noumenon - Oct 28, 2002 10:15:14 pm PST #1020 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

Actually, no. There is JS to put your cursor in the name field on the login screen.

And thanks for that. I suggested it at Salon, since other sites were doing it, even offered the exact code to cut and paste the second time I suggested (several months later), and they brushed me off.


§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 11:27:36 pm PST #1021 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I may be a minion of the evil empire, but I do like MSW's wordcount feature.

MSW isn't my browser.

Please, let's not make tab emulate hitting the submit button. Enter shouldn't even emulate it on forms with more than one field.