C'mon! All the cool kids are coding.

I just realized, above and beyond guides or quizzes, we have a feature need that's reasonably compartmentalized. Quote editing.

For this I'd love coding and design volunteers.

The second paragraph of this t pre changes font for no apparent reason.

Betsy Hanes Perry "Literary Buffistas: Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books" Nov 8, 2002 1:50:27 pm EST

Hmm. Jon? John?
<p>
<pre>'They'll turn me in thy arms, lady,
An adder and a snake;
But hold me fast, let me na gae,
To be your warldly mate.
</p>
<p>
'They'll turn me in your arms, lady,
A grey greyhound to girn;
But hald me fast, let me na gae,
The father o your bairn.
</p>
<p>
They'll turn me in your arms, lady,
A red het gad o iron;
Then hand me fast, and be na feard,
I'll do to you nae harm.
</p>
<p>
'They 'll turn me in your arms, lady,
A mother-naked man;
Cast your green kirtle owr me,
To keep me frae the rain.
</p>
<p>
'First dip me in a stand o milk,
And then a stand o water;
Haud me fast, let me na gae,
I'll be your bairnie's father.'
</pre>
</p>

I don't have the code to hand, but we have overlapping tags, but even that doesn't explain to me what formatting is active in the subsequent verses.

Note that I didn't put in the t p tags; all I did was put in the t pre and place blank lines between stanzas.

Like this


and this


and this

The t p tags are automatically put in around every block of text delimited by two hard returns. However, this should *not* happen inside a t pre block, since it just confuses.

I copied betsy's quote into the test environment (clicking on "edit" for her post and copying what was in the text box) and got some VERY weird results - it looks like the post is getting truncated to 255 characters(!). I'm assuming that this is something that's only in test right now?

You're right, that was weird. I have no idea how the column type got set to tinytext. It's text now.

Thanks, ita. Now, I'm getting the same result as Betsy, and I have no bloody idea why it's happening. But 2 hard returns are definitely adding the t p markers.

Didn't this used to work correctly?

I don't think it ever worked differently. Any tag you open is theoretically effectively closed by the t /p from two hard returns. But why are the remaining verses in a new font size?

OK I hereby volunteer myself as a collector and as a coder for the buffydb, and I think all the cool kids will want to do one or the other or both, right?

Re: collecting? Ple's already baggsed Wesley, right? Or do we say dibbsed? In that case I want to adopt Faith! Also Willie. I have a soft spot for that guy.

Nobody really needs to claim Buffy, because she's in every ep, but even Buffy, Willow and Xander have had their doubles and their twins and their doppelgängers, so maybe "Twins, etc of main characters" is a category for someone to adopt?

Re: coding? If we think we've already mapped out the structure of the database, we need to start thinking about functions.

We need "edit person", as discussed, so that we can tick Joss as writer, director, composer, etc on an ep-by-ep basis.

What else do we need? "Edit Episode" of course, to put in synopses and snarkage. Does any registered member get to add their own snark to an episode?

What about the voting thing we talked about before?

Just throwing the ideas out there...