Damn you're quick. That's great. Thankyou.
[edit: what ita actually did, not the Jesse clause]
You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
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.
John H - Dec 04, 2002 3:56:16 pm PST #1833 of 10000
Jesse - Dec 04, 2002 3:58:19 pm PST #1834 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Phffftttt.
See if I ever email you again.
That's not even real code!!!
Jon B. - Dec 04, 2002 4:12:10 pm PST #1835 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I bookmarked this while I was on Vay-Cay:
John H "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Nov 28, 2002 4:54:44 pm EST
One thing we haven't done is change this:
You may use HTML or quick-edit formatting.
to, say:
You may use HTML or quick-edit formatting. But be careful! Bad code -- links and tables particularly -- can cause big problems.
Do others think this is necessary? It would appear above every posting box. It seems cluttery to me - I'd rather wait for the Stompomatic to be installed - but I'll defer to popular opinion.
John H - Dec 04, 2002 4:14:45 pm PST #1836 of 10000
That's not even real code!!!
Works just fine in HyperTalk, except for the quote:
on mouseUp
put "jesse" into user
IF (user="Jesse") THEN
dont_show_any_emails_because_shes_weird
end if
end mouseUp
on dont_show_any_emails_because_shes_weird
answer "I know, I know"
end dont_show_any_emails_because_shes_weird
§ ita § - Dec 04, 2002 4:16:47 pm PST #1837 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do others think this is necessary?
I don't think so. It's like "Drive carefully!" I was kinda gonna -- that's why they're called traffic accidents and not traffic plans.
John H - Dec 04, 2002 4:19:03 pm PST #1838 of 10000
I'm not going to disagree. I do see the "'baby on board?' why then I won't kill you!" aspect of it.
I think people know to be careful, especially if they've made a mistake once already.
How about a mention in the HTML page though?
[format edit]
§ ita § - Dec 04, 2002 4:20:09 pm PST #1839 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah -- that's probably better.
Jon B. - Dec 04, 2002 4:35:36 pm PST #1840 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
How about a mention in the HTML page though?
Makes sense. Done.
Liese S. - Dec 04, 2002 5:14:30 pm PST #1841 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
So when a bad coder codes badly, their (corrected and harmless but ugly) message will not show up in the thread, but instead they will be headed off into another page to edit? So, no public humiliation, but the potential for user frustration if they a) can't figure out what they did and b) needed a timely post? Is this okay?
If the post is harmlessified, then do we need to cause a forced edit?
Hrmm...
John H - Dec 04, 2002 5:21:06 pm PST #1842 of 10000
I believe the theory at the moment is that formatting errors, like unclosed bold tags that make the whole of the rest of the page bold, would be fixed.
Whether to say "Hey! I had to fix that post!" is still in debate?
The other kind of error with the unclosed quotes would result in a "I'm not going ahead with this post" kind of error, for the reason that finding it is a lot easier than fixing it, and that it means huge chunks of the page go missing.