Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!

Xander ,'Chosen'


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John H - Dec 27, 2002 3:19:18 pm PST #2374 of 10000

we shouldn't force people to mail from the form

The only benefit is you can force people to tell you all the stuff you need to know. I use forms for this at work because there's always something they forget. But there's a lot more data required in those work situations.

You can construct the mailto: link so that it it adds the username into the subject of the email, how about that?

<s> -- I don't know if it's still true, but as of a year or so ago, it showed up in fewer browsers than <strike>

Really? Hadn't heard that. OK ignore me then.


§ ita § - Dec 27, 2002 3:22:41 pm PST #2375 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You can construct the mailto: link so that it it adds the username into the subject of the email, how about that?

With some e-mail clients. With others, it slings a lot of stuff in the to line, and you have to edit it out.

However, if they've forgotten their password and can't log in, the board doesn't know who they are.


Jon B. - Dec 27, 2002 3:23:03 pm PST #2376 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

You can construct the mailto: link so that it it adds the username into the subject of the email, how about that?

And how would it know what the username is if the person isn't logged in (because they forgot their password)?

t edit what ita said.


John H - Dec 27, 2002 3:36:13 pm PST #2377 of 10000

OK I was being dumb. It's early here yet.

Here's a note on the "S" tag, in case anybody's interested:

The S element, deprecated in HTML 4.0, suggests that text be rendered with a strike-through style. In many cases, use of a phrase element such as DEL is more appropriate since such elements express the meaning of the text more clearly. However, since support for DEL among browsers is weak, S could be useful in combination with DEL, as in the following example:

The latest version of HTML recommended by the W3C is HTML <DEL DATETIME="1997-12-19T00:00:00-05:00"><S>3.2</S></DEL> <INS DATETIME="1997-12-19T00:00:00-05:00">4.0</INS>.

Note that STRIKE is better supported than S (based on Netscape 2.x and 1.22 supporting STRIKE but not S), and so STRIKE should be used in place of S. There does not appear to be any advantage to using both STRIKE and S; all browsers that support S also seem to support STRIKE.

From [link] -- very useful site.


Jesse - Dec 27, 2002 8:25:38 pm PST #2378 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Quote issue -- I just got this:

Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!'
Oz, ''

Should we be doing something different with this kind of thing?


§ ita § - Dec 27, 2002 8:30:52 pm PST #2379 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You mean the extra quote? Or the two blanks for the ep name? Because I deleted the quote mark, but I can't see why there'd be no ep name.

Oh, nix that. It had an episode number, a season number, but no show name. Finis!


Jon B. - Dec 27, 2002 8:49:28 pm PST #2380 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

OK, this is weird. I read the two posts above and thought to myself, "Self? When am I going to see that quote?" But then I looked up and there it was in its special little corner of the board.


§ ita § - Dec 27, 2002 8:51:13 pm PST #2381 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That is indeed weird.

You don't call yourself Jon?


John H - Dec 27, 2002 9:26:11 pm PST #2382 of 10000

I looked up and there it was in its special little corner of the board.

It's the new "It's all about the coat"!


Michele T. - Dec 27, 2002 9:34:02 pm PST #2383 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Strangely, I call Jon "Self" as well.