I'd love to the How-To or HTML bits cover how to turn a long, obnoxious link to one of those tidy, one-word hyperlinks.
Other than that, I am loving this board!
Tara: What's so bad about them coming here? Aren't they good guys? I mean, Watchers, that's just like whole other Gileses, right? Buffy: Yes! They're scary and horrible!
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Anne W. - Sep 20, 2002 8:06:46 am PDT #271 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Jessica - Sep 20, 2002 8:10:00 am PDT #272 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Anne, it's in the FAQ
DXMachina - Sep 20, 2002 8:12:08 am PDT #273 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Anne, here's the format of the tag
<a href="http://putthe urlhere">One-word-hyperlink</a>
Anne W. - Sep 20, 2002 9:15:18 am PDT #274 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Durrr.....
My bad. I looked through the FAQ, but never saw it. Oh, well.
Thanks for the help.
evil jimi - Sep 20, 2002 9:31:50 am PDT #275 of 10000
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
I am Read New's bitch.
I knew I shoulda registered as "Read New" :)
Firstly, let me also add my oohs and aahs for the board and my congratulations to the folks involved in creating the software that runs it. Beauty!
I trust you'll be marketing it soon, as a viable alternative to the outrageously over-priced WebX :)
Now to add my 2c to the problems previously mentioned.
1) I'm also having problems with the Message Centre. For some reason it is only showing 2 threads, yet I've subscribed to 4. Clicking 'Read New' lets me read all of them but it is odd that they're not all showing up in the MC. I've tried selecting and unselecting and all that jazz but it hasn't made any difference.
2) I'm posting this via Mozilla 1.1 on WinXP and I've noticed the same thing about pages refreshing. If I click the 'back' or 'forward' buttons the page refreshes each time. This does not happen in Opera 6.04. I have no idea why the two are handling the script differently.
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Okay, scratch what I said in #1. Message Centre is now working properly for me. It must have something to do with logging out and then back in because it wasn't working when I just clicked 'change settings' and carried on la di da
Daisy Jane - Sep 20, 2002 1:52:59 pm PDT #276 of 10000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
The linking thing is in the FAQ, but it's not in the How-to or HTML or quick edit links. It would probably be easier if it were. Those would be the places I would look, and did being a linking novice and all.
John H - Sep 20, 2002 5:26:51 pm PDT #277 of 10000
I just want to put on record the following behaviour.
I have a bookmark for my Message Centre.
When I start up my browser and click on it, the first time, I'm automatically redirected to the front page.
This is not because I'm logged out, because the front page knows who I am thanks to the "remember me" function.
On any subsequent time I use this bookmark, it works normally.
Typo Boy - Sep 20, 2002 5:49:22 pm PDT #278 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Its not the bookmark John. If you manually type your message center URL into the browser window it still bounces you to the home page. I think what is happening is that logging in is transferring you to the home page.
Makes sense does it not? You go the message center, not yet logged in. The board detects your cookie and logs you in. And that puts you at the home page, just as if you did not have "remember me" checked and logged in manually.
John H - Sep 20, 2002 10:16:10 pm PDT #279 of 10000
So "remember me" doesn't remember me then does it? It's really "log me in automatically" which I subconsciously want to happen transparently no matter which page I go to.
But we had this argument, or one like it, in August 2001 so let's not revisit it.
§ ita § - Sep 20, 2002 10:19:25 pm PDT #280 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Actually, it depends on the page. Try going straight to this one -- does it kick you back anywhere?
I'm not sure what the difference is -- probably that you're not allowed on the message centre unless you're logged in, and it's checking for that before it remembers you.
I'll have to look.