I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.

Book ,'Serenity'


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Noumenon - Sep 22, 2002 6:39:11 am PDT #291 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

I love it ,too. My only quibble with read new is that I wish it would stay in a thread until you've read all the posts in the thread, rather than jumping around each time you click. But then I suppose it wouldn't actually be Read New. :)

I support the current behavior because it lets you slog through one thread with Next, or keep abreast of the flow of Natter with Read New. But I usually read when Natter is not flowing fast.

What is it about the word "one" that made it disappear when it was "between" the <>s?

Which reminds me, I have a suggestion: how about categorised threads on the front page, non-categorised threads in the Message Center?

Seems logical. Categories help newbies get a mental map of the board, and help you if you decide to just go to the show-specific threads today. When you check for new messages, then you want the newest listed first.

And the real thing that brought me to the thread: the t center tags got stripped out of Noumenon "The Quotable Angel: Can I say it? I wanna say it." Sep 22, 2002 8:04:15 am EDT. Is that one of the dangerous tags?


Noumenon - Sep 22, 2002 6:51:39 am PDT #292 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

JohnH, if you can get GetWX to work on Phoenix, that would be great. I think on a big new project like this, you never really know if there's a Groundhog Day lurking in the works. Threads with important things in them, like Buffy 1 after Tuesday, it would be nice to threadsuck them just in case. Or maybe there are backups on the server.


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2002 8:21:00 am PDT #293 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

We don't need one of those here, Nou. I can pull stuff straight from the DB.


P.M. Marc - Sep 22, 2002 9:57:40 am PDT #294 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

After the first 5 days, I'm still in love. The category thing would be nice, but not essential. I miss spell check, but you'll all just have to live with my typos.


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2002 1:02:04 pm PDT #295 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Moving the recs discussion over here -- it would be possible to adapt the link code to do recommendations reasonably easily.

The current link setup is that anyone can add a link, and delete/edit links they've added. Admins can delete/edit all links and create categories.

Is there anything much different that would be needed for fic recs?


John H - Sep 22, 2002 7:48:15 pm PDT #296 of 10000

What is it about the word "one" that made it disappear when it was "between" the <>s?

It was to stop people putting mischeivous JavaScript into things like links.

You can put

onmouseover="alert('bite me!')"
into a link tag and it will pop up an alert every time the mouse goes over it, for instance.

So the code is "remove any word inside a tag starting with 'on'"


Noumenon - Sep 22, 2002 7:57:42 pm PDT #297 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

What about the t center thing?


Rebecca Lizard - Sep 22, 2002 8:20:25 pm PDT #298 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

So the code is "remove any word inside a tag starting with 'on'"

So, just curious, what did you do to change it? Make it "starting with 'onm'"?


John H - Sep 22, 2002 8:26:21 pm PDT #299 of 10000

Make it "starting with 'onm'"?

Or I could have made it start with just "om" and it would have been BuddhaScript instead of JavaScript.

No, we just delete it, so their code will just have:

alert('biteme')

in it, which won't do anything.

It's possible it will make some browsers confused, but I don't think so. Browsers just tend to ignore attributes they don't understand.


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2002 8:27:48 pm PDT #300 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What if someone tries to link to test ontario link (www.lisgar.on.ca).

Okay -- good. Works.