None of it means a damn thing.

Mal ,'Objects In Space'


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meara - Mar 06, 2003 2:51:48 pm PST #3396 of 10000

Kisses and hugs to all the stompies and various people doing work on this. Several posts up there are entirely nonsensical to me, but go y'all!

t edited becuase I decided it was all too much like bureaucracy crap that didnt' so much belong here.


amych - Mar 07, 2003 10:45:47 am PST #3397 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

A little detail nit: The text on the bookmarks.php page reads

To delete a bookmark, click on its checkbox and then OK.

But the button says "Delete", not "OK". Also, the code for the button doesn't have an alt attribute.

For the sake of consistency and usability, can we change the text to say "click on its checkbox and then Delete", and add alt="Delete" to that INPUT tag?


Cindy - Mar 07, 2003 11:48:27 am PST #3398 of 10000
Nobody

Heh. I was trying to clean out my bookmarks today, too.

Some day, far in the future, when there's nothing at all better to do (including lying down in fields of flowers) it would be nice if we could delete the book mark from the page where the post lives. You know, when you click mark and then months later, go to check out your bookmarks and click on the book mark, get to the page, and realize you don't need it bookmarked any more. If we could click on what now reads marked to unmark the post, it would be handy.

Or I could just be more reasonable in my bookmarking in the first place.


Jon B. - Mar 07, 2003 11:54:09 am PST #3399 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

If we could click on what now reads marked to unmark the post, it would be handy.

That's a good suggestion Cindy. Similar to how I suggested handling the MARCIE filter.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Mar 07, 2003 1:14:49 pm PST #3400 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

'Unmark' link on the actual post page, instead of 'Marked'. Now on the requests list, Cindy.


John H - Mar 08, 2003 2:57:01 pm PST #3401 of 10000

I think I asked my last question too subtly.

Can Jon or ita tell me what a threadsuck form submission would look like, transformed into a clickable URL?

This is so that it can be downloaded directly to disk rather than having to load a megabyte-sized web page into the browser window, then save it. Which sometimes crashes my browser and locks up my computer for a long time.


Jon B. - Mar 08, 2003 4:38:24 pm PST #3402 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

ita would have to answer that one, John. In my spec, all the parameters were in the URL but she did some PHP magic to hide them. I don't know PHP well enough to know how you'd do what you're asking.

I think that the direct download thing is a good idea, though.


John H - Mar 08, 2003 4:53:57 pm PST #3403 of 10000

In my spec, all the parameters were in the URL but she did some PHP magic to hide them.

I think what she did was change the form's method from "get" to "post", for the record.

Any form can be reverse-engineered quite easily -- it's how I wrote that autobrowser which we used to stress-test the board -- you just find the name and value pairs in the fields and make them into a query string.

<form action="something.php">
<input type="text" name="firstname">
<input type="text" name="secondname">
</form>

just becomes

something.php?firstname=John&secondname=H

when filled out and submitted. If the method is GET, then you see it. If the method is POST, you don't.

However it may just be that the script will not accept a GET-type request, only a POST.


§ ita § - Mar 08, 2003 4:56:50 pm PST #3404 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

it may just be that the script will not accept a GET-type request, only a POST.

Yup. This version of PHP refers to GET and POST variables separately, and I'm only checking for the one.


John H - Mar 08, 2003 5:05:55 pm PST #3405 of 10000

So, could I ask for that to be changed sometime when you have a moment?