Email insent, ita. I think I figured out a nice way to include the thread title in the text just above the posting box.
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
'Trash'
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.
Jon B. - Oct 27, 2002 12:20:48 pm PST #962 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Jessica - Oct 27, 2002 12:21:12 pm PST #963 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Weirdness in the upper-right corner:
(Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought ) Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander, 'Innocence'
Laura - Oct 27, 2002 3:11:35 pm PST #964 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
Firefly thread seems to be rather wide screen?
Michele T. - Oct 27, 2002 3:18:37 pm PST #965 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I think that was just the URL string pushing it out for the one page, Laura.
Laura - Oct 27, 2002 3:20:22 pm PST #966 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
Ah, well ok for the sake of pretty pictures.
DXMachina - Oct 27, 2002 3:45:18 pm PST #967 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Okay, I edited both Madrigal's and Daniel's links show that they don't run off the the side of the screen.
John H - Oct 27, 2002 9:29:22 pm PST #968 of 10000
What's the current thinking on the long-URL problem? I posted about it ages ago, and ita, did I email you some code?
My thoughts on possible ways to handle long URLs in posts were, if I recall correctly:
- change them to
- change them to http://domainname/[rest of too-long URL removed]
- change them to http://domainname/[...]/porn.htm
Jon B. - Oct 27, 2002 10:51:46 pm PST #969 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I like the third idea. But, then, I don't have to code it.
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2002 10:58:24 pm PST #970 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think the last one is a safe solution, since querystrings can make that still a very long adjusted URL.
Burrell - Oct 27, 2002 11:48:01 pm PST #971 of 10000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I just had my first weird bug-that-can-only-be-discovered-through-random-user-behavior. I used the quick-edit spoiler font, and then started the next line with an arrow, using a caret to create the point of the arrow. All the text following the caret got eaten.