Willow: Something evil-crashed to earth in this. Then it broke out and slithered away to do badness. Giles: Well, in all fairness, we don't really know about the "slithered" part. Anya: No, no, I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.

'Never Leave Me'


Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

Current Stompy Feet: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura

Stompy Emerita: ita, DXMachina


§ ita § - May 18, 2008 5:20:59 am PDT #2947 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Let me use the same language as Jessica--my posting box is really long--my page might be really wide. I have to scroll down to get to an OK button, but could fit two entry boxes side by side. When I made the page, I figured those proportions would work better, because you don't want to encourage run-on lines.

So for most of my browsers, I could fit some light chat about formatting over to the right. I'm not wedded to anything but ready accessibility to a link to a pop up window with detail.


Jon B. - May 18, 2008 5:26:33 am PDT #2948 of 6786
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

My rule of thumb is to not force a page to be more than 800px wide, and putting something to the right here would do that.


Deena - May 18, 2008 1:02:25 pm PDT #2949 of 6786
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

ita, do you want the intro to css htmlified or plain text or something else? Do you want to put it up here or would you like it on my site and linked over here?


Jon B. - May 18, 2008 2:22:06 pm PDT #2950 of 6786
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

We'll put it on a page here, so plain text with some simple html formatting might be best.


Deena - May 18, 2008 4:20:06 pm PDT #2951 of 6786
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Will do.

Is there some code I can surround code with so that the code will show up and not be eaten? I'm pretty sure I've seen it, but I can't remember what it is.


§ ita § - May 18, 2008 4:49:24 pm PDT #2952 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

How do you mean? Aside from translating entities like & and &?


Deena - May 18, 2008 4:58:23 pm PDT #2953 of 6786
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

For example, if I want to include something like:

body { text-align: center; background: #fff; min-width: 700px; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; }

Does it disappear? On some websites it will. It did not. Never mind. My question is moot.


Jon B. - May 18, 2008 5:21:01 pm PDT #2954 of 6786
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Is there some code I can surround code with so that the code will show up and not be eaten? I'm pretty sure I've seen it, but I can't remember what it is.

Why don't you email it to us as a text file?


Deena - May 18, 2008 6:06:37 pm PDT #2955 of 6786
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

I can do that. Kind of easy, though. Thanks Jon.

eta: Sent to the admin address so whomever wants it can grab it.


sarameg - May 19, 2008 5:30:54 pm PDT #2956 of 6786

Uh, I'm kinda a moron and clicked and hit return too fast and the latest of my votes is the one intended. I think.