If you haven’t noticed yet, we got some upgrades on the comments. Here is a brief run-down of what is new.
Edit Comment
Commenter’s can now edit their own comments for up to 5 minutes after they post it. This will allow them to go back and make typo corrections, fix broken tags, etc. When you click the edit comment link, the comment code appears in the edit box and you make the changes as normal. If you wish to discard your changes you may by pressing the cancel button.
Quote This Comment
This will automatically insert a quotation of that comment into the editor, along with a link back to the original comment.
Marking of New Comments
This is not a 100% exact method due to server caching. The system will track the most recent 10 posts you have viewed and label comments as "new" since the last time you checked.
Editor Buttons.
The new buttons above the editor will make it easier to format your comment. You can highlight your text then click the appropriate button to apply that formatting. If you do not have any text selected then the button will place the opening tag for that format. You click the button again to enter the closing tag. If you have a bunch of tags open and wish to close them all, then you can click the "close all open tags" button (this only works on tags that you entered via buttons and not ones entered manually).
The "new" feature and "edit comment" feature rely upon a small cookie to be placed on your computer. This is used solely to track your last visit time for the "new" and fingerprint which comments are actually yours for editing. If you have cookies disabled, then these features will not work on your browser.
Enjoy the new features and use this as an open thread for some morning play time with the new comments.
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Ha, make that twice.
Nice. I had to comment before playing with the new features.
Go Ned!
Thanks for the new features!
ON edit: strikethrough didn’t seem to work.
On edit2: Tried it again, doesn’t work. Haven’t tried quote or link yet, but I know some of these ajax based wysiwyg editors have cross-platform problems, particularly with Safari and Opera. I’m on Safari at the moment–have to check it on Firefox.
What a wonderful addition to the site (this is going to make moderator duty a whole lot easier!)
Thanks, Jamie – you rock!
New stuff is cool! thanks for all the hard work.
strike and underline didnt seem to work in safari – i will check other browsers
testing in firefox on Mac:
bold
italic
underline
strike
Been working all night and had missed all the earlier threads. Is this upgrade why most of my comments weren’t working yesterday?
Wonder what McCain thinks about Bush’s war now that he’s got family enlisted.
Uh oh. Using the link button quotes the entire previous comment and makes it a hotlink.
edited p.s. let’s see if the edit feature works.
edited p.s. p.s. OK, this is nifty. Is it a Wordpress plugin?
just tried it on explorer on mac – no go there, the crappy M$ program couldn’t handle the buttons.
9-11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Katrina, WW3, Country going down crapperHey, neat new toys—thanks!(*)
Just what I needed to get off to a good start after a rough weekend: conservative boot camps.
(*)…and comment editing works! I’m on linux/mozilla. Btw, I also run full-featured WinXP in a free VMPlayer window under linux.
twolf1 @ 5
this all looks really great, and seems pertty darn easy to use … really, jamie, thanks!!
oh, and let’s try a little linky! how about some
SOLID POTATO SALAD
and editing works too — woo hoo!!
Jamie, Jamie, Jamie, you are blowing my mind. You are an angel of mercy! I want to send you chocolate.
Wow, pups, I was away from the net and radio for the past few days and just heard on NPR that the NYT endorsed Lamont yesterday!! Go NETROOTZ!!!
YUMOLA, Jamie! I haven’t figured out “Link” yet, and my machine never gets U past Preview (or now
Sexplorer can’t explore
edit, test……did I miss something here? didn’t see the comment appear to edit……
meta @
12
I agree 100%!
Hmm, wonder why it printed half my comment and bogarted the rest . . .
Old Saw, can you believe it? This whole thing is really ramping up well. Jane on the ground and in your face!
I don’t know why, but every time I click on the SOLID POTATO SALAD link, my browser shuts down.
No offense, but I’m going to stop clicking on it now.
My mind is blown by that endorsement. I am so thrilled. Now if we can get enough press about this, people the country-over will become so empowered that we can really clean House and Congress and all and get the kind of representation that does the world some good!!
i had no trouble w/ the potato salad link. what browser are you using LHP?
Mornin’ Pups,
WoW – FDL Christmas in July
Thanks for your hard work Jamie !
let’s see, C’mon Ned! – yeppers, that’ll do
wow, and tags too. nice
looseheadprop @ 20
looseheadprop, i’m able to click through no problem, but maybe that’s because i have it cached … hmmm …
it’s just a video, albeit an amazing one from a 1944 film –
imagine: double jointed andrews sisters ….
Anyone know why Raw Story is saying Bolton wont face filibuster ? (and do I really want to know ?)
COLOR
You guys got better software, and Glenn Greenwald went to haloscan. Doh!
these features are great. thanks Jamie!
Just playing around
Just playing around -strike through not working with safari/mac
what does code do?
Bush pretends to be regular guy but is an ineffective jackass instead.
(OT Angie at 55 last thread AMEN)
twolf1 @ 30
Can someone please put Bush out of our misery. A muzzle and choke chain would work wonderz. Can we order a gross?
WOW…new toys. That is the great thing about the Lake. Sumthin new everyday…THANKS
Anyone know when the new Q poll comes out about Lamont?
Cool beans, Jamie! I’m sure the “close tags” feature will help a lot!
*ilson46201 @
27
OOOOOOh neato! What other colors are available?
JUST TEST
Oh my, anyone that thinks Merkel looked at ease needs cornea replacements along with a brain transplant.
This is great, Jamie – esp. the close tags feature
*ilson46201 @ 27
ok, *ilson’s magenta is showing on preview – but will it show on Submit ?
Actually I entered through AOL.
So either something is wrong with AOL today, or the news toys are incompatable with it b/c even simply navigating around the site keeps shutting down AOL.
I have read a bunch of online newspaers and news digests today with no problems. I have been to a couple other websites this AM with no problems, so i THINK the glitch is here, but that’s only a suspicion.
Also, cannot get edit feature to work at all–doesn’t it figure, the girl with the most typos per square inch can’t edit. LOL
excellent new features Jamie, 10000 cool points!
no color on submit, and my screen shows all bold past choochmac’s ‘test’
lhp- little box?
and you are seeing my 42 but i didn’t approve it yet i was playing around with it still, weird.
I want to try to strikethrough and to underline
I did that color stunt just to be a show off — it’s not included in Jamies new feature.
Except for ‘tables’, almost any standard HTML markup tag can be used here but you have to manually enter them including the extremely deprecated blink …
looseheadprop @ 43
Although the codes showed when I highlighted and hit the buttons, strikethrough and underline did not work
Totally Bitchin’!
Lamont!
(Sweet).
Re: Lo at 42
What does it mean when the text is in a little box like that? I can’t cliick on it, so it’s not a link. What is it?
Color test
didnt work or me i guess
Test/Help -
I can see the “strike” feature and the underline feature in the preview, but it won’t come up when I post the comment.
Just a curious question:
How many ‘attacks’ on the FDL website have their been? Everytime I can’t get in to FDL, I wonder if someone is trying to keep the FDL mice running so fast trying to cope with ‘requests’ that it cannot process normal access.
Jane had mentioned lots of spamming going on and the ‘filters’ were catching some people’s commenets, but has there been some serious ‘attacks’ against the site from unknown, or known, somebodies?
Hmmm – I’m at work, so maybe this computer won’t accept cookies. But then why did the “bold” feature work? (See #47)
Help Mr. *izard!,
color shows on preview, but not on submit – unless of course you didn’t bring enough for everyone . . .
ok i just travelled back in time to change my comment. coooool
i guess once you submit you save your spot and can edit until oh i see now for 5 minutes.
can everyone see your comment for those 5 minutes?
*ilson, could you show us the color of your hair?
Mornin’ GrandmaJ,
Bobblehead Barbie say it was gonna be triple digits up your way – never easy on any of us, but has to be particularly bad when y’all aren’t used to those temps – hope you’re alright
cbl @
58
It’s 100 here in Chicago, too.
cbl @ 46
Ditto. Wow!
sorry phoebes – the tragedy in Chicago several years back is on my mind as I write to GrandmaJ
there are hideous stats out there about how many more folks die due to extreme heat vs extreme cold
looks like strike works too
cancel that! it appeared in the preview but not in the submitted message.
when i clicked the “edit this comment” button, the strike tags were gone….
let’s try it manually….
strike
okay, it works in the preview….
but again not in the submitted edit, at least in IE
Freakin’ awesome.
My only suggestion is to change the text on the “code” button. Not likely to see much code here…
Okay, hide ‘n’ watch, y’all — let’s see if I’ve figured out these new-fangle linkies yet . . .
Ballots and Bullets
Raw-ther!
But you gots to type out the text you want, huh? No way to cut/paste into that “text, please” box, right?
I must say the red ‘new’ before each posters name makes it quite hard to scroll back to refered posts and doing it quicky. Anywho, from a delurker who says please ‘Wake Me When It’s Over’. A sign of the times.
although regulated by the States, power companies have been given some kind of dispensation from Feds to shut more people off for partial payments than they have been allowed in the past
Jamie:
Thanks for the ‘new toys’ (drat, wanted to be the first to use that term. SOMEBODY already got there.)
I’ve still gotta attach the IV of coffee and ‘explore’ things a bit. FWIW – using Camino 1.0.1 under 10.2.8. and site seems ‘normal’ besides the added buttons in comments. Nice.
lhp – You might be the girl w/most typos/sq. in. but I might qualify as the guy w/same. Itchy fingers combined w/sticky keys of ancient laptop (esp. ‘r’…so I hope everybody just subliminally inse(r)ts the co**ect lette*s…
—-
*ilson – I think I might like to use that blinky thingy w/the usual ’smiley’ emoticonish symbols…or even that blasted greek lettering combo.
heeeheee.
Again kuddos Jamie; elegant. Maybe some tweaks though for Safari. I can’t see users still on the MS junk, but to each their own, I guess. Or maybe worksite forced; if so, y’all have my sympathies.
dru — my hair color is ORANGE RED
the funny thing is that there are only 216 permissible colors and theres a list of the names of those colors — “orangered” happens to be one of them.
Just a reminder folks:
If one song could change a million votes in November, what should you do?
Pass it on of course!
Goper’s Lament (Hard to be a Republican)
This is so cool, though I just know it wont work on my pink bubble imac at home.
Anybody want a pink bubble imac?
WOW
I am entirely impressed
I thought the numbers were a remarkable invention, but now you’ve gone and invented the motorcar. Sorry for all the silly fonts but I HAD to try it out.
Welcome to de-lurk land slimywit -
Not sure if this has been said:
FITZ!
hooooodoggie!
(preview shows fitz as bold. let’s submit and see….)
Oboy, can’t wait to see Sharkie’s reaction!
Blank K.
definitely shows bold – but what about colors and strike through *ilson ?
Nevermind, way out cool reload “new”, got it! So what civil gathering in the ME been bombed out today. Refuseniks unite!
Love the ability to edit since I’m the king of typos.
lotus @ 75
Sharkbabe will be all over everything
and it will be FABULOUS
(sorry, still playing!)
Millineryman @ 78
No comment just testing this out. Great addition. Seems to work well
watching protest @ Beirut UN Bldg as it grew yesterday – those were solidly middle class folks – T-R-O-U-B-L-E !
Just testing.
Lieberman
Lamont!!!
Weird cuz in Preview I can see the strikethru and underline formatting but not after submitting.
Millineryman @ 78
Well, I’m happy for you, Millineryman, but when I hit “edit this comment,” it just gives me a fresh comment box. Has anybody figured out whether this is an IE trait or what?
I have to say I’m becoming a huge Glenn Greenwald fan. He writes in a way that even I can understand and he thinks in the most logical and sane way. He has another excellent post this morning about US and the middle east.
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/
pusspissy french moi @ 71
could well be. Heck, even the first ones had 266mhz G3, whilst my ‘MainStreet’ is a lowly 233. How much RAM in her?
EDIT:
http://www.everymac.com/system…..c_266.html
now, how do I make that into ‘IMac info’ for short? ahh…baby steps. one thing at a time…
Sweet! New comment toys!
It is truly amazing the oddities one can do with HTML. Most of you on Windows can see a different typeface. Perhaps some MacFolk too …
…and someone still manages to leave the italic tag open ;)
Holy shimoly!
Well, this already seems to be a bit screwed up, someone up there didn’t close an italics tag.
I’ll try it now:
Does that look better? We’ll see.
Hah! Someone beat me to it. Now I’m using “edit this comment”, how ’bout that.
Ipsum dipsum lorum quorum. Ipsum dipsum lorum quorum. Ipsum dipsum lorum quorum. Ipsum dipsum lorum quorum. Ipsum dipsum lorum quorum.
Ipsum dipsum lorum quorum.Ipsum dipsum lorum quorum.
Heh heh, this is fun.
Editing again, the underlined text didn’t seem to work, and now both the underline and strikethrough tags are gone. Let’s try it once again:
This text should be underlined.
This text should be strikethroughed (or is that struckthrough?).
OK, works in preview, now let’s see if it works after posting.
*change scares me, mommy*
Thanks for sharing, *ilson- that is awesome!
Go for it, Sharkie!
medaka @ 62
looks like strike works too
cancel that! it appeared in the preview but not in the submitted message.
when i clicked the “edit this comment” button, that strike tags were gone….
let’s try it manually….
strike
okay, it works in the preview….
but again not in the submitted edit, at least in IE
sorry to quote self, but, dayum, i really want to try use the strike-through thingie…
*lson -
looks like ’sandsskrit’ (can’t rembember exactly…maybe just ’sand’…but yep. I see squiggly embellished text.
I wonder if I’ve got Camino emulating something else?
cathy @ 84
TESTING AGAIN.
Mornin’ Sharkie ! …
Diggin the slick new comment features.
I’m watching the local morning news here in Connecticut (News 12: “As local as local news gets”) and they just ran their latest piece (usually replayed throughout the day) on the Lamont-Lieberman race, including weekend campaign stops, the Times endorsement (!), and a soundbite from each candidate. Ned said, “Too often, Joe Lieberman is undermining the Democratic Party when we need the Democrats to stand up and pose a constructive alternative to the George Bush agenda.” Nice! With only 8 days to go, there’s no question that Lamont is carrying all the momentum. My read of my area tells me that Lamont’s gonna pull it off by a hair…
News 12 also said that Lamont is gonna be on The Colbert Report tonight.
Peace.
Sharkbabe @ 91
ja mon. Then you put the lime in the cocoanut…
watch out fdl! sharkwarning!
Someone said that there was a problem after my post 35. Is it still a problem? I had to feed my toddler, so my edit window has expired on that one. Sorry if I caused trouble, just trying to figure out the new system!
Kludge — it’s either Comic Sans on Windows or Paladino on Macs
It all seems to work fine on my Mac and Firefox.
rats ! the font stuff doesn’t work upon ‘Submit’ yet either
no problemo choochmac — somebody else didnt close italics
Since this is an open thread I’ll mention that those bombs that killed the children in a Lebanese town yesterday morning were made in America…
http://katrinamemo.blogspot.co…..y-and.html
Hey Jamie! It would appear so far that the underline and strikethrough features don’t work. At least on my last attempt, the tags appeared in the editing textarea, and the effects were visible after preview, but not after posting the comment.
One more attempt:
This text should be underlined.
This text should be strikethroughed, or struck through, or stricken through.
Works in preview, so here goes nothin’.
Ed Deevy — that info has been well-commented in here already AND the airplanes that dropped them were US-built F-16s AND Egypt and Israel are the two biggest regular recipients of US foreign aid: $3 billion a year each ! So the US taxpayer paid for the destruction of that building with the dead kids …
*ilson -
I’ll take your word…
Li’l morsel from http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..78_pf.html
Hoooray Jamie!!!!
Hoooray *ilson!!!!
I have even fewer excuses for my errors now.
the tags for underline are U and /U
the tags for
strikethroughare STRIKE and /STRIKEall HTML tags are enclosed with < and >
Test 2, 3, test, 2,3 – By Jove, I thinks she’s got it!
hmmm, taking advantage of open threadedness nature…
I see a direct correlation b/t Bush and Iraq and now all ME and Ballmer about Vista (this is just a few graphs…but check out the framing of the issue.)
http://macdailynews.com/index……nts/10342/
my first blockquote! hooodoggie! and what a way to break my virginity.
Wonder if the inability to edit has to do with that little DISALLOW COOKIES issue I have?
Got this in an email:
36 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71, repeat 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
21 currentlyare defendants in lawsuits, and
84 have been arrested for drunk driving >>in the last year
cbl @ 112
NOT!!!!
hey cbl!
dang gotta go work
now all we need are the emoticons with shades!
From WaPo:
The next bold frontier (and penultimate degradation) will be SmileyFaces … this will lead to anarchy, war and general wingnutterie …
new ned thread
Re: above wrt Lebanon……..and we rebuilt the country with our tax dollars after the last time we paid for Israel to bomb it, are now bombing it with our tax dollars and will likely rebuild it with our tax dollars. Can anyone build a better mousetrap?
*ilson46201 @ 111
*ilson46201 @ 111
We KNOW, *ilson, but what-to-do when what-you-want makes it to Preview but not to the blog?
And god only knows why THAT (my 122) happened . . .
Thanks, Jamie.
That picture makes me laugh and laugh.
Jamie will be working with WordPress on dealing with the underline and strike difficulties … right, Jamie?
*ilson46201 @
111
Ho*dy *ilson, right you are, but try doing this: Type some text, then apply the “U” button to it. Then type some more text, and apply the “S” button to it. Then push the Preview button, and finally push the Submit Comment button.
What I saw was that the text was correctly rendered after Preview, but not after Submit Comment. And then, using the fancy new “edit this comment” feature, I re-opened the comment and saw that the HTML tags had disappeared.
B I U
SCODELINK CLOSE TAGS
Anyone else having a real sloooowwwwF5 refresh today?
If so, I’m wondering if it has to do with the new features?
Awesome
Now all we need is spell check
Yeh, Mad Dogs, me too.
Hadda guess, I’d guess Jamie’s got the hood up and the wrenches and screwdrivers just a-flyin’ unner there again. Bless his good heart.
oh, so if i code it by hand
strikeit should work …
edit: and it did!
Thanks lotus!
Didn’t want it to be me alone with my tubes blocked and trucks honking all over at me. *g*
No worries, Mad Dogs, that’s Mel Gibson everybody’s honking at today.
(mumf mumf mumf)
Format suggestion:
Since the red ink really stands out, the [NEW] tag would probably be less overwhelming if in lower case, and ideally not located right in front of the commenter’s name. Could [New] be placed in the upper gray band but just under the date of the comment instead of ahead of the name of the commenter?
Thanks for the new tweaks and features.
The strike through and underline should work now. It was actually that users who didn’t have an account couldn’t use them as they were excluded from the “allowed tags”. This was a product of the security update for Wordpress and not the new commenting (which made it a nightmare to find LOL).
gack! I can do this. I know I can.
Must. Finish. Coffee. Cool. Down. From. Weeding. Garden.1st.
i think . . .
Jamie @ 135
Okay, let’s take this for a test-drive, if you don’t mind an old commenter at the wheel of this tubes-truck.
As before, they show up fine in Preview, but now to click on Submit . . .
thanks,
WordPressJamie !WOOHOO, thanks, Jamie!
at least I now know why FDL is s-o s-l-o-w today. ev-body’s playin’ wi’ this thang. yeehaw
Is there a trick to “edit this comment” that I’m still missing, Jamie?
OK Jamie — the most needed feature for comments is SpellCheck
apparently not much, lotus.
even I just did it! COURAGE chile…
Adie, what happens on your screen when you hit “edit”?
*ukaob46201
hey! you don’ want to take ALL of the fun outta this, do ya?!
lotus
haven’t a clue. still in cool-down mode, & only 1/2 way thru coffee.
that plus hyperactive genome guaarantees I won’t remember a bit of this in 10 min., but it worked just now by seat-of-the-pants flying….
EXCEPT – I just added this lil’ trailer. in edit mode. Idn’t it just as Jamie says? If you catch the comment before it’s sat there too long as posted, click on
, change the text however you want, then re-submit. I assume the 1st version is scrubbed & new one replaces it. . .
strike?it’s gonna work now, i just know it
oh, and I also like the idea of putting the red [ New ] thingie below the poster’s name, and definitely in lower case … fwiw …
Whoa. Just woke up to a bright wonderful new world. Now, Where’s the coffe? Oh yeah – Jamie fantastic! Thanks. Life just got a little easier, and thats always a good thing.
lotus
one thing that is different – After making my changes to the message text, instead of being presented with
and
I had
&
Y’re pushin’ it hon. Don’t make me go thru this little circle again, or alberto’s never gonna be able to git on here to see what we dooin’. Probably frantic by now(!*#$) *g*
bonus a la lazyadie-flyin’: explanation in the post lost me a bit, but click-&-drag to highlight a section, then punching
or U or B or I or …… does the trick for me yeehaw.
still haven’t tried LINK. Be thankful for small favors ;->
I just read one of the best postings I had ever seen on Kos.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..13132/0506
It’s worth trying out the new commenting features to share with all of you.
I think SusanG is terrific in many of the ways that Jane and Christy are: for them, not only is the personal political, but the political is personal.
Adie @ 149
and
I had
&
Y’re pushin’ it hon. Don’t make me go thru this little circle again, or alberto’s never gonna be able to git on here to see what we dooin’. Probably frantic by now(!*#$) *g*
bonus a la lazyadie-flyin’: explanation in the post lost me a bit, but click-&-drag to highlight a section, then punching
or U or B or I or …… does the trick for me yeehaw.
still haven’t tried LINK. Be thankful for small favors ;->
GOT IT?!
I’m just playing — late to the party, as usual. Darn this gainful employment stuff!
bold
italics
Woo-woo! I’ll wait to try the other features.
oh my, Jamie.
you’ve created a monster in our house.
this is WAY too much fun.
thanksbeuntoyou.
and you, alberto, dubbledareya to catch us marchin’ in lockstep now. we’re goin’ to town in style!
see ya.
HEY lotus!
You hiding under the bed or what?!
Get back out here and PLAY with this thing.
It won’t bite ya!
I’m gonna go away now & let others play….
And I thought when they changed me from a rotary phone to a push-button that was a revolution. Then came voice mail, which permanently altered my insole forever. Now this. So much choice. I’m afraid for my wiring.
Now, Where’s the coffe?
Back on the last thread, Sonoma Rus (329 & thereafter) — hotcakes and biscuits too — knock yo’seff OUT, hon!
And to think – just yesterday I figured out how to do my own HTML links. A short-lived accomplishment.
I'm such a late-bloomer.Woo, shoey — how’d you DO that code thingy? I can’t figure it out yet.
lotus –
just type in your comment, then highlight it and click on
CODE.It’s in the middle box on your toolbar, next tocross outand.
I really was so proud of myself last night with my first HTML link. Now anybody can do it.
The New FDL Edit Option: It’s social engineering for the “net” set.
Ooo, looky, now we got red
artersisksatserinksatsertinksstars!I changed the new to a red * next to the date for new comments. I also uploaded the spell check feature. That works off of an external site (Jacuba). It has been known to have problems with some versions of Opera and Safari. There really isn’t much I can do on that since this is a third party service (that is free LOL). It does have some nice options, including a custom dictionary in it.
Jamie, you da shizzle!
cool – new toys! gotta take it for a spin. at least there’s no caps check – I’d be in big trouble.
punaise – you can check you cap along with your coat.
ok
Hey, fun!billmon
shoephone @ 165
Testing
op99 @ 167
test
Thanks Jamie. This is great for us (usually ) clueless ones. Let’s see if I can link…
Latest mideast news
Hope it works.
Well, in Safari, on my mac, there’s no preview button and when I hit submit (I admit, I don’t submit very well) my comment and the post vanish. I have to go to my menu to get FDL to come back. Anyone else have this prob, ahem, Jamie?
Our wonderful hosts are wonderful for thinking of new ways to make life easier on the threads. Thanks, Christy and Jamie and Jane.
Mommybrain @ 170
I use Safari 2.0.4 on my Mac and I have a preview button. Which version are you using?
A word about the CODE tag. It’s meant to display things that need to line up in columns. Originally, it was intended to allow programmers to show their source code, hence the name of the tag. Here’s an example:
for (ii = 0 ; ii
See how the brackets and the “fprintf()” line up? That’s because the font used is what’s called a monospaced font – all the characters have the same width. Here’s the same code segment in a BLOCKQUOTE tag:
PM G5 & 10.4.7, Safari 2.0.4
Got preview button once page finished loading..
Test
Test
Test
Test
Test
TestTestThanks Jamie!
Wow. Makes me feel like I’m cold lounging in the bird seat.
Jamie, I’ve discovered a problem with how the CODE tag is implemented. The fprintf blocks should be indented three spaces in the CODE version of the segment. They’re not, even in preview. Once I submit, it looks like it does above, except for the half of it that just disappears. If you can, you might want to kill the automatic indenting/formatting in the CODE blocks, and figure out how to deal with all those special characters.
Also, the pointy brackets are interpreted within the CODE blocks, which they shouldn’t be. What’s in the code blocks shouldn’t be interpreted as HTML, even if it happens to be HTML.
I know I’m repeating what I said in the last comment, but it may not all be there and you might not have noticed.
thanks Jamie
Trying this linking thingy. “>Cold Lounging
One word
two words
three words
four wordscode for five wordsgood site
thank you, and I hope I’ve passed the audition!!
blue e @
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Ignore me. I’m just trying to figure out how to work the new stuff.
blue e @
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Here goes:
choochmac @
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http://www.yahoo.com
testing this testing this testing this
testing thisWOWIE!
Hmm. I still don’t see any edit function or change of font. Where the heck are they????
Oh, edit comes after you publish. Very cool. But where are the font options?
I love this. I didn’t think WordPress could get any better. HAH!
Jamie,
May I make a suggestion to add a “Back To Top” link (#header) down here by the text box somewhere, or under it, or sidebar area at the bottom of the page? It would help so much instead of having to scroll all the way back up everytime to get to the new thread for instance.
Second request, to make active links a different shade from normal or hover, right now anything just underlined looks like a link at first. Thanks! And great job, we appreciate everything you do so much.
Jenny, things like font sizes and colors still need to be manually coded in. As *ilson explained up thread, almost all HTML markup tags will render if coded in.
testing comment capabilities
testing
strike outcool!blue e @ 176
Very cool.
Only, what’s with the box thing?
Shez -
Thanks for the tip. I have to read upthread for sure. I’m sure someone else has asked the question! (HMTL impaired here…) :)
Oh, so you can’t entirely delete a comment once entered. Only edit. OK, learning curve here.
bold
blue
werks!
heh
bold
blue
werks!
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Huh, does it take 5 minutes for the standard typeface to take hold? The default font looks strange, odd typeface, odd spacing. Heck, this can’t be right. You shouldn’t have to do HTML to get the typeface we used to have….
*ilson. You’re gloating. :)
Yup, sure am !
Testing
Testing again
*SHAKES FIST*!
Why is my 185 funky typeface and my 188 perfectly spaced and standard???
Why, why, why????
Here’s a link: RedStateBlues
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tihse newfeat ures maek commmentin gso much more better. now
we will all look back at this day & be soooo proud.
thanks Jamie ;->
I like it
testing
http://action.eff.org/fisa
okhow do I edit my comment
ok, how do I edit this comment