You know where buttons are useful? Mobile devices. It's more of a pain to type HTML on a gimpy keyboard.
Clearly you should thank Scott for forcing you to create new software for your smartphone that would allow you such functionality, or alternatively evolve better thumbs.
Adam, you realize, you are being the guy who complained when the Citgo sign went up and complained when they wanted to take it down. I specifically warned against being that guy. I explicitly retold the story to warn against being that guy. Yet, you are being that guy! Seriously.
Also, I just realized you are using tags like p and div in your example up above. What are you doing? The only tag you should ever need to type by hand in this forum is img. The quote link will take care of the blockquote tags for you. Every other tag is unnecessary.
You know where buttons are useful? Mobile devices. It's more of a pain to type HTML on a gimpy keyboard.
Clearly you should thank Scott for forcing you to create new software for your smartphone that would allow you such functionality, or alternatively evolve better thumbs.
Adam, you realize, you are being the guy who complained when the Citgo sign went up and complained when they wanted to take it down. I specifically warned against being that guy. I explicitly retold the story to warn against being that guy. Yet, you are being that guy! Seriously.
Again. If the people didn't complain about a typo on the sign, or the wording of the sign, this is not at all same thing.
Anything? Sometimes, I'm away from my computer and browsing the forums.
Having the buttons would actually allow users to make significant posts from mobile devices. In any event, it's a example of the utility of a button.
Haven't we had this exact argument before?
I never understood the desire to type anything significant on a mobile device. Like those crazy people who type big long emails on their Blackberries. Are they crazy?
Even with buttons its a huge pain in the ass. Also, most of the buttons won't even work on mobile phones since you would need a special set of mobile buttons that are big enough to touch.
And again. The only tag you ever need to type is the img tag.
You know where buttons are useful? Mobile devices. It's more of a pain to type HTML on a gimpy keyboard.
Clearly you should thank Scott for forcing you to create new software for your smartphone that would allow you such functionality, or alternatively evolve better thumbs.
Adam, you realize, you are being the guy who complained when the Citgo sign went up and complained when they wanted to take it down. I specifically warned against being that guy. I explicitly retold the story to warn against being that guy. Yet, you are being that guy! Seriously.
Again. If the people didn't complain about a typo on the sign, or the wording of the sign, this is not at all same thing.
It is. They are complaining about change. There are positives and negatives to any change. If we were making the change in the reverse direction people would make the opposite complaints. The world changes. Just deal with it or do something about it.
Anything? Sometimes, I'm away from my computer and browsing the forums.
Having the buttons would actually allow users to make significant posts from mobile devices. In any event, it's a example of the utility of a button.
Haven't we had this exact argument before?
I never understood the desire to type anything significant on a mobile device. Like those crazy people who type big long emails on their Blackberries. Are they crazy?
Even with buttons its a huge pain in the ass. Also, most of the buttons won't even work on mobile phones since you would need a special set of mobile buttons that are big enough to touch.
And again. The only tag you ever need to type is the img tag.
I've coordinated outbreak investigations via email on my phone. Sometimes, you need to type a lot on your phone.
But it is true that the need for manually typing HTML is largely obviated. That's a pretty convenient change in Vanilla 2.
You know where buttons are useful? Mobile devices. It's more of a pain to type HTML on a gimpy keyboard.
Clearly you should thank Scott for forcing you to create new software for your smartphone that would allow you such functionality, or alternatively evolve better thumbs.
Adam, you realize, you are being the guy who complained when the Citgo sign went up and complained when they wanted to take it down. I specifically warned against being that guy. I explicitly retold the story to warn against being that guy. Yet, you are being that guy! Seriously.
Again. If the people didn't complain about a typo on the sign, or the wording of the sign, this is not at all same thing.
It is. They are complaining about change. There are positives and negatives to any change. If we were making the change in the reverse direction people would make the opposite complaints. The world changes. Just deal with it or do something about it.
And you'll note that I'm not engaging in a complaint anymore, as it's pointless although you seem intent on nettling people about it. Lack of knowledge about HTML and how to properly write it is now an issue for some people, myself included. So unless you want the forum filled with clumsy attempts all over the place, I see no problem in focusing questions and testing in a single thread. Nor do I see the point in you continuing to complain about it.
You clearly think that if someone doesn't know HTML, or doesn't know it well, or wants the convenience of a button to do the typing, then tough shit, they're on their own. All I did was start a thread geared at others (and myself) to figure out how some things are different than they were. I'm adapting. Clearly other people already found the thread either useful or worth their time.
Do I have complaints about the change? Fuck yes. But I'm not bitching about the change anymore. I'm figuring out the best way I can to learn and adapt and continue to be part of a community that I enjoy interacting with. in fact, I'm doing exactly what you suggested and you're still giving me grief for it.
Will I continue to poke fun at you for being an elitist snob in most of your responses? EDIT: Additionally, all that /p and shit that was in my examples of blockquoting were added after I posted. Something else that the forum hiccuped on for some reason.
I still don't understand why you are going crazy about how hard it is to learn HTML when the only thing you ever need to know is the img tag which you can copy/paste from imgur.com, which you should use anyway. I can only imagine how much screaming there would be if you had to do a definition list.
I still don't understand why you are going crazy about how hard it is to learn HTML when the only thing you ever need to know is the img tag which you can copy/paste from imgur.com, which you should use anyway. I can only imagine how much screaming there would be if you had to do a definition list.
I going crazy because that information is not clearly presented other than in random threads.
But every image uploading site ever has a section that says "forum embed code". And for everything but pictures, it just works. Hey, Scott, if I made an addon that added <img src=" before and "> after every word that ends in ".jpg"; Would you use it?
But every image uploading site ever has a section that says "forum embed code". And for everything but pictures, it just works. Hey, Scott, if I made an addon that added <img src=" before and "> after every word that ends in ".jpg"; Would you use it?
I thought about that. The problem is that unlike with videos, sometimes you do just want to link to the image. The images will automatically get resized for width, but not for height. You can't have it both ways.
Do I have complaints about the change? Fuck yes. But I'm not bitching about the change anymore. I'm figuring out the best way I can to learn and adapt and continue to be part of a community that I enjoy interacting with. in fact, I'm doing exactly what you suggested and you're still giving me grief for it.
Here's comes Rubin, in control, Knows HTML but he's still an asshole.
Okay, it was a toss up between that joke I swiped from Grey, and this -
This is kind of a non-issue. Every HTML tag you could ever need is at your fingertips with a simple Google search. The barrier to learning them is trivial. Typing them out takes very little time - even when we had buttons, I usually typed the tags because it was just easier.
The tags you *need* for posting on the forum are a very small subset of HTML code. It is not hard or complicated to learn and remember a few tags. No one is asking you to code an entire website in your forum post.
I don't get how buttons for formatting will make a post made from a mobile device any more "significant." If you need emphasis, that's a short and simple tag. Otherwise, WTH are you trying to do from your Droid?
Using tags such as italics and bolding is bad. We should be able to have a custom stylesheet that we upload specifically for our profile, which allows us to use classes and div tags to use proper semantic HTML as per the more recent standards.
Hey, hey person. Hey. Here's a pro brotip. In this case, 'em' stands for emphasis, 'i' stands for italics. Also, the <i> tag is outdated, don't use it, just use <em>.
HTML is horrible! why is it A BAZILLION tags instead of one?!
Lol block-level elements. You don't need to put a cite tag in a blockquote. It's just a special tag to cite someone. You also don't need to emphasize/colour/enlarge/whatever text, there are just tags to do so (most btw are outdated, just use styles if you can, fuck greentext btw, this is not 4chan).
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Having the buttons would actually allow users to make significant posts from mobile devices. In any event, it's a example of the utility of a button.
Haven't we had this exact argument before?
Even with buttons its a huge pain in the ass. Also, most of the buttons won't even work on mobile phones since you would need a special set of mobile buttons that are big enough to touch.
And again. The only tag you ever need to type is the img tag.
But it is true that the need for manually typing HTML is largely obviated. That's a pretty convenient change in Vanilla 2.
You clearly think that if someone doesn't know HTML, or doesn't know it well, or wants the convenience of a button to do the typing, then tough shit, they're on their own.
All I did was start a thread geared at others (and myself) to figure out how some things are different than they were. I'm adapting. Clearly other people already found the thread either useful or worth their time.
Do I have complaints about the change? Fuck yes. But I'm not bitching about the change anymore. I'm figuring out the best way I can to learn and adapt and continue to be part of a community that I enjoy interacting with. in fact, I'm doing exactly what you suggested and you're still giving me grief for it.
Will I continue to poke fun at you for being an elitist snob in most of your responses?
EDIT: Additionally, all that /p and shit that was in my examples of blockquoting were added after I posted. Something else that the forum hiccuped on for some reason.
<img src="before and "> after every word that ends in ".jpg"; Would you use it?Okay, it was a toss up between that joke I swiped from Grey, and this -
The tags you *need* for posting on the forum are a very small subset of HTML code. It is not hard or complicated to learn and remember a few tags. No one is asking you to code an entire website in your forum post.
I don't get how buttons for formatting will make a post made from a mobile device any more "significant." If you need emphasis, that's a short and simple tag. Otherwise, WTH are you trying to do from your Droid?
P.S. Pete, get a laptop.
NOTE: Use the HTML column, not BBCode column.
Let's test it. *Italics*. **Bold**. ***Bold italics***.
I'm doing this from memory.
Damn it, tabs just skips the focus to the post comment button.
* Try a list.
* Another list thing.
How about [a link](http://www.google.com/)?
EDIT: It seems you need to add something to the conf/config.php file.
$Configuration['Garden']['InputFormatter'] = 'Markdown';There should be a tick box saying which one you want.
Also there's no way to preview edits. Hmmm.
Too bad html support of this is so gimped. I could have Nineless levels of fun with the HTML I know that a retard with buttons couldn't do.
Will this show?