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- CommentAuthorJoshua A.C. Newman
- CommentTimeJul 17th 2009 edited
To make links work, you need to both use HTML and click the "HTML" button below the text field.
To make an HTML link, you need to enclose the words you're making a link in <a> tags. Here's how you do it.
<a href= (the link you want)>The text you want</a>.
So, for instance, let's say you're linking to a picture of a chimpanzee washing a cat. You do that this way:
<a href=http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1392732/Chimpanzee%20Washes%20a%20Cat.gif>picture of a chimpanzee washing a cat.</a>
OK? -
- CommentAuthorJoshua A.C. Newman
- CommentTimeJul 17th 2009
Another possibility is that Greg could install the Markdown Vanilla plugin, which makes it a little easier. Then, you make a [link](http://LikeThis.com) -
- CommentAuthorgreg
- CommentTimeJul 17th 2009
I've considered that plugin, I'll look into it -
- CommentAuthorLyKqiD
- CommentTimeJul 17th 2009
html isnt that hard for the need for a plugin... If you cant figure out how to link something, then you are using the interweb wrong. -
- CommentAuthoreaglerock
- CommentTimeJul 17th 2009
Posted By: LyKqiDhtml isnt that hard for the need for a plugin... If you cant figure out how to link something, then you are using the interweb wrong.
Good luck with that argument. I've been making it for almost a year, and I've gotten nowhere with it. It's essentially the same as the "give your photos distinctive names" argument, which I've also been making since I first showed up. But everyone else wants a gimmicky server fix that allows them to name everything "bike.jpg" or "photo1.jpg" and get away with it, rather than make a modest effort themselves.
It is discouraging.
I have slightly more hope for the people who include HTML in their posts, but post as text; all the need to do is click the HTML radio button to make it work. When I post, "Format comments as Html" is the default setting; Greg, is that a user-specific thing, or is HTML formatting the default for everyone? It's hard to imagine that everyone is actively clicking Text formatting every single time they post. I would guess that most posters don't even look at the formatting option. -
- CommentAuthorgridplan
- CommentTimeJul 17th 2009
Posted By: eaglerock
Posted By: LyKqiDhtml isnt that hard for the need for a plugin... If you cant figure out how to link something, then you are using the interweb wrong.
Good luck with that argument. I've been making it for almost a year, and I've gotten nowhere with it. It's essentially the same as the "give your photos distinctive names" argument, which I've also been making since I first showed up. But everyone else wants a gimmicky server fix that allows them to name everything "bike.jpg" or "photo1.jpg" and get away with it, rather than make a modest effort themselves.
It is discouraging.
If I took that attitude with respect to the bugs I have yet to fix, my boss would fire me out of a cannon and into the sun. There is nothing gimmicky about expecting the part of the system that handles uploads to assign a unique name to to the files it places on the server. That's how it should work. Most people understand that when they upload pics to image hosting sites -- Flickr, photobucket, imageshack, whatever -- they're going to see their pictures, not someone else's. He shouldn't have to plan for the possibility that the file he's about to upload is one the system has already assigned to another user. It's not only unintuitive, it's a recurring cost, one users pay every time they add or update a picture. I can accept that this is a tough nut for Greg to crack or else it would've been fixed by now. When I see someone who doesn't know why the picture he uploaded isn't showing up, I tell him the workaround. But let's not kid ourselves, it's a workaround for a bug or design flaw in the software that handles the uploads. -
- CommentAuthorLyKqiD
- CommentTimeJul 17th 2009
Posted By: eaglerockIt's hard to imagine that everyone is actively clicking Text formatting every single time they post. I would guess that most posters don't even look at the formatting option.
Things could be better explained or made more visible however, it is pretty evident what one must do to format.
And most the time those people are not even using HTML they are simply trying to quote someone without html formatting on. Alittle effort and energy on google will yield almost anyone the ability to use simple html.
As far as the picture uploading bug, I think the amount of effort we have to put in is inconsequential compared to the amount of time and effort it will take to fix it. Although it does seem to generate a lot of threads "Why wont my bike show up?!?"... -
- CommentAuthorJoshua A.C. Newman
- CommentTimeJul 18th 2009
HTML is clunky and counterintuitive. There's no reason forum software shouldn't be able to recognize a link and make it clickable, but Vanilla doesn't do that.
Human/machine interface is a real thing. We shouldn't have to deform our minds and bodies to use our tools.
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