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The damn html editor doesn't work either. Neither does bold, italics, underline,
strikethrough, nada.I'm going to use the buttons supplied in the editor to get the text effects.
This is bold.
This is italic.
This is underlined.
This is
strikeout.In the editor it's doing exactly what I would expect.
ETA:
So bold and italic worked fine. Underline and strikeout don't show up in the published post. But when I edit the post, the underline and strikeout are still in evidence in the editor.
Interesting.
(I'm a developer some of the time. When I say something is interesting it's generally not good for the users.)
This time I'm going to put the UBB markup in by hand.
This is bold.
This is italic.
This is underlined.
This is
strikeout.ETA:
That works!
I take full responsibility for this double post.
ETA:
Something else that's MIA is notification that a post has been edited.
test - bold
test - italics
test - underline
test - strikeouttest - colour
This without the leading space inside the square brackets: [ s]strikeout[ /s]
should give you:
strikeoutThis: [ u]underlined[ /u]
should give you: underlined
I'm not using any buttons. I'm typing the markup in directly. It comes naturally to me anyway since I use html when I'm blogging and wikitext when I'm wikifying. Occasionally I mix them up but that's what edit buttons are for.
ETA:
The code tags don't work. You should be able to surround the markup with code tags and have it actually publish the tags instead of interpreting them. Instead the text inside the code tags simply disappears along with the tags themselves.
Incidentally I notice one or two things have disappeared from Your Menu. I know there was an option called "Toolbox" there yesterday. Have I been a bad boy?
So I guess that counts as an "improvement".
Now, for the fun part. Click on "enable rich text". Instead of going back to the way it was, the box will display text with endless sidescroll until it encounters a carriage return.
The line spacing will also go haywire.
Then, when you click "Preview Comment" the text in the comment box (where you can type and edit your post) will be displayed quite differently from the way you typed it.Yeah, I guess we can!
Not much use though.
That first line doesn't look centred to me - too far right.
This software is awfully buggy!
This is the only way I've been able to correctly format quotations I've copied from other webpages, and indeed, from posts on babble threads. Otherwise, as you can see throughout babble, the line breaks are shambolic. The software cannot correctly paste copied text. This should be straightforward, I would think. I don't know why it is so poor.
More than anything, however, there should be some indication, out of courtesy if nothing else, from the developers as to what bugs have been recorded and what is being looked at. Because there is no way to know if our comments are being considered--least of all by the fact that nothing has been fixed...
It's not built from scratch. It's Drupal (this is a link) with customization. Quite a bit of customization, I'd say.
Drupal is definitely not the best forum software available, in my opinion. I think that SMF is far superior to Drupal in it's functionality. I think they chose Drupal because it's an integrated website software, rather than just a foum software.
That's pretty cute, M Spector!
RE: edits: as someone who frequently posts before thinking, I'm sure not going to miss that little tattle-tale stamp every time you needed to change something. Or the multiple stamps left by people who never figured out that you could delete the extraneous ones. It made the posts look garbagey.
[ 16 November 2008: Message edited by: jas ]
[ 16 November 2008: Message edited by: jas ]
[ 16 November 2008: Message edited by: jas ]
By the way, you CAN currently tell here if a post has been edited in most cases, by looking at the date and time of the post: if it is chronologically later than the subsequent post, then you know it's been edited. If it's not later than the subsequent post, you won't be able to tell, but in that case, why would you care?
I posted twice on one thread, and the first post was okay, but the second one had tons of sidescroll. And the link feature doesn't work at all.
Hey, M. Spector. Is that a bug, or a feature?
Drupal is alright, and Internet Explorer sucks big time (although, it is the default far to often with too many users).
However, I am wondering about the layout and the content. Either Canada is really depleted of progressive bloggers, or else rabble isn't attracting enough people who should otherwise be participating in these forums.
That's been happening to me since new babble was released, but I didn't know how to describe the problem. Thanks for doing it for me!
I killed one frilly process with taskman, and that sped things up a bit. But it was definitely this forum's pages that were taking the performance hit for some reason
I nominate this for a high priority fix.