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Ed Johnson
04 Jun 2010 00:36. Edited 0 times. (Edit, Permalink)

Any chance things could be tweaked here so we could upload files to the pages we're creating in forum posts? I find it inconvenient to have to upload screenshots elsewhere and then link to them in my posts. Plus, the files will stay linked to the page they're being used on.

If that's not easy or something you don't want to do, how about giving us an upload page here to host the screenshots?

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leiger

04 Jun 2010 04:34. Edited 1 times. (Edit, Permalink)
I'm making changes over at the main location for the NoComment forum now (cyclods), and when everything's working I'll copy it to here. Will add a way to upload files as well.

- Shane

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04 Jun 2010 05:03. Edited 2 times. (Edit, Permalink)

leiger wrote:

I'm making changes over at the main location for the NoComment forum now (cyclods), and when everything's working I'll copy it to here. Will add a way to upload files as well.

- Shane

There, done!

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04 Jun 2010 14:07. Edited 0 times. (Edit, Permalink)

leiger wrote:
There, done!


Very clever, Shane! I think I'm going to like it! I especially like that I can preview my reply and then create a partial quote with a simple copy/paste like I've been doing forever around Wikidot.

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leiger

04 Jun 2010 14:33. Edited 0 times. (Edit, Permalink)
Do you think includes are the best way to do quotes? I'm thinking that it'd be simpler, and would guarantee that the hover popup for "Quote" didn't get too big if it was a long post … but it means that you can't just quote only part of someone's post … you've got to quote it all.

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leiger

04 Jun 2010 14:36. Edited 0 times. (Edit, Permalink)

Ed Johnson wrote:
9 out of 10 stars!

:O Where did I lose one? ;-) Was it the above-mentioned problem of not being able to quote only part of a post easily?

P.S. Replied here because we were getting off topic on the weneed page.

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04 Jun 2010 20:07. Edited 0 times. (Edit, Permalink)

leiger wrote:

Ed Johnson wrote:
9 out of 10 stars!

:O Where did I lose one? ;-) Was it the above-mentioned problem of not being able to quote only part of a post easily?

P.S. Replied here because we were getting off topic on the weneed page.


The downside is that you can only easily quote the last post in the thread unless you plan ahead. Once a user knows the preview trick, and assuming they understand enough basic syntax, it's pretty easy to replace the [[include ... ]] line with the partial quote you want to use.

I would suggest adding a comment that explains this tip (and try to do it in a "condensed" version!)

I really like how you've designed this and for advanced users it's easily a 10 out of 10! :)

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leiger

04 Jun 2010 23:08. Edited 1 times. (Edit, Permalink)

Ed Johnson wrote:
The downside is that you can only easily quote the last post in the thread unless you plan ahead.


Why is that? The Quote link is on every post, not just the last one in the thread :S

Ed Johnson wrote:
Once a user knows the preview trick, and assuming they understand enough basic syntax, it's pretty easy to replace the [[include ... ]] line with the partial quote you want to use.
I would suggest adding a comment that explains this tip (and try to do it in a "condensed" version!)


Wow! I didn't even realise that would work! :D

Where would you suggest that I add that tip? I could add it to the 'post preview' section and say that the post can be copied and pasted to only reply to part of it…

… or I could probably add it to the Quote pop-up. That'd mean people see the tip even if they don't click on the Preview button, but would look messier.

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05 Jun 2010 01:13. Edited 1 times. (Edit, Permalink)

leiger wrote:
Why is that? The Quote link is on every post, not just the last one in the thread :S


I wasn't really clear. What I meant was that it's not that unusual to want to quote bits from multiple posts in a single reply. There's not an easy way to do this unless you plan on that beforehand and copy the text first.

leiger wrote:
Wow! I didn't even realise that would work! :D


It was a happy surprise to me too!

leiger wrote:
Where would you suggest that I add that tip? I could add it to the 'post preview' section and say that the post can be copied and pasted to only reply to part of it…


How would you get it in the post preview section?

I would put it into the reply template as comments. I'll work on adding something to the documentation section that explains what we're talking about with some screen shot support (worth a 1000 words).


leiger wrote:
… or I could probably add it to the Quote pop-up. That'd mean people see the tip even if they don't click on the Preview button, but would look messier.


That reminds me… Can you add a few pixels of padding-left to the pop-up boxes? It would make it easier to slide the mouse into the proper spot to highlight the text before copying.

I would also suggest changing the permalink pop-up text to say Right-click and Copy this link >. I right-clicked the permalink text and copied that a couple of times and kept getting javascript; when I pasted it. :)

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05 Jun 2010 01:53. Edited 2 times. (Edit, Permalink)

leiger wrote:

leiger wrote:

I'm making changes over at the main location for the NoComment forum now (cyclods), and when everything's working I'll copy it to here. Will add a way to upload files as well.

- Shane

There, done!


One minor quibble with the attach files link is that it would be more convenient and more obvious if the link was at the bottom of the page. For consistency, I'd recommend duplicating the printer friendly and upload links on the top of the page and put another copy of them on the bottom of the page.

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leiger

05 Jun 2010 02:36. Edited 0 times. (Edit, Permalink)

Ed Johnson wrote:
I wasn't really clear. What I meant was that it's not that unusual to want to quote bits from multiple posts in a single reply. There's not an easy way to do this unless you plan on that beforehand and copy the text first.

Yes, a multiple-quote button would be nice. Javascript might be able to achieve something like that? Not sure if it has access to the clipboard…

Ed Johnson wrote:
How would you get it in the post preview section?


By adding it to the post:_template page, the same way I've added the text "Post Preview" and the box around the preview :)

Ed Johnson wrote:
I'll work on adding something to the documentation section that explains what we're talking about with some screen shot support (worth a 1000 words).


That would be great!

Ed Johnson wrote:
That reminds me… Can you add a few pixels of padding-left to the pop-up boxes? It would make it easier to slide the mouse into the proper spot to highlight the text before copying.


I think I tried that but it added an extra space on the left of the line, which would have stopped the include from working.

Or maybe it just looked like that. I didn't actually try pasting it in again to see if the space was added to the clipboard. Will see what I can do after saving this post.

Ed Johnson wrote:
I would also suggest changing the permalink pop-up text to say Right-click and Copy this link >. I right-clicked the permalink text and copied that a couple of times and kept getting javascript; when I pasted it. :)


Hmm, that's basically what I've already got. Would moving the link to the next line help, so that it's not all the way on the right? I'll do that after I save this post as well.

Ed Johnson wrote:
One minor quibble with the attach files link is that it would be more convenient and more obvious if the link was at the bottom of the page. For consistency, I'd recommend duplicating the printer friendly and upload links on the top of the page and put another copy of them on the bottom of the page.

Will do.

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leiger

05 Jun 2010 03:08. Edited 0 times. (Edit, Permalink)
I think we should keep this type of quoting mainly for when we're replying to something in a completely different thread. The main advantage of this type of quote is that there's a link back to the original post… but that's not needed when it's in the same thread.

So you'll see me still using the normal quote tags every now and then :)

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