Bold, Italics and Underlining

[Knyght]

I'm wondering if it'd be possible to improve the "insert bold/italic/underlined text" functions.

For instance, on DLP when you highlight some text and then click on bold you can actually see the bolded text in the text box rather than symbols. And if I copy and paste an italicised sentence from a Word document onto the site, it shows up italicised automatically. Something like that would make it easier to see whether you've actually used the function properly (at least if you've done use the preview post feature every time) and I figure it'd be a godsend for writers.

Would something like that be possible on this forum?

 

[Watashiwa]

It's possible, but I'm not sure how to implement it. You're right that it probably would be a good feature to have.

I'll look in to this.

 

[Rising Dragon]

I wouldn't mind shortcut key commands for bold/italics/underline. It was one of the few things I liked about a vBulletin-powered forum.

 

[PCHeintz72]

It's possible, but I'm not sure how to implement it. You're right that it probably would be a good feature to have.

I'll look in to this.

If you implement that, can you potentially see about having that as a user option... I'd rather my post edit box *not* do that.

 

[NuitTombee]

I can see it being somewhat useful, but it's just a click away to use the Preview function.

 

[ArchfiendRai]

I'd like this. It would be far easier to click ctrl 'I' or something similar than to type out [/i ] every time like I've been doing.

 

[PCHeintz72]

I can see it being somewhat useful, but it's just a click away to use the Preview function.

Preview is more useful to my personal workflow... but I've no clue how others work.

For large scale BBCode generation, I use an actual true stand alone BBCode reader and editor... for small stuff, I generally do not care enough.

The issue to me is most forums do not support the full BBCode syntax, but a mere subset of it. as such, not all codes are supported. I would rather see all codes inside the post edit box to know what my intent is, not have it auto interpreted by a forum.

 

[chronodekar]

It's possible, but I'm not sure how to implement it. You're right that it probably would be a good feature to have.

I'll look in to this.

If you implement that, can you potentially see about having that as a user option... I'd rather my post edit box *not* do that.

I am of a similar opinion. I much prefer to use the 'preview' feature.

-chronodekar

 

[Rising Dragon]

Same here.

 

[Shirotsume]

Same here.

here here

 

[Knyght]

Bah. Weirdoes. :sleepy:

I can see it being somewhat useful, but it's just a click away to use the Preview function.

It's not something I'll do as standard. Sometimes I'll double check so I'll click on it but most of the time I just post automatically and then see I to go back and make edits.

And the biggest asset would be for the writers who post stories. I've only put a story in Previews once but having to go through and edit every single use of bold and italic was annoying as hell.

 

[Rising Dragon]

I'm just used to using BBcode directly. All of my chapter documents are written with such in mind, and therefore the forums that I post to that translate it directly screw that all to hell. I can't be the only person who does that, and so it'd be troublesome for some people to adjust to.

 

[chronodekar]

Does anyone remember the technical reason why we disallowed HTML in posts? Because, when it was enabled, I was able to insert a timer for the 'favorite author' contest.

And if we can re-enable it, perhaps some of us could embed a google docs copy of the story? i.e. upload it to google docs, share it publicly and embed it in a post here. Might make the formatting problem a bit more tolerable.

Then again, as a google docs user, I could simply be biased.

-chronodekar

 

[Shirotsume]

I disabled HTML in posts because it allowed ALL html in posts- this includes embed and iframes, which is a colossal, staggering security hole, since you can include any website in a post, even without making it visible to post-readers.

Imagine meatspin embeds in posts. Now remember that meatspin and the like are ultimately harmless, and there are sites out there that, if loaded, will completely fuck your computer.


ANYONE who could register could do that.

It was just waiting for some butthurt little kid to try and get revenge.

 

[chronodekar]

I disabled HTML in posts because it allowed ALL html in posts-

It was just waiting for some butthurt little kid to try and get revenge.

And THAT is indeed an issue. Was there no way to 'limit' the HTML to certain websites/links?

-chronodekar

 

[Shirotsume]

I couldn't find it. I welcome Wata/ES to try and find a way though. If they could whitelist <a>, that alone would fix half the issues still left on the board.