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The forum software may convert urls to links with truncated anchor text. The extension may become hidden. Please follow urls of pdf and swf files with the text "(pdf)" or "(flash)". Maybe Philipp should make this automatic.
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Philipp please fix.
change
'Omitting the "http://" prefix'
to
'Omitting the "http" prefix'
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Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this George :)
> Please follow urls of pdf and swf files with
> the text "(pdf)" or "(flash)". Maybe Philipp
> should make this automatic.
Yep, this stuff is best done automatically. As you probably know there are already URL converters when you post a link to a PDF or SWF file here...
The general idea here is that one shouldn't read to a syntax guideline to know how to do stuff... so most features here work simply by reformatting what people already use. So for instance if I'd ever decide we really need italics and bold, then I would probably apply it to the existing *asterisk* or _underlines_ way of doing things. This way, all old comments would immediately "work" and it would remain intuitive for new comments (and you can even disable the feature again and all comments will still make sense). We once had smileys here for some limited time, by converting e.g. :) to, well, an image representing that smile (blogoscoped.com/forum/smileys/smile.gif, simplesmile.gif, angry.gif etc....).
The idea is to not make you think or work (create profile, register, memorize password....) but at the same time, trying to get as many features out of that automatically as make sense and are possible (e.g. country flags based on IPs was a feature temporarily available here). Well, to not make you think about the *forum interface*, so that you can think about the *content and what you want to write and what others wrote* :) |
when i will get an icon beside my name like George R hav :) |
another idea for pdf would be using google docs viewer |
hebbet, that's what already happens...
<< On a related note, in the Blogoscoped forum when you post a link to a PDF, it will automatically be turned into an embedded, expandable Google Docs PDF viewer gadget (with a secondary link to the actual PDF source). You can give it a try by adding a comment if you like. >>
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-10-07-n15.html |
