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Chris Maunder wrote: it may encourage HTML spam. Large, bold, colourful text splattered all over the page.
We certainly don't want pages with distractingly large, bold, or colorful items like these[^], for example.
I think you've got the whole idea reversed. The background - ie, your stuff - is supposed to be subtle and unobtrusive so the content contributed by the members can catch, direct and control the reader's focus.
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Chris that is just a sig poking fun at the whole argument. I used Shog's WYSIWYG to make that and as you will see: it is size 18 bright yellow text, which was done at the click of a button (and then changing 7 to 18)
Brad
Australian
- Captain See Sharp on "Religion"
any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.
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In the lounge I just replied to 'guiqul163' inline with Simmon's post. Now first off note that it is positioned as though I had posted to John directly, but then on further inspection look at the subject....
Something just went crunch.
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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Mate Chris is all powerful, right under Bob, I'm sure he could locate it
Brad
Australian
- Captain See Sharp on "Religion"
any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.
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Bradml wrote: Chris is all powerful,
Indeed, but what if he hasn't had his or a proper yet?
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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S Douglas wrote: had his or a proper yet?
Then we are all doomed!
Brad
Australian
- Captain See Sharp on "Religion"
any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.
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Bradml wrote: Then we are all doomed!
I'm sure if discovers Chris messing with the servers without having consumed the proper drink yet there will be adverse consequences.
This doesn’t quite count as post padding does it?
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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S Douglas wrote: This doesn’t quite count as post padding does it
Not by my standards it doesn't
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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Bradml wrote: Not by my standards it doesn't
I thought Australians only had standards covering beer?
I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:
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That and women.
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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All fixed
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Thanks.
Brad
Australian
- Captain See Sharp on "Religion"
any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.
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Are the sunspots at the height of their 11-year cycle, by chance? The Forum Bug™ has been popping up more often than normal.
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Michael Dunn wrote: The Forum Bug™
What is wrong with WYSIWYG?
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No, I've been travelling. As soon as my eyes are off the servers they go nuts.
I'm back in the office and am a mere 15 minute drive from being able to physically kick them. They should be much better now.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It would be nice to have the ability to upload a translation of the source code and receive credit for it. Say you see an article in VB.NET, so you download it and convert it to C#, because you happen to use that. It would be nice to be able to upload it for others to use and receive credit for it.
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agreed. What you can do is post the ported code on the message board with an appropriate subject. Not ideal, but for articles that aren't generating a steady long term message stream it can work reasonably well.
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Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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Perhaps then linking to it in the original article... I like this idea.
Brad
Australian
- Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript"
A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
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I like it. Added to The List
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I assume the translation would have its own score for voting purposes? - for example, in case the translation was poor, you could vote 5 for the article, but 1 for the translation?
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I think it would be very cool if the CP home page had a "Goto Random Article" button. You click the button and are taken to some arbitrary article. It would be fun to use every now and then. I think that if you are on the "C#" homepage, then you should only be taken to articles in the C# category. Likewise for ASP.NET, or Architect, etc. If you're on the 'All Topics' homepage, then you can be taken to any article on CP.
What do you say?
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Josh Smith wrote: I think it would be very cool if the CP home page had a "Goto Random Article" button. You click the button and are taken to some arbitrary article. It would be fun to use every now and then. I think that if you are on the "C#" homepage, then you should only be taken to articles in the C# category. Likewise for ASP.NET, or Architect, etc. If you're on the 'All Topics' homepage, then you can be taken to any article on CP.
What do you say?
Doesn't Feature Article and Editors Pick meet your criteria?
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Michael P Butler wrote: Doesn't Feature Article and Editors Pick meet your criteria?
Sort of, but not completely. There are probably many great articles on CP that I'll never read just because I would never happen to find it. True, the Feature Article and Editors Pick help to shine light on the exceptional ones, but what about the rest? What about the not-so-excellent-but-still-interesting ones that will never be put in the spotlight? I'd like to have a fun way of randomly finding some of those articles.
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I think Feature Article actually is random.
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