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Posted on 09/28/2001 3:11:48 AM PDT by John Robinson

A few changes have been made to the forum over the past couple days.

A sample customized style sheet:


BODY
{
    BACKGROUND-COLOR: ivory
}
EM
{
    FONT-STYLE: normal;
    BACKGROUND-COLOR: #eeee00
}
BLOCKQUOTE
{
    FONT-FAMILY: "Bookman Old Style"
}
BLOCKQUOTE BLOCKQUOTE
{
    BORDER-TOP: black thin solid;
    PADDING-BOTTOM: 1%;
    PADDING-TOP: 1%;
    BORDER-BOTTOM: black thin solid;
    FONT-STYLE: italic
}


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To: John Robinson
Just let it be known, and told near and far, that Laz and JohnRob locked horns, and LAZ WON! ;^)

(poke poke poke) :o)

81 posted on 09/28/2001 4:45:26 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: John Robinson
Thanks. Having given your HTML filter a little thought, I suspect you now merit the official title of Lord of Perl Recursion.
82 posted on 09/28/2001 4:46:14 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: Lazamataz
Uh, yeah. ;-)
83 posted on 09/28/2001 4:46:51 AM PDT by John Robinson
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To: Hugh Akston,dennisw
I'm using IE 5.5 and I get a web page warning "Page Cannot be Displayed." I haven't tried using Netscape. I'm leaving for the weekend (mountain cabin--no phone--no TV) and will try your suggestions when I return. Thanks
84 posted on 09/28/2001 4:47:09 AM PDT by Movemout
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To: Lazamataz
"But I am doubling up on them."

Laz FYI Exlax is NOT a recreational pharmaceutical, so I would reconsider the "doubling up" thing

85 posted on 09/28/2001 4:47:24 AM PDT by SERE_DOC
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To: cantfindagoodscreenname
What is a reply spoof? I guess I'm not guilty of doing one since I don't know what it is.

If you don't know what it is, you've clearly done it, and OFTEN!

86 posted on 09/28/2001 4:47:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: SERE_DOC
Laz FYI Exlax is NOT a recreational pharmaceutical, so I would reconsider the "doubling up" thing.

"Depends" on your definition of fun.

Pun intended.

87 posted on 09/28/2001 4:48:19 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: George W. Bush
Perl simply rocks.

But I can't take all the credit for most of the work is done by HTML::TreeBuilder. All I did was write a little function to traverse the tree and deal with the nodes (keep, toss, etc.)

The bulk of the work was coming up with a list of allowable tags/attributes. It's a hash (tag) of hashes (attributes). The values can be regular scalars (an action code) or code refs to dynamically take action or even change the parameter's value.

88 posted on 09/28/2001 4:53:59 AM PDT by John Robinson
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To: Lazamataz
post #87,

"Depends" on your definition of fun."

Please remind me to never party with you, ok?

89 posted on 09/28/2001 4:55:26 AM PDT by SERE_DOC
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To: John Robinson
Lovely! I am bookmarking & bumping.
90 posted on 09/28/2001 4:56:29 AM PDT by alley cat
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To: John Robinson
If you want to try it, copy the sample style sheet I posted above and change the color, then upload it

I will do this and experiment. But this will only effect how I see things. So if I highlight in light yellow only I will see it. And others who like my style sheet and upload it for their own use.

If you come up with a really snazzy style sheet, and don't mind sharing, I will make it the default style sheet.

I'm probably not knowledgeable enough to do this


91 posted on 09/28/2001 4:57:56 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: John Robinson
If you want to try it, copy the sample style sheet I posted above and change the color, then upload it

I will do this and experiment. But this will only effect how I see things. So if I highlight in light yellow only I will see it. And others who like my style sheet and upload it for their own use.

If you come up with a really snazzy style sheet, and don't mind sharing, I will make it the default style sheet.

I'm probably not knowledgeable enough to do this


92 posted on 09/28/2001 4:59:38 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: John Robinson
BUMP for later reading and analysis.
93 posted on 09/28/2001 5:03:17 AM PDT by TKEman
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To: John Robinson
No more time wasted on "font fixed?". My vote for best change.

I will still close my tags, though. Not a bad habit to hang out with.
94 posted on 09/28/2001 5:03:44 AM PDT by Flyer
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To: Lazamataz
If you don't know what it is, you've clearly done it, and OFTEN!

Oh, my goodness! Do you THINK so? LOL!

95 posted on 09/28/2001 5:07:41 AM PDT by cantfindagoodscreenname
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To: John Robinson
The bulk of the work was coming up with a list of allowable tags/attributes. It's a hash (tag) of hashes (attributes). The values can be regular scalars (an action code) or code refs to dynamically take action or even change the parameter's value.

I thought so. What a delightful little problem! Ah, but the feeling of satisfaction when it finally works...

Battle of the FR Heavyweights: Laz "Perverse" Mataz vs. John "Recurse" Rob

96 posted on 09/28/2001 5:14:37 AM PDT by George W. Bush (my money is on JohnRob)
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To: John Robinson
"it will be client-side"

That answers one of the two questions I was going to ask, hopefully the other one hasn't been flogged to death already. Will it at some point be possible for the server side software to convert line break and paragraph breaks automatically, so that we can just hit Enter rather than having to manually tag each break?

I was going to ask if that was something we could implement in our style sheets, but seeing that they're client side only I guess it's not possible.

One other suggestion, if it's something you can implement easily, would be to add a replacement for blockquote -- something easier to type than the word. Is it possible to create a "virtual tag", maybe something like "bq" -- that your server side filter would expand to "blockquote"?

I know that last one sounds trite, but I think it would be one of those minor niceties with the potential to make at least one part of life easier for lots of folks, and it would also quite likely pretty up the place as more folks used the tag.

97 posted on 09/28/2001 5:16:21 AM PDT by Don Joe
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To: Joe Brower
"So MARQUEE has been disabled, eh? I just tried it and this appears to be so. Bummer."

Yeah, bummer that it took so long to get it to the disabled state. :)

(My eyes are already starting to not hurt...)

98 posted on 09/28/2001 5:19:38 AM PDT by Don Joe
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To: cantfindagoodscreenname
What is a reply spoof?
Before (when the reply text wasn't indented as it is today) you could, within your own reply, fake a reply from someone else. Sort of like this:

Start of your post
A fake post
The rest of your post

Now it would look like this:

Start of your post
       A fake post
The rest of your post

.. and thus be easier to spot.

99 posted on 09/28/2001 5:20:54 AM PDT by anguish
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To: John Robinson
Polite question: Would it be considered bad form (bannable) to attempt to push these changes to see if/where they have weaknesses? I like doing that sort of thing, but not enough to get banned over :-)
100 posted on 09/28/2001 5:22:02 AM PDT by fnord
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