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Hi.

Please look away now if you don't want to read my whinge ...


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Unfortunately, a few weeks ago HTML tag functionality in our posts was removed by Ash, this site's owner. Recently it was replaced by a very limited poor-man's version which allows bold, italics and underlining and attempts to recognise URLs in our posts, although the latter does not allow us to make regular text in our posts to be made into clickable links.

In my opinion, it's a pity that normal HTML tag functionality wasn't just reinstated to how it was up until a few weeks ago. This would have been an easier and quicker way to return things to how they were - and much more in the spirit of a consistent and engaging web experience.

My perception is that the unrelated issue of spammers and moderation of this web site got muddled into the (IMO hitherto non-existant) issue of abuse of HTML tags within our posts. Again my guess - it was probably very easy for Ash to just switch off ability use of all HTML tags within our posts and so that was done even though, in itself, that did not address by one iota the issue of spammers and trolls.

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The above said, I think this site still serves a need, hope that it continues and that Ash is at least financially breaking even on it.

JimC

Thanks JimC for the explanation. Thought I was losing it.


As Bullfrog demonstrated, HTML code only works for the home page part of the URL.

I Copied & Pasted the following link & enclosed it in parentheses, per Links note. Will it survive?
(http://www.crosswordsolver.org/forum/125088/offset/40)

@Big Dave, re "Testing display of html text:"

Did you simply type the link? My attempts lost everything, but displayed the text portion like your 2nd example. No link.

I'll give it a shot.

Copy & Paste:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si

Typed (ending backslash added):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si/

Typed & enclosed with parentheses:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si/)

OK. No sense beating a dead horse, or half of one.

It's obvious what works. Forget the tags.
Pity. Handier to link directly.

Thanks, guys.

Z

No, I used a site that converts html text into displayable text. there are several around, this is the one I use:

http://www.addressmunger.com/display_code/

and here is another:

http://www.botos.com/eons/convert_04.html

http://www.addressmunger.com/display_code/

http://www.addressmunger.com/display_code/

Thanks BD.
The sites look interesting.

Of course, one can just copy & paste the address. At least the home page is a link.

Thanks for pointing out the issues with the automatic URL linking, we'll get this issue resolved.

The HTML was disabled on the forum as it should have been from the very beginning as it is a security issue.

Hi Ash,

Thanks for responding, but it's not clear whether you will reinstate link capability, or disable it completely.

It's very handy to be able to point someone to a site like Wiki, or a dictionary, to verify an answer.

Sure, Copy & Paste isn't difficult, but it's a lot easier for a newbie to just click on a link.

Hope you do the right thing.

Cheers.