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| How To Do Comments in HTML on Groklaw |
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Wednesday, January 16 2008 @ 05:14 PM EST
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So many have asked how to leave comments as HTML that we decided to show you. We have a new static page, A Basic HTML Tutorial, so you can reference it any time you wish to.
It's not hard. And you don't have to use everything we show you. If all you want is to learn how to leave a link, it's there. But there's more too, for those who are interested, a quick crash course which Erwan and I -- mostly Erwan -- put together for you. He taught me almost everything I know about HTML, and he makes fun of me all the time when I goof, and I still don't know half what he knows, so I asked him to build on the article I started, and he surely did.
You don't have to use any of it, by the way. Plain text is fine with me, and don't be intimidated or feel pressured to do your comments in HTML. What matters is that you contribute what you know or find. I care about that above form.
This tutorial is only if you wish to know how to do it, and I've seen enough requests that I realized we should make it available. We also explain what works on Groklaw and what doesn't, for those who already know HTML but bump into our quirks. Enjoy.
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| Authored by: Briareus on Wednesday, January 16 2008 @ 05:21 PM EST |
thanks.
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scary times are never dull[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: jto on Wednesday, January 16 2008 @ 05:22 PM EST |
OK, I tried to go to the linked page and get:
Access Denied
Access to
this page is denied. Either the page has been moved/removed or you do not have
sufficient permissions. I am logged on to my Groklaw id. ---
Regards,
Jim Elliott [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Briareus on Wednesday, January 16 2008 @ 05:22 PM EST |
For your offtopic needs.
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scary times are never dull[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Briareus on Wednesday, January 16 2008 @ 05:24 PM EST |
thanks.
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scary times are never dull[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Toon Moene on Wednesday, January 16 2008 @ 05:58 PM EST |
Hmmm, let's try this:
INTEGER*8 I, NSIZE
PARAMETER
(NSIZE = 33 000 000_8)
DIMENSION A(3*NSIZE), A1(NSIZE), A2(NSIZE),
A3(NSIZE)
EQUIVALENCE (A( 1), A1(1))
EQUIVALENCE (A(
NSIZE+1), A2(1))
EQUIVALENCE (A(2*NSIZE+1), A3(1))
DO I = 1, NSIZE
A1(I) = 0.0
A2(I) = 0.0
A3(I) = 0.0
ENDDO
DO I = 1, 3*NSIZE
A(I) = I
ENDDO
DO I = 1, NSIZE
IF (A1(I) .NE. A( I)) CALL ABORT
IF (A2(I) .NE. A( NSIZE+I))
CALL ABORT
IF (A3(I) .NE. A(2*NSIZE+I)) CALL ABORT
ENDDO
DO
I = 1, NSIZE
A1(I) = 0.0
A2(I) = 0.0
A3(I) = 0.0
ENDDO
CALL SUB(A, 3*NSIZE)
DO I = 1, NSIZE
IF (A1(I) .NE.
A( I)) CALL ABORT
IF (A2(I) .NE. A( NSIZE+I)) CALL ABORT
IF (A3(I) .NE. A(2*NSIZE+I)) CALL ABORT
ENDDO
END
SUBROUTINE
SUB(A, N)
INTEGER*8 I, N
DIMENSION A(N)
DO I = 1, N
A(I) = I
ENDDO
END
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Toon Moene (A GNU Fortran
maintainer and physicist at large) [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: webster on Wednesday, January 16 2008 @ 06:19 PM EST |
..
I have been working on a template in a text editor. I welcome any suggestions.
I basically have the paragraphs set up for various functions. I type into the
ones that fit and then delete the rest of the template. I have paragraphs for
links and block quotes. Then I have more commands ready to cut and paste.
Someone's comment inspired this effort. (This was not produced that way.}
I will reply this with an effort.
I request that someone improve this with the list functions that would result in
a newly numbered paragraph automatically. Thanks.
BEGIN.....Template....
<br>
<br>
<p>1. </p>
<br>
<p>2. </p>
<br>
<p>3. </p>
<br>
<p>?. <blockquote></blockquote></p>
<p>?. <a href="http://www.example.com/">Like
this</a></p>
<br>
<p></p>
<b></b> <i></i> <u></u>
<strike></strike> <a></a> <em><em>
<strong></strong> <tt></tt>
<hr></hr>
<li></li> <ol></ol> <ul></ul>
<sup></sup>
<sub></sub>
END of Template
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webster[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: red floyd on Wednesday, January 16 2008 @ 07:27 PM EST |
If some site is evil, and has a space in the URL, then use a %20 in place of the
space.
In general, any ASCII character in a URL can be replaced with %nn (where nn is
the hexadecimal value of that ASCII character). Useful for things such as
quotes in a string (see Google for an example).
Note that this also solves the "Ampersand problem".
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I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a *CITIZEN* of the United
States of America.
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| Authored by: bbaston on Wednesday, January 16 2008 @ 10:24 PM EST |
| FWIW Department [but results may vary]
To the classic HREF
example
[a href="http://www.example.com/"]Like
this[/a]
add a SPACE after the " and before the closing > as
here:
[a href="http://www.example.com/" ]Like
this[/a]
That little space can make an otherwise broken link - so
it might be worth pointing out in the red help example.
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[I gave up
on commenting out arrow brackets and substituted [ and ] in my examples. ??
Grr.] ---
IMBW, IANAL2, IMHO, IAVO
imaybewrong, iamnotalawyertoo, inmyhumbleopinion, iamveryold [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: juliac on Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 08:20 AM EST |
Great tutorial, nice and simple. I'd suggest that a link to it be added on
the reply form (and perhaps also a prompt there to change post mode to HTML and
to use Preview). It'd also be nice if it were licensed under a CC license that
allows derivative works so that we could modify it for use with non-Geeklog
systems.
Nit-pick: "</p> and </li> are optional" violates my
sense of balance ... but more to the point, they aren't optional in XHTML which
surely someday soon will become the default for markup. Some of us were here
back when there was no </p> tag, but no use forming bad habits in
those who are just starting out.
At any rate, thanks to Erwan for this
very useful document.
-- Julia ---
Have you contributed to
Groklaw lately? [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: ewilts on Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 09:51 AM EST |
Simple answer: bbcode - this module takes plain text and automatically converts
it to html where appropriate. Email addresses and urls are a common use of
this.
Why try and train users (sometimes a lost cause!) when computers can do the job
easily and efficiently? [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: TerryC on Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 12:10 PM EST |
Am I being dense? The fourth bullet under 'The Simple Things' starts off
'Tables', but I don't think the production of Tables is described.
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Just think; if Microsoft added 'You hereby grant us a license to print money' to
their EULA, it wouldn't change it's meaning a bit.
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- Tables? - Authored by: Erwan on Thursday, January 17 2008 @ 12:25 PM EST
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| Authored by: DrHow on Monday, January 21 2008 @ 11:49 PM EST |
It says, "If your url is quite long, please find a natural break point, any
punctuation such as / or & or = and right there, hit the return key to move
to the next line." I would have expected "just after" or
"just before" rather than "right there". Does it make a
difference? If so, the ambiguity needs to be corrected. If not, it would be
better to say so than to leave the reader wondering.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: DrHow on Tuesday, January 22 2008 @ 12:10 AM EST |
under "Important Stuff" a comment to urge use of the
"Preview" button before submitting a comment. In that context, also
note that failure to do so is not irreversible if you get into a botched comment
before someone else responds to it. For the original poster, there is initially
a "Delete" option on a comment. (I have noticed numerous cases where
a poster has corrected a mistake by making yet another post when it was clear
that the poster could have just deleted the original post and reposted with the
correction.)[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 22 2008 @ 12:57 PM EST |
| If you're using Firefox as
your browser, this extension
gives you a WYSIWYG html editor that genearates the html for you. [ Reply to This | # ]
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