Hello Allen! On Friday, September 03, 2004, 8:43 AM, you wrote:
MB>> As "Keeper of the Smileys," I can easily edit every handle of the MB>> PCWize Smileys "Smileys" page to have a brackets (< >) enclosure MB>> rather than a colons enclosure. It would be a bit time-consuming, MB>> but I can do that, and I have the time. AD> Not necessarily--a regex find/replace routine could do all the AD> work quite quickly, and I'm sure you'd have no trouble finding AD> someone to give you a hand with that--I for one would be willing AD> and able. Thank you so very much for your kind offer. Let's see how many would truly prefer a change from colon enclosures, and I'll get back to you. AD> As for :: v. <>, I really don't care either way. ... That was the impression I had in regard to many who are using Plain Text View, when the discussion took place on tbbeta. MB>> Leif would have to reset the code for it to happen automatically MB>> that brackets would be supplied rather than colons in future MB>> uploads to the Smileys page. AD> That would be easy enough--although, for rendering on the page, AD> he'd have to use < rather than < or you'd end up with the AD> browser thinking <eating cheese> was an html tag. That could AD> complicate things with html rendering in tb, as well--care would AD> have to be taken to ensure the html viewer separated <html> tags AD> from <using emoticon> tags. That would ultimately be 9val's AD> problem, I suppose. Well, let's cross that bridge when we come to it. I do greatly appreciate your thoughtful input, though. And here, your tag line: AD tagline> To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of AD tagline> its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little AD tagline> guessing game; the ideal is to suggest. -Wallace Stevens You are quoting one of my favorite poets here, and somehow it seems tangentially like a cookidence, given the topic of our discussion. Anyway, I do love the quote. -- Best regards, Mary (PCWSmileys Administrator) http://www.PCWize.com/thebat/PCWSmileys.php The Bat! 3.0 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.00.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
