Hello Roelof! On Friday, September 03, 2004, 7:48 AM, you wrote:
MB>> This is the reason that all the handles on the Smileys page are MB>> enclosed in colons. I hope that 9Val will soon edit the MB>> default.msl file to enclose all handles in colons there. RO> Oh no, not colons, I'd prefer <> (don't know how to call them), RO> those are common used all over the net for this stuuf. So you can RO> use the same signs for TB-users and non-TB-users without confusing RO> them. But I'll never get used to using :looking daft: instead of RO> <looking daft> YMMV of course. For the default.msl, 9Val has to do the editing, except, of course, what we do as individuals on our own copies of The Bat! As "Keeper of the Smileys," I can easily edit every handle of the PCWize Smileys "Smileys" page to have a brackets (< >) enclosure rather than a colons enclosure. It would be a bit time-consuming, but I can do that, and I have the time. Leif would have to reset the code for it to happen automatically that brackets would be supplied rather than colons in future uploads to the Smileys page. When this discussion took place on tbbeta, the consensus--as near as I could assess it--was that the handles, when objected to, were objected to no matter what type of enclosure was used. If you and Marck and Leif think it is appropriate to continue this thread and get the opinions of subscribers to tbudl, I would very much like to have them. As you know, I enjoy the Smiley images tremendously. Originally, I didn't think I would, nor did I think that I would like Roguemoticons in the headers. As it turned out, they are a great delight to me. This is a powerful technique which 9Val has developed and I'm so glad that he and Leif have done all that they have. So, used sparingly and appropriately, I think the Smileys handles will not be too great a distraction to people with Plain Text View on. Therefore, if it's okay, let's have a poll: 1) For Smiley handles enclosed in colons : : 2) For Smiley handles enclosed in brackets < > -- 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
