Major Firefox suggestion for board users

[Dagwan]

I am writing this post using a FireFox add-on called Write Area. It's a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor that pops up in a secondary window when (after it's installed) you right-click inside any HTML-ready text area, including this one! It has a lot of the bells and whistles the old board used to have, like lots of colors, background colors, sizes, fonts fonts fonts,

Different justifications,

and lots of other stuff I don't even understand!

And best of all, no HTML knowledge is required!

Woot!

 

[Dagwan]

Using an "insert horizontal line" and cut-and-pasting form a saved document, you can even add a signature!

(Below is what mine looked like on the old board)

Now if only we could get Signatunes to work on Ning...

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[Rich Lane]

That's awesome! I love it.

[Mark Sullivan (Vertiginous Mod)]

Very cool. I'll have to try it out at home; at work I use a bunch of different computers, and don't know if my user privileges would allow me to install it anyway.

[Alan M.]

I am writing this post using a FireFox add-on called Write Area.

Giving this a try...

If this works, it could be quite the bold innovation. If someone's green in the web-coding area, this could really help. I can't underline that point enough. This is no small matter!

[Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)]

Oh, that's sweet as all get-out. Good find, Dag!

[Alan M.]

What I like is, if you copy something and paste it into there, it keeps the formatting of the copied object. That's where I find the code-driven reply box to be a pain...

[Dagwan]

Alan M. said:

What I like is, if you copy something and paste it into there, it keeps the formatting of the copied object. That's where I find the code-driven reply box to be a pain...

You think that's cool? Watch this:

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Jeff of Earth J Custom Posts: 18502 Location: Arlington, TX America Boy! Re: Anything, Everything or Nothing At All « Reply #9105 on: July 17, 2009, 09:13:28 AM » I knew cigarette taxes were high in the Northeast, but this is ridiculous!      Logged To fight injustice; To right that which is wrong; And to serve all mankind.

MarkSullivan Mr. Vertigo Posts: 14229 Location: Charlotte, NC Staying up too late. Re: Anything, Everything or Nothing At All « Reply #9106 on: July 17, 2009, 11:42:22 AM » Quote from: Luke Blanchard on July 17, 2009, 09:05:08 AM The 20 most performed operas in North America. Link via Wikipedia. I'm not an opera fan, but I've studied music history.  So it surprised me when I didn't even recognize the Donizetti opera at #20.  Seeing the Italian title didn't help, either.     Logged http://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Sullivan+Trio http://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Sullivan http://www.last.fm/music/Mirage+%28NC%29http://www.last.fm/music/Ras+Majuka

Luke Blanchard Custom Posts: 8317 Location: Melbourne Re: Anything, Everything or Nothing At All « Reply #9107 on: July 17, 2009, 02:13:15 PM » Wikipedia's article on the opera picks out Una furtiva lagrima as a famous aria, and I've definitely heard that before. They don't say how they calculated which operas are most performed in the US, so there's no way of knowing how much effort they put into getting it right. I imagine the time frame chosen would make a difference, whether they counted productions or performances, and whether they only counted productions at opera houses. (edited)     Logged

Luke Blanchard Custom Posts: 8317 Location: Melbourne Re: Anything, Everything or Nothing At All « Reply #9108 on: July 17, 2009, 03:04:59 PM » So that's what that is. For me it's one of those piece of music you know without having any idea where you know it from.     Logged

Doctor Hmmm? Ready for my Closeup Posts: 9861 Location: Bristow, Virginia Re: Anything, Everything or Nothing At All « Reply #9109 on: July 17, 2009, 06:14:57 PM » "My tape ran out halfway thru "Suddenly Susan", so I grabbed the fi...     Logged "Look!  Godzilla!  Look!  Rodan!  Look!  A three-headed dragon!"  -- Action Lad totally geeking out at his first exposure to Godzilla

 

That's half a page of a thread from the old site!

[Travis Herrick (Modular Mod)]

Wow, that is really nice. Thanks for the heads up on it.

[Rich Lane]

Just remember when posting that way that you are in essence stealing bandwidth from the site you are copying from, at least for any images you are hot linking to. More, if the site you are linking to alters or removes those images, those changes will be reflected on the page you posted to.

[Alan M.]

Dagwan said:

You think that's cool? Watch this:...

That's half a page of a thread from the old site!

Actually, I find that a little more distracting/confusing than neat. But maybe that's just me. .::shrug::.