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Date Posted: 20:05:51 06/14/01 Thu
Author: Brandon
Subject: Added to list, and a complication
In reply to: Gary Funk 's message, "New idea" on 18:43:17 06/08/01 Fri

>I have my message board set up as Forum index format

>Medium and Reply format Verbose. When someone replies

>to a message, I'd like the reply text to be in the

>"Subject" only and eliminate the "Message" field. This

>will do away with the need to click on a reply to read

>it.

When relocating the message to the subject we run into the complication of length -- we can crop it to insure it's short enough to fit in the subject length, but this presents an additional problem of HTML being cut in the middle of a tag.

Leaving this possibility would be careless and sloppy, so we can't do that. Limiting this option to forums without HTML in the Subject would be too extreme. So this will probably have to wait a bit until we can provide special parsing of messages -- this is planned to handle many features: tag processing (to check for unclosed tags, script in HTML, etc.), word/profanity filters, and anything else we can think of. B)

We need to account for everything possible with each addition (you can see how some options can get pretty complicated internally). The configurability we provide to forum owners is very demanding to us and our programs. B) I hope we can get this feature in, though.

How would you propose we handle forums with HTML in messages, but not in subjects?

Ttyl.

Sincerely,

Brandon

Voyager Info-Systems

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I would propose you handle forums with HTML in messages, but not in subjects in the same way you handle it now. If it's not allowed, it's not allowed. (NT) -- Gary Funk, 12:01:38 06/15/01 Fri