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Common Web Board User Markup

by Simon at 14:40 24/02/05 (Blogs::Simon)

What's your preferred way of marking up posts on whichever web boards you use?

There are a plethora of different approaches, using anything from plain HTML to age old BBS-style *emphasis* marks.

It's about time there was a standard for the basics of markup that are needed in the day-to-day interchange of messages via web boards.

All too often users attempt to employ the markup specific to one type of forum software that they're familiar with on some other forum - and the results can be awful, confusing and tiresome.

This is particularly apparent where folks are trying to share code snippets with each other - who knows if the author will even notice whether the critical double escaping of a \\b in a JavaScript regex has come through properly or not...?

So, tell us your favorite style and invite your friends to do the same.

[Square brackets] or {curly}, %tags% or <?question marks?>?

What's the most intuitive syntax from your point of view?

Join us, as we seek to discover if there is in fact a holy grail to be found in a Common Web Board User Markup language!

--
simon

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Common Web Board User Markup	Simon - 14:40 24/02/05
Re: Common Web Board User Markup	David Crowson - 18:20 24/02/05
[ ] a la pistonheads.... -- bombholio
Re: Common Web Board User Markup	Simon - 19:47 24/02/05
Can you post a few examples of what's possible? -- simon
Re: Common Web Board User Markup	David Crowson - 20:06 24/02/05
err, how do I do that, the functionality here doesn't allow it. Wouldn't it be easier to go there and have a look, pick some posts and to see the source use 'quote message' You can imbed pictures within posts by using [pic]htpp:/asite/apic.jpg/[/pic] that's all i can remember atm.. -- bombholio
Re: Common Web Board User Markup	David Crowson - 20:08 24/02/05
sorry, bit vague, but my mind is pre-occupied with the waiting game atm, will get a decison of where my life is going later this evening..... -- bombholio
Re: Common Web Board User Markup	Simon - 20:17 24/02/05
Fingers crossed then! -- simon
Re: Common Web Board User Markup	Simon - 20:17 24/02/05
It's precisely because they won't get interpreted that you can post the tags here and I'll be able to see their syntax (oo-er - yer syntax is hangin' out) IYSWIM -- simon
Re: Common Web Board User Markup	David Crowson - 20:22 24/02/05
[quote=andy4200]...... one of these. [pic]http://www.triumph.co.uk/images/main_SPRINTST_02.jpg[/pic] :bounce::bounce::bounce: Should be sat in my garage around mid april. Should give me time to run it in before I head to the Alps in June.... wahey roll on summer.[/quote] Looks like this (1st Message, and a perfect example) -- bombholio
Re: Common Web Board User Markup	David Crowson - 20:23 24/02/05
but without the [quote=] bits -- bombholio
Re: Common Web Board User Markup	Simon - 09:44 25/02/05
Ta - that's the stuff. So basically: [quote=username][/quote] [pic]url[/pic] :smileyiconshortcut: What about links? -- simon
Re: Common Web Board User Markup	David Crowson - 15:29 25/02/05
[url]link[/url] -- bombholio
Re: Common Web Board User Markup	Simon - 15:59 25/02/05
Is there a way to provide some specific link text too, or does it just use the URL as the link text? This is very helpful, thanks Dave. -- simon
Re: Common Web Board User Markup	David Crowson - 06:58 26/02/05
ahhh, you seem to have reached the level of my knowledge :) and it's at this point you decide to hire someone else ;-p -- bombholio