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Pet Peeve: Images and Links that don't open to new page

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  • JonnyRayJonnyRay Posts: 1,744
    edited August 2019
    Chohole said:
    JonnyRay said:

    I've gotten into the habit of always setting the new page and image size/link. Once you've done it a few times, it doesn't take very long at all and is more "friendly" for the people reading your posts.

    I also have a habit of always adding links to the products I mention. Or if I'm replying to a question like "Which artists create good medieval buildings?" and I want to mention Faveral, I'll link to their whole catalog. It takes a couple of extra steps, but I think it's a more friendly way to reply. But maybe that's just me. :)

    The one forum software piece I wish was easier was tagging other forum members. It's not too bad for people who's name is all one word, but I haven't figured out how to tag someone like "Chris Palamino" since @Chris Palamino, will only tag someone named "Chris".

    Helps if you spell the name right  Cris not CHris

    Yes, that would help too. laugh

    But even @Cris Palomino won't tag Cris the same way that @Chohole does for you.

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited August 2019

    Ah   I wouldn't ever notice actually,  as I don't have my preferences set up to notify me on mentions. Probably something to do with being two words and not one.

     

     

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  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,896
    edited August 2019

    So, the %20 instead of a space doesn't work? I saw someone put #20, but that's not the right code. I don't want to start an avalanche of notifications...

    Well, maybe one... oh, never mind...

     

    Anyway, about the image links, I always set the New Window_blank, but the first time I try it to test it, it uses the same page, but after that it opens a new tab.

     

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  • L'AdairL'Adair Posts: 9,479

    @NorthOf45, You'll never get the "@" mentions to work when there is a "stop" condition in the name. I think underscore works, not sure about hyphens. Apostrophes definitely don't work. And of course, neither do spaces.

  • GoggerGogger Posts: 2,533
    edited August 2019
    L'Adair said:

    @NorthOf45, You'll never get the "@" mentions to work when there is a "stop" condition in the name. I think underscore works, not sure about hyphens. Apostrophes definitely don't work. And of course, neither do spaces.

    I tried a whole bunch of stuff and could not get the %20, #20, &nbsp, underscore, or 'shifted space' to work in direct edit mode or HTML (source) mode. I even tried just making a link out of their space-gapped name and in editing mode it LOOKED like it worked, but when published, it did not.

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  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,896

    Surprising that the function doesn't work with a name with a space, but the forum software allows you to create a name that amounts to an illegal argument. Depends how the string is parsed. If it stops at the last alphanumeric character, no amount of tweaking with special characters will get it to work.

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