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Topic: What happened to the "Quote" button?
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Aaron Haney
Master Film Handler
Posts: 265
From: Cupertino, CA, USA
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 12-11-2001 09:46 PM
A lot of UBB/vBulliten style message boards have a quote button, but this one does not. However, it's easy to get confused and think you saw one here rather than somewhere else, becuase these types of boards tend to look the same.I've sometimes manually entered quotes in my posts here using the [ quote ] tag, complete with markup for the person's name and so on, just like vB 2.0 boards automatically do for you. Like this: quote:
Brad Miller wrote:
I don't know either Joe. If there is such a feature, it must be something that I accidentally hacked out while I was hacking something else in. I'm not really a programmer, I just pretend to be one.
I think it makes it very clear what is being quoted, and where it came from, but it is a bit of a pain to do it manually. It would be nice if the site had a quote button to automatically generated that sort of thing. Many UBB and vB sites do, but for some reason, this one does not.
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Brad Miller
Administrator
Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 12-12-2001 12:18 AM
As far as hacking in the code to do a quote button, that is something I prefer not to do. My reasoning is because in a linear discussion format like this, quoting a post above that you are responding to is not necessary.Some examples: "Yes, there is a Windows version." That would tell you to look directly above at the last post since it is not adressed to anyone in particular, for that is the post my answer is referencing. (No, I have no idea if there is a Windows version or not.) "Jesse, don't you mean Joe?" That tells you that my response is in reference to Jesse's post above. The only time these two will not work is if one particular person has posted multiple times before you in the thread. In that instance it is easy to word your response so that it makes sense. The use of repeating (or "quoting") someone's earlier post, unless it is really far back on the page, just seems to distract. In the case of a response to an older post, Aaron has the best solution.
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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man
Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 12-12-2001 02:39 PM
Hi, Scott.oooooOOOOOOOOoooooo! Good information on that link. Thanks for pointing that out.  I tried Netscape once, it was a later version 6, if I recall correctly. I hated it, as it wanted to hog my computer too much. I uninstalled it and went back to MSIE. So far, I have not had any problems with MSIE that were stated in the link you provided. But sure does raise an eyebrow or two, doesn't it? (maybe I didn't have Netscape configured right, but it sure was an overbearing program.) Cheers. Paul
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