Hi all, I have enabled limited HTML functionality after having taken note of a couple of folks grousing about wishing they could use it and a significant travail today for one in particular.

Allowed tags:
b,i,u,pre,font size, a, center, body, big, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, href, hr, img, li, ol, p, P align,small, strong, table, td, th, title, tr, tt, ul

<U><font>test test test</font></u>

<center>http://library.thinkquest.org/15074/media/html2.gif</center>

The "BBCode" remains on as well, so do as you choose. Your comments are of course welcome.

Click here for some "How To" info (http://www.web-source.net/html_codes_chart.htm)

BE SURE you check the appropriate boxes just below the field you enter the body of your post in. BBCode remains the default and you will get the HTML code source posted rather than the effects you want if you do not check "Diasble BBCode in this post"

A thanks to member and our internet host mugafuga for taking a moment to discuss enabling this with me so that we get you guys some more functionality and still protect ourselves from being hacked with javascript.

r

On edit-
Make sure in your user profile that you have checked "yes" on the option for "Always allow HTML" or you won't see anything but the HTML source of your posts or others' in HTML Stay tuned and check your work!

Here's what it looks like in HTML

Hi all, I have enabled limited HTML functionality after having taken note of a couple of folks grousing about wishing they could use it and a significant travail today for one in particular.

Allowed tags:
b,i,u,pre,font size, a, center, body, big, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, href, hr, img, li, ol, p, P align,small, strong, table, td, th, title, tr, tt, ul

<U><font>test test test</font></u>

<center>http://library.thinkquest.org/15074/media/html2.gif</center>

The "BBCode" remains on as well, so do as you choose. Your comments are of course welcome.

Click here for some "How To" info (http://www.web-source.net/html_codes_chart.htm)

BE SURE you check the appropriate boxes just below the field you enter the body of your post in. BBCode remains the default and you will get the HTML code source posted rather than the effects you want if you do not check "Diasble BBCode in this post"

A thanks to member and our internet host mugafuga for taking a moment to discuss enabling this with me so that we get you guys some more functionality and still protect ourselves from being hacked with javascript.

r

I was one of those so vexed, and many many thanks! The conversion from HTML to BB is a pain but the conversion of BB to HTML is a real bearcat because it requires rewriting all sentences leading to hyperlinks. BB employs standard colon/link form (an introductory sentence followed by the link itself, as in Here we see it: http://GOPorkersinaction.gov/), while HTML requires writing sentences in which the link is activated through highlighted text, as in Here we see http://GOPorkersinaction.gov/ ( > <a class=) what fascism looks like </a> in Republican disguise.

(BF and italic -- the latter subs for text that would be highlighted -- added for clarity.)

This sort of thing would be difficult enough for anyone but I am (A) a relatively bad typist who types by the classic four-finger newsroom method of old and (B) dyslexic. Dyslexia not only afflicts me with a tendency to transpose letters especially when tired or in a hurry but also makes it profoundly difficult for me to remember arbitrary symbols such as <a href= because -- since the symbols have no meaning in the dictionary sense -- there is no way for me to retain them, either by mnemonic device or by association with other knowledge, which are the only efficient ways dyslexics can learn.

Anyway, thank you again.

This sort of thing would be difficult enough for anyone but I am (A) a relatively bad typist who types by the classic four-finger newsroom method of old and (B) dyslexic. Dyslexia not only afflicts me with a tendency to transpose letters especially when tired or in a hurry but also makes it profoundly difficult for me to remember arbitrary symbols such as <a href= because -- since the symbols have no meaning in the dictionary sense -- there is no way for me to retain them, either by mnemonic device or by association with other knowledge, which are the only efficient ways dyslexics can learn.

There is a free program available that I use - Arachnophilia - which is a powerful text editing program written by Paul Lutus and offered as what he calls "careware" (he is a biting and outspoken critic of Microsoft and the proprietary model for communication tools). Paul is a strong believer that the computer should be a tool in our hands, rather than the computer forcing us to become agents of the machine.

I have an insight that as Microsoft permeates our communications network, it is altering people's perceptions and expectations about life and society. We are becoming agents of everything, rather than tool users. People expect the machine - or organization or government - tells us what to do rather than the other way around. If the tool, or organization or government does not work for us, we are led to assume that the fault is with us - we are "lacking in computer skills." WTF are "computer skills?" The object when using a computer is not to operate the damned computer, it is to get the work done.

With Arachnophilia frequently used strings of text - such as html tags - can be linked to a custom button and thence forth added anywhere in the text with one click. I am an error-prone hunt and peck typist as well, and this has helped me immensely. This also alleviates the need to memorize code, although by now I have memorized it in spite of myself.

I also use Open Office for editing text, another open source alternative to being trapped in the M$ monopoly.

It is a source of chronic irritation to me that the Internet has been made so difficult to use - mostly thanks to Microsoft.

There is nothing inherent in computers that make them any more difficult or complex to operate than an automobile. With a car you have the brake, the steering wheel, and the accelerator. Learning how to use those three, and perhaps how to read a map, allows you to go anywhere. I say "perhaps a map" because I have driven hundreds of thousands of miles all over the country without looking at a map and arrived where I needed to be.

The computer has three things - files, folders and programs. Understanding those three allow one to do anything. Anything that obscures that, or misleads the user about that, or makes accessing and efficiently using those three things and getting work done confusing, ambiguous, complex or difficult has been intentionally added in to the system for the purpose of keeping the user in a state of dependent and helpless consumerism.

Microsoft writes no software. They are using the same software as always - and that software Gates pirated. They hire programmers to write all of the confusing and nonsensical things that appear on the screen, all for the purpose of keeping the user from seeing and using the computer as a tool and to train the person to be an agent of the machine rather than a user of the machine.

Rusty - html not working for me in posts, nor displaying in your post. However - it does display on the "preview post" page. Strange, eh?

BTW, I did uncheck "disable HTML in this post."

Rusty - html not working for me in posts, nor displaying in your post. However - it does display on the "preview post" page. Strange, eh?

BTW, I did uncheck "disable HTML in this post."

Hi,

I am sorry I missed this post somehow. Did you see my later edit to the OP?


Make sure in your user profile that you have checked "yes" on the option for "Always allow HTML" or you won't see anything but the HTML source of your posts or others'