Friday - January 05, 2007

New Blog Feature

SURPRISE! After a great deal of pondering and research, I have decided to answer the request of a large number of members here with a new feature. I have added a WYSIWIG (What You See Is What You Get) editor to the comments page. The comment entry form will now look like what you see below. This is a full-featured editor with all the goodies you’d see in Word or any other high-end text editor.

Now you can format the text any way your little heart desires. You can insert URL links easily and even link to external pictures if you so desire with just a few clicks of your mouse. You can shout in big, bold, red letters and even add a yellow highlighter if the need arises. You can cut-and-paste and even print your comment if the mood strikes you.

For those of you who are intimidated by all this, never fear. If you just want to enter a comment the old-fashioned way, with no formatting or fancy sutff, all you have to do is type in your comment just like before. Easy as π (3.1415926535897932384626433 ... ∞).

There are a couple of things you need to be aware of though: (1) I haven’t moved all the smileys over into the new editor templates yet so there are only a few rinky-dink ones for now - I’ll add the good ones over the next few days; and (2) you are now required to enter a “captcha” before you click “submit.

What is a “captcha”, you ask? It is a little image with some letters and numbers in it that a human has to translate into keystrokes (example: look at the little image box with squiggly lines and “call93” imposed on top of the lines. The captcha text changes for every new comment entry. I have added this to keep spammers out. With the addition of several new features in the editor it becomes a security problem if weener-butt spammers try to load up the comments with their crap. Captchas keep everyone honest and insures it is a human entering the comment and not some stupid spam-bot.

I have also removed the “Preview” button because there is no need for it anymore. What you type and format is what gets displayed. Simply use this editor exactly the same way you use Word or whatever your favorite editor is. Type, highlight, click, done.

Go ahead and use the new comment editor and let me know what you think. I have tested it with FireFox, Internet Explorer and Opera. It should also work just fine with Macintosh users who use Safari. It is not built with any complicated web junk. The editor is written in simple Javascript and therefore should work for everyone. If you do encounter any problems though, send me an e-mail (allan ‘at’ barking-moonbat.com).

Posted by The Skipper     on 01/05/2007 at 06:36 PM   
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