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commonality needed for quote, url
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:07 am
by raghavan20
When editing, we have tags such a quote, url and many others.
quote requires string to be put in double quotes but url does not need a double or single quote to wrap it.
I do often forget many of these conventions as these varies between tags, I would request you to use one common format for all tags. thanks.
Re: commonality needed for quote, url
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:49 am
by Chris Corbyn
raghavan20 wrote:When editing, we have tags such a quote, url and many others.
quote requires string to be put in double quotes but url does not need a double or single quote to wrap it.
I do often forget many of these conventions as these varies between tags, I would request you to use one common format for all tags. thanks.
This would require some hacking of phpBB's BBCode handling. Other Forum systems use different BBCode implementations which I have to admit is quite irritating, but the buttons at the top do help

Re: commonality needed for quote, url
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:55 am
by raghavan20
d11wtq wrote:raghavan20 wrote:When editing, we have tags such a quote, url and many others.
quote requires string to be put in double quotes but url does not need a double or single quote to wrap it.
I do often forget many of these conventions as these varies between tags, I would request you to use one common format for all tags. thanks.
This would require some hacking of phpBB's BBCode handling. Other Forum systems use different BBCode implementations which I have to admit is quite irritating, but the buttons at the top do help

not really chris, if you want some custom text as a quote then even if you use quote button, you have to remember whether it should be in plain text or wrapped in single or wrapped in double quote.
the confusion is like this:
javaworld wrote:
or
javaworld wrote:
or
javaworld wrote:
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:51 am
by RobertGonzalez
phpBB code is not easily hacked. And it is not without its gotchas as well, as there is always a chance that hacking something to work in one area could cause catastrophic failure in others.
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 7:27 am
by feyd
Unlike other tags, the quote tag supports tags in its specifier. I'm not wanting to go digging into the codebase just to remove a quote requirement. Not that I won't if enough people want it, I just think we have bigger things to deal with.