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smilies upper/lowercase issue
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:27 am
by roid
:LOL:
:LOL:
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what i just typed:
:lol: :LOL: :lol: :LOL:
perhaps they should be enabled for upper as well as lower case.
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:24 am
by KoolBear
perhaps
I'll look into it
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 2:04 pm
by MD-2389
I removed a bunch of them before sending the script to Topher over a year ago, simply because I felt it was rather silly to have multiple versions for stuff like
. If you want to add a smiley, click on the smilies on the left side of the post form. It'll insert the smiley into your post automatically.
Re: smilies upper/lowercase issue
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 2:53 pm
by Grendel
roid wrote:perhaps they should be enabled for upper as well as lower case.
I don't see a reason why. Ppl can be expected to know the difference betw. upper & lower case characters IMHO..
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 11:55 pm
by roid
MD-2389 wrote:I removed a bunch of them before sending the script to Topher over a year ago, simply because I felt it was rather silly to have multiple versions for stuff like
. If you want to add a smiley, click on the smilies on the left side of the post form. It'll insert the smiley into your post automatically.
when i type a post, i let go of my mouse and solely just use the keyboard. Until i grab the mouse again to press SUBMIT. Everything i put in i put in, i type. It'd be annoying always using the mouse to "click" emoticons into your post because they always appear at the end of the post,
do you actually click them? I write my posts all over the place, goign back and forward, adding things in the middle, the start, correcting things, rewording things, before i'm ready to hit SUBMIT. So clicking the emoticons is mostly useless to me, as they appear at the end of the post. I run into the same issue when going back to edit a post.
it just bothered me that :LOL: doesn't work, because that's how i always used to trigger the emoticon in the past. I'll relearn it.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:14 am
by KoolBear
It's really not an issue to make the code accept that. Like I said I will look into it. BUT you will probally have to remind me to add it again in the future
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:01 am
by Grendel
Nice -- could I too request some features for my personal needs ?
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:56 am
by DCrazy
Yeah, I need the phpTeaMakerMod... my tea won't brew itself.
And phpTakeComSciFinalMod would be nice, but I don't know if you can get it installed by tomorrow.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:09 am
by Topher
You shouldn't need to edit the code, you can add smilies from the control panel.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:57 am
by KoolBear
That's right Topher, I just got used to the phpbb core to have so few capabilities
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:49 am
by fliptw
the code should be use case insensitive matches to begin with.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:56 am
by Grendel
Actually it would make more sense to have different smileys for "lol" and "LOL", like
and
eg..
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:15 pm
by Richard Cranium
Grendel wrote:Actually it would make more sense to have different smileys for "lol" and "LOL", like
and
eg..
But what happens if you spell it backwards? We might have a few dyslexia people here.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:04 pm
by KoolBear
lol @ RC, umm ya what he said
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:09 pm
by Krom
Just hacking it to case insensitive would be a better idea, cuz otherwise lol LOL Lol lOl loL LOl lOL LoL would all have to be put into the smiles if you wanted to be totally complete.
Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:15 pm
by MD-2389
roid wrote:when i type a post, i let go of my mouse and solely just use the keyboard. Until i grab the mouse again to press SUBMIT. Everything i put in i put in, i type. It'd be annoying always using the mouse to "click" emoticons into your post because they always appear at the end of the post, do you actually click them? I write my posts all over the place, goign back and forward, adding things in the middle, the start, correcting things, rewording things, before i'm ready to hit SUBMIT. So clicking the emoticons is mostly useless to me, as they appear at the end of the post. I run into the same issue when going back to edit a post.
it just bothered me that :LOL: doesn't work, because that's how i always used to trigger the emoticon in the past. I'll relearn it.
roid, if you think thats bad, try getting used to posting on multiple boards that run different scripts that each have their own different calls for emoticons. Ranges from :L: to :lol: to :laugh:.
Don't get me wrong roid, I do see where you're coming from. At the time, I just didn't see the point of having multiple database entries for the same emoticon.