Spoiler Test by Haken

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Spoiler Test

POSTED BY: HAKEN
UPDATED: Monday, June 3, 2002 02:52
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Friday, May 31, 2002 10:45 AM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

This is a test of the spoiler feature.

Select to view spoiler:

Someone will die in Firefly at mid-season.

This is only a test, but I think the spoiler is real.

Might as well test the tweaked quote.

Quote:
All good things comes to an end, but the end is just the beginning.

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Friday, May 31, 2002 10:47 AM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

This is a reply and the spoiler should carry through.

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:
This is a test of the spoiler feature.

Select to view spoiler:
Someone will die in Firefly at mid-season.

This is only a test, but I think the spoiler is real.

Might as well test the tweaked quote.
Quote:
All good things comes to an end, but the end is just the beginning.

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Friday, May 31, 2002 10:49 AM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

Try some bold.
Try some italics

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Friday, May 31, 2002 10:54 AM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

Anymore requests?

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Friday, May 31, 2002 12:32 PM

JONWES

That spoiler thing is too cool!

Bows in awe of Haken's coding abilities.
I'm a graphic designer, but I've never gotten too much into the tech side of the designing to much, just the graphics. I taught myself how to code HTML and a little java and that's it. I'm impressed.

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Friday, May 31, 2002 12:33 PM

SHUGGIE

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:
Anymore requests?

Ok - do a handstand and a double back-flip. Oh you meant..... never mind

Let's try this spoiler thing then

Select to view spoiler:

Everyone in dies in the pilot and is replaced by the cast of Friends

Shug

Her lips were saying 'No' but then I looked into her eyes
... and her eyes were saying 'read my lips'
- Niles Crane

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Friday, May 31, 2002 12:36 PM

SHUGGIE

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:
This is a test of the spoiler feature.

Select to view spoiler:
Someone will die in Firefly at mid-season.

This is only a test, but I think the spoiler is real.

Might as well test the tweaked quote.
Quote:
All good things comes to an end, but the end is just the beginning.

Oops! When you reply a message you get the post in 'original format' in the ORIGINAL POST box - so I can see the spoiler in plain text below.

I don't think you want that do you?

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Friday, May 31, 2002 12:38 PM

SHUGGIE

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:
Anymore requests?

Actually a 'preview' button would be nice. I know you can edit a post - but there's a chance someone might have seen it by then if you made a mistake.

It's coming along great though - appreciate the work you've put in - really do.

Shug

Her lips were saying 'No' but then I looked into her eyes
... and her eyes were saying 'read my lips'
- Niles Crane

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Friday, May 31, 2002 2:35 PM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

I'll see what I can do.

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Friday, May 31, 2002 3:23 PM

SHAMUS

Select to view spoiler:
Quote:
Originally posted by shamus:
Select to view spoiler:

That is interesting. If I "reply with quote", I can see Shamus' spoiler text, but I can't see it when I highlight it in the regular message. Of course, Mac does do some things differently with respect to color. Of course, my post is IN the spoiler and it shouldn't be.

Now to test one one other little thing.

Select to view spoiler:
Tieka sharing a with everyone.

/:>Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.

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Friday, May 31, 2002 5:56 PM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

Does the spoiler thing work for you? Since I don't have access to a MAC, I really have no idea what this site looks like on a Mac.

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Friday, May 31, 2002 8:39 PM

CHARLIEBLUE

Hi, y'all! Thought I'd drop in here if you don't mind.

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:
Does the spoiler thing work for you? Since I don't have access to a MAC, I really have no idea what this site looks like on a Mac.

I'm running Mac OS X, and your tests all worked fine, but Shamus' just turned into a "Highlight with mouse to view spoilers" and one bar.

By the way, if you ask me (which, granted, you didn't), the site looks perfectly lovely on a Mac.

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Saturday, June 1, 2002 4:01 AM

SHUGGIE

just trying something

Shug

Her lips were saying 'No' but then I looked into her eyes
... and her eyes were saying 'read my lips'
- Niles Crane

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Saturday, June 1, 2002 3:54 PM

ZICSOFT

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:
Try some bold.
Try some italics

So you wrote all the BBS software yourself? Impressive.

But can we lighten up up on the effects? Italics don't need to be a special color.

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Saturday, June 1, 2002 3:59 PM

ZICSOFT

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:
This is a test of the spoiler feature.

Select to view spoiler:
Someone will die in Firefly at mid-season.

This is only a test, but I think the spoiler is real.

Select to view spoiler:

God, I hope not. The first time he did it, "make the audience love the character, then kill them" was bold and original. But he's done it so many times now, it's lost its impact.

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Saturday, June 1, 2002 4:00 PM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

Quote:
Originally posted by Zicsoft:
So you wrote all the BBS software yourself? Impressive.

But can we lighten up up on the effects? Italics don't need to be a special color.

Yeah, wrote every single line of code that drives this baby. Really can't see paying money (which I have little of) for something that I can write myself.

As for the italics, it's a different color because of the stylesheet. I'll fix it at some point.

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Saturday, June 1, 2002 4:54 PM

NOVAGRASS

Quote:
Originally posted by Zicsoft:
Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:
This is a test of the spoiler feature.

Select to view spoiler:
Someone will die in Firefly at mid-season.

This is only a test, but I think the spoiler is real.

Select to view spoiler:
God, I hope not. The first time he did it, "make the audience love the character, then kill them" was bold and original. But he's done it so many times now, it's lost its impact.

Select to view spoiler:

I totally disagree (seems like we'll be doing this a lot, Zicsoft

). It was ever Joss's intent to make his deaths bold and original. All of the deaths he has orchestrated (man... I make him sound like a hit-man!) have been vital to the plot. It was never his intention to make the audience close to the character and then kill them just to spite them. That's a pretty horrible thing to think, really...

And he's only really done it twice.

--Dylan Palmer, aka NoVaGrAsS--

"Blood just kept pouring out of them, you'd slip in it half the time, find out bloodbath is not just a figure of speech."
-Zoe; Firefly, "Serenity" Shooting Script.

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Sunday, June 2, 2002 8:13 AM

ZICSOFT

Quote:
Originally posted by Haken:
Yeah, wrote every single line of code that drives this baby. Really can't see paying money (which I have little of) for something that I can write myself.

Well YABB is freeware:

http://www.yabbforum.com/

But it's a Perl/CGI thing, and you seem to be into ASP. Never mind.

What do you use for a message respository? Do you use XML at all?

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Monday, June 3, 2002 2:52 AM

HAKEN

Likes to mess with stuffs.

Quote:
Originally posted by Zicsoft:
But it's a Perl/CGI thing, and you seem to be into ASP. Never mind.

What do you use for a message respository? Do you use XML at all?

It's not that I'm into ASP as opposed to Perl/CGI. And, in fact, some of the early codes for this site was written in Perl/PHP. It just so happens that the server that this site is hosted on doesn't support Perl and PHP, so I wrote everything in ASP instead.

I don't use XML to store content, but I do use it for something else (read below). All content on this site (except images) are stored on a SQL server, including the messages.

This baby has an n-tier architecture, which means that it'll scale very well (although no reason to).

As for XML, yeah, I've written some routines that'll allow me to syndicate, export, and even control certain things on this site using XML (like posting a news item, message, etc.).

Want FIREFLYFANS.NET news headlines to show up on your phone? Or better yet, access headlines through the use of VoiceXML. I can make that possible. Though, it's really beyond the scope of this website.

Besides, no one is going to take advantage of the XML stuff anyway. And those that do will probably just use RSS Monkey to process the XML instead of writing something of their own.

Anyway, don't want to bore you with all this tech stuff. I'm not much of a tech guy (I majored in English). I'm just a fanboy trying to build the best fansite I can, and this is what I came up with.

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