Gizmogrifying posting Tags
Created | Updated Sep 3, 2003
Use of tags in postings
Your ACE will have shown you the smileys, as wel as some other obvious pages. To use these tags in your own postings you just have to write the right codes.
The parser reads your postings and tries to find the tags. If a resolveable link has been found it will be replaced with a html link in the page as your browser receives it.
Resolveable links mostly use 'less then' and 'greater then' brackets ( '<' and '>' ). The exceptions are for entries, personal spaces, help pages... and plain URLs.
These are easy to find and to use in your postings.
Email links are formulated more complex using mailto:[email protected] and will not work correctly. Another branch with some problems seems to be the named entries such as smileys. Also pointing to someones posts is not realy obvious.
The parser uses two activating tags for these links:
< . / > U 2 2 2 2 3 6 < / . > leaving out the spaces will lead you to the personal space of the researcher who taught us how to train Cheese.
This shows up as <./>U222236</.>, hmm not anyway impressive how about this one:
<./>U222236#gent</.> or <./>MA222236&show=100&skip=0?type=2</.>
Or even <./>A1012654#Cheese</.> however this last one only works for entries with coded sub anchors. The writer of the page should have written a line containing <A NAME="Cheese"/>. If this anchor not exists the link will not work, <./>A1079822#Bleu</.> does however.
Obvious the human reader will interpretate the link correctly. And while that is what it is all about you are free to use <computer> <pencil> <doorbell> or whatever non existing link you like. The parser can not create the actual links, the human reader does.
It is concidered polite not to force surfers to another skin so if you try to create a full URL use <./>http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1163404</.>. For external links one could note they are going external for example with the note <earth>
<./>http://www.communicationdesign.com.au/albatross</.>.
Do not tell me that this is obvious the following <./>http://www.savethealbatross.org</.> links to H2G2.
Your ACE will have shown you the smileys, as wel as some other obvious pages. To use these tags in your own postings you just have to write the right codes.
The parser reads your postings and tries to find the tags. If a resolveable link has been found it will be replaced with a html link in the page as your browser receives it.
Resolveable links mostly use 'less then' and 'greater then' brackets ( '<' and '>' ). The exceptions are for entries, personal spaces, help pages... and plain URLs.
These are easy to find and to use in your postings.
Email links are formulated more complex using mailto:[email protected] and will not work correctly. Another branch with some problems seems to be the named entries such as smileys. Also pointing to someones posts is not realy obvious.
The parser uses two activating tags for these links:
< . / > U 2 2 2 2 3 6 < / . > leaving out the spaces will lead you to the personal space of the researcher who taught us how to train Cheese.
This shows up as <./>U222236</.>, hmm not anyway impressive how about this one:
<./>U222236#gent</.> or <./>MA222236&show=100&skip=0?type=2</.>
Or even <./>A1012654#Cheese</.> however this last one only works for entries with coded sub anchors. The writer of the page should have written a line containing <A NAME="Cheese"/>. If this anchor not exists the link will not work, <./>A1079822#Bleu</.> does however.
Obvious the human reader will interpretate the link correctly. And while that is what it is all about you are free to use <computer> <pencil> <doorbell> or whatever non existing link you like. The parser can not create the actual links, the human reader does.
It is concidered polite not to force surfers to another skin so if you try to create a full URL use <./>http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1163404</.>. For external links one could note they are going external for example with the note <earth>
<./>http://www.communicationdesign.com.au/albatross</.>.
Do not tell me that this is obvious the following <./>http://www.savethealbatross.org</.> links to H2G2.
