h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Quick question: is there any way to use GuideML in forum replies (like this one)? Or is it just for home pages & entries?

GuideML works only in user pages & entries - basically text only in forums (except for automatic smileys & linked urls)

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OK, I'm daffy. If you'd like to look at a VERY beta version of a GuideML editor for Windows, look here: http://www.h2g2.com/A207596 .

Bruce, if you think this is good enough to mention elsewhere feel free.

Windows users only, alas.

Woooo whoooo!
I've downloaded it & it runs!

I'll give it a bit of a test & let you know how I go.

ta muchly
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Dunno when exactly you grabbed it...I got up to version 0.2.0 before I came to my senses and went to bed last night. It now supports subjheads & pullquotes & pictures too. I dunno how much further I'm gonna push this (I need to get some paying work done!) but it was fun to do that much. And I think it's good enough for my own entries already. But stay tuned...

Oh, phooey. I guess there's just no pleasing some people. Good thing H2G2 doesn't use relative URL's, don't you think?

Alas, sorry...all of my programming expertise at the moment is on the Windows platform. Hopefully if this becomes a popular utility someone will be inspired to do the same for other platforms.

You wouldn't happen to have any idea as to what the heck happened to h2g2 yesterday, would you? The server stopped responding for rather a long time (hours).

I don't know what happened - though I think it would be fair to guess it was something prety ugly. I'd be surprised if there isn't some sort of announcement on the front page once the h2g2 working week starts though.

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I took the time out to render my browser utterly inoperable. It's taken me hours to get it working again. Linux can really suck sometimes.

Yes, I do that, but how do you get a Javascript browser to ignore something that a non-Javascript browser won't? I think it's

Put the HTML for non-JavaScript here,
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but I'm not sure.

If that doesn't work, you could have the JavaScript hide it. Wrap it in a and have the JavaScript hide the whole .

Then, though, you have to worry about the invisibility syntax for various browsers. But if you're catering specifically to JavaScript-capable browsers anyway, maybe a little browser-specific code wouldn't bother you too much.

I get what you mean... like the about:connectionfailed in IE.