Board Description - HTML (Page 2 of 3)

Post two in this thread concerns removing that, however.

I'm missing something then. I can see where it's suggested, but not actually said.

I would have thought that anybody who has changed the doctype to use xhtml1.1 or who is using content negotiation to serve the pages as xml is not going to make such an error in the first place.

Absolutely agree on that part. I assume that there would still be quite a few other areas that need sanitising too to make everything 1.1 compliant, or has 1.3 progressed in that regard? If anyone, (which is why I mentioned it being a fairly moot argument), makes it fully XML compliant, they'd have far more than just the description to contend with.

Good to know the base system is valid. Be hopes the mod creators keep to that philosophy this time round. Does Opera give more descriptive output that just the parsing error and location, as in the Moz browsers?

oh behave!

How many people really know how to use, for example, an english keyboard to enter foreign characters - let alone certain characters from the English language. Don't we already have a thread about the use of an ellipsis - how would that be entered as a character via the keyboard ? Entities will always be required, IMHO.

You have better faith in the clueness factor of people than I do

Seriously though punbb is used by a variety of people, yes a lot will try cut'n'paste, some will even have heard of the charmap -but others will be just as familiar, if not more so, with the entity reference. I've virtually committed …, along with others, to memory because of the number of times I've had to add it to code.

Having the ability for both is better and covers all bases.

Paul likewise - we must code too much.

Most people will neither know nor care to find out specifics like that. A large percentage of people will expect to type what they please, (within reason), and have it work, without them knowing how or why. You over-estimate the general mindset, methinks.

Why are we complicating things. The baord title has never been an issue so it should be exactly the same as the board title however that works. We can add a bit of help text to the relevant field which reads "(A short line of text describing your board)" which puts it beyond doubt what people are supposed to enter.

Alt + Semicolon (with the US keyboard that's attached to my Mac).

Edit > Special Characters? (or turn on the character palette and input menu).

A relative of mine just received a gift via Amazon; The message on the card was mangled because the "s were replaced with entities. So, I'm at least annoyed by the mangling or entities, one way or the other.

Edit: " " "

I was actually trying to be a little sarcastic in my previous post, but I guess no one picked it up