Author: Tim Mirabile
Date: 08:34:33 11/05/99
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I could make hyperlinks active pretty easily if I had a good Perl regular expression to match them. There are a lot of things to consider: Do we want to link only formal URLs like http://www....com/... or partial URLs like www.....com/... How do we recognize when someone puts their URL in parenthesis, brackets, braces, or put periods, commas, exclams, etc. (http://www...com/). without thinking that the end parenthesis or punctuation is part of the URL. How about things like ftp://....., news:...., mailto:...., telnet:// etc.? Adding an FEN to diagram converter wouldn't be too hard either, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. On November 05, 1999 at 10:13:27, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >> But it's not the <PRE> environment that causes the HTML tags to be >> inactive, it rather is the message board script itself that replaces >> every < and > with their HTML entities < and >. > >Yes I noticed it after it came back. This board could use a smarter script with >not only links allowed, but some chess specific enhancements, such as turning >the popular position specifications formats into diagrams (or links to >diagrams), allowing online replay of PGN game, etc. Special editor tokens could >be used for entering manually the board and the pieces which automatically turn >into a diagram. Search feature, at least by author, if not the title and text >keywords, would be useful, too, not only for the current messages but the entire >archive. The downloadable archive sould have the thread granularity (one thread >in one file), not the message granularity. > >There is lots of valuable info stored in these archives , but like a library >without an index and with books ordered by the date library purchased the book >(or some other as useless criteria), much of it goes to waste and, over time, >this discourages higher quality posts, replacing them by the chat-room quality >writing (like this one).
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