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I rewrote the code behind the posting mechanism in .Text to allow for basic HTML in the comments now.

You can add hyperlinks with targets and hrefs (<a href="http://my.url.com" target="_new">) as well as ,,,,<blockquote>, and .

The system should be smart enough to remove any garbage, but it's beta so there's bound to be some bugs. If you have any trouble posting comments, please use the comment button up top to let me know.

Thanks!
SaaM Technical Staff

If you are a .Text blogger, you too can add these controls by following the ReadMe.txt included in SaaMComboPack.zip

posted @ 9/27/2004 8:35:00 PM

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Maura says:

on 9/28/2004 3:19:00 AM

The day that I can start a post off with the words "I rewrote the code behind the anything" is the day that Satan will have to pull on his woollens, because Hell will have frozen over. I'm in awe. Good on ya!

Bryant Likes says:

on 9/28/2004 1:06:00 PM

Cool!

But is is safe?

:)

Bryant Likes says:

on 9/28/2004 1:07:00 PM

Looks like it is. Great job!

Robb Allen says:

on 10/4/2004 6:55:00 PM

DaBlog of Ma' Mind says:

on 10/7/2004 9:17:00 AM

David D. says:

on 10/7/2004 12:25:00 PM

Got it all BUT the HTML enabled...no errors, but nothing HTML'd in any post??

All files in skin\controls....lines in web.config. Any ideas? So far I'm batting 66% :P

Robb Allen says:

on 10/7/2004 12:31:00 PM

Make sure you change your PostComment.ascx file's directive

Control Language="c#" AutoEventWireup="false" Inherits="SaaM.Web.UI.Controls.PostComment"

david d says:

on 10/8/2004 9:58:00 AM

That did it....did I miss that in the install directions? :$ :P

Apprec. the insight....Test post worked fine, but nothing already posted??

Robb Allen says:

on 9/28/2004 1:12:00 PM

The code is open so if anyone can find errors or improvements, I'm all ears. I had to deal with some pretty bitchin' Regular Expressions and while they can make text manipulation a breeze, it's easy to misstype a \s instead of \S and end up consuming characters you don't want.

In one of the first builds, I ended up matching tags that started with a b because I didn't require the RegEx to look for either space or the closing > immediately after the matching character.

It's hard to see that sometimes.

Robb Allen says:

on 9/28/2004 1:13:00 PM

Oh, yeah. Version two will probably try to ensure a matching tag as well so I don't get bold text all the way to the end when someone forgets to close.

DaBlog of Ma' Mind says:

on 10/6/2004 6:30:00 AM

David D. says:

on 10/6/2004 6:36:00 AM

Reading these docs wrong? or is the PrevNext.ascx file missing???

Robb Allen says:

on 10/6/2004 6:41:00 AM

Oops. Sorry about that David. It's been fixed, try redownloading it.

My bad!

Robb Allen says:

on 10/8/2004 10:49:00 AM

That's because the information that is put into the database is filtered at post time, not presentation time. From now own, everything should work. I've discovered a small bug (probably won't affect most users) so pay attention to any release changes,

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