Implementing glow tags?

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by rpgdemon

If you're gonna be making all these, PLEASE, write up one for blink. I don't care how you go about implementing it, I want me some blink.

Dude, we already have [glitter] tags. We just don't have a button for them.

Aside from that, while other browsers support blinking text, I believe you have to go through Javascript to do it in IE, which, while I could do it, may not be desirable to the admins.

At the moment, I'm not offering to supply the forum with every effect, since many of them are outright annoying. I just thought I'd offer one effect that's actually pretty cool since I was already playing with it. If the mods and admins would like to have an effect they don't already have, they can feel free to hit me up for it anytime.

[rpgdemon]

But, isn't the point of ANY text effect to be plain old annoying?

Seriously though, I feel like anything but actual text formatting is there just to bother people. (Marquees, et cetera) Why not give the people what they want, and constant annoyance?

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by rpgdemon

But, isn't the point of ANY text effect to be plain old annoying?

Seriously though, I feel like anything but actual text formatting is there just to bother people. (Marquees, et cetera) Why not give the people what they want, and constant annoyance?

Because I'm not forum staff. Not my decision, there, bub. :P

Just because I tossed up some code I basically already had doesn't mean it's going to get used. Synk showed an interest, but it would need shiney, Meister, or Fenris to implement it.

If the team decides they'd be willing to implement other effects, I'd happily work on the code for them. I just happened to already have some and was asking if they'd consider putting it in place.

[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Because I'm not forum staff. Not my decision, there, bub. :P

Just because I tossed up some code I basically already had doesn't mean it's going to get used. Synk showed an interest, but it would need shiney, Meister, or Fenris to implement it.

If the team decides they'd be willing to implement other effects, I'd happily work on the code for them. I just happened to already have some and was asking if they'd consider putting it in place.

I know you're not, but no reason why you can't get a head start.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by rpgdemon

I know you're not, but no reason why you can't get a head start.

*sigh*

I'm trying to be patient about this, rpg, but you're being rather rude. I did up the glow code elsewhere and decided to offer it here because I thought it might be nice. That doesn't obligate me to do more code on request. You're really coming off like you think you have a right to me making code YOU want. I would not be adverse to doing up more code in more of my free time, at my own leisure, but with no guarantee it will even be accepted, and with me having real-life obligations, I have other priorities. If the staff pre-approved adding the code, it would at least mean that my time doing the research and putting it together wouldn't be wasted when I really do not have time to waste, but as it stands, I have no indication of that.

If the staff likes the idea of adding flashing text, I'm open to discussion, but I'm not going out and spending extra time that I don't have doing up code that may not even be used. I offered code I had, plus a few things I knew wouldn't take me long. I did not offer my open services because I simply cannot afford to right now.

[Nikose Tyris]

one sec, I've got the blink text down pat, I think.

<blink> </blink>

There, that should work.

/endarguement.

Edit:
Protip- Marquee is the same thing.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

one sec, I've got the blink text down pat, I think.

<blink> </blink>

There, that should work.

/endarguement.

Edit:
Protip- Marquee is the same thing.

Marquee still works, but blink doesn't in IE, which is what the argument was over. I know from experience it takes Javascript to implement.

The issue is that Synk said it would be desirable if it worked across all browsers. Personally, I don't see why anyone still uses IE, since my experience with IE8 has been utter shit when I've been forced to use it, but if the demand is to support it on the forum, it'll take more work.

Edit: Apparently you can add the functionality to the tag itself in the CSS through a script as of IE5, unless it's been changed. On a break from homework ATM.

[Flarecobra]

Well, Firefox ain't the say-all for everyone. I've had some very bad exparances with FF, that I have not had with IE.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Flarecobra

Well, Firefox ain't the say-all for everyone. I've had some very bad exparances with FF, that I have not had with IE.

That still leaves Opera, Chrome, and Safari.


In all seriousness, though, my main gripe with Explorer is as a developer due to its terrible CSS compliance. Microsoft sees fit to duplicate half of standard CSS in inane custom code. Heck, even basic things like margins vs. padding, which is used in literally every text element. It's fine to want to do your own thing, but that thing should at least be in addition to the standard, not to thumb your nose at it and make developers write two sets of code just to accommodate you at a basic level.

[rpgdemon]

Not to mention that some parts of IE's implementation is just plain broken. Last I checked, if you had a div and set one of the properties to align text centered, it'd align the div centered instead.

In any case, I apologize for being rude, but seriously, most of that was all a joke.