Okay kids, it's that special time when vm queries the database and replaces some freaky smileytext with reasonable, normal smileytext. Just because we wanted to start out small and manageable, this is the first round of replacements, with the new text in the left column and the smiley in the right:
Does anybody have any pet peeves or anything they desperately wish to change? If so now's the time to pipe up.
Once the deed is done, we'll know it worked if the smilies are on the left and the freak text on the right.
Last edited by livius drusus; 05-30-2005 at 05:28 AM.
I do have one small pet peeve, I'd like to see the smiley text placed in the ALT attribute of the smiley image. That way QR will pick up the smileys and if I'm curious as to what smileytext was used for a particular smiley it's a simple matter of copy/paste.
I do have one small pet peeve, I'd like to see the smiley text placed in the ALT attribute of the smiley image. That way QR will pick up the smileys and if I'm curious as to what smileytext was used for a particular smiley it's a simple matter of copy/paste.
That's brilliant, Zikes. I had no idea it would be so easy to solve that QR problem; we've been bugged by that for a long time. And if you're using Firefox you can right click on a smilie and view 'properties' and the alternate text shows there. Awesome.
I've tested it on my local server and it works, but I have to check something before I upload it. Thanks!
That's what the find and replace is actually for: to update the db so that any instance of the old name is replaced with the new. Of course after the query is run, the old text won't work anymore going forward.
Once the deed is done, we'll know it worked if the smilies are on the left and the freak text on the right.
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Originally Posted by livius drusus
That's what the find and replace is actually for: to update the db so that any instance of the old name is replaced with the new. Of course after the query is run, the old text won't work anymore going forward.
That means in your op, there'll be two smilies, not freak text on the right ...?
In case anyone missed the earlier discussions about this, the idea is that there are numerous standard verbs (such as hug, slap, cry, etc.) for which there is no correlated smilie name (smilietext). For example the smilietext for a hug is currently :hug: not :hug: which makes it hard to guess without using the search pop-up.
So we are going to change the smilietext for the above mentioned smilies to those more intuitive names, and then run a database query to ensure that the changed name doesn't break any of the previous uses of those smilies.
If you think there are any other verbs (or nouns, really) that are or would be common enough to warrant changing, post your suggestions here.
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