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| sleeper54 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 3:50 pm |
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: almarsezstuff Additionally, a Member Center post just went up detailing some of the features of the WYSIWYG editor. Hopefully that helps a bit.
-Almar
Member Center...
(yeah, I know: it is easy to find. But maybe one or two do not. Might as well make it easy for everyone at the same time...)
the message says...
"HTML will no longer be allowed in the title of your review from this point forward."
This is the last straw.
I quit.
...tom...
P.S. Seriously: that is a major bummer for me ...and I am sure for many others. The engineers got an explanation..?? Seems it would be easy to make it work there also...
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| popsrocks |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 3:56 pm (Updated: Aug 27 '08, 3:59 pm) |
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Reviews written: 2147 Member since: Aug 25 '02
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
[quote="sleeper54]
P.S. Seriously: that is a major bummer for me ...and I am sure for many others. The engineers got an explanation..?? Seems it would be easy to make it work there also...
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It's a minor simmer for me but I would miss it...
Back to my review. I just noticed that the review I'm working is now back in draft where it should be as I'm trying to figure what's wrong. When I look at it on my profile page there is double spacing between pro and con.
wasup?
pops
looks like I broke the "Quote" feature too!. That one I do have a handle on.
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| pablothegreat |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:08 pm |
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Reviews written: 919 Member since: Dec 05 '07
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Can this new fangled adaptation be rolled back until after the 1st? It is a nuisance to ones of us wanting to submit the last reviews of the month with only a couple of days to do it in.
With my internet connection off and on lately coupled with this, I am ready to throw my hands up! |
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| scmrak |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:14 pm |
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Reviews written: 1358 Member since: Sep 27 '00
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: sleeper54 the message says...
"HTML will no longer be allowed in the title of your review from this point forward."
This is the last straw.
I quit.
...tom...
P.S. Seriously: that is a major bummer for me ...and I am sure for many others. The engineers got an explanation..?? Seems it would be easy to make it work there also...
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Quote: scmrak That's a permanent change. The html code shows up in search-engine listings (My Title Has <I>Italics</I>), and that's presumed to be off-putting to people reading the search results. If it confuses someone who doesn't understand HTML, they might just ignore it. I asked them to also outlaw tildes, but they just laughed at me...
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| jps246 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:15 pm |
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Reviews written: 846 Member since: Jan 25 '01
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: sleeper54 P.S. Seriously: that is a major bummer for me ...and I am sure for many others. The engineers got an explanation..?? Seems it would be easy to make it work there also...
I'd think that it's probably like Rex said...
Quote: scmrak That's a permanent change. The html code shows up in search-engine listings (My Title Has Italics), and that's presumed to be off-putting to people reading the search results. If it confuses someone who doesn't understand HTML, they might just ignore it. I asked them to also outlaw tildes, but they just laughed at me...
My guess is that having the code within the title probably doesn't optimize the page for search engine review and ranking and Eps wants to make sure the pages are as google friendly as possible.
Jeff
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| almarsezstuff |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:17 pm |
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Reviews written: 3 Member since: Nov 05 '07
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Thanks, Rex. Here's a live example of why we've removed HTML in the titles:
Example in Google
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| jps246 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:17 pm (Updated: Aug 27 '08, 4:20 pm) |
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Reviews written: 846 Member since: Jan 25 '01
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Quote: pablothegreat Can this new fangled adaptation be rolled back until after the 1st? It is a nuisance to ones of us wanting to submit the last reviews of the month with only a couple of days to do it in.
With my internet connection off and on lately coupled with this, I am ready to throw my hands up!
A wysiwyg text editor really isn't anything new on the web. If anything, Eps is probably one of the last websites to upgrade to such functionality. Just a few months ago people were complaining about how arcane our editor was and how they wanted spell checking and other features. Well, you have to make some sacrifices in anything and I'm sure over time the new editor will become second nature when working on reviews.
Jeff
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| carstairs38 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:22 pm |
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Reviews written: 1192 Member since: Oct 03 '05
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RE: progress
Quote: jps246 A wysiwyg text editor really isn't anything new on the web. If anything, Eps is probably one of the last websites to upgrade to such functionality.
Jeff
Actually, The River still doesn't allow bolding, italics, or anything like that in the review or the review title. You can do some links, but I've never tried to see how that works. And they don't have any kind of spell checker anywhere in the process.
Just thought you'd appreciate the fact that we are, and have been, ahead of at least one other site.
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| jps246 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:24 pm |
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Reviews written: 846 Member since: Jan 25 '01
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RE: progress
Quote: carstairs38 Just thought you'd appreciate the fact that we are, and have been, ahead of at least one other site.
lol - you've got me there.
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| pablothegreat |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:25 pm |
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Reviews written: 919 Member since: Dec 05 '07
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RE: progress
Yes but this one has a bug in it or something. I like it if it worked correctly but now it is saying I have an opening b without a closing b which isn't true. I had to take out all html to submit at all.
Also there are no options to use our own html to skip this bug and let us submit without using it.
Don't mean to be complaining but it isn't working correctly so we can submit reviews. Or I could without any html I guess! Quitting for a while and hoping it works next time I try it.
Quote: jps246 A wysiwyg text editor really isn't anything new on the web. If anything, Eps is probably one of the last websites to upgrade to such functionality. Just a few months ago people were complaining about how arcane our editor was and how they wanted spell checking and other features. Well, you have to make some sacrifices in anything and I'm sure over time the new editor will become second nature when working on reviews.
Jeff
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| yoelc |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:25 pm (Updated: Aug 27 '08, 4:38 pm) |
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Reviews written: 11 Member since: Nov 14 '06
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: pilarzmom But why were some of us getting error messages (you have a < b > without a < /b >, for example) when we were using the WYSIWYG editor?????????????
Are you pasting your review from a program when this happens?
EDITED:
You will get this message if you are nesting tags, like this:
test
test
Thanks,
Yoel
Epinions Product Manager
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| pablothegreat |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:27 pm |
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Reviews written: 919 Member since: Dec 05 '07
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
I am, wordpad as I always have. I took out my html and used the html provided but it still said opening b and no closing b.I could not submit until taking out all html in the review.
Quote: yoelc Are you pasting your review from a program when this happens?
Thanks,
Yoel
Epinions Product Manager
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| sleeper54 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:28 pm (Updated: Aug 27 '08, 4:31 pm) |
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Reviews written: 494 Member since: Feb 24 '01
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: almarsezstuff Thanks, Rex. Here's a live example of why we've removed HTML in the titles:
Example in Google
-Almar
I just wanna know how long it took to find a Google search with an Eps URL and with a title using HTML tags as the first hit..??
Kate got an extra hit from me to check the other HTML content of the review. I noticed the first few words of the review body itself are HTML also. But they are not displayed; while 'The Bottom Line' content is displayed.
Anyway . . .change is good.
...tom...
P.S. OK, OK. I do not quit. To the disappointment of many I am sure . . .. ...:minism:...
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| sleeper54 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:30 pm |
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Reviews written: 494 Member since: Feb 24 '01
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: pablothegreat I am, wordpad as I always have. I took out my html and used the html provided but it still said opening b and no closing b.I could not submit until taking out all html in the review.
Uhmmm... Try not adding your HTML tags and use the editor on the site after pasting your 'straight text' content..??
...tom...
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| gamblin_man |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:31 pm |
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Reviews written: 389 Member since: Apr 08 '01
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: yoelc Are you pasting your review from a program when this happens?
Thanks,
Yoel
Epinions Product Manager
I used Update on two reviews today. On each I tried to add a link to another review. One worked fine using the HTML Editor. The other gave me an error of unpaired italics. I backed out of it and tried again, just using Update and then Publish, no changes. Got the same error on it. Send email for link since we can't link to reviews on the board.
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| popsrocks |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:32 pm |
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Reviews written: 2147 Member since: Aug 25 '02
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Now I've really stepped in it!
I'm havin probs again. First I'll mention that everything I have done is directly on site.
I just went to update an older review. Dang I did nothing but add a few words, no bolds not nuttin.
It won't click through because of some kind of existing HTML prob.
Is this going to happen every time we open an old review of ours? I don't know how to bail myself out of that review now. All I want to do is put it back in action.
wasup?
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| sleeper54 |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:33 pm |
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Reviews written: 494 Member since: Feb 24 '01
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RE: progress
Quote: carstairs38 Actually, The River still doesn't allow bolding, italics, or anything like that in the review or the review title. You can do some links, but I've never tried to see how that works. And they don't have any kind of spell checker anywhere in the process.
Just thought you'd appreciate the fact that we are, and have been, ahead of at least one other site.
Mark
All right..!! We sure showed them..!!
...tom...
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| captaind |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:34 pm |
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Reviews written: 1055 Member since: Jan 19 '03
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Not sure if you had the same problem, but I found a [br /] bracket between my opening [b] and closing [/b] brackets, and taking that out solved the problem.
Ah well, might help someone!
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| pablothegreat |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:39 pm |
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Reviews written: 919 Member since: Dec 05 '07
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
I tried that too. It still said the same thing. I deleted all of my html tags, rewrote everything in the new site editor, and it said opening b no closing b. It doesn't like me.
I hate myself for not working longer last night before this happened!
Oh well who needs html. LOL I will just do without html until it gets figured out I guess.
Quote: sleeper54 Uhmmm... Try not adding your HTML tags and use the editor on the site after pasting your 'straight text' content..??
...tom...
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| popsrocks |
Posted: Aug 27 '08, 4:39 pm |
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Reviews written: 2147 Member since: Aug 25 '02
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RE: OK help out ol' pops
Quote: gamblin_man I used Update on two reviews today. On each I tried to add a link to another review. One worked fine using the HTML Editor. The other gave me an error of unpaired italics. I backed out of it and tried again, just using Update and then Publish, no changes. Got the same error on it. Send email for link since we can't link to reviews on the board.
Larry
Hey Larry did the review with the HTML prob already have HTML used in it?
That's where my problem seems to be on the update I'm trying to rectify. I used the I in that one when I first posted it last week. No prob then. Prob now.
pops
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