Couple of improvements to BBML/UBB parsing

We have a set of new UBB tags available for testing -- people note that as we're testing these, their functionality and looks might change at any time during the next 1-2 weeks, so please, don't adopt the habit to use them in all your messages -- and don't use these tags in your sig as of yet.

First of all, now tags will be rendered only if they are closed properly, so "open" tags wont make the site look funny anymore.

The basic new tags are:

[ u ] for underline
[ s ] for strikethrough
[ pre ] or [ code ] for pasting something you wish to show in unformatted format, with fixed-width font

Furthermore, a new "experimental" tag is added:

[ myimg=(standard|thumb) ]image_id[ /myimg ] -- this will render either a standard or thumbnail -sized image from "my.afterdawn.com" images, using the ID of the image.

The improvements:

[ quote ] will now also include an option to add a nick of the person you're quoting: [ quote=dRD ]text here[ /quote ] (the =dRD part being the improvement)

[ url ]http://linkhere.example[ /url ] works as always, but now you can also have text labels for links, using them like this:

[ url=http://linkhere.example ]An example of a link[ /url ]

And one, weird, experimental case:

You can use color red now in your posts, by using

[ color=red ]the text here you want to have in red[ /color ]

No other colors are supported as of now and trying to use other colors wont render the tag at all

Some examples:

This is [s]strikethrough[/s].

This is [b]bold[/b].

This is [u]underlined[/u].

This is [i]italics[/i].

This is [color=red]in red[/color].

This is [url=http://www.afterdawn.com]A new type of link[/url]

[pre]This is pre-formatted text[/pre]

And this is an example of the "myimg" using "thumb":

[myimg=thumb]31[/myimg]

 

Sweet...once again, you've gone above and beyond expectations. Nice pic as well...wink, wink.

 

very nice addition , you're doing some good work there homeboy

 

Why?

 

All the tags should be capable for nesting, so yes, you can make stuff to appear in bold, italics and red at the same time.

 

Who would even try posting all in red, that is just absurd

 

people are gonna do it Loco, i'd better keep my sunglasses next to my laptop, next to my paracetamol

 

creaky: Don't worry, I have no intention whatsoever to make the forums look like an acid trip from 60s -- no smilies, no avatars and most likely I wont add more than 1 or 2 additional colors available to messages. Same goes for font size changes, I'll most likely add something like [head] to allow making sub-headers for stuff like guides, etc, but no wide range of font size changes you see in other forums.

Call me old-fashioned and I'll show you thousand sites that make a person with epilepsy to have seizures ;-)

 

phew! - old fashioned is fine by me guv

 

Very nice implementations, dRD.

The colour thing also worries me slightly, as I can see some people posting some ridiculously bright messages, and abusing them, but we'll see.

Hotlinking is something I have always wanted when posting in the aD forums, so good going.

 

i've seen a few uses of bold red sentences this morning, its gawd-awful...