What's the best quote thing to use nowadays?

blizeH

Bump ;(

Stash

Seems we're all waiting for a JS guru to make AJAXQuote do selectable highlights...

chefdelacuisine

i guess this is possible as lang as you use either plain text or html to format comments. if bbcode is used you'd have to re-convert html to bbcode on the serverside to strip the unneeded parts of the comment. the big plus of ajaxquote is that it lets you quote posts with bbcode without losing the formating, however exactly this feature makes it pretty hard to quote selected text only, where bbcode has already been translated to html. also breaks will make some problems.

Stash

Breaks *should* be handled by AutoP, and wouldn't it be possible to just pass the BBCode through the Parser the other way for HTML->BBCode and BBCode->HTML comments?

blizeH

Can you do that easily using HTML though? I use that, not icky BBCode :-)

Stash

I have no idea, but I shall see if I can find out.

bjrn

The ugliness isn't the quote extensions fault. How it looks is controlled by your style, so perhaps you need to change that?

Actually, it is the extension's fault, since it sets a stylesheet. If you prefer the Quotations extension's look, just copy the contents of quote.css over to ajaxquote.css in the AjaxQuote directory and you're set.

blizeH

Yeah, it's easy enough to edit the style sheet imho :-) Still, where's Bergamot or similar nowadays? :P

circuit

one problem with ajax quote:
if you quote something on e.g. page one, and the 'add comment' box is on a later page, it drops you back on the discussions list. that really needs to be fixed.

Stash

I don't think I quite understand what you mean circuit, since the add comment box is at the bottom of all pages no?

Minisweeper

The add comments box is only on the bottom of the last page of the thread.

bjrn

If I click on "quote" on page 2 in a five page discussion, I get moved to page 5, not to the discussion list. And there's definitely not a commenthing box on every page, only on the last page.

Stash

There isn't? It is? Oh well =D shows how much attention I pay...

Don't suppose it is "extensible" to put it on every page is it? Would that solve the problem? Or is that a stupid solution to this particular problem? I can't tell right now due to a little too much beer.

just a novice

is it possible for someone to make selectable highlights in ajax quote for html formats?