New Feature: Block-quote, and Insert Images, in Comments
Busy System Admin ·
October 31, 2011 at 5:27am
First of all: my apologies for neglecting the Inside Ricochet blog. I've been very busy, but that's a bad excuse for not letting everyone know about the hard work we've been doing!
Second: upon request, I have now turned on the Block-quote and Insert Image formatting options for comments. In theory, it should have been just a configuration tweak, but in practice it turned out to be a bit more complex to switch those on. After a bit of wrangling, I got it to work.
So, enjoy quoting wisdom from outside the conversation, and decorating your comments with images. But don't abuse your shiny new toys, or they might have to go back into the storage room!
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Feb '10
Re: New Feature: Block-quote, and Insert Images, in Comments
See, it works! I didn't use my special admin powers to do this!
Oct '10
Re: New Feature: Block-quote, and Insert Images, in Comments
Thanks sir.
Wish there's a way to embed videos from sources other than youtube.
for example:
<iframe title="MRC TV video player" width="640" height="360" src="http://www.mrctv.org/embed/107023" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Feb '10
Re: New Feature: Block-quote, and Insert Images, in Comments
John Marzan: Thanks sir.
Wish there's a way to embed videos from sources other than youtube.
I wish there were a safer way to do so as well. Right now the only options we have are to a) let people embed raw code in there, or else b) directly support each and every different video source, individually. The former is problematic because at a minimum, people could break the page layout, and in the worst case, we could have a malicious attack. The latter is very labor-intensive and still does not cover all possible sources.
Thanks for the feedback, though!
Aug '11
Re: New Feature: Block-quote, and Insert Images, in Comments
Very awesome. I've been wanting to do this for awhile. I've been using the trick of quoting someone above, and then replacing all their text with the text I've wanted to inset. Works, but clunky. This is awesome.
Dec '10
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May '10
Re: New Feature: Block-quote, and Insert Images, in Comments
I am now officially more dangerous and annoying than previously believed... BSA, you have sealed my doom.
Jan '11
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Jan '11
Re: New Feature: Block-quote, and Insert Images, in Comments
Hmm.. that didn't come out right.But search the HTML markup for:
param name="allowFullScreen" value="false"
You'll find that on all of the embedded YouTube videos. Can you change the value to "true" so we can see the videos full-screen. The default size is pretty small, and many of the videos are available in higher resolution.