Anti-Cut Tag: Like cut text, but moreso

[galateus]

Title:
Anti-Cut Tag: Like cut text, but moreso

Area:
entries, cut tag

Summary:
A new tag, that would go outside the <cut></cut> tag, containing content that will only display when the post is cut (ie, that won't appear in the full entry).

Description:
Here's one use case: When you put a bandwidth-friendly thumbnail above the cut right now, on the full entry that thumbnail will still appear even though most of the time (not always), it'd be redundant. An anti-cut tag that can hide preview-only stuff like that at the poster's discretion would be useful.

The <cut text=""> field can already do this for one line of text with no formatting and no linebreaks, so this'd be a big expansion of that, without forcing the content to be a hyperlink.

Poll #1283 Anti-Cut Tag: Like cut text, but moreso

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 33

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Should be implemented as-is.
5 (15.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (12.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
16 (48.5%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (24.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[pseudomonas]

Can we expand the text attribute to take things that aren't plaintext? I guess it'd need entities escaping.

[rebelsheart]

How about integrating with the cut tag somehow, rather than having a separate tag.

[the_shoshanna]

+1; I wouldn't want a whole separate tag to wrassle.

[instantramen]

+1

[ninetydegrees]

If someone directs me to an entry, I expect to see its full content so no, please.

[cesy]

+1. Missing out on the text in the cut tag is already annoying.

[dancing_serpent]

+1 Annoying, very much so.

[turlough]

Missing out on the text in the cut tag is already annoying.

Oh yes! I wish there were some way that you could make showing the cut tag text on the entry itself automatic because far too many people forget to include it manually.

[kate_nepveu]

That was suggested and rejected, http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/46713.html .

[turlough]

I'd forgotten about that suggestion and the problems with backwards compatibility. I whish it was possible though. Every time I try to read an entry rendered partly incomprehensible because the poster put important stuff in the cut text and forgot to add it to the entry itself, I gnash my teeth with irritation.

[kate_nepveu]

I would really like the show=true option to be implemented, but I'm guessing that was included in the "with changes" that was rejected.

(I'm still not 100% on the new suggestions system, though, so if anyone can tell me differently, I will resubmit.)

[turlough]

I'm not 100% either but I think that the reject tag wouldn't be there if any part of the suggestion had been accepted.

[sofiaviolet]

Yeah, probably. There's a bugzilla: partially migrated tag, presumably for cases where part of the suggestion is rejected but part is put into bugzilla.

[turlough]

I hadn't noticed that tag before, thank you for telling me! I must remember it in the future. (Yeah, I used to browse through the LJ suggestions comm occasionally to see which suggestions, if any, had been accepted and I do that on DW too. It's more fun here though :-)

[ninetydegrees]

This.