Add "insert this DW-esque user" menu code to HTML editor.

[nonethefewer]

Title:
Add "insert this DW-esque user" menu code to HTML editor.

Area:
update, user names, similar-site functionality

Summary:
Insert a DW-esque username-maker menu item to the HTML editor screen. This way, one can type in a username, pick which site, and it formats the username accordingly.

Description:
I wrote a script that adds a menu item to the HTML update page.  When I click on it, I enter in a username, then type in the initials of the site the user is at, and it adds the proper code to the draft body.

So if I type in 'the-xtina' and choose LiveJournal, I get:

<code>&lt;user name="the-xtina" site="livejournal.com" /&gt;</code>

I think this would be a useful thing, because that is kind of a mouthful to type.

The GM script:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/56877

Screenshots, if you don't want to (or can't) install the script:

http://pics.livejournal.com/the_xtina/pic/0004hg93
http://pics.livejournal.com/the_xtina/pic/0004k6tz
http://pics.livejournal.com/the_xtina/pic/0004padr
http://pics.livejournal.com/the_xtina/pic/0004q0ke

Poll #1942 Add "insert this DW-esque user" menu code to HTML editor.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 34

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Should be implemented as-is.
10 (29.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.9%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
20 (58.8%)

(I have no opinion)
2 (5.9%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.9%)

Comments

[cesy]

The Rich Text Editor can do this - half the point of the HTML editor is that it is stripped-down and doesn't have a lot of extra buttons cluttering up the page. I would imagine that for the few people who do want just this script on the HTML editor, this is a prime candidate for dw_nifty, rather than being added to the whole site.

[yvi]

Seconding this. I already think the image insertion thing isn't needed, since that's better suited for the RTE. I just want a blank box I can type my HTML into :)

[dancing_serpent]

Thirding and seconding.

[pauamma]

And so fourth...

[ex_pseudonym472]

I'll take a fifth of that.

[turlough]

Oh yes! I never use the image insertion thingy.

[ninetydegrees]

+1

[sorchasilver]

+1.

[triadruid]

Sounds good to me.

[falena]

I just wanted to thank nonethefewer because that GM script is so handy for people like me who tend to mess up their html very often. :D

Personally, I wouldn't mind if it were added to the HTML editor too.