Tag bug.

[allanh]

Title:
Tag bug.

Area:
site tags and cross posting

Summary:
If a message is composed in Rich Text mode, and the <user name="xxxxx" site="livejournal.com"> tag is used, Rich Text mode seems to decide that those are literal, and not interpretive, characters...so what you get instead of a neat little user icon is the full text of each tag embedded in both the original and the (LJ) crossposted message.

Description:
Change the Rich Text mode editor to accept the <user name="xxx" site="livejournal.com"> tags, and/or provide a button for it that will insert something that the Rich Text parser will recognize as a tag, and not a literal.

Poll #8383 Tag bug.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 48

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Should be implemented as-is.
17 (35.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
6 (12.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.1%)

(I have no opinion)
22 (45.8%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (4.2%)

Comments

[jumpuphigh]

Aren't we switching to something that is not RTE or did I just dream that? (And hope and pray on my knees for that.)

[denise]

We have a bug open to make a new RTE, but we won't be doing away with an RTE.

[jumpuphigh]

That must have been what I was thinking about. Also, yay for new RTE! I like having an RTE but sometimes get a wee bit frustrated with the one we have right now.

Thanks!

[azurelunatic]

I think the draft for the new update page doesn't have RTE yet. The new update page will still have an RTE option (eventually), I believe, but it may well be a different one.

[jumpuphigh]

Different is good. I like different. :D

[sporky_rat]

I think this is going to be fixed in the next iteration of the Update Page, but someone might want to ask fu.

[silverflight8]

I think, if we stick to the current RTE (may it die horribly), that we should have a button instead. The RTE's whole point (other than to mess up your entry) is to remove all HTML from the update page altogether. It's not supposed to parse the angle brackets at all. I think what you're seeing (the full <user name=something site=example.com> displayed when you type your code in the RTE) is intentional behaviour; what's not right is that there's no way to create the 'other site icon' thing in the RTE.

[azurelunatic]

Yes; this is my "with changes".

[kyrielle]

+1

Also, I am giggling hysterically at "...whole point (other than mess up your entry)...."

[silverflight8]

That's why azurelunatic has the Tits against the RTE icon :P

[syderia]

+1

[ninetydegrees]

what's not right is that there's no way to create the 'other site icon' thing in the RTE.

I have this. When I click on the button to make a user tag, I can choose the external site (LJ, AO3, Twitter, etc.) in a drop-down menu. Don't you guys have this too?

[montuos]

Is that really native now? Cool beans! I thought I was still using the DW Insert Username userscript Xtina wrote!

[cheyinka]

Changed my vote to 'with changes'.

[montuos]

+47 or so. ;>