Blue clickyness

Subject: RE: Blue clickyness
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 08:22 PM

"' Cut and paste' should this read 'copy and paste'"

Hmmm, we had this discussion afores, methinks...

Subject: RE: Blue clickyness
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 07:44 PM

Hmmmm. Les, you had a link that you typed this way:

<a href="The Beech ">The Beech</a>


You said it worked for you, but it sure didn't work for the rest of us. I think maybe it leads to a page on your computer titled "The Beech" - maybe a page you viewed previously.

Hmmmmm.
Mysterious....

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Blue clickyness
From: Amos
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 06:42 PM

PG:

There are still some corruptions from the Great Database Crash of the period around 2000 (which, by the way, was caused by Dick Cheney). ;>)

One of the symptoms of that crash is that the numbering used in sequencing records in a thread does not always work when the DB is queried to find that number.

I am sure someone on the inside of the system could give you a better explanation, but I have noticed the problem with links to posts myself, and this is what I attribute it to.


A

Subject: RE: Blue clickyness
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 06:28 PM

http://www.mudcat.org/The%20Beech doesn't go anywhere because it isn't a complete link. The mudcat.org part would go to mudcat, but the "The%20Beech" doesn't give a browser any information that takes it within mudcat (like a thread id) and if it were a link outside the mudcat it wouldn't have the mudcat beginning.

Were you trying to travel away from mudcat with that link?

I just plugged in your information "the Beech, Beech Road, Chorlton, Manchester" into Google and came up with this:

http://manchester.no2id.net/content/beech-road-festival-chorlton-manchester

SRS

Subject: RE: Blue clickyness
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 06:24 PM

Les, I was thinking you meant the "cut and paste" came from directions I posted in the FAQ or the Mudcat HTML Guide, but it looks like I used the proper "copy/paste" terminology.

PoppaGator, I'll let you in on a dirty little secret: you can make links within Mudcat the same way you make outside links. The Internal Link Format is preferable, but not required. It WAS messy when we had several servers and some people were using shorty.mudcat.org and some ragtime.mudcat.org and some www.mudcat.org - but now we have just the one server, so no problem.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Blue clickyness
From: Becca72
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 06:14 PM

When you "copy and paste" that information stays on your clipboard until you "copy" something else. So you can paste the most recently copied info into unlimited documents.

Subject: RE: Blue clickyness
From: PoppaGator
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 06:08 PM

I thought I had the clickification routine down cold, but just now had a problem. I was trying to make links to a couple of my own Mudcat postings, as found through on-site User Search, and made links which, when tested, brought up different Mudcat posts by other folks.

Early on, I had trouble with clickable links to pages outside Mudcat, because I didn't include the full [http://www.] prefix. Now that I can easily and often make links to the outside world, I've failed to provide clickable links to internal bits of Mudcat...

Subject: RE: Blue clickyness
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 05:46 PM

We certainly live in strange times!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Blue clickyness
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 04:58 PM

But the link from the folk clubs in Liverpool thread to The Beech in August thread does work!

Kitty

Subject: RE: Blue clickyness
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 04:47 PM

I just tried both and neither worked. Is that just a temporary / peculiar to me glitch?

Kitty

Subject: RE: Blue clickyness
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 01:44 PM

Well there you go either works today!

Cheers

Les

Subject: RE: Blue clickyness
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 01:43 PM

Thanks, Lets try that:

The Beech

The Beech

Subject: RE: Blue clickyness
From: Willa
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 01:40 PM

That's what I do, Les.
You can always test that it works, anyway, using the 'test this link' option.

Subject: RE: Blue clickyness
From: Big Mick
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 01:39 PM

Actually, Les, either will work. They are both just methods for transferring blocks of text. Cut and paste removes the text from the area in which you are taking it from, and copy leaves a version on, in this case, the clipboard that you created it on. I usually use copy (Ctrl+C) just in case I need to go back and re-copy. Using that command leaves a copy there. Had I used Cut (Ctrl+x) it would have taken it off the original. Just a safety precaution.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: Blue clickyness
From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 01:26 PM

In the guidance for making blue clicky things it says' Cut and paste' should this read 'copy and paste'?

Cheers