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29 Jul 08 - 01:26 PM (#2400470) Subject: Blue clickyness From: Les in Chorlton In the guidance for making blue clicky things it says' Cut and paste' should this read 'copy and paste'? Cheers |
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29 Jul 08 - 01:39 PM (#2400482) Subject: RE: Blue clickyness From: Big Mick 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 |
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29 Jul 08 - 01:40 PM (#2400483) Subject: RE: Blue clickyness From: Willa That's what I do, Les. You can always test that it works, anyway, using the 'test this link' option. |
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29 Jul 08 - 01:43 PM (#2400486) Subject: RE: Blue clickyness From: Les in Chorlton Thanks, Lets try that: The Beech The Beech |
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29 Jul 08 - 01:44 PM (#2400488) Subject: RE: Blue clickyness From: Les in Chorlton Well there you go either works today! Cheers Les |
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29 Jul 08 - 04:47 PM (#2400650) Subject: RE: Blue clickyness From: Herga Kitty I just tried both and neither worked. Is that just a temporary / peculiar to me glitch? Kitty |
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29 Jul 08 - 04:58 PM (#2400658) Subject: RE: Blue clickyness From: Herga Kitty But the link from the folk clubs in Liverpool thread to The Beech in August thread does work! Kitty |
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29 Jul 08 - 05:46 PM (#2400724) Subject: RE: Blue clickyness From: Les in Chorlton We certainly live in strange times!!!!!!!!!!! |
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29 Jul 08 - 06:08 PM (#2400744) Subject: RE: Blue clickyness From: PoppaGator 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... |
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29 Jul 08 - 06:14 PM (#2400749) Subject: RE: Blue clickyness From: Becca72 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. |
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29 Jul 08 - 06:24 PM (#2400756) Subject: RE: Blue clickyness From: Joe Offer 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- |
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29 Jul 08 - 06:28 PM (#2400761) Subject: RE: Blue clickyness From: Stilly River Sage 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 |
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29 Jul 08 - 06:42 PM (#2400776) Subject: RE: Blue clickyness From: Amos 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 |
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29 Jul 08 - 07:44 PM (#2400820) Subject: RE: Blue clickyness From: Joe Offer 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- |
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29 Jul 08 - 08:22 PM (#2400852) Subject: RE: Blue clickyness From: The Fooles Troupe "' Cut and paste' should this read 'copy and paste'" Hmmm, we had this discussion afores, methinks... |