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Post by davidm on Apr 28, 2012 20:02:41 GMT 9.5
At BB's suggestion I am supplying this thread to practice and test the forum.
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Post by anonposter on Apr 28, 2012 20:36:46 GMT 9.5
[glow=red,2,300]Glow[/glow] Strike[shadow=red,left,300]Shadow[/shadow]
Glow and Shadow don't show up for me and it appears I need to reconfigure my browser to stop that bloody marquee. |
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Post by Barry Brook on Apr 28, 2012 20:47:01 GMT 9.5
From my browser (Chrome v18) The strike looks fine, but not the glow or shadow. It might be this current skin?
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Post by Greg Simpson on Apr 29, 2012 11:16:20 GMT 9.5
I think that 235U can be replace by 233U in thorium reactors. Good.
The color colour of money. The spelling dictionary seems to be for American English.
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Post by Roger Clifton on Apr 29, 2012 15:57:36 GMT 9.5
Does anyone know how to "follow" on the new system? It was a marvellous facility, in that I could drop a comment, click the "follow" box, and then on e-mail follow the the subsequent discussion with minimal interruption to my work and after-hours studies.
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Post by anonposter on Apr 29, 2012 18:55:05 GMT 9.5
Just ignore the boards spell check and use your browser's background spell checker (or at least that's what I do).
Now how do I get a literal square bracket?
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Post by Barry Brook on Apr 29, 2012 19:40:07 GMT 9.5
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Post by Barry Brook on Apr 29, 2012 19:53:15 GMT 9.5
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Post by anonposter on Apr 29, 2012 19:55:51 GMT 9.5
Well if you just type [ you'll get a square bracket. What I was really wondering was how I'd go about getting a square bracket even if I put a formatting command inside it (maybe the unicode zero length non-breaking space or zero width joiner?).
[sup]239[/sup]Pu is fun to play with.
Yes that seems to work in the preview, now anyone trying to copy and paste it will be in for a surprise.
EDIT: OK, I'll try literal.
[literal]235U[/literal] is also lots of fun to play with.
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Post by Barry Brook on Apr 29, 2012 20:00:23 GMT 9.5
Looks like your zero width joiner is the way to do it, Anon
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Post by Barry Brook on Apr 29, 2012 23:51:25 GMT 9.5
You will be able to 'follow' the posts via RSS. However, that will not be available on Proboards until v5, which has not yet been released. More info here. |
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Post by Barry Brook on Apr 29, 2012 23:56:03 GMT 9.5
Further to the RSS feed question, I have found this advice regarding email notifications: I will collate all this type of info in a FAQ in due course and post it as a sticky. Just need to find the time -- unless someone else wants to beat me to it and start one! |
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Post by huonpine on May 1, 2012 8:28:06 GMT 9.5
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Post by eclipse on May 12, 2012 12:43:48 GMT 9.5
That all seems a bit complicated? Most forums have a User Control Panel that you can just tick "Send Email notification on replies". Then EVERY thread you EVER follow will automatically send you an email if someone replies. Like the wordpress blog. Except with one wonderful difference. It only does it once, and then lets you read the rest of the notifications in the forum itself. Which saves members from reading spam or annoying comments that are later edited by a Moderator.
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Post by Roger Clifton on May 20, 2012 11:04:46 GMT 9.5
For users who want to increase the legibility, this procedure might help ... While searching for ways to make the new webpages more legible (for my blurry eyes) and and the maze more navigable (for my fumbly fingers), I tried out a suggestion by someone up thread (sorry, I can't find it to make a link to it), that strips out much of the formatting. His idea is to use Internet Explorer to block some of the formatting: Alt-View-stYle-Nostyle-enter ( Alt-V-Y-N-enter ) which resizes almost all text to standard black on white, filling the width of the screen. Also, if the alt key is still down for the enter key, the window goes full-screen too. Most refreshing! Instantly legible to grown-ups with blurry eyes. Almost black text on white background, it gives dark on light, quite good. However the quote blocks are converted into black text on a black background. Quote blocks can still be read by selecting them, ctrl-A, although as white on blue. When I checked "source" I found that the background colour is specified black: <table bgcolor="000000" class="bordercolor" which I guess is the result of an editor trying to set the border colour as black, with a subsequent override somewhere to force another background colour. The problem might be solved if that selection was set as blue instead of black: <table bgcolor="00FF00" class="bordercolor". then it would still look pretty in the main page, but be legible when we set "nostyle". I should point out that setting "nostyle" has to be done every time you jump pages, so if legibility is still a problem for you and you want to jump around, you may prefer to select all of the page and paste it into a text editor where we can use familiar search, and write macros to collapse blank lines etc. |
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Post by anonposter on May 20, 2012 13:21:37 GMT 9.5
Firefox shows quotes as black text on a white background when No Style is selected (though telling where the main text restarts is a little bit of a challenge), guess Firefox knows to ignore more things than exploder does.
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Post by davidm on Jul 1, 2012 2:38:34 GMT 9.5
I did a C&P that had these elements in it - ["], ['], [...] and got garbage substitutes in the reply. By simply erasing them in 'modify' and retyping the elements, the garbage substitutes disappeared.
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Post by GrantS on Nov 23, 2013 15:25:51 GMT 9.5
Practice. Firefox shows quotes as black text on a white background when No Style is selected (though telling where the main text restarts is a little bit of a challenge), guess Firefox knows to ignore more things than exploder does. BoldItalics
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If it were done when tis done then twere well it was done quickly Strike through123 Subscript 123  Cruzio |
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Post by Grant on Nov 23, 2013 15:29:08 GMT 9.5
Practice, name corrected. Firefox shows quotes as black text on a white background when No Style is selected (though telling where the main text restarts is a little bit of a challenge), guess Firefox knows to ignore more things than exploder does. BoldItalics
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If it were done when tis done then twere well it was done quickly Strike through123 Subscript 123 Cruzio |
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Post by Roger Clifton on Nov 23, 2013 19:22:23 GMT 9.5
GrantS - if you join up as a member, you will be able to edit and delete your comments, among other privileges. I recommend using the "recent" page to access BNC conversations, as it saves a lot of navigating: bravenewclimate.proboards.com/posts/recentIt is easy to contribute to an active thread from this page by using the "quote" facility, and editing (or replacing) its contents to reduce the column-cm of your comment. To construct a URL to someone's comment in its context, you can edit the URL of its quote page to end with the word "thread" instead of the word "quote", thus. |
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Post by Grant on Nov 23, 2013 20:00:06 GMT 9.5
Thanks Roger and it's Grant(The GrantS was a typo). I think I'll stick with my guest status for now. This is a terrific source site and I was pleased that I could participate even at this level. I'm a bit iconoclastic at times and not a fully committed nuclear guy so I think maybe down the road you may feel more comfortable with me not as a full member and the temptation to take away my member privileges would not be there. Just ask me to go back to observer status and I will comply without any fuss.
Thanks for the enabling links.
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Post by Grant on Nov 27, 2013 7:09:10 GMT 9.5
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Post by Grant on Nov 27, 2013 7:26:07 GMT 9.5
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Post by Grant on Dec 14, 2013 13:34:25 GMT 9.5
I just suffered an absence of quote carryover in an earlier post so I am checking whether the quote function works presently.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2014 22:49:43 GMT 9.5
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Post by huon on Dec 20, 2014 8:41:34 GMT 9.5
Just wanted to see whether this link would work.
Should anyone be interested, it represents Barry Brook's response to this tweet by southernlimitnz: "If you give a shit about future generations though nuclear is hardly a viable option."
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Post by Blue Fire on Mar 19, 2018 6:43:22 GMT 9.5
I'm just checking out the procedure for guest comments.
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Post by Roger Clifton on Mar 19, 2018 9:43:19 GMT 9.5
I'm just checking out the procedure for guest comments. G'day, Blue! Become a member. That let's you edit your comments after posting, study the stats, send private messages to other members and so on. I'll be interested to hear if your moniker implies you have special chemistry know-how. |
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Post by Blue Fire on Mar 20, 2018 5:30:53 GMT 9.5
Hello, Roger. I'd better come clean right away--I'm actually just "huon". "Blue Fire" is going to be my vehicle for burying some of the spam without having even more "huon" comments. The name refers to nuclear power--used fuel assemblies glowing blue in deep pools of water.
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Post by Roger Clifton on Mar 22, 2018 9:28:43 GMT 9.5
The name refers to nuclear power--used fuel assemblies glowing blue in deep pools of water. Yes, Cerenkov radiation. Charged particles travelling faster than the speed of light in that medium raise a shock cone that we see as blue. A good name! |
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