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I've hacked in a crude {{spoiler}} {{/spoiler}}
tag pair. It's not terribly clever - just creates grey text on a grey
background, so you have to select the text in your browser to read it - but may
be useful. Note that other tags embedded in the {{spoiler}} space can override
the "grey" instruction, leading to them showing up. What follows is an example.
Please let me know of any improvements you can think of.nnWhat I
type:n------------------------------------------------------------------n{{spoiler}}nOK,
I'm not very good at this sort of thing, but someone's gotta start somewhere.
;DnnThe movie The Dream Team has, thankfully, nothing to do with
football.nnStarring Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen
Furst, Dennis Boutsikaris and Lorraine Bracco, with apperarances from Milo
O'Shea (remember him from Barbarella?) this comedy tells the tale of
what happens when 5 mental patients, visiting New York as part of their Group
Therapy, find themselves in a situation stranger and more deadly than anything
their psychoses have ever thrown up.nnThe entry for the film lists taglines
such as "This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now
they're lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group
therapy." and "Four guys on a field trip to reality." nnA is available, but
fails to convey the fact that this film is simply filled with memorable and
hilarious one-liners as the group of men are forced to face reality in a form of
shock-therapy that no shrink would ever recommend.nnI suspect that British
audiences will have found this film far funnier than American ones. I can, and
do, watch it again and again. I recommend it to anyone with a sense of
humour.nnCertificate: 15nDuration: 113
Minutesn{{/spoiler}}n------------------------------------------------------------------nnWhat
you
see:n------------------------------------------------------------------n
Spoiler:
nOK,
I'm not very good at this sort of thing, but someone's gotta start somewhere.
;DnnThe movie The Dream Team has, thankfully, nothing to do with
football.nnStarring Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen
Furst, Dennis Boutsikaris and Lorraine Bracco, with apperarances from Milo
O'Shea (remember him from Barbarella?) this comedy tells the tale of
what happens when 5 mental patients, visiting New York as part of their Group
Therapy, find themselves in a situation stranger and more deadly than anything
their psychoses have ever thrown up.nnThe entry for the film lists taglines
such as "This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now
they're lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group
therapy." and "Four guys on a field trip to reality." nnA is available, but
fails to convey the fact that this film is simply filled with memorable and
hilarious one-liners as the group of men are forced to face reality in a form of
shock-therapy that no shrink would ever recommend.nnI suspect that British
audiences will have found this film far funnier than American ones. I can, and
do, watch it again and again. I recommend it to anyone with a sense of
humour.nnCertificate: 15nDuration: 113 Minutesn
Last edited by Jellyroll (30-03-2002 13:00:01)
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Bugger, other people know about IMDB! This of course
means that I can't just plagerise their stuff to get my number of posts higher
in order to overtake Angua!nnSeriously, not knowing the technical side, I
can't think of another way to do what you are trying to achieve. The only small
suggestion I can offer, is to suggest that the hyperlinks be in grey as well.
Don't know if this would be possible on only forum, and not effect the others.
Either using URLs, or the URL tags, there is the opportunith to give away info
inadvertantly as the links show up.nn(Aren't suggestions easy when you know
it involves somebody elses time and not your own
)
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It would be a bugger to try to achieve that. The
only alternative would be to make the background the same as the links - but, of
course, people have the ability to change their link colours using the "Colours"
button, so it won't necessarily always be the same pus-yellow that we're used
to. :-Xn
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nMine are blue.
nMy point in a
nutcaseshell. ;Dn
Is yellow on the old template?
nAye. Sort of
"mustard". #FFB903, to be precise.
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nnMy point in a
nutcaseshell. ;Dn
nnu rang? 
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nBugger, other people know about IMDB! This of
course means that I can't just plagerise their stuff to get my number of posts
higher in order to overtake Angua!nn
nnnHey I've been away nearly a
week so you must have overtaken me by now - but now I'm back 
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nHey I've been away nearly
a week so you must have overtaken me by now - but now I'm backn
nnRun for the hills, Ma Barker!!! 
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nIt would be a bugger to try to achieve
that. The only alternative would be to make the background the same as the links
- but, of course, people have the ability to change their link colours using the
"Colours" button, so it won't necessarily always be the same pus-yellow that
we're used to. :-Xnn
nnnHang on- sorry to appear dense...nnBut
isn't the colour of the links already stored in the person's login
cookie?nnCan't you just set the link-colour to match the same variable?nn
???
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The login cookie does not store any information
other than required to log in. nnUser-defined colours are stored in
PERL-accessed DAT files, but the Link Colour is not one of them; that is defined
in a template HTML file to which PERL has no immediate and obvious access.
nnThe "Colours" page appears to offer the ability to change Link Colour, but
that is "for future enhancement".n
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nThe login cookie does not store any
information other than required to log in. nnUser-defined colours are stored
in PERL-accessed DAT files, but the Link Colour is not one of them; that is
defined in a template HTML file to which PERL has no immediate and obvious
access. nnThe "Colours" page appears to offer the ability to change Link
Colour, but that is "for future enhancement".nn
nnnThat would
explain why i couldn't get it (link colour) to work then... ;)nnI thought it
seemed a bit easy...
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Actually, now that i think about it...nnWhy not
just get anyone who wants to put a url in a spoiler to corrupt it...ie leave the
www. off.nnIt's not very clever, but if it was to become common practice, it
would be a temporary fix.nn??
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nThen they would no longer work.
<shrug>nn
nnThey would if you write http:// or www. in your browser
window and copied the url in...nnClumsy, i know, but since there's no other
option... 
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