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pizzaman
06-09-2006, 11:01 PM
Hello Admin, I wanted to ask you a question. Can you enable HTML code? I know I sent you a PM, but my inbox was full, so IDK if you got it or not.
psilonaut
06-10-2006, 09:50 AM
Just use block code. Enabling HTML coding can be scary... Just look at MySpace :P
Iconoclast
06-10-2006, 09:59 AM
With HTML, you can embed Shockwave Flash Objects and play music from the background of a web page and almost infinitely anything. It is rather dangerous. You can use the Moderator Control Panel to post announcements in the Graphics forum and enable HTML there.
chaos master
06-10-2006, 10:47 AM
how it dangerous exactly? I can see it: thousands of messy stuff.... Yep, it could get very messy, but it could be fun as well.
Kameo
06-10-2006, 10:55 AM
What purpose does it serve to have HTML enabled?? What do U need it for??
Iconoclast
06-10-2006, 11:00 AM
No one needs it for anything on a forums website. You can screw things up and add alert messages, obnoxious music to the background that doesn't belong, huge SWFs, things that aren't really needed in a thread. If you really have something you want to do by using HTML, post an announcement using the Moderator Control Panel. You can log in here (http://www.coolrom.com/forums/modcp/index.php).
chaos master
06-10-2006, 11:08 AM
I'm thinkin' we would need good moderators everywhere so as to use this "HTML" right.
Iconoclast
06-10-2006, 11:26 AM
I'm thinkin' we would need good moderators everywhere so as to use this "HTML" right.You can't trust good moderators. They're the ones you want to watch out for! Suspicious! Besides, we don't need HTML. It's unnecessary except for a couple of things I have in mind that you should just use posting new announcements for.
pizzaman
06-10-2006, 12:08 PM
Well I just wanted to see how it would work. I'm not really used to using HTML, so I wanted to try some things out. If it will really make a mess, Iconoclast, then I guess we shouldns't have it. However, I know a few forums that have HTML, and nothing bad happened. I do not think someone would actually do something like that, and I don't think many people know how. It's up to Admin though.
psilonaut
06-10-2006, 12:35 PM
Just have a look at myspace. Some of the ugliest most malformed webpages are sitting on their servers. And they've been hacked many a times by allowing users to drop scripts into their page.

If you want to play around with HTML just use notepad.
Fierce Deity
06-10-2006, 09:01 PM
Yeah just put
<HTML>
<BODY>
Put whatever you want to here.
</BODY>
</HTML>

There are more tags than that. PM me if you are interested. Anyhoo, don't enable HTML. If you do, you can use HTML to enable JavaScrpit and Active X, and you could use that to block out file menus and stuff. So you couldn't exit your browser, etc. People use them to keep you from saving their pages but... Also, you could embed .swf files into the site (Flash Files) and flash has the ability to transfer files without the consent of you or your browser. So they could turn this site into a port for uploading viruses and anybody that goes here could get viruses on their computer. They could trun off admin's account and make new administrators, they could pretty much take this site for their own. Assuming of course they were skilled.

In short, HTML es mal! muy mal!
chaos master
06-10-2006, 09:54 PM
ay caramba! NO ME GUSTA HTML!

HTML is kinda scary now. why is there even an option to turn it on then?
Fierce Deity
06-10-2006, 10:26 PM
ay caramba! NO ME GUSTA HTML!

HTML is kinda scary now. why is there even an option to turn it on then?
There isn't an option to turn it on, there is only an option to turn it off. Turning it on is just undoing that option. They let you turn it off for obvious reasons. You don't have to turn it off, though. Some sites, like MySpace, choose to leave it on. They make thmselves liable by having it on, but they need to leave it on so that wat people can make thier sites pretty.
Fierce Deity
06-10-2006, 10:52 PM
By the way, admin, I like what you have done with the mailbox space. It is nice to have room in there and not have to constantly clear it out....
admin
06-12-2006, 10:05 PM
Heh, yeah. My box was starting to get pretty full too, so I know how you guys must feel with less space than me ;). I do not find the need of enabling HTML coding at this time.
pizzaman
06-12-2006, 10:35 PM
Oh okay I guess I see how problems can occur. Did you guys say I can use HTML with Notepad? Was that sarcasim or for real?
admin
06-13-2006, 01:28 AM
Of course you can type/edit HTML coding with Notepad, in fact, I do that myself :). Just type your code in Notepad, Save As, then select Save as type: All Files, and save file as whatever.html.
Sonic
06-13-2006, 01:34 AM
^ Thats how my class did it for college HTML final. :)
Iconoclast
06-13-2006, 10:41 AM
Of course you can type/edit HTML coding with Notepad, in fact, I do that myself :). Just type your code in Notepad, Save As, then select Save as type: All Files, and save file as whatever.html.I hate HTM editors. They don't use proper case! Instead of <BG Sound=>, they generate <bg sound=>. Proper grammar, people. Heh, alright, it's not really that big of a deal, I guess. Besides, HTML generators tend to put WAY too much HTML information extensively into a web page.

The HTML header for this web page on CoolROM:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<meta name="generator" content="vBulletin 3.5.4" />

<meta name="keywords" content="vbulletin,forum,bbs,discussion,jelsoft,bulletin board" />
<meta name="description" content="This is a discussion forum powered by vBulletin. To find out about vBulletin, go to http://www.vbulletin.com/ ." />


<!-- CSS Stylesheet -->
<style type="text/css" id="vbulletin_css">
<!--
/* vBulletin 3 CSS For Style 'Default Style' (styleid: 1) */
body
{

There's a bunch of things you could remove from that. This is a more compact version:

<html dir="ltr" lang="en"><head><meta name="description"content="This is a discussion forum powered by vBulletin. To find out about vBulletin, go to <A href="http://www.vbulletin.com/."/>">http://www.vbulletin.com/."/><style type="text/css" id="vbulletin_css">

If you want HTML generated right, generate it yourself.
chaos master
06-13-2006, 10:48 AM
Hey, that's a neat trick there. I gotta learn me this HyperTerrificManiacalLanguage!
pizzaman
06-14-2006, 12:02 AM
When you go View->Source, is it possible to make it so that what comes up is actually not what's on the webpage? Like if I went View->Source of the main page of CoolROM, is it possible for Admin to make it( As in the screen that pops up with the pages HTML code ) not the actual code that was used?
Sonic
06-14-2006, 01:34 AM
Hmmm, thats a cool suggestion, pizzaman. That would be unique. I havent seen that done at other sites. Although I do not think it would be impossible to do so.
Fierce Deity
06-14-2006, 05:16 AM
Hey, that's a neat trick there. I gotta learn me this HyperTerrificManiacalLanguage!
HyperTextMarkupLAnguage
Iconoclast
06-14-2006, 01:02 PM
Hey, that's a neat trick there. I gotta learn me this HyperTerrificManiacalLanguage!Actually, I know very little HTML compared to most of you other guys on this site. I only know the single line stuff, I guess. All I did was delete the unnecessary HTML information, really. Pure crap about the format and generator of the webpage that's just wrong and unnecessary.
Sonic
06-14-2006, 01:54 PM
HTML is pretty easy. Ive taken the class. Then again teacher told me that being admin of a forum for 2 years prior to joining the class made it less hard.
chaos master
06-14-2006, 02:01 PM
Is there a way to learn HTML easy on a web site or something?
pizzaman
06-14-2006, 02:33 PM
Is there a way to learn HTML easy on a web site or something?
E-books :devil:
pizzaman
06-14-2006, 02:35 PM
Hmmm, thats a cool suggestion, pizzaman. That would be unique. I havent seen that done at other sites. Although I do not think it would be impossible to do so.
I have tried to see if I could do some things with html recently. I went on this site and tried to get a music video, but it wouldn't show. I think that's what they must have done, because all that showed was the link to the website. I am VERY unexperienced with HTML. I do want to learn some more things about it though.
Sonic
06-15-2006, 01:19 AM
Is there a way to learn HTML easy on a web site or something?

While searching on Google.com I stumbled upon this: http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp. I find this to be very helpful and hope it helps you as well.
pizzaman
06-15-2006, 01:50 AM
While searching on Google.com I stumbled upon this: http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp. I find this to be very helpful and hope it helps you as well.
Looks good, I'll look into it. :D