CAN s.o. @ CPOD PLEASE EXPLAIN?

goulnik
 September 18, 2008, 12:17 PM posted in General Discussion

Can someone at ChinesePod please explain what the heck is going on? It looks as if it's no longer possible to enter color-formatted html into posts?  

Free formatting was removed when migrating to the new platform, enabled again after I complained on account of 88news migration, more importantly because John needed this too.

This worked until yesterday, see News on 北京 Paralympics or Baby poisoning but no longer working today, see World markets or Nuclear plant

Those sneaky changes are really annoying

 

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mattwhyndham
 September 22, 2008, 09:39 PM

do we really need colour formatted html though?

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goulnik
 September 22, 2008, 09:55 PM

some people where happy with any-color-provided it's black model-T from Ford, B&W photocopies or green command-line CRTs. But there is no doubt that adding colours to maps has made them a lot better, and make learning all the richer.

Colours allow me to highlight vocab in groups such as News 新闻, Character phonetics or Say NO to Cancer in ways that basic text formatting doesn't, and to automate the process of linking Chinese word to online dictionaries, aligning text to vocab in tables etc...

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tvan
 September 23, 2008, 12:47 AM

I would agree with goulniky on the usefulness of color. In the case of '88 groups it makes following flossed text much easier.  I could certainly figure out everything myself; however, color lets me focus on interpreting the article versus finding the characters for unfamiliar definitions that are highlighted.

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John
 September 23, 2008, 01:29 AM

goulniky,

I'm looking at the four links you supplied, and there seems to be color in each of them. I'd be happy to get the problem fixed, but I'm not sure I understand what the problem is yet.

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goulnik
 September 23, 2008, 03:27 AM

john, you're right, there no longer is a problem, but there was. I've now replaced the posts with the correct version, but for a period of time this was no longer possible.

Note that I was refering to copy/pasting html formatted text, not just using the rich-text interface provided by CPod to add colours. As I explained somewhere else, this seems to require some juggling between web browsers (though I admitedly didn't try all combinations).