New Spoiler tag behaviour
 

I believe that months ago when the new spoiler tags were introduced, some members asked for it to show the actual length of the spoiler.

Well, turns out that I'm an idiot and I could've just used the visibility:hidden CSS attribute instead of display:none, so here is the new and improved spoiler tag:




Since everyone loves choices, I've kept the display:none behaviour for the [spoil] tag.

testing




perfect

Brilliant, Blah. (:

I'd rather have spoil tag show the length instead of spoiler tag but that's just me I guess. :(

This is helpful. Nice work, Blah.

But spoil is shorter than spoiler, and thus the former taking less space makes sense.

[spoiler]

Kaleb always makes things better to understand with his wise sayings. I will drop all arguments because that totally makes sense. Hurrah to spoiler and spoil tags! =)

Now devo's image journal entry takes a year to scroll through since the spoiler tags are stretched. =p I hope people remember to use spoil instead of spoiler tags in their journal entries when they post big pictures. It makes it easier to browse through the recent buddy journal entries link.

Guess I'll second acer, since all previously used spoiler tags are now all stretched :(

I think we should perhaps make an announcement telling of the new spoiler tag behavior and ask that everyone change their spoiler tags to spoil tags if they wish their old spoiler tags to have their old behavior.

That or do a sweep of the forums (including chocojournal and comment pages) and automatically change all spoiler tags to spoil tags before the moment the spoiler tag's behavior were changed. I imagine there will be less people wanting to edit their old posts to use new spoiler tag behavior than those editing their old posts to use old spoiler tag behavior.

One of those two or an even better solution I will argue for.

TESTING MY SPOILED TOMATOES





This is what kanpeki desu

This idea isn't so great. People have been using [spoiler] over [spoil] for months on end. Now the Twilight Princess thread looks like a mess, as does some other threads I've glanced at today.

Seriously uh, I don't know why we need spoiler tags which are the length of the spoiler. If it's just text, it should be fine. If it contains pictures, possibly large pictures, maybe you should add a little picture icon next to (or into) the "Show"/"Hide" box.

Acer speaks truth. Otherwise the forum will look a mess. People expected one behaviour, and now they get another. Like everything else Blah does this works great, but changing the established behaviour is going to screw with older threads.

POSTED IN THE OLD SPOILER THREAD


SOLUTION 1: Acer goes and fixes up every post himself.

SOLUTION 2: I revert the changes to the [spoiler] tag.

SOLUTION 3: I switch [spoiler] and [spoil] functionality.

I'm going with solution 3, so if there are any more complaints after this, Acer had better get ready for solution 1.

And right after I fix my spoiler tags too. :3

Acer can fix it for you!

Great; solution three is exactly what I thought you should've done in the first place. Changing the default behaviour of established controls is what i'd expect of Microsoft, not GFF :P.

I guess this means I won't have to listen to all your suggestions anymore?

You've never listened to them in the past, why change now? Anyway, it doesn't matter anymore; it's all fixed.

No, not yours >_>

You'll also never listen to my mix CD :(

Nooooooo! Blah has turned all the tables and revealed how flip-floppy I can be! I am the ruiner of worlds!! ;____;

And right after I got used to spoil and spoiler behavior too. Blah, you're like an even more demented Mr. Owl. I'll never know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. Never. :(

Additional Spam:
Oh and right as I try and do a stealth edit by physically deleted and reposting you lightning response me. This all looks super awkward now, Blah. Thanks.

But dude I listen to your mix CD all the time. It's awesome! I never told you? I even burned it off so I could listen to it on my shitty mp3 player when I went to Hawaii. I must get the tracklist from you.

Weird, the compact spoils don't seem to work anymore.

TESTING



Well, what do you know, THEY DO. Must have typed something up wrong, or ended it with a [/spoil] instead of the [/spoiler].

My bad.:psyduck:

Also, testing old spoil of pictures.