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:

Spoiler:

Testing new spoiler tweak
Testing new spoiler tweak
Testing new spoiler tweak
Testing new spoiler tweak
Testing new spoiler tweak
Testing new spoiler tweak
Testing new spoiler tweak
Testing new spoiler tweak
Testing new spoiler tweak

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

Jam it back in, in the dark.

testing

Spoiler:

a
aaaasas

a
a
a
a
a
a
d
d
d

Spoiler:

s
s
s
s
ss
s
s
s
ss
a
sas
as
w

perfect

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Brilliant, Blah. (:

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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

How ya doing, buddy?

This is helpful. Nice work, Blah.

Spoiler:

Hi Acer.

Spoiler:

Hi Drex.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Spoiler:

Hi Rydia.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

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

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

FELIPE NO

Spoiler:

Oh, that makes sense.

Spoiler:

Hi Rydia.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

If you're reading this, click the outer spoiler again. =/

Jam it back in, in the dark.

[spoiler]

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler (highlight to read):

ziggurat like what

cool

find

lix

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Kaleb.G

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

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! =)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

How ya doing, buddy?

TESTING MY SPOILED TOMATOES

Spoiler:

SPOILED TOMATOES
SPOILED TOMATOES
SPOILED TOMATOES
SPOILED TOMATOES
SPOILED TOMATOES
SPOILED TOMATOES
SPOILED TOMATOES
SPOILED TOMATOES
SPOILED TOMATOES

Spoiler:

SPOILED TOMATOES
SPOILED TOMATOES
SPOILED TOMATOES
SPOILED TOMATOES
SPOILED TOMATOES
SPOILED TOMATOES
SPOILED TOMATOES
SPOILED TOMATOES

This is what kanpeki desu

FELIPE NO

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.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

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.

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.

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POSTED IN THE OLD SPOILER THREAD

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

I like old spoiler because it tells you how much text there is. New spoiler is sort of a big surprise everytime 'cause you don't know how much is going to be inside. This can be a good and bad thing. I think it might be interesting to use this sort of thing for organizing sections of a main post so that you could minimize and unhide sections. Wouldn't be too bad an option. Oh well.

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

See I wish they'd at least give us the option of going to our options and having it display as the old highlight method. I don't like that we don't know how much is going to be in the spoiler so I'm sort of with you Monkey King. But I like options period.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Acer can fix it for you!

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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.

How ya doing, buddy?

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

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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

FELIPE NO

No, not yours >_>

How ya doing, buddy?

You'll also never listen to my mix CD

Jam it back in, in the dark.