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Could you maybe add more colors to pick from for words? Perhaps you could let us use more fonts and provide mini previews of each font, including not to mention style for our names on sen. It would be nice if you could explain in greater detail how to create signatures and provide a glossary of terms like proxie or bug. Perhaps you could create a library section containing every possible glitch on sc on bnet that could be exploited, of course only accessible by right of privilage (rank). And maybe you could provide a section containing websites, comments, and reviews of the top clan sites on sc, like clan xedx. It would be nice if you could log on from one computer and then access that privalige of logging on from that account with a different computer using your password for validation and verification.

http://www.dictionary.com
http://en.wikipedia.org
Both of them are useful for me, they might work for you too.

Well, this is a laundry list..

-You can make your text any color you want using HTML colors.
-Text can be made most any font too, just use [font] and [/font]
-There are already name and title modifications.
-SEN isn't here to be a handbook on how to use the internet.
-Rank privileges = garbage, especially for glitches(?!)
-You can stay logged in indefinitely.

The ideas you've posted are quite interesting, so I'll go ahead.

You can pick any imaginable color by using the color Hex codes. You can learn more about it at http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/hexchart.shtml . I will however, recomend more pre set colors to choose from in SeNv5.

When making a post, there is a button labeled "Preview Post", you can use that and you'll see your post in full color. Now for names, I don't think we'd allow such a thing, we wouldn't really want a rainbow of names.

The best place to ask in which to create a signature would be in the Art forum.

Yes, I loved your idea of creating a Glitch Library. What could be done in SeNv4 is to create a pinned post the compiles all the glitches. Now for SeNv5, we could use the code of the Tutorials Databse and create a glitch list based on that.

In SeNv5 we have better clan support than that of which we currently have. Besides each clan having their own forum, they will have their own mini-page and such.

You can just log on to the same account and all your account priviledges will carry over.

....How do you do the hex colors? I've tried

white
blue
dark green


Damn, you beat me arb.

you can also just do the main ones. [color=#FFF] stuff

How come on the website it shows them with < but here you guys say to use '[]'?

ADD: Wow that colour is cool!

] and [ are a LOT easier to type then < and >. I mean, the whole concept of wasting energy to press in shift and < is horrible .

But yeah, it's just easier.

So both work?

Alright then.

ADD: GASP! It didn't! I'll just replace those with brackets...

It's because we've disabled the use of HTML for security reasons.
BBCodes are essentially almost the same as HTML, but they only work on posts and not the whole page.

IE:

Bold text won't do much to security, but let's add javascript or soemthing like that and we have major security issues.

And then the ever present threat of someone maknig a heat seeking bold missile script.

Why not disable javascript instead of HTML?

Basically, it's the tags "< and >" that are disabled really. And I don't think that it's possible to disable only Javascript without disabling HTML.

HTML also has it's security issues, I could make
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="x_seconds; url=http://www.staredit.com/">
and make the page refresh, I could even set it to automatically refresh somewhere else, say my site, for example. Imagine if I made a News post that automatically loaded you to another website? The only way to fix it is via FTP and deleting that piece of code manually.

There's a large array of things that could be altered by enabling HTML, that work pretty much destroy the site if someone with enough knowledge puts it to malicious use.

BBCodes exist because it's better to white list what you want to be displayed on a page instead of black listing the bad stuff in html... because there are multitudes of things that can go wrong with people posting html.

It's for security purposes and display issues. Every forum pretty much uses bbcodes.

Why not expand the BBcode to also accept <>? It's much more 'at home' to some of us then the ugly rectangular tags.

I don't know... consistancy reasons? Sometimes I write out html naturally as well... so I know what you're saying. Use the alt keys like alt + b and you won't have to worry about it .

What about just censoring something like <language='text/JavaScript'> to <I'm such a naughty, naughty scripter.>



Ugly? UGLY? You sir, are a bracketist.

Because there'd be so many censors to be made, that it's not really practical. Censoring specific HTML would mean we would have to dig in HTML, CSS, Javascript and many other languages.
Also not to mention if somebody forgets to close a tag. Say I forget to clode a <b> tag, the whole page after that <b> tag would be bold. This is even done with BBCodes, but those are restricted to the table that contains the post.

Type your post in notepad.
Find -> Replace -> [ = <,
Find -> Replace -> > = ].
Not practical, but it gets it done if you absolutely insist on not typing in BBcode (which I find easier, since no shift key is required).

I'm just used to <>. I don't want to enable HTML, just make BBcode also accept <> brackets as well as []. Keep same tags.