Suggestion

[CanonRebelz]

*I was unable to find a suggestions thread, so I put it here. You cannot PM more than 1 person, so I put it here (rather than PMing it to mods/admins or something).*

Hey. I thought I would suggest a little something, just cause it could be useful.
I know (from other boards using vBulletin) that there are spoiler tags ([SPOILER] [/SPOILER] and such) that allow you to place content in the spoiler tags, and then maybe change the message that appears from spoiler to Lots of images and then a "show" button. After you click show, the content appears, it's in a little box like thing, just like a quote almost. You can click the "hide" button afterwards if you want to hide it. It would be useful here for if you are posting lots of words, say.. for a tutorial or something, then want to add photos to it. Well, you want to photos to be at a viewable size (thats like 500x333 as flickr does it for the medium size) but then that really clutters the post? Well, if you had spoiler tags for each image, it would allow the user the choice to see a photo for that particular step in the tutorial, etc.
What do you think? Would it be unnecessary, or is this a good idea?
Thanks.

If you want to be able to give the ability to show/hide content in posts then click on the TXT document I attached to find the code and what you need to change. I would have uploaded it as a PDF (which I tried) but it was a 43K size file, and the max file size allowed here for PDF's is sadly 19K.


Here is an example:

Hello. This is an example of a spoiler button in action! It wouldn't really say "quote" there, if we had the use of [SPOILER] tags. This text is red! This text is bold.

[dcclark]

Thumbs up. Spoiler code is useful in many circumstances, both serious and silly.

[CanonRebelz]

Originally Posted by dcclark

Thumbs up. Spoiler code is useful in many circumstances, both serious and silly.

Thanks. True that, haha.

[FrankLamont]

Yes, it proves useful many times.

[wulf]

I'm not convinced that it would enhance tutorials - I can't think of an example where seeing text and pictures together has been a problem. I think I'd be more irritated by having to click a button each time I wanted to see an example of what the author was talking about.

Wulf

[dcclark]

Originally Posted by wulf

I'm not convinced that it would enhance tutorials - I can't think of an example where seeing text and pictures together has been a problem. I think I'd be more irritated by having to click a button each time I wanted to see an example of what the author was talking about.

One effective implementation I've seen is over at BoardGameGeek, where all that is required is a mouseover -- the "spoiler" text appears in a box labeled "spoiler", and mousing over the box reveals it.

It may not be essential for tutorials, but it's a handy tool. Also great for games.

[wulf]

It would work if you wanted to add some self-test questions to a tutorial - for that, a button probably would be the best interface (because it shouts "click me") unless the mouseover area is very clear.

Wulf

[fletch]

Why did the mexican push his wife off the cliff?

Quote:

Tequilla

Edit: OK, that worked on the preview but not when I posted. Weird.

[OsmosisStudios]

I think the main problem that exists with using images in post is size. In many cases they extend the forum past the normal size and often UNDER advertisements. Now, there are ways around this (using Firefox or an ad blocker) but that's not necessarilly a useful option.

[CanonRebelz]

Originally Posted by dcclark

One effective implementation I've seen is over at BoardGameGeek, where all that is required is a mouseover -- the "spoiler" text appears in a box labeled "spoiler", and mousing over the box reveals it.

It may not be essential for tutorials, but it's a handy tool. Also great for games.

That would be nice. You could simply change the script to show it on mouse over by probably just changing onclick to onmouseover and then adding an onmouseout option.