Auto Smileys Trash Web References

David C:

I have had trouble several times with the forum softare automatically changing certain combinations of keystrokes into blasted smileys (spit). On the current thread on "Silver Solder Identification" it made it impossible to insert a link, as it interprets colon followed by p as a tongue-out smiley, thus . On other occasions certain combinations of end bracket and close quotes caused problems; you can get over the latter by putting in spaces, but URLs are either right or broken.

Please could you get your web people to remove the auto smiley insertion; anyone benighted enough to use them can presumably still insert them using the drop-down menu, but just let the rest of us get on without them gumming up our posts.

David

Edited By David Littlewood on 25/08/2012 02:18:23

Hi David I will ask.

regards David

Surely its just the way you inserted the link, done like this it works fine.

See page 55 of df">this pdf

J

EDIT maybe you are right its adding something to the link

Edited By JasonB on 25/08/2012 08:39:07

Edited By JasonB on 25/08/2012 08:40:19

David L,

:-] :->

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 25/08/2012 09:02:55

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 25/08/2012 09:04:16

P.S. ... The big problem with the link that David L was trying to insert is that the EU [of all people!] has failed to comply with standards for the URL.

Their URL ends with "colon pdf" instead of "dot pdf"

[cheap puns about colons studiously avoided]

MichaelG.

Spoilsport!

David

Michael,

On a more serious note, you are right and, as I said, there are usually some fudges to get around it - except where it's a web URL and has to be quoted exactly - but I really think it's unacceptable if we have to stop and think when and how we need to deviate from normal English usage just to get around what is by any standards a juvenile piece of software tat.

David

David,

Absolutely agree!

MichaelG.

Just testing ... is a direct link to that EU document ... inserted using the infamous BubbleCar

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 25/08/2012 13:48:22

YES David ... it's a SERIOUS problem ... it just screwed up my text:

That originally said: 

"Just testing ... here is a direct link to that EU document ... inserted using the infamous BubbleCar"

... with only the word "here" hyperlinked

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 25/08/2012 13:50:28

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 25/08/2012 13:54:28