First off, it's early, I'm tired, and under-caffeinated.
I guess I'm missing the backstory on what the motivation for the new "user" element, what need it's meeting, its expected syntax, and expected result.
I understand things best from being given a set of examples. I'm frustrated as I have nothing to go on and all my attempts at using some kind of element with "user" in it have come up empty. :/ From your reply, I'm guessing the purpose is to allow someone to refer to a user on the site. Your examples suggest there are two variations.
I'm also very curious about error cases... non-existent UIDs (e.g. too small, too large, non-numeric) and non-existent nicks (typo, case-sensitivity(?), etc.)
So, I'm still at a loss for the expected/permitted *syntax* for the new user elements, as well as what the expected output is in each case.
Separately, I would think this should be documented somewhere on the site, as I'll not be the only one wondering about this. (Hmm, might be useful to have a page enumerating the permitted tags/elements and give examples of each... not everyone comes to our site knowing HTML. I need to think about that one some more.)
Hmm, maybe you were giving me examples of the syntax of the input instead of examples of the output?
@The+Mighty+Buzzard
@#18
Does not appear to be the case; at least in preview, they appear exactly as I typed them. Let's try putting angle brackets around them:
<@The+Mighty+Buzzard>
<@#18>
I've replaced the less/greater than chars with named character entities to show what I had used; nothing was displayed in either case -- the elements were completely removed.
Let's try using a "user" element:
<user @The+Mighty+Buzzard>
<user @#18>
Same result, and same change, after the fact, to reveal what I had entered.
Let's try again using a syntax analagous tothe URL element:
<user:@The+Mighty+Buzzard>
<user:@#18>
And that caused the elements to be removed, too. Again, to show what I had entered, in the preceding I have replaced each less-than character that I had typed with its named character entity: < and each greater-than with >
(Score: 2) by martyb on Sunday January 11 2015, @06:01PM
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 11 2015, @06:47PM
martyb regular old user link typed just like it looks.
@#76: user link using #N instead of username
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(Score: 2) by martyb on Monday January 12 2015, @10:47AM
First off, it's early, I'm tired, and under-caffeinated.
I guess I'm missing the backstory on what the motivation for the new "user" element, what need it's meeting, its expected syntax, and expected result.
I understand things best from being given a set of examples. I'm frustrated as I have nothing to go on and all my attempts at using some kind of element with "user" in it have come up empty. :/ From your reply, I'm guessing the purpose is to allow someone to refer to a user on the site. Your examples suggest there are two variations.
I'm also very curious about error cases... non-existent UIDs (e.g. too small, too large, non-numeric) and non-existent nicks (typo, case-sensitivity(?), etc.)
So, I'm still at a loss for the expected/permitted *syntax* for the new user elements, as well as what the expected output is in each case.
Separately, I would think this should be documented somewhere on the site, as I'll not be the only one wondering about this. (Hmm, might be useful to have a page enumerating the permitted tags/elements and give examples of each... not everyone comes to our site knowing HTML. I need to think about that one some more.)
I look forward to any guidance you can provide.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Monday January 12 2015, @11:11AM
Hmm, maybe you were giving me examples of the syntax of the input instead of examples of the output?
@The+Mighty+Buzzard
@#18
Does not appear to be the case; at least in preview, they appear exactly as I typed them. Let's try putting angle brackets around them:
<@The+Mighty+Buzzard>
<@#18>
I've replaced the less/greater than chars with named character entities to show what I had used; nothing was displayed in either case -- the elements were completely removed.
Let's try using a "user" element:
<user @The+Mighty+Buzzard>
<user @#18>
Same result, and same change, after the fact, to reveal what I had entered.
Let's try again using a syntax analagous tothe URL element:
<user:@The+Mighty+Buzzard>
<user:@#18>
And that caused the elements to be removed, too. Again, to show what I had entered, in the preceding I have replaced each less-than character that I had typed with its named character entity: < and each greater-than with >