why "url" why not "a href"
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'black people'
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| Posted: Jul 29, 2006 8:04 p.m. - Subject: why "url" why not "a href" |
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is there a specific name for forum languages? like, why isn’t it just like regular html, and use "a href" "font size" "font color" etc.
only reason i see is to save time. is that why?
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| Posted: Jul 29, 2006 8:11 p.m. - Subject: |
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BECAUSE YOU TOUCH YOURSELF AT NIGHT!!
No, It probably has some meaning and the acronym URL just stuck.
Kinda like how we used to call cd’s compact disks.
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| Posted: Jul 29, 2006 8:12 p.m. - Subject: |
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wait a minute. What I just said didn’t make sense.
I really don’t know why the used url and not html.
I think it’s because url allows you to click the link.
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'black people'
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| Posted: Jul 29, 2006 8:18 p.m. - Subject: |
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if you do < a href="url here">text< /a> it does the same thing as [ url]
what i’m saying is, why did they choose to change it to url, instead of just keeping the usual html
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| Posted: Jul 29, 2006 8:21 p.m. - Subject: |
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probably because people are retarded and cant remember blah [url] is easyer and faster to type in, so it makes more sence to me
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| Posted: Jul 29, 2006 8:42 p.m. - Subject: |
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html was aloud like a year ago but weasel fixed it.
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| Posted: Jul 29, 2006 9:12 p.m. - Subject: |
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Ya, as said; html is harder than just punching in [url].
Personally, I don’t care, they are both easy to remember.
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| Posted: Jul 29, 2006 9:23 p.m. - Subject: |
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Quote: is there a specific name for forum languages? like, why isn’t it just like regular html, and use "a href" "font size" "font color" etc.
only reason i see is to save time. is that why?
its called bbcode
(bb= bulletin board)
it’s easier (for security) to take specific codes and process them as html and escape everything else than to allow html and filter xss vectors
everything on the xss cheat sheet (google it) plus a lot more would hafta be filtered. also things like style sheets, embed tags, div’s etc could cause problems
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| Posted: Jul 29, 2006 9:33 p.m. - Subject: |
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^^^^^^ WHOA!!!
I probably SHOULD know mwhat you’re talkin’ about in that last sentance there, but I don’t.
:(
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