2017-06-07, 12:25 AM
What's the point, when google exists? Automatic replacements should be avoided, they can mess up at times, for example when the poster had another meaning in mind in a particular context.
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2017-06-07, 12:38 AM
Always possibe to use another syntax, like \I I R C - with a backslash at the beginning...
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2017-06-07, 03:14 AM
Then again, maybe it's not such a great idea after all ...
![[Image: Acronym_Finder.png]](https://s14.postimg.cc/phgkr6pyp/Acronym_Finder.png) And that's just under "A" ... followed by a non-letter ... ![[Image: smiley_shocked_anim.gif]](https://s21.postimg.cc/4ipoew1vb/smiley_shocked_anim.gif)
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2017-06-07, 06:46 PM
Me 'overcraft is full of eels, eh?
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2017-06-10, 01:48 PM
Thought about a tooltip instead: https://www.w3schools.com/howto/tryit.as...ss_tooltip
Tried to implement using mycode, but it didn't work... 
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2017-06-10, 06:14 PM
The stand-alone code, copied to it's own HTML file, works perfect on this (FireFox) browser:
![[Image: hover_tooltip.png]](https://s2.postimg.cc/6k8npqesp/hover_tooltip.png)  Confirm that you have your local test file as "trusted" in your browser. These things do not work if the page is not trusted. Also, you'd probably want to organize the words and tips as pairs in an indexed table for easier additions, deletions, and editing. 
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2017-06-12, 06:09 AM
my vote is for the tooltip, with a list of technical abbreviations
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2017-06-14, 10:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 2017-06-14, 10:05 PM by Jetrell Fo.)
I don't see any real need for any of this. The list in this thread should be enough for people to refer to if they really need to post OT.com-ish.
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2017-06-14, 10:09 PM
(2017-06-14, 10:04 PM)Jetrell Fo Wrote: I don't see any real need for any of this. The list in this thread should be enough for people to refer to if they really need to post OT.com-ish. I agree. This isn't Twitter or the era of limited texting. If people use abbreviation, they meant to use them instead of spelling it out. Automatically substitution of the abbreviation is changing something that no one wanted changed. |
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