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Re^2: More HTML escaping

by Aristotle (Chancellor)
on Jul 04, 2002 at 16:04 UTC ( [id://179483]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to (tye)Re: More HTML escaping
in thread More HTML escaping

Recently I went back and added "(tye)" to (tye)Re: A question of style because I often refer to that node when questions about what difference & and () make when calling Perl subroutines. [..] now I can link to it easily without having to memorize a node ID (I have a hard time remembering the node ID of tye and I actually end up using that quite a bit).

I have a few of those also - scant, and not referred to quite as often, but the point stands. I would go so far as to say that such nodes deserve an edited, unique title that identifies them by content, rather than author. As far as looking them up is concerned, I found the Personal Nodelet a good place for the really frequently used ones, while the homenode does a sufficient job for the occasionally useful ones. As an admittedly more clunky alternative, one might also refer people to people a <a name="faqchest">'ed section on one's homenode rather than directly to the node in question (and who knows, they might linger and read the other interesting nodes as well).

I'm not going to start a crusade against vanity tagging, since although I do occasionally find it annoying, I don't feel it isn't enough so to warrant more than a silent protest by cleaning others' tags from the subjects of my posts. My point is that I do agree with merlyn in that I don't see how tags offer anything that cannot be achieved otherwise with no more or very little more effort.

For the record, Re(1.2.1.3.1) style subjects would certainly be less ugly than Re: •Re: (tye)Re: (FoxUni)Re: Re: foo bar.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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(tye)Re: More HTML escaping
by tye (Sage) on Jul 04, 2002 at 18:27 UTC

    Sometimes I chat via my WAP cell phone. In such cases, even having the node ID in my personal nodelet is not of much use. In fact, last night this very subject came up and I linked to (tye)Re: A question of style. And, as I've said repeatedly, this is only one example of a place where duplicate node titles would cause me problems. There are lots of times I've been glad that I or someone else has personalized their reply indicator, but I rarely try to memorize those cases when I run into them so I don't have a big list of them handy. I can understand you not seeing the use in them. That is fine. I see many uses and so will continue to use them.

    As for retitling that node... A few have suggested that I make a tutorial out of that node of mine. I might do that some day, but I don't feel that just copying the node to tutorials is appropriate. It needs some work to become worthy of being a tutorial, to my mind. And at different times there are different nodes that I know the titles of but don't know the node IDs of that I sometimes wish to link to when it isn't convenient to look up the node ID. Sometimes I've bothered to note the node ID someplace, but often the node is not something that I expected I'd want to refer back to. So retitling often wouldn't work. Also, I'm not interested in retitling that node now. For one thing, I've now linked to it a few times from nodes via the title. For another, I think it fits into that thread nicely with the title it has.

    And I don't consider stripping my "(tye)" (and possible digits) from the title when you reply to one of my replies any kind of protest. I prefer it that way. I dislike the practice of taking the time to adjust the title but not bothering to remove previous personalizations. You see, it isn't a vanity thing; I don't expect or even want you to preserve my indicator and I'm surprised when I see people hint at that (like it is my indicator and they don't feel they have the right to mess with it -- which is true when it is in the title of my reply, I suppose, but not otherwise). I certainly don't mind people just letting the default "Re: $previous_title" stand. But if you want to adjust the title, I would prefer that you also trim the previous extra bits out. So you'll never see a title like your example ("Re: •Re: (tye)Re: (FoxUni)Re: Re: foo bar.") because I'd have stripped the "(FoxUni)Re: Re: " part out. ;) Not that I have plans or even desires to ban or force any of these things.

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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