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IMG Tags Enabled Board-wide

Discussion in 'Sorcerous Sundries' started by Taluntain, Nov 12, 2008.

  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    [​IMG] The day has finally come when we open the floodgates and allow images be displayed in posts board-wide. In the past, we haven't allowed this for several reasons; because of the clutter it would have made, long post loading times for those on dial-up (minority today), because there wasn't much need for it, etc.

    But the primary reason was that on the old boards, the displaying of images wasn't customizable in any way. On the current boards, there isn't much more control by default, but it is doable with certain addons which I'll likely be installing in the near future. For now, those of you who don't want to see any images inside posts can simply disable the showing of images in your profile options. However, do note that besides removing most pictures from posts, this will also break the displaying of any signatures that have pictures in them.

    Now let's get to the business at hand - how to put images into your posts. First I need to explain that we're not currently giving you the ability to upload images straight into posts, but rather only the ability to have pictures at a certain URL display inside posts via the use of IMG tags.

    Using this in practice is very simple - all you need is the URL of the picture you want to display in your post (e.g. http://www.sorcerers.net/forums/images/editor/insertimage.gif) and to wrap it in IMG tags. If the image you want to put into your post is only on your hard drive, simply create an album on BoM and upload it there. You can then put the URL to your image in your BoM album between the IMG tags.

    In the message editor you will now see a new image icon ([​IMG]) which you can click and simply paste the URL of the image into the prompt and hit OK. This will insert the image URL wrapped into IMG tags into your post. You can also use the IMG tags manually to achieve the same result.

    Currently there is no check in place to prevent the posting of excessively large images, so PLEASE DO NOT INSERT IMAGES LARGER THAN 1024 X 768 INTO YOUR POSTS, BUT RATHER LINK TO THEM INSTEAD.

    Feel free to use this thread to test this new feature out, but only 1 image per post per member please, so that we don't fill this thread with hundreds of images.

    If you have any questions, feel free to ask here. We also welcome any comments about this new feature.
     
  2. Disciple of The Watch

    Disciple of The Watch Preparing The Coming of The New Order Veteran

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    OMG, I see the Four Horsemen on the horizon!
     
  3. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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  4. 8people

    8people 8 is just another way of looking at infinite ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran

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    [​IMG] Not that bad, surely...

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  5. Dalveen

    Dalveen Rimmer gone Bald Veteran

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    Test.

    Having trouble getting the picture to show instead of a link.

    :edit: Never mind, i'm being incredibly dense.
    Its an old pic, but i found this on my hard drive
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    Must be why the Empire failed...
     
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  6. Ziad

    Ziad I speak in rebuses Veteran

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    The two kids on the right staring at the scene are priceless :lol:
     
  7. Montresor

    Montresor Mostly Harmless Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder

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    They're everywhere! :eek:

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  8. Trellheim Gems: 22/31
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    I'm not sure if this was a good decision. Now I'm just going to start spamming awesome smileys.

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  9. Loreseeker

    Loreseeker A believer in knowledge Veteran

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    Joining the party... however, I seem to be doing something wrong... :confused:

    I see the link and the IMG tags in message editor, but not in the thread... there is just blank space.

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    Meh, I give up.
     
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  10. Silvery

    Silvery I won't pretend to be your friend coz I'm just not ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran

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    Tal, I know you explained this to me before...but I really don't get it
     
  11. Barmy Army

    Barmy Army Simple mind, simple pleasures... Adored Veteran

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    What don't you get? It's not rocket!
     
  12. Silvery

    Silvery I won't pretend to be your friend coz I'm just not ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran

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    I know. Rocket is a green leafy salad vegtable

    I just thought that this could already be done
     
  13. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Nope... only in our blogs.
     
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    Thanks Tal
     
  15. Silvery

    Silvery I won't pretend to be your friend coz I'm just not ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran

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    tal, you're a genius my darling.........a fabulous young man!!!!!!!
     
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    Tal requested that I post my cat here. :D

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