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Smileys are back

In case you didn't notice, smileys are back Smile

All existing forum posts and comments throughout the site are automatically affected and will show them again, so enjoy Biggrin

Just don't go nuts with em Blum

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Eww

Stupid smileys. Sad

Tim, you can breath again.

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Very nice

John Smile It's nice to see some color back in our posts Biggrin

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Nice

Nice. :)

I'm a big fan of the text-based ones, but the graphical ones... never really can tell what emoticon they represent unless you look it up or something. For the basic set, I prefer plaintext emoticons. Kick it old school, and you know what's being said. :) for happy, :( for sad, ;) for wink, and :p for just kidding, or a raspberry. There are more complicated ones, but I don't bother with them.

(To use plaintext emoticons, wrap 'em in code tags.

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I agree that sometimes the

I agree that sometimes the message gets lost in translation when using graphic smilies. One solution that would work well IMHO is to instead of the mouse over tooltip telling you what the smiley is, show the actual ascii representation, or show both the description and the ascii. I use Trillian IM client and this is how they do it. This is also handy to let other users know how to easily duplicate the smiley.

It amazes me that on the internet you can be anything you want, and yet so many people still choose to be idiots.

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Ummm,

Bad

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borrow????

Would I be able to use them in other forums?

link to them (using [img]...) or save them? Wink

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Um...

That would depend on the forum and their restrictions.

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I don't think they have a

I don't think they have a problem with external smileys...

I was thinking more about me taking them from here...

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You Can't

You can't. Images here are protected against hot-linking so other sites can't leech.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

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errm...

really Pardon

doesn't seem to work (in the preview of a message at least)--> http://sites.google.com/site/spg20scottsweb/home/portableapps-smiley

Anyway...If you don't want me to, I wont Wink

-Scott-

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Cache

It's already in your browser's cache, so it shows up. Anybody accessing it embedded in a page on another site will get an access denied error.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

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Oh...

I think I get that...(although ff portable has 0MB cache limit so I don't get that...)

Anyway, since you've gone to that trouble I wont use them except here Smile

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Disk vs RAM

That's disk vs RAM cache. The setting in options sets the disk cache to 0. Disk cache is really only important between sessions or if you leave Firefox running a long time and visit lots of pages. Firefox still uses available RAM while it's running for cache, though.

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Ahhhhhh....I get it...

I see now, thanks for the clarification Smile

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Best way

spg SCOTTWould I be able to use them in other forums?

link to them (using [img]...) or save them?

Best thing to do would be to get a Photobucket account (well, you could use any free image host) and the Clippings extension for Firefox. Upload an emoticon from any site (download to your desktop first) and copy the direct URL to the image. Save this in Clippings under the name of the text it replaces. Post the image URL and then wrap it with whatever code that forum uses. BBCode is a useful extension for this. ;-)

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Yeah

I know what you mean, I just liked the jaw drop one Shock so was wondering...

Didn't know about clippings though, I'll look into it, thanks Smile
(already got bbcode ;))

-Scott-

EDIT:Clippings...

Creates a folder in documents called .clipbak with the clipping inside...not good. I'll stick with treepad...

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I'm so happy!

Shock I'm so happy! Biggrin

Too many lonely hearts in the real world
Too many bridges you can burn
Too many tables you can't turn
Don't wanna live my life in the real world

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Cuuuuuuuuute things!!!

Smile Wink Sad Biggrin }:) Blum Shock Pardon 8) Shock Bad
:) ;) :( :D }:) :P :O :? 8) :jawdrop: :sick:
Some are more cute textually, such as the first four, but for example the evil one looks like a happy guy with big eyebrows. Anyway:THEY ARE CUTE.

P.D.:Love the tongue, reminds me of a real "evil" guy such as a child having fun when his/her father/mother tells him/her to stop playing Blum
Beware John, I got nuts with them onlky in this post :P. I just love this one Blum

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... I feel dumb but asking

...

I feel dumb but asking this but...

How are people making them textual?

Entities?

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Do you mean this? NathanJ79

Do you mean this?

NathanJ79 (To use plaintext emoticons, wrap 'em in code tags.

{code}:){/code}

just replace the {} with

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Do you mean this?

Do you mean this?

NathanJ79 (To use plaintext emoticons, wrap 'em in code tags.

oh...

Must have missed that.

Thanks.

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yay

Smile Smile Blum

:y :A :Y Bad

Smile Wink Sad Biggrin }:) Blum Shock Pardon 8) Shock Bad

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Finally! I can wink again.

Wink
Gracias Johnny!

Na na na, come on!

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