Here is an email in response to my suggestion that a seperate web design/web programming forum be created. This reply is from Justin Weber, Owner/Webmaster of Computing.Net. Yup, I understand completely. I've had a few requests to put up a web programming forum but here's why I have not. Computing.Net will not allow people to post HTML other than <A Href, <B, <I, <IMG. So I can envision people having all kinds of problems with this limitation and an HTML forum. People would be unable to post examples. That could end up getting really annoying, really fast. An answer might be to go in and put a between any code other than <A HREF, etc... However that wouldn't work either. Since I need to allow the other codes to function, anyone that posts example codes including any of those allowable commands would get a HTML page that looks something like this: <A HREF=gffgfgf>test</A> Talk about confusing! Half the code would be active and half would show up as text. For that reason I didn't want a forum devoted solely to web programming. Instead, I decided to put up a general programming forum in which web questions could be asked. Thanks for the suggestion though! Justin ------- It should be noted that special characters are supported in this forum. See here: http://www.ramsch.org/martin/uni/fmi-hp/iso8859-1.html You might of noticed that the text that appears in preview mode may not be the text that appears in the forum. If you type the special character code in preview mode, not the original post textbox, the special character will appear. eg: § Ñ > <

Another way to post HTML, JavaScript, etc. examples is by using uncommon characters to replace the less than and greater than characters. *, ~ and @ are pretty uncommon in HTML code, so you could use those character to represent the less than and greater tags. Example: * = less than @ = greater than *html@ *head@ */head@ *body@ */body@ */html@ You can use the find-and-replace option in a word processor to replace all *s with less than characters and all @s with greater than characters. I use Microsoft Wordpad extensively to convert uppercase HTML code to lowercase HTML code.

Standard html can be displayed like this: [html] [head] [title] computing.net [/title] [/head] [body] [a href="http://www.computing.net"]computing.net[/a] [/body] [/html] Hit enter after each tag so spaces are skipped. Another suggestion is to create some free webspace and upload the various examples your going to offer people and link to them. Example Link

I have just become aware that you could put HTML code into the site using special characters. This was not done on purpose and I have removed the feature. I thank you for letting me know about it. Please e-mail me if the feature is not removed completely/correctly. To allow people to post any HTML that they want is not a good idea on my part for many reasons. I believe that I have allowed all the HTML features someone posting a message would need. To address your other concern, I realize that you can put up sample code if you know that the forum doesn't support it. Anyone can use [ or another character as a workaround. However, when I wrote that note I was concerned about the users that don't know what the forum does and doesn't do, not the "experts." I just could see e-mails asking why parts of posts were deleted, etc. That is what I meant about getting annoying for the users. Justin

Along the lines of the free web space idea... You could place the code in text files and hyperlink to them or create a .js file and allow someone to download it. Javascript in a text document. JavaScript file. As a general rule please virus-scan everything you download.

Justin, I am sorry for posting the content of your email to me in this forum. Your email was addressed to me and me only and I should not have been repeated it in this forum without your permission. That being said, I think this forum can be greatly beneficial to web designers and programmers. It is always best to upload your code [HTML, JavaScript, XML (Client side) or JSERV, PHP, PERL, Python, Zope (server side) to an existing web URI. This way people helping you out have a better idea of what you are hoping to achieve.

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