Forum BBCodes added: [YouTube], [Subtle] and [snip]!
Posted: August 17th, 2012, 2:49 pmA few small, but noteworthy additions to the posting toolbar today:
Firstly, I've added a [s] button to the toolbar, which makes it easier to add a strikethrough effect to your text. This technique has been available for a while, but there was no button for it. Now, on with the main announcement - starting with something that has been requested a few times in the past... a YouTube video embed tag!
YouTube video embed tag:
Just wrap a YouTube video ID* in YouTube tags like so:
*(not the whole URL, just the unique characters at/near the end)
[YouTube]XIed0kUh57w[/YouTube]
...and it will become:
Highly recommended fan-made DKC2 rap music video - must see!
The embedded video dimensions are 224*299, which should be pretty much ideal for SNES video (224p).
Note: You can alternatively use [yt]XIed0kUh57w[/yt], which does the same thing, but is quicker to type.
Subtle text tag:
If you want to write a little note that doesn't need to be as strong/obvious as regular text, try the Subtle tag:
[Subtle]Subtle text[/Subtle]
...which will look like this:
Subtle text
Snip quoted text tag:
Sometimes you only want to quote a few words from someone's post, but it's often good to indicate that you're only quoting a snippet of what was said. This tag is for when the original post included more text either side of your quote.
[snip]quoted snippet[/snip]
will become:
[...]quoted snippet[...]
or, within quote tags:
[quote][snip]quoted snippet[/snip][/quote]
will become:
Those are today's new forum features - let me know what you think!
Firstly, I've added a [s] button to the toolbar, which makes it easier to add a strikethrough effect to your text. This technique has been available for a while, but there was no button for it. Now, on with the main announcement - starting with something that has been requested a few times in the past... a YouTube video embed tag!
YouTube video embed tag:
Just wrap a YouTube video ID* in YouTube tags like so:
*(not the whole URL, just the unique characters at/near the end)
[YouTube]XIed0kUh57w[/YouTube]
...and it will become:
Highly recommended fan-made DKC2 rap music video - must see!
The embedded video dimensions are 224*299, which should be pretty much ideal for SNES video (224p).
Note: You can alternatively use [yt]XIed0kUh57w[/yt], which does the same thing, but is quicker to type.
Subtle text tag:
If you want to write a little note that doesn't need to be as strong/obvious as regular text, try the Subtle tag:
[Subtle]Subtle text[/Subtle]
...which will look like this:
Subtle text
Snip quoted text tag:
Sometimes you only want to quote a few words from someone's post, but it's often good to indicate that you're only quoting a snippet of what was said. This tag is for when the original post included more text either side of your quote.
[snip]quoted snippet[/snip]
will become:
[...]quoted snippet[...]
or, within quote tags:
[quote][snip]quoted snippet[/snip][/quote]
will become:
[...]quoted snippet[...]
Those are today's new forum features - let me know what you think!
