"History's verdict is all we have left. And when tomorrow calls today into account, some of us want to say we stood up. We called out. We were not silent." --Leonard Pitts, Jr., "Gestures of Conscience Bring Solace," Baltimore Sun, March 19, 2006
"OH, THAT WAY MADNESS LIES"
This entry was posted on 3/26/2008 11:50 AM and is filed under uncategorized.
Guys, this post is maybe one of my most important of recent months; in fact, one of my editors at HuffingtonPost.com's "Off the Bus" page said so in an e-mail.
Over at Talking Points Memo's TPM Cafe, it has garnered close to 30 recommendations so far and a brisk commentary traffic.
Unfortunately, because this was somewhat longer than normal, and I included numerous quotes from other sources and several links, I composed it in Microsoft Word. I can't transfer word to Blue Inkblots and don't have the correct software to do so.
In fact, I was unable to post it myself at TPM Cafe--they had to do it for me, and over at HuffPo, when they posted it, it came out one loooong paragraph.
So, since I'm unwilling to rewrite the whole thing here in proper format, I'm going to provide my readers here with a link to TPM Cafe so you can read it. There's Shakespeare and everything! Good stuff!
It has to do with the madness of Democrats turning on each other rather than on our common opponent: the Republicans and John McCain.
I encourage you all to hop on over to TPM Cafe and give it a read. Feel free to register over there and post a comment if you like, or if you'd rather, come back on over here and we'll discuss amongst ourselves.
4/7/2008 1:01 AM
tpartier wrote:
This is just with regards to the problem you note with transferring from Word.
You seem frustrated by that ---
If your method of transfer is via clipboard...
If you are writing in Word as though it was a regular - to be printed - style document, be aware that when you copy to your clipboard in order to paste to a web form, you are frequently carrying INVISIBLE to you (non-printable characters, like line feeds, carriage returns, etc.) markings that web forms do not understand. Even those that appear to support more advanced formatting.
So what happens is that when the form 'posts' you are sending back commands in a format the server side software does not recognize - voila - you get mangle stew.
A work around for you is this - before you try and paste it into a web form, First paste it into any Plain Text Editor such as 'Notepad', which will strip the forbidden characters upon your pasting. Then reselect and re-copy your text from the text processor. Voila - it pastes neatly into most web forms, without formatting either, of course.
There are programmers like myself who are working on far more intelligent web forms that will emulate the behavior you seek. It has to do with much more than meets the eye and results in an emulation at best. That's because the standards set by the WC3 are geared toward enabling clean rendering across any number of different types of systems and platforms. They have to consider such things as I-Phones, for example as well as several dozen different versions of several major browsers.
Word has it's own proprietary format. Even if you save out in html you are faced with not having authorization to make the changes to the full root of the web pages you are trying to post to. It then carries the code for an ENTIRE page and not a segment which is read into a pre-existing page. If you well understood HTML, you could isolate a segment from a page. Even then most webmasters are not so cavalier as to let unknown sources make such an upfeed. Huge security concerns. Reply to this
