Godless Dave

Redhedd, are you having problems posting them or seeing them?

pz

Other than using hellbound Microsoft abominations, nothing at all. Mac people are supposed to be more sensitive and esthetically refined, and eschew the cartoonish crudities with which these philistines sprinkle and splatter their words.

reddhedd

I mean posting them. I can see them when they are sent to me in an e-mail, and I can see and use them here.
Is there no way for a user of the 'right' computer to use emoticons?
pz, thanks for recognizing Mac's inherent superiority.

Godless Dave

Reddhedd, it shouldn't matter what platform you're using. The whole process takes place on your web browser and II's server. Here's a short tutorial on posting smilies:

• Find the website with the smilie you want to use.
  
• Select the smilie and do whatever you do on the Mac version of IE to bring up a context menu. Choose Properties. (On a PC you would right-click, but you can't do that on a Mac. Even though Macs are perfectly capably of detecting more than one mouse button. *Glares reproachfully at Steve Jobs*)
  
• A box should come up with a Location: field followed by a url that looks something like this: http://www.iidb.org/ubb/redface.gif
  
• Select that url and copy it to the Clipboard (CMD-C).
  
• If you can, select the image again and select Bookmark this link. Not sure if you can do that in IE.
  
• Go back to the message board post you're writing and type [ img ], then paste that url, then type [ /img ]. It should look something like this:
  [ img ]http://www.iidb.org/ubb/redface.gif[ /img ]
  (Note I have extra spaces in the [img] tags for display purposes only)
  
  And it will show up in your post something like this:
  

And that's it. I hope. Please ask for clarification if it doesn't make sense or I misestimated your computer literacy. FWIW, I learned vb code mostly by quoting other people's posts to see what their code looked like.

Dave


Results not guaranteed. No warranty, expressed or implied.

pz

On the mac, you would control-click on the image to bring up a menu, because we don't need no stinkin' bunch of buttons that get used inconsistently anyway.

Select "Open image in new window" in the menu.

Copy the url.

Paste the url into your document. This UBB stuff is bizarre glop that is only used on bulletin board systems; usually, you'd do something like <img src="url.jpg">.


But of course, sensible, intelligent people would not waste their time with any of the steps above, because they wouldn't be interested in polluting the purity of their words with primitive, canned doodles.

MzNeko

Gee, don't hold back, pz - tell us how you really feel...

Godless Dave

Unless you like the convenience of only using one hand. Why take the left hand away from precious beer-lifting duties?

trillian

I never used them either...so just testing one out here. Thanks for the sites!!!! Now it may take me an hour for a single post to find that "just right" emoticon for the occasion. arggh!