[Info-vax] new HP OpenVMS public forum now live

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Steven Schweda wrote 2011-07-01 11:01:
> On Jun 30, 8:25 am, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
> Koehler) wrote:
>
>>     That's your browser, not the post.  Generally you can control whether
>>     your browser does this, or switch browsers if you don't like the one
>>     you're using.
>
>     Now that Google Groups is getting back into sync with the
> real world, I can catch up on all the entertainment I was
> missing out on.
>
>     Be sure to let us all know when you find a Web browser
> which solves this problem...

There is no such browser, since this is not an browser issue!
The mapping of ":P", ":-)" and so on is done by the *SERVER*.


> which I can use on my VMS system. But thanks for playing.
>
>
> On Jun 29, 2:42 pm, Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This is very common in any forum out there. They should of course
>> not convert ":P" to an icon if it isn *not* followed by a space.
>
>     No, actually what they should not have done is convert any
> text from a text-only forum into cute images in a forum which
> supports cute images.

They have probably *not* done any conversion at the time of the
migration. The mapping of ":P" to the img-tag is done at display
time by the server on-the-fly. The stored content is still ":P".

This is absolutely 100% standard forum functionallity today.

All complaints about this does absolutely nothing apart from
once again confirming that OpenVMS is "old" and those working
with OpenVMS are dinosaurs.

This have nothing but a negative impact for us that are working
professionaly with OpenVMS in an mixed environment and using
tools that others (non-VMS-ers) are used to.

Get real...

> But this whole forum migration reeks of
> the kind of attention to detail and foresight which one might
> expect from any organization where form is valued more highly
> than function.

Yes, there are *other* issues with the migration (such as links
not working) but the imoticon is not a real issue. It's just
as it is.

Jan-Erik.