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'Preview proposed edit' button

Spatula Clarke

23:36 / 17.07.04

Having one of these would be many useful, Tom. Each time I moderate a post to fix some broken HTML there's the possibility that I'll stuff it up even worse (or differently) than it was originally. The only way to double check a proposed edit at the moment is to open up another window, go into any thread and preview it as a new post. Takes ages, especially with the board slowing down again.

I know it's not just me. Every now and again I'll have a proposed edit to an HTML-iffy post sitting in my inbox waiting for my vote, with the suggested change not being any better than the original.

This should be a relatively simple change, yeah? More or less just taking the current preview post button and adding it to some other pages?

w1rebaby

11:34 / 18.07.04

I concur. I'm usually okay with HTML, but I get a lot of edits requested to a new version that's still broken, and I think it would be helpful for people to have a preview so they can check.

pointless and uncalled for

08:14 / 19.07.04

I seem to remember that a couple of mods have stated that HTML fixes are quite common.

Jack Vincennes

08:43 / 19.07.04

Yes, sounds like a good idea -I currently check edits that I think might be wrong by copy-pasting them to an html file on my desktop. And my edit's not always right, and I'm painfully aware that it's a kind of dorky thing to do, so I'd certainly use a preview button.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

09:50 / 19.07.04

Yeah, speaking as a Convo mod, every time someone starts a picture thread we normally have to do a bit of work to shrink pictures down to reasonable sizes. As it is I cut and paste between the mod box and a post box so i can see what it looks like in 'post preview' but it's less than ideal...

pointless and uncalled for

09:57 / 19.07.04

Would it be excessively slowing for all posts to be previewed before posting?

Jack Vincennes

10:36 / 19.07.04

TSK, I've been on a board that did that and it ended up being very irritating -even with an automatic preview it's easy to get into the habit of automatically clicking 'Post' on the previewing screen without actually re-reading what you're going to post. It'd probably help with stuff like unclosed link tags and images which are obviously stupidly massive, though.

pointless and uncalled for

10:52 / 19.07.04

Generally the idea. Grammatical work is unlikely to be noticed until after the fact.

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