I just made a post which the forum software mangled. I wrote (spelling out): left-parenthesis t m right-parenthesis. The forum software changed this. I do not like having what I write buggered up by crappy software, so is there any chance you could switch this particular piece of stupidity off?

In this case it didn't matter too much, but I would like to be free to write using conventional expressions, which includes all sorts of things the peanut-brain authors of this rubbish just forgot to think of. If I write a mathematical or pseudomathematical expression e=mc^2, whatever, I don't really want it messed up.

Thank you.

I think you ought to change your handle to Key-Shoat (Quixote).
java script:emoticon(':D', 'smid_4')
:Djava script:emoticon(':angry:', 'smid_7')
:angry:java script:emoticon(':lol:', 'smid_13')
:lol:java script:emoticon(':angry2:', 'smid_6')
:angry2:java script:emoticon(';)', 'smid_23')
;)java script:emoticon(':wub:', 'smid_22')

What is this :xxx:java script:... stuff?

Anyway, I don't have a 'handle'. I'm me.

"What is this :xxx:java script:... stuff?"

Dunno. I just clicked the little symbol and that's what I got.

You boys should stick to the plain text lo-fi version of this board, and leave the smilies to the experts.

Brian,

At the moment I can't even find where to disable this, so I'll have to do some digging. I think its buried in the code. Since we don't really need to worry about TradeMark stamping things on the site I'll disable it whenever I find it.

John

Old thread, I know.

I just had this happen to me. I typed Javascript (I typed it as one word) and it split it in to two words.

It was in this thread: http://forums.htmlhelp.com/index.php?showtopic=1449&hl=

It's strange that it hasn't split the word in to two in this thread.

Typing JavaScript or javascript isn't the problem. Typing j avascript: (or J avaScript: or J aVaScRiPt: or ...) is the problem.

I added a space in my examples above. Without a space, they all get converted to the same thing: Typing java script: (or java script: or java script: or ...) is the problem.

Are you saying it's because of the colon?

Do you have a problem with yours?


JavaScript:alert('Boo!');

It seems that is what Darin is saying Jim.

I still not sure why Invision does this though.

Funny, but since you're asking . . . the colonoscopy I had this afternoon was negative

TMI!

If you are not joking jimlongo, I'm glad for you. Well, I'm in a pretty good mood in case you were joking too.

How did you make that work in your post, with entities?

java script:alert('Boo!');

By putting my leet skillz to work, obviously.

thanks, it's a routine screening nowadays . . . I urge anyone born before the Cuban missile crisis to look into it. It's not so bad and in some ways an interesting experience.


then I'm happy with both results!

If you don't tell I will pout.

I had to go down about 20 references to find the TMI you were talking about.

Entities don't work. I seriously have no idea how Pandy pulled that off. People have been trying to do that with IPB forever.

You have got to tell us how you pulled that one off!

John

You are cute when you pout.





No. I want to see you pout too first.

A simple googling turned up the following:

javascript:

If you look in the BBCode you can see how I did it, but pandy seems to use some other trick that makes the BBCode appear normal.

BTW feel free to edit this post if you don't want everyone to know.

Can you put it in a script box?

Ok. I'm pouting... see? Now, tell us how you did it!



Hmm... You say "simple" but I don't know how you found that. I know a lot of people, including me, that looked for it in the past but couldn't find it.

But like you said, that isn't how Pandy is doing it.

Dammit!

John

I knew you would give up if I waited long enough. That mug's so cute I just have to tell you.

Ready? Here goes!


You can do it with any or all characters in 'javascript:'.

It isn't my fault you guys listen to hearsay and don't test for yourselves!

IIRC I searched for ways to circumvent the bad word censor...

BTW here's a mod for phpBB, maybe IPB has something similar though the mod appears to work only on empty BBCode tags (and not when you put content inside them like I did).

I did test &!

Is this the same thing: http://secunia.com/advisories/20772 ?

Kids nowadays... Give up when it doesn't work on the first try. Tsss, tsss, tsss.


Dont know. They say hex and I used decimal. Hex doesn't seem to work.

I swear I tested that also, multiple times!


I've already patched for that issue...

John

Interesting. I just also learned that if you use the & trick, the first time you preview the post it switches it to the regular character. Then if you post it goes back to being broken.

Basically this only works if you do NOT preview your post before taking it live.

John

Yes, lots of boards do that. Messes quoting up, that.

Actually, it was pure luck I found this out. I use a script in my text editor to convert characters to entities. When I wrote it I chose dec since that's supposed to be most widely supported. So when I wanted to try "javascript:" with entities, decimal it was. Had my script happened to do hex, maybe I too had given up there.

Wonder if it is a vulnerability BTW. If it is it shall be known as "The WDG Hole".

Doesn't seem to work in links, but not sure why not (since the "javascript" part is still intact):

[url=javascript: alert('Boo!');]foo[/url]

It's because of the space. But the board adds 'http' if it isn't present.

TESTING

Hello pandy, first thanx for :
Can u tel me in details how do u use a script in text editor! Does it work for all members???
Actually I am running an invision board and there is completely dedicated thread for javascript&#58
So I would really appreciate ur help!
Thanks in advance!

No, you can't do it with any text editor. The one I use, Notetab, is programmable using its own scripting language. I like the way the sripts are evoked. Look at this picture http://notetab.com/screen01.html . What you see in the left window is a library with scripts. Each item in the list is a script. In this case it's just text macros that inserts CSS stuff in the document, but they can be a lot more advanced than that, process text, documents, disk files. You can have as many libraries as you want with many scripts in each.

So is there any other solution??
something like BBCode or MODS...
wel I have access to PHP source code of IPB, so I can modify any file!
And thanks for replying so soon!

I don't understand what you want to do. Can't you just use #58 if that works?