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If I had to make one request:
Please, please, I beg of you: return us to the days of the talkback post preview?

I'm guessing the feature was eliminated because of server load, but quite possibly you could do the same feature clientside using ECMAscript? The basic algorithm would be to grab the text from the textbox, use the regexps functions to replace the carriage return with
tags and the braces with angle brackets. Then open a separate window containing a template, stuff the results of the regexp parse into the template using innnerHTML and then display. For those browsers that don't support the necessary ECMAscript, the template could contain a message like, "Preview not supported".

This sort of clientside arrangement would have low server load (the template is a static page) and fairly good compatibility. Regexps and InnerHTML are supported back to IE5 and Gecko M18.

And you can ignore my bottom-most comment. This looks =much= better.
Posted by: John Le'Brecage   Posted on: 09/11/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Ooops ...  Ludovit | 09/10/04
hell, they teach how to write a virus in college  Monkey_MCSE | 09/10/04
the new layout is terrible ZDnet.(NT)  Monkey_MCSE | 09/10/04
Tell me what you dislike  S.Howard-Sarin ZDNet Moderator | 09/10/04
for starters.. the sidebars...  ryusen | 09/10/04
Sidebars = no ads  S.Howard-Sarin ZDNet Moderator | 09/10/04
thanks for the replies.  ryusen | 09/10/04
Here's some  seosamh_z | 09/10/04
TalkBack issues  S.Howard-Sarin ZDNet Moderator | 09/10/04
both of for the former posters said  Monkey_MCSE | 09/10/04
Screen shot would be helpful  S.Howard-Sarin ZDNet Moderator | 09/10/04
Layout for starters  Linux User 147560 | 09/10/04
What's a FireFox?  S.Howard-Sarin ZDNet Moderator | 09/10/04
Preview...  doe_z | 09/10/04
One more thing.  doe_z | 09/10/04
Things seem to look better now...  Linux User 147560 | 09/10/04
The same here.  computer_man | 09/13/04
How about -  johngalt@... | 09/10/04
WOW!!  chiwawa | 09/10/04
If I had to make one request:  John Le'Brecage | 09/11/04
It's hard to find all the articles  V Sanders | 09/11/04
once you are back in a article everything is fine  V Sanders | 09/11/04
I do like the "all news tab" though - nice addition(NT)  V Sanders | 09/11/04
yeah let's give him a job!  ryusen | 09/10/04
Why does your layout look like crap in Firefox?  chiwawa | 09/10/04
Because...  John Le'Brecage | 09/11/04
What is wrong  smith@... | 09/13/04
annoying ads  SantiagoCrespo | 09/13/04

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