I'm working on a TitanFall hype thread and I would like to do some cool things and incorporate coding but it seems the new site doesn't support this anymore? Or is there a way? Does this forum use flash codes, html, java or what does it use? Anyone know? Respond as soon as possible please
Anyone know anything about html codes?
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@robbristow Might be able to help
@John_Matherson:
@acanofcoke said:
@robbristow Might be able to help
Ongoing support for HTML will remain limited, according to a post by @robbristow (in this thread - http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/site-update-2-7-14-31068690/ )
@robbristow said:
To the people taking about html in forum posts: The reason this isn't included is due to security issues. On the old site there was an annoying filter system that negated most of them, but even then there was issues with html like leaking code and the filter breaking - some merely visual issues (most obviously font colour/size/etc changes, but other things could be leaked via posts as well, including completely breaking the page by ending a crucial page tag prematurely) and others severe security issues (there was a brief period (thankfully, before everyone had access to it - the hole was plugged before it was truly opened if you will) where the video embed feature allowed running literally any free code (including complex javascript, among other things) by overriding/bypassing the filter completely - obviously staff were informed and the feature was promptly disabled/removed until it was fixed, so promptly in fact that testing to see the full extent of the bug wasn't complete - it was already obvious it was severe enough to warrant removal).
So long story short: html won't be added in as a feature for everyone unless a reliable work around to the security issues it poses is found, the site simply isn't willing to risk such a thing atm - even if this does happen, it will likely involve a significant amount of automated content filtering, which will likely result in html not well formed bugs and other similar issues that the old site had that the new one is free of.
That's not to say the lack of manual html input can't be made up for mind you, even if it does mean putting up with lots of buttons on a WYSIWYG editor - at least the editor actually works, unlike the one on the old site that was more than a little buggy.
So, yeah... don't hold your breath. :\
You might try constructing your proposed dissertation as a blog post, and when publishing it, also mirror to an appropriate Forum, but the WYSIWYG editor for blogs appears to be just as handicapped as that used in Forums (and I suspect they are in fact, the exact same tool).
While manual html is unlikely to be added any time remotely soon, as mentioned in the quoted post above, there are some things you can still do, including embedding videos, adding images/links/tables and most basic text formatting (no colours yet and no plain text animations via scripts or w/e though.
All forum posts are formed in (x)html - which is the standard alongside css for most things on web pages really, some javascript is also utilised on the site and perhaps also for certain forum functionality - though what's added into the post is still always just html, merely with a data-embed-type attribute that tells it to call appropriate code from elsewhere in the site's general html/css when necessary. You can't tinker with any of it regardless though. BBCode is no longer supported either so use the buttons on the WYSIWYG editor to add appropriate html (which you cannot view (unless you're a mod/staff, anyway), but unlike the old editor doesn't cause regular html not formed errors). The @mention tags accessed by simply putting an @ symbol into your post is also available, which are also utilised by reply/quote to send a notification to the applicable users in order to get their attention. I don't believe Java (as opposed to javascript) is used anywhere on the site, nor has it ever - I certainly haven't come across any - flash is used for a few things though, most notably for videos in the GS video player and embedded videos in forum posts - which I believe are limited to youtube/vimeo and CBSi site hosted videos. No more embedding games or entire websites - just videos from trusted sources.
It's possible in the future that more complex/fancy features might be added (implemented in a similar way to spoilers and @mention tags where most the actual code doesn't get entered into the post but is merely called from elsewhere via a small html snippet with any/all applicable variables added in as attribute values), but for the time there's not really anything special you can put into posts due to the limitations that come with having no custom html (though, strictly speaking there wasn't much you could do with custom html on the old site either without abusing bugs in the filter/site coding due to how strict the filter was).
TL;DR:
There's no custom code for users in general, but the buttons on the WYSIWYG editor do work quite well - so you can format text (no colours/animations though), change text alignment, quote (via post quote buttons and via the (block)quote button on the editor itself), add in images/links/tables, link in twitter or send users a GS notification via the @mention tags (auto-added with reply/quote), add spoilers and embed videos (trusted sources only). BBCode is no longer supported either. So there's a fair bit at least.
Not that it matters but the site itself (incl. the forums) utilises html5, css3, javascript, flash and probably a mixture of php/ajax/jquery and/or other things for it's various features. It does not use java (which requires a standalone vm applet to be installed, unlike javascript) anywhere as far as I am aware.
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