Acronym Mod

RogerMcAllen · Post by **RogerMcAllen** » 27 Oct 2003, 16:18

Over at aquariumadvice.com we have an acronym mod so that when you hold the mouse over a common acronym it will display the meaning. I was wondering if such a thing could be enacted here on some of the latin species names so that a common name would display as I often find myself reading a thread and having no idea what type if fish is being talked about.

Here is a sample thread full of them:
http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=9018

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 28 Oct 2003, 17:58

The HTML behind it is <acronym title="Small Polyped Stoney">SPS</acronym>; hrm, interesting...will do some digging.

Jools

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 28 Oct 2003, 18:50

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/* This is the line in the posting page which shows the rollover
help line. This is actually a text box,but if set to be the same
colour as the background no one will know;)*/
.helpline{background:#e1e9f2;border-style:none;color:#000000}

abbr, acronym {
	color: #FF0000;text-decoration:underline;
	cursor: help;
}

This is in the sylesheet, but I can't see how, on its own, it would work. Maybe something to do with the XML DTD.

Any techs out there want to suss it out?

Jools

Post by **Rusty** » 28 Oct 2003, 20:54

The <acronym> and <abbr> tags are W3C non-compliant, so you don't see them around very often.

I don't see how we could make this easily workable... it's not like we have only a few three letter abbreviations, but we have thousands of species names, which are easily mis-spelled, mangled, etc.

Rusty

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 29 Oct 2003, 08:35

I was thinking of using it for stuff like AFAIK BTW LFS SL TL and so on from the acronym angle. I would also REALLY like to use it for a kind of inline glossary with words like conspecific or auchwufs etc.

Jools

RogerMcAllen · Post by **RogerMcAllen** » 30 Oct 2003, 00:15

Thats exactly what I was thinking, the technical jargon words. It has the capacity to work with any word/set of words not just acronyms.

Post by **Rusty** » 30 Oct 2003, 02:12

OK, just as a teaser, I have LFS entered as an acronym. Mouse over and you get the full meaning.

Rusty

RogerMcAllen · Post by **RogerMcAllen** » 30 Oct 2003, 06:15

Nice work, can you add it so that it makes the word bold/a color so we know what words are able to do this.

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 30 Oct 2003, 08:25

Nicely done! How do we edit the list? Is it delivered via the site style sheet (and thus is available to any HTML page)? Maybe bold purple for recognised acronyms and terms?

Jools

Post by **Rusty** » 30 Oct 2003, 12:10

I was actually doing it through the censor. We could enter a definition in the style sheet to make it bold/purple/whatever.

Rusty

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 30 Oct 2003, 14:32

All,

Well, it's open season on acronyms and the like. Any suggestions on ones to add?

Rusty,

Do you need me to change the CSS or can you do it (maybe "planet green" rather than "planet purple"?)

Jools

magnum4 · Post by **magnum4** » 30 Oct 2003, 22:38

TL. SL. SPP. SP. CF.
AFAIK. YMMV. PC. IMO.

Post by **Rusty** » 30 Oct 2003, 23:56

magnum4 wrote:PC.

Planet Catfish? Politically correct? Personal computer? What does it stand for?

Rusty

Post by **Silurus** » 31 Oct 2003, 00:55

CF.

I think this would be too long and complicated for something like this. Explaining cf. and aff. would be better done in the new FAQ section.

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 31 Oct 2003, 09:43

Rusty wrote:
magnum4 wrote:PC.
Planet Catfish? Politically correct? Personal computer? What does it stand for?

Rusty

The short term for Planet Catfish is Planet! For example, "Everyone at Planet likes keeping fish".

Jools

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 02 Nov 2003, 15:24

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<acronym lang="en" title="Standard Length">SL</acronym>

Just a reminder on for m on how to do this.

Just add to this topic if anyone sees a need to add another acronym.

Jools

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Post by **Rusty** » 02 Nov 2003, 16:11

Just testing something

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Post by **Rusty** » 09 Nov 2003, 16:37

Doing this through the naughty word censor doesn't seem to be ideal. Any other ideas as to how to implement this?

Rusty

Post by **Silurus** » 13 Nov 2003, 18:01

Baltimore.

Don't suppose this is the result of the acronym mod on the word "B a l t i m o r e"?

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 13 Nov 2003, 19:05

Yup, Rusty is right, doing this via the forum censor is not a good plan for the reasons Silurus shows.

Jools