OpenEuphoria

Re: Smiling Faces

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Dec 22, 2005
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Juergen Luethje wrote:
> ( The original post showed a little picture instead of "colon dash
>  right-paren". )
> Then re-convert it to "colon dash right-paren" for e-mail and RSS,
> please.

I'm not changing what's sent through Topica.

I'm just converting colon dash right-paren 
to a smiley picture on the RDS EUforum Web pages.
This also causes the RSS feed to have a picture
instead of 3 characters, but Thunderbird RSS handles
this OK, displaying the picture. I'm not sure about
other RSS readers - I might have to change something.

I look forward to seeing your new RSS reader.
I guess you don't handle full HTML. Just text.
Maybe you can convert the smiley URL back to 
colon dash right-paren. But first let's see how other
RSS readers handle it.

jxliv7 wrote:
> One of the things that appeals to me about the Euphoria forum is the maturity.
> It makes this forum about code seem professional.
> 
> I equate smily faces of any sort with newbees and immaturity. They distract
> from the text and they (if allowed) are overused.
> 
> Please, Rob, tell me what good little smiley faces are and how they relate to
> Euphoria?

A lot of people already type in colon dash right-paren,
or something similar. It won't hurt to see a graphical smiley instead.
It already shows up graphically with some e-mail clients.
I'm not planning to add any more, except maybe the sad face 

I don't think I need to explain the value of emoticons in
text communication, though the more unusual ones are often lost
on the majority of the audience.

As for how a smiley face relates to "Euphoria" - just
look up "Euphoria" in a dictionary.  

(See - without the emoticon, you'd be really pissed off
at me, but with the emoticon, you are only mildly pissed off.)

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com