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  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) My main concern is the extra time it takes to download messages containing in-line images rather than links to images. This is especially worrisome when using the Entire Thread on One Page or the This Message and its Replies on one Page (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
 
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) I'd like to see FTX special characters on message previews stripped. When viewing via the web interface, I see the special characters that create the formatted text. The brief message previews should be all plain text with those characters (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
 
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) Brian, What if there were an option you could set which prevented the inline display of images that are larger than some size you specify? --Todd (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
 
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) Previews? Like when you're posting? That preview? Or do you mean the brief abstract article displays? (...) Mmmm, good idea. (...) What didn't work? I see the article you linked to. Did it not show up in when you previewed prior to posting? (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
 
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) I dunno about him, but when I first looked at his post, there was a blank space where the article now appears. Looking now, I see the article. slow load, maybe? James (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
 
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) That would be fine as long as it's setting that persists across sessions. Zero should be a valid choice! Hopefully the links for the images that get filtered would be clickable to view the image. (Not sure what you would do if the image was (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
 
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) He means in the Brief abstract article displays, as opposed to Compact mode. In particular, the brief for the message he referenced has the curly braces and square brackets which FTX would recognize. Tim is suggesting they should be not appear (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
 
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) It didn't appear for me in the preview, and I didn't go back to check it afterwords until now. Now it's working. -Tim (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
 
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) Guess I'm not up on the difference between Brief and Compact. Thanks :-) -Tim (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
 
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) Done! --Todd (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
 
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) Still needs some work in the case of when both bold and italics are used on the same text. Reference the brief description for msg# 4191 in either the main pages or as FTX'd into Tim's message </publish/?n=4207>. Brian H. Nielsen (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
 
  Re: Announcing FTX for discussion groups
 
(...) Oh! Thanks for catching that, Brian. I had a typo in my regex. --Todd (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)

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