Anoither minor gripe about LiveJournal ....

[unixronin]

...is the "Quote" button.  Sure, it's a good idea.  But you can never tell quite what it's going to do.  If you select at least one complete paragraph of a post and click Quote, it's a fairly safe bet it'll blockquote it.  But if you select only part of a paragraph to quote, sometimes it'll blockquote, sometimes it'll put it in italics, sometimes it'll enclose it in double-quotes ... you click and take pot luck.

It'd be a lot more useful if it behaved consistently, and more useful still if you could define that behavior.

Comments

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

LJ is F/OSS. Read the source.

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. There is that.

[attutle.livejournal.com]

I don't have a "quote" button. sounds like you must be using an LJ client or something. That would make it a gripe about an LJ client, but I can't tell which one.

[elegantelbow.livejournal.com]

The Quote button exists when commenting. It's immediately above the "Message" box, and to the right. I bet you do have one, you just aren't noticing it.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

No, it is an LJ feature. It was added some time back. I've observed that it's not present on all journals, though. I assume this has to do with the style used for the journal -- possibly whether it's an S1 or S2 style.

[otherbill.livejournal.com]

It'd be a lot more useful if it behaved consistently, and more useful still if you could define that behavior.

I didn't even realize LJ had a "quote" button until I read this. An' to think I've been doing it by hand all these years...

(Then again, given what you've written, I'll continue to do so.)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I tend to either let it do its quoting thing, then edit the tags to consistency, or ... yeah ... just do it by hand.

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if you're using Firefox, but wouldn't Greasemonkey work for making this function the way you want it to?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar with Greasemonkey. Enlighten me?