Re: Email Link To My Site & Not Nabble?

Posted by GregChapman on Aug 08, 2017; 11:57pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Email-Link-To-My-Site-Not-Nabble-tp7598378p7598413.html

Gary Lewis wrote

I'm 70 and am retired from a career in IT ... in my day I've programmed machine language, Basic, & Fortran, and probably a few other languages.  However, I have a book which helps me understand HTML or CSS as I'm far from native in them.  So, I'll look at the book to better understand what you did - and how I can do some things myself.

I turned 69 on the first of the month. Way back when... I was a dab hand with Z80 Assembler, but never got beyond Batch files when I moved to 16bit architecture, and have never programmed in high level languages in a Windows environment. because I could always find a program that did what I wanted it to do. That changed when the Internet came along and I wanted to build web sites. Back then you had to use code to do it so I was motivated enough to learn. HTML and CSS I can almost manage in my sleep, but I'm still a complete novice at JavaScript and PHP.

For instance, surely there's a way to put other options in the More drop down.  Or add another button.  If so, your code could be invoked from something that was easier for my users to remember than H5 and H6.

That will require hacking the NAML code (access it from the "Edit this page" link at the bottom of most Nabble pages.) As that looks a little like all the languages I've never come to terms with, I can't help with that side of things - except at the most "general principles" level. Obviously, because the NAML is used to generate HTML and CSS, I can figure out a few things, but don;t ask me write write anything from scratch. I just haven't got my head around the syntax.

Having said all that, hunt around in the "Old" forum and you will find references to some people who have attempted/managed to plug in a more conventional WYSIWYG editor to replace the standard Nabble one. However, I believe there were some unresolved issued that meant it could never be adopted for the main package.