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geocities guestbook problem - cutting visitor comments!!! ARGH!!!
Folks I have a photo portfolio website on geocites, and had a guestbook
setup. Its now come to light that the long comments some of my visitors left, have been cut off in mid sentance after a certain number of words. I AM SO ANGRY Does anyone know if this is a known problem with geocities' guestbook? It is completely idiotic for the comment entry box to let the visitor keep typing and not warn them their comments will be cut after the first 20 words or so |
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geocities guestbook problem - cutting visitor comments!!! ARGH!!!
"Ja D" wrote in message ... Folks I have a photo portfolio website on geocites, and had a guestbook setup. Its now come to light that the long comments some of my visitors left, have been cut off in mid sentance after a certain number of words. I AM SO ANGRY Does anyone know if this is a known problem with geocities' guestbook? It is completely idiotic for the comment entry box to let the visitor keep typing and not warn them their comments will be cut after the first 20 words or so Umm... you really do get what you pay for! -- Yours Zebedee (Claiming asylum in an attempt to escape paying his debts to Dougal and Florence) |
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geocities guestbook problem - cutting visitor comments!!! ARGH!!!
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Ja D"
writing in : Folks I have a photo portfolio website on geocites, and had a guestbook setup. Its now come to light that the long comments some of my visitors left, have been cut off in mid sentance after a certain number of words. I AM SO ANGRY Does anyone know if this is a known problem with geocities' guestbook? It is completely idiotic for the comment entry box to let the visitor keep typing and not warn them their comments will be cut after the first 20 words or so That's probably something the script does on the server end. Now, they _could_ put something client side to warn the person that only x amount of characters are allowed, but they don't. What I would suggest to you, since you cannot access the serverside script, is to put a little warning on the guestbook page, maybe at the top that says "Please keep your comments to 200 characters" or however many characters it seems to be. -- Adrienne Boswell Please respond to the group so others can share http://www.arbpen.com |
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geocities guestbook problem - cutting visitor comments!!! ARGH!!!
"Ja D" wrote in message ... Folks I have a photo portfolio website on geocites, and had a guestbook setup. Erm, Geocities is free isn't it? Enough said. |
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geocities guestbook problem - cutting visitor comments!!! ARGH!!!
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Alan D-W"
writing in : "Ja D" wrote in message ... Folks I have a photo portfolio website on geocites, and had a guestbook setup. Erm, Geocities is free isn't it? Enough said. The OP has a valid point. Geocities script template _should_ have something on it that says that the script limits the textbox to a certain amount of characters, or the template should have a javascript that alerts the user if there are too many characters in the textbox. It's just the nice thing to do. It's the same thing as going to a site to sign up for something, and if you put one thing in wrong, the script comes back to tell you, and you have to put everything back in again. That's a pain in the arse, and any good developer worth his salt and easily design forms that don't do that. -- Adrienne Boswell Please respond to the group so others can share http://www.arbpen.com |
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