darkcryst

As for the “more recent” comment – PNG files work FINE in IE4+ and Netscape 6+ as well as all versions of Mozilla, and Safari (there was a problem with Safari incorrectly displaying the gamma chunk when the chunk was mangled – usually in photoshop – but if you use a good bit of software it works fine).

In short… anything in the last… 8 years displays PNG just as well as GIF and jpeg.

The mis-information about PNG is incredible.

If you are not using ALPHA transparency then PNG is better than gif period. There is no arguments to this. None that are true anyhow.

Errors with certain software (like older version of photoshop) have complicated the issue, but PNG is completely cross-browser compatibile and has been for several years… until you use Alpha transparency.

However binary transparency (like GIF has) still works fine… and has done for several years.

I am at a loss to explain the stupidity and ignorance the net displays over PNG files… its downright wierd.

As for this issue – its still wierd to use JPEG, as even GIFs would have been better for the image type. However as PNG is better all around and supported from IE4 up (!) then it would make sense to use PNG hmm?

an interesting point… at first thought it makes sense… something is niggling at my mind about it tho.

I made a custom php function that pulled the info out from the http headers of the directory structure the page thought it was in – parsed that, and then used it to make sure I was working from the base directory.

so in the php it just looked like:

[code]
href="<?php linkbase() ?>/myfolder/myfile.jpg"
[/code]

Interesting – it doesn’t for me.

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what kind of spam and keywords etc? IP’s? just so others can protect themselves

Oh and as for the point about “well there should be a plugin to ENABLE it” that is missing the point about adding default support – so all the regular users that don’t know, or care, what a plugin is don’t contribute to the problem.

Unprotected users provide 99% of virus, email spam, and comment spam (open proxies).. why enable blogs to be used as a tool for boosting pagerank? With it on and built in as a default – you remove this problem.

So.. to summarise:

nofollow will not stop spam..
nofollow will not stop the effect of spam.
nofollow will reduce the effect of spam.
nofollow will not effect links in yours posts (unless you add it in by hand).
nofollow will effect commenters.

That last point appears to be the point of contention. Either you are, like me, of the opinion that if you post just for the PR benifits then you are almost as bad as spammers.. or you are of the opinion that this is somehow breaking the internet.

Note btw that nofollow only effects pagerank – so the link is still spidered (at least thats what google has said). So if there is good content on there – then google will find it.

Honestly? I can’t see the problem with adding this in. I think its a good thing that won’t have much impact on anyone legitimate. As spammers have said – there is always TrackBack spam – and thats a whole other kettle of fish.

In the end – its in 1.5, and there is no reason to take it out. If you want to take it off then fine, but there will be a dozen plugins to do that when 1.5 is released (or before!).

So the rest of this is jsut noise.

Ok – this is a confirmed bug, and was already in the bug tracker – however it is more serious – none of the filters are being applied to ‘the_content’

This includes the smileys feature, the special character conversion, and WPautop – the paragraph function.

I’ve updated the bug report with notes to reflect this:
https://mosquito.www.ads-software.com/view.php?id=777

This is obviously pretty serious. I’m doing as much code diging as I can. Bizarely plugins don’t seem to be affected…

wierdo ??

I think I solved your problem tho – I posted a responce in your thread. I’m still not sure why its doing it in this nightly yet…

actually its all dealt with in 1.5 by the apply/add filters plugin hooks.

“wpautop” is the one that formats the post to the paragraphs (I think).

Currently the latest nightly seems broken, in that it doesn’t do it (tho it should). I’m debugging that as we speak.

Basically tho you can comment out the lines:

add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘convert_chars’);
add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘wpautop’);

in template-functions-post.php. That should disable that.

Probably to do with character encoding/enties.

See what happens if you paste what you see when you EDIT the post.. I bet it will work then.

You’re not the only one…

it does it for me too. Seems the code isn’t doing it for some reason.

How do you do it? use your FTP program or Cpanel type software (File manager in Cpanel).

thanks moosie… dunno why I didn’t do that in the first place >_<