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New Feature: Video!
Carl Milsted, Jr on Oct 2 12:55:53
At long last, you can now embed videos in a post, comment, or personal message!
No, Conntects does not actually host videos, but it can now embed video from other services. At the moment this means YouTube and Rumble, but I intend to add some more services in the future.
The syntax for posting a video is:
| .video | address | begin time |
The begin time field is optional and currently only works for YouTube videos. Its format is the usual colon separated fields such as 1:23 or 2:30:01 or can be just a number of seconds. The main reason for having such a field is if you grab a YouTube address from the address bar directly for your address, such as for this example:
I advanced the video 5 seconds to skip some intro music.
You can also use the URL provided by the Share button on YouTube, as in this example:
In this case, I let YouTube set the start time. (Hit the View QTML button to see these examples, by the way.)
For Rumble, use the Embed IFRAME URL provided when you hit the Embed button. You have to use this for Rumble, since Rumble's page URLs are wildly different from the embed URLs. You also need to use Rumbles Start At feature.
Here is a Rumble example:
Leave a comment for other services you would like to see supported for video embeds.
(And, as always, complain about confusing features and bugs as well. Beefs are always welcome as comments on the latest post on the Bugs and Beefs blog.)
Tags: video
Chris Price on Oct 2, 2023 1:39 PM
Look at you streaming streaming services to us. Rock on!
Chris Price on Oct 7, 2023 10:03 AM
Text Alignment
I noticed there are no explicit text alignment tags in QTML. The header tags appear to be implicit center alignment, while the default is left aligned.
Am l missing something?
Is there an easy way to right align text, or to mix alignments?
Chris Price on Oct 7, 2023 10:06 AM
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comment_79_1
Notifications not being cleared.
Notifications about unread comments, group membership requests, new members, etc aren't being reliably cleared.
Carl Milsted, Jr on Oct 7, 2023 12:36 PM
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comment_79_2
At the moment, the only way for centered text is to use headings.
But this can be changed. Extending the QTML language is surprisingly easy. Please describe specifically what you want. Is it centered paragraphs? Is it centered poetry? (Roman font with line breaks preserved.)
Chris Price on Oct 7, 2023 12:47 PM
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comment_79_4
Thanks for the quick response, Carl. I think centered paragraphs, and/or the block quotes we could do in MeWe would be most useful. There's been occasions where I right aligned text, but I can't remember the specifics at this time. And a monospace font like Courier would be a nice option too.
Carl Milsted, Jr on Oct 7, 2023 1:00 PM
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comment_79_5
Thanks for the quick response, Carl. I think centered paragraphs, and/or the block quotes we could do in MeWe would be most useful. There's been occasions where I right aligned text, but I can't remember the specifics at this time. And a monospace font like Courier would be a nice option too.
quote tag for block quotes. There is also a .type tag to go into typewriter mode. With no flags, it is just the normal font.
.type c gives you a Courier font. There is also an i flag to indent halfway across the column.
See the QTML Carl
Carl Milsted, Jr on Oct 7, 2023 1:02 PM
The type and poem tags are not mentioned in the tutorial yet, but I believe I have them properly documented in the QTML reference.
Chris Price on Oct 7, 2023 2:10 PM
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comment_79_6
Thanks, Carl. I missed those tags, or didn't understand the output.
Chris Price on Oct 7, 2023 9:29 PM
The webpage footer is intruding on and obscuring the Group creation pages.
Carl Milsted, Jr on Oct 7, 2023 10:02 PM
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comment_79_8
Do you still see a need for centered paragraphs? Or does the .quote tag do what you were looking for?
I think I will add a c option for poems. Could be good for emulating restaurant menus.
Unfortunately, I have already used c for Courier in the type tag. I hate breaking old posts by repurposing c there. I could use cen for type tags, but that produces inconsistency. And if I use cen as an attribute for the .p tag, that's a lot of typing for multiple centered paragraphs.
It is such issues as these, not the actual coding, that provides the headaches for extending QTML.
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