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| Edit | Post #289341 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: How should a Codidact public API work? I'd like to make charts of user and community stats These could involve a large amount of data as the site grows, so should probably be links to a location that generates them once a day and/or caches them so they don't use the API every time someone views them. This is a non-exhaustive list of... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
In response to the stateful/stateless query:
My earlier comment was a contrived example imagining that we had a history API that could not be accessed without info only found in the response to the post API. I don't think this is realistic, but that's how I was imagining we could know that the req... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289338 |
I'd also bear in mind accessibility when considering use of a smaller font size. If a user has overridden their browser default font size to ensure they can read text on websites, then `<small>` may be a smaller font size than is comfortable to read. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289338 |
For your particular purpose, it's your decision how to format your own post, but personally I would find it easy to assume that a section in smaller font is more skippable. In a post of my own, if I wanted to distinguish something that the reader *must* be aware of I would aim to make it appear *dist... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289338 |
In general, I don't know the reason for the particular set of HTML tags that were chosen to be permitted. The list does change from time to time, so feel free to raise a feature request on Meta asking for any additional tags you would like to be added. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
It's good to hear that a URL is sufficient rather than the full licence text.
Even if it turns out that we need the URL in every response that contains licensed content, that doesn't seem too bad as it will be small in proportion to the length of most posts. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289338 |
Post edited: Add missing raw text input for the other half of the footnote Markdown |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289338 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: Why is <small> HTML tag rendered differently in preview? Explanations for the current behaviour Rendered text is not small after saving The `` tag is not one of the currently supported HTML tags. Supported tags and attributes are discussed in the following Meta posts: - What html tags can we use in posts? - What class attributes can we (usefully) use... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289334 |
A fix is planned for the discrepancies between preview and saved post. If you're reading this and that fix has been released, then this post needs to be updated to take that into account. Feel free to reply to this comment to let me know it's time. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289334 |
Post edited: Fix explanation of manual p tags, and refer to HTML sanitiser instead of Markdown parser |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289337 |
Post edited: Change title to reflect that this is only for some posts |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289337 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Expanding a comment thread changes the width of some posts When a comment thread is expanded, the width of the post it is attached to in some cases increases. This seems to be rare (most posts do not change width when their comment threads are expanded), so I am only raising this for reference in case investigating it highlights something that needs to be fi... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289334 |
Post edited: Add note that a blank line does not have the expected outcome |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289334 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: Why do HTML tags reduce my line spacing in Codidact posts? The cause of the lost line spacing The raw text of your post is converted to HTML ready to be displayed by your web browser. The text is split into paragraphs based on the presence of blank lines, and each paragraph is wrapped in a `` tag. This causes your browser to display it with the styling of a... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289333 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Why do HTML tags reduce my line spacing in Codidact posts? When I use an HTML tag to alter the appearance of a paragraph in a Codidact post, it works but the line spacing is reduced, which I do not want. Why is this? Is there anything I can do about it? Example Raw text input ```text A long, drawn out, meandering test paragraph. This is more than lon... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289331 |
Post edited: Put screenshot in a quote block to avoid it looking like the end of the post |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289331 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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I can mark my own answer as "Works for me" The "Works for me" reaction can be added to any answer, even if the reacting user is the author of the answer. For example, here is what an answer looks like if I post the answer and react to it myself: > An answer with a "Works for me" reaction from the same user Is this intended behaviour?... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289233 |
If we do end up showing previous flag info on the post page, we may want to consider making it a user setting. I can imagine situations where a user might want to keep such info only to their profile page, for example if working on something with a colleague who sees the questions they look up on the... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Possibly relevant aside:
My impression of the problem people had with SE retrospectively changing all content to CC BY-SA 4.0 is that they objected to SE adding a new licence that they did not have the legal authority to decide on.
I see it as very important that we never accidentally provide a... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
I like this approach of only being required to make the licence available on request, rather than having to include it everywhere. I'd want to know what the legal situation is, and to what extent it varies by country, but my rough understanding of international copyright law is that if a licence is n... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
As for preferring option 2 of 3 from my first comment: No, I can't imagine anyone preferring that. I only included it as an approach that definitely doesn't cause any legal worries. If we can't agree on what is required for licensing, option 2 is still available. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Interesting thoughts. I get 2 questions from this:
1. In those places where a licence is required, how much of it is required?
- a licence id?
- a licence short name such CC BY-SA 4.0?
- a URL for the licence text available online?
- the full licence text?
2. Where is a licence ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
So I guess we need to include the licence with any response that contains all or part of the content of any revision. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Since the licence isn't editable I guess it applies to all edits regardless of who does the editing. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289322 |
Post edited: Mention limits and pagination |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
Good point. Thanks for raising this.
I don't know the best approach for this, but the options that come to mind are:
1. Include the licence with all licensed content (so questions, answers, articles, but not comments).
1. Only allow programmatically accessing content that does not require a li... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289324 |
I've now edited to tag this as a "bug" rather than a "feature-request", as it turns out that even if the user does take into account other posts on the page, it is not possible to avoid clashing with other footnotes as they are automatically numbered from 1 in each post, overriding any different numb... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289324 |
Post edited: Link to earlier post that explains this is a bug with no workaround |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289324 |
Thanks for finding that. It does look like mine is a duplicate. The comments there also explain that my untested workaround (using different footnote numbers in your own post than the other post on the same page) doesn't work - they will be automatically renumbered to use the smallest numbers, and en... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289323 |
Post edited: Add finer detail |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289322 |
I was aiming for something that can be accessed from any programming language, so most likely HTTP. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289324 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289324 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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Footnotes with the same number in different posts on the same page If 2 or more posts on a page contain footnotes with the same number, they all link to the footnote that appears earliest on the page. For example, the question How should a Codidact public API work? has a footnote numbered 1 in both the question and an answer. Clicking on the footnote number in th... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289323 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: How should a Codidact public API work? I'd like to host contests that read code directly from answers Here's what I'd like to see in an API to allow me to host coding contests on Code Golf Codidact. Essential This is the only feature I would need in order to start hosting contests. The answer content for each answer to a speci... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289279 |
Meta discussion started: [ How should a Codidact public API work? ](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289322). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289293 |
Meta discussion started: [ How should a Codidact public API work? ](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289322). (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289322 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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How should a Codidact public API work? I'm planning to add a public API to Codidact so people can make applications that read Codidact data automatically. Features and purposes I have my own purposes in mind for this[^1], but there are many other potential uses. Before I start building this, I'd like to hear what features you would li... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289298 |
I personally believe it should be removed. I flagged your question for moderator attention directly after posting this answer, so when someone sees the flag they can decide whether to remove the norepro tag. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289279 |
There's also some discussion of scraping in [Is it okay to scrape Codidact for personal tools?](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/289293) and I've mentioned an API as an alternative approach. Would an API providing raw source text be relevant to your purposes? If so it would be good to get your input o... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289298 |
Post edited: Mention blank lines are omitted |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289297 |
Yes that's what I see, on Firefox for mobile or desktop. Haven't yet tested with other browsers. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |