[Site Navigation] Update FAQ 47 (Memories) for S2

[pne]

FAQ 47 says that "On each comment page there is a small toolbar set in blue that offers a variety of buttons, one of which is a small red heart with a plus sign in the upper left corner" which is not true now that S2 and styled comment pages are here.

For example, Component seems to use a red heard without a plus sign (and the background behind

Comments

[lyspeth]

Custom styles may always have used something exotic. :) But it would probably be a good idea to mention that some system styles use icons specific to the style.

[aajwind]

I agree.

[pne]

Custom styles may always have used something exotic.

Not on the Read Comments/Post Comments page, though; they weren't skinnable until S2 came along.

And that's what the Memories FAQ talks about.

[leora]

good point, now for an off-topic comment since I don't even know why I'm awake.

"heart" is a four letter word, but I'm not sure which four letters.

[pthalogreen]

h, ea, r, and t. ea can account as one letter.

[leora]

that's one way to do it, since 'ea' is indeed one letter when it's in the middle of a word. But:
h-e-ar-t is another way to do it. Since so can 'ar'. And I don't know which way round is preferred.

[pne]

You probably know by now, but it's h-e-ar-t.

(Reference: Rule XIII of EBAE, "Use any alternative one-cell contraction in preference to "ea" and the double-letter signs except where a contraction ending in "e" would break the "eau" trigraph".)

[tinyjo]

should also mention that custom styles may not even have this link. Do we want to explain the URL to use in that case?

[pne]

Maybe. I did so in the request that prompted this (I1+ in web-ui).

[lyspeth]

For those using S1 or using S2 without styled comment pages, On each site scheme comment page there is has a small toolbar set in blue that offers a variety of buttons, one of which is a small red heart with a plus sign in the upper left corner. [rest of paragraph]

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For those using S2 with customized comment pages, the button may have a different location and appearance. For example, it may lack the plus sign or be different color. Some styles do not offer this toolbar on comments pages, and if that is the case in your style, you will need to use an alternate method of adding memories. Navigate to the Read Comments page as described above, and make note of the URL of the entry in question. For example, visiting an entry of the user eampleusername will give the URL http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/302.html. To add this entry as a memory, you would visit the URL ... )

[pne]

Looks good to me so far. I'd probably use a five-digit number rather than 302 simply because most people who regularly use their journals will be in the five-to-six digit range (you reach five digits at about 40 journal entries, six digits at around 390).

Also, I think all system styles should offer the toolbar.

I agree.

I'd be inclined to file the fact that A Sturdy Gesture doesn't as a bug.

I agree on this, too-and so did crschmidt, who filed Zilla Bug 1335 on 2003-09-10. (As I understood it, it's due to some S2 internals changing and ASG using an old method to get the memory link which doesn't work any more.)

it seems to me that people using their own S2 style are likely to understand how to add memories already

They may know how to add memories, but people who visit their journal may not. Remember, unless you use &style=mine, you have to suffer work with whatever the journal's owner chose.

[lyspeth]

Oh, sorry, you're quite right. I generally think about people adding their own entries.

The reason I used 302 is that I thought it was the only entry that actually exists for exampleusername, and I think example links in the FAQ should generally work. As it turns out, 289 is the right number -- I should have checked. The concept is the same regardless; it's not as if we can help it if people get confused and think that five or six or seven or eight (or more) digit numbers shouldn't be copied in their entirety.