What feature would you like to see added to Hawksquawk?

[Admin]

Just want to get some ideas from you guys (and gals) as to what types of new features you would like to see added to Hawksquawk.

I've been tossing around the idea of coding the editor to allow the creation of an HTML table, which would make adding salary data, stats, etc. a lot easier to add to posts and have them look right.

So let's hear it...

[NBASupes]

Player smiles.

I would love and Dwight and CP3 one as well as a Horf one like this.

[Admin]

That would be pretty funny. The only thing that sucks about using something that big is that if someone adds it to a sentence it would create major line gaps.

[capstone21]

Tables are not a bad idea....

[Admin]

Tables are not a bad idea....

They've been on my mind for a while, just not gonna be easy to implement. I hate that it's not a built-in feature of the editor, but it's a top priority to get working as it gets annoying creating my tables outside of here and then pasting them in.

[Admin]

Is there a way to post a link to a twitter status and then have it show up as an embedded picture of that particular person's tweet? I know when you post a link to youtube there will be an embedded video, so I was thinking along those same lines.

As a spitball idea, is there a way to tag posters in a thread? I know I do not read all posts on this board, so it would be a quick easy way of someone to get my attention. Or a way for me to get someone else's attention in a thread they may not be following. I could imagine this becoming a pain in the ass, but it's a thought.

That's a really cool idea about tagging someone to notify them but I haven't seen anyone talk of something like that. I will do some digging on that and on the Twitter idea. Have you seen the Twitter idea in practice someplace else?

[capstone21]

Is there a way to post a link to a twitter status and then have it show up as an embedded picture of that particular person's tweet? I know when you post a link to youtube there will be an embedded video, so I was thinking along those same lines.

Twitter embedded in post is a really good idea

[Admin]

Here is an article that has the actual tweet embedded: http://www.tigernet.com/update/football/Daniel-Rodriguez-tweets-Howards-Rock-11315 Yeah it is about Clemson, so sue me.

That would be pretty cool and it's a lot better looking than a basic quote. I wonder what kind of API Twitter has for creating that look. Update: They have a sample page that shows users how to manually embed a Twitter status, but not seeing how to get it working dynamically. Update 2: This may not be possible as the Twitter widget requires a script block to run and I don't allow people to type in scripts in the editor as that could lead to the site being hacked pretty easily. Will keep looking though and see if there's a solution.

[Admin]

Who is the HCIC around here!!!

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[Admin]

All you gotta do is use the new [ tweet ] https://twitter.com/TheHawkSquawk/status/221423081833500673 [ /tweet] tags, without the spaces around the brackets and you'll get the embedded Tweet. The only downside is that the whole page has to finish loading before the Tweet is updated but it's like that on the page you showed as an example as well.

Alternatively you can click the Twitter bird icon in the editor toolbar and then just paste in the URL to the Tweet.

[Admin]

Awesome!

Although it looks like my mobile browser does not load up the tweet. It says some error about Javascript not being enabled. Could just be an error on my part though.

It probably won't work on your mobile phone as I don't think those support JavaScript but I will look into it.

[Admin]

I take that back, I just needed to add the Javascript code to the mobile skin and I'm seeing it now. If you don't, close your mobile browser and re-open it.

BTW I'm using Chrome on iPhone 5 and it looks awesome.

[Admin]

Aaaand it works! This is real awesome, thanks for keeping the site looking great Dolf!

Happy to do it and thanks for giving me the idea!

[Admin]

Oh and from my searching thus far it doesn't seem like there is a way to tag members in a thread, although I do really like the idea.

[NBASupes]

Where's Dwight at on the side? Him, Al, and CP3 would be too sweet.

[Admin]

Where's Dwight at on the side? Him, Al, and CP3 would be too sweet.

You must have too narrow of a screen resolution to see him because he's there to the left of Al. Unfortunately I only have so much screen real estate to work with.

[PSSSHHHRRR87]

Where's Dwight at on the side? Him, Al, and CP3 would be too sweet.

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[Admin]

Man I can't get over how cool these embedded pictures look in the new Twitter sidebar. I wish I could say that was my doing but the Twitter team really outdid themselves this time.

[Wretch]

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The new simple shit you learn everyday that you somehow never knew...... :D

[Admin]

The new simple shit you learn everyday that you somehow never knew......

Really you never knew how to zoom in or out? Funny stuff! Whatever you do, don't press CTRL + F6 + Fn + F9 + F11 + ENTER at the same time as it will blow your mind.