Smilies available from quick reply?

[Moira]

I would like a selection of smilies available from the quick response box. This is how I normally respond to posts and it would be nice to add the odd smiley. I know how to do and and but not much else!

[JPnyc]

Well the problem would be where to put em. The nature of the QR is that it's a bare bones reply designed for expediency, rather than full features.

[nihil]

Smilies?.........whaaat!........... smilies? do you think that this is a joke site my dear Moira?

That is why I use the full reply option. Seriously though, one of the problems with the internet (IMO) is that it is very "flat" or two dimensional?

Smilies allow a certain "animation" (?) that permits you to show a bit of "mood" or "emotion"............ you can let people know if you are joking or not? so that does help to stop flame wars and such?

Just my thoughts...........and I would like to see a greater choice, but as the additions I would like would be neither family nor work friendly, I don't hold out much hope

[JPnyc]

LOL, yes Nih, I think that would be a fair wager.

[Moira]

OK to give an example of a forum where it doesn't seem to be rocket science, I've taken a screen shot of pcpartsreview with the quick reply box and you can see a link to open a window of smilies.

http://www.moiraatkinson.co.uk/quickreply.JPG

[JPnyc]

That's invision power board, and probably a native feature of that software. Unfortunately it's not the least bit secure, so we don't use it.

[Moira]

Invision isn't secure, or adding a window of smilies? This is hosted by a guy that keeps it pretty well secured and patched actually. But OK if smilies are not an easy of secure feature to add then fair enough. It was just a suggestion. Do you know how to do the confused or questioning smily manually? I'd often quite like to add that but don't know how.

[JPnyc]

No, not the smileys, invision. They've had a ton of vulnerabilities. I visit one forum that uses it and it was hacked and impregnated with a virus that most of the members picked up (not me, thankfully)>

[acidtone]

No, not the smileys, invision. They've had a ton of vulnerabilities. I visit one forum that uses it and it was hacked and impregnated with a virus that most of the members picked up (not me, thankfully)>

Must off been using a pretty outdated version of IPB for that exploit to work. there new version of IPB already has a few security problems yet to be plugged..

[JPnyc]

I don't know which exploit allowed them to be hacked, though.