Welcome to the Cave of Dragonflies guestbook.
What do you mean, both ways? I was suggesting the form should return an error and not let you submit if you type something that doesn't start with an http(s):// (because it will always be an invalid link).
However, wouldn't that lead to a broken link both ways?
Mainly that sometimes people type something like "none" or "don't have one", which shouldn't be a link either way.
So then what are the pitfalls of appending an http:// or https:// to the beginning of a guestbook link which does not start with http:// or https://?
I haven’t read through this yet but this looks amazing!! Nice work, this must have been quite the research/testing task :D
A relative link is a link to another page on the same website. When one of my pages links to another one of my pages, I don't need to type the full https:// URL, because it's assumed by default that the link goes to another page on the same site. If I do want to link to a different website altogether, I need to include the http:// or https://, because that's what tells the browser it's a full (absolute) link, rather than a relative one.
What's a relative link?
It's the formatting of the website address; they didn't include the http:// (or https://) part, which makes it a relative link.
I should probably just have the guestbook refuse to post the post if you don't include it.
The previous website link to pidgeot.uwu.ai leads to a 404 on Butterfree's page on a page formatted as "https://www.dragonflycave.com/guestbook/pidgeot.uwu.ai".
However, other links in the guestbook appear to directly link to the site, such as, for example, the Grenincarizardlup's link on the guestbook directly linking to https://greninlucarizardlupplace.webnode.com/ without having an intermediary link in the guestbook. This is also shown in your website linked on your comments in the guestbook, and I have not seen it before this specific instance despite browsing several pages of the guestbook and clicking on four of five other user links, which seem to function like greninlucarizardlup's and yours.
Why is that? Is it something related to the formatting that the user placed in the website address? Is it something about the domain name being different? Is it a new update in the linking of the guestbook?
aw i'm late but happy birthday to tcod! i believe i found this site around 9 years ago but i honestly am not sure. i always enjoy browsing and i love your work!
Wow, congratulations on 18 years! I can't believe I'm basically as old as this website. This was one of the first few websites I visited for this fandom and you have always impressed me with your dedication.
Thank you very much for posting a few of the sprites I'd made and crediting me on your fan art page. I am now almost 30 and was looking for my old sprites for a dose of nostalgia. My freewebs is apparently dead and your site is the only one I could find with any of them so thanks again!
I also remember analyzing how you made your edits and tried to learn from that. So surprised that you're still doing the awesome stuff I remember you doing.
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Interesting. I've seen opening quotes at the bottom a couple times but did not know of the reason. Thanks for the explanation.
If quotes theoretically "should" be opened and closed with their respective curly quote, then is there a purpose for the straight quote?
"Proper" opening and closing quotes are curved and different from one another - the opening quote looks a bit like 66 and the closing quote looks like 99 (“ ” - exactly how clearly you can see the difference depends on the font you use). That's English, nota bene; proper Icelandic quotes are 99 at the bottom to open, 66 at the top to close, and other countries use entirely different quotation marks. Some writing software will auto-convert straight quotes into the appropriate curly quotes. They're used exactly equivalently - people type straight quotes where there theoretically "should" be curly quotes because for one reason or another when the typewriter was designed they decided to have just one quotation mark instead of two.
What's the difference between curly quotes and regular quotes and their functions?
I consider hyphens with spaces on either side to be an equivalent typed substitute for dashes in the way that straight quotes and apostrophes are an equivalent substitute for curly ones, or three periods are an equivalent substitute for a "proper" ellipsis character. For 100% professional typography in a published and edited book, sure, do all those replacements, but I have never found myself at all distracted by text I'm reading on the internet having straight rather than curly quotes, and I must confess to being kind of puzzled by the very recent (like, past couple years) wave of people insisting on actual em dashes, despite that they aren't on anyone's keyboard any more than curly quotes are. Hyphens with spaces around them are just a keyboard-friendly way of typing dashes, and I don't really have any plans to drop them for actual em dashes, for the same reasons I don't have any plans to painstakingly use curly quotes and apostrophes.
Minor nitpick: The report errors page has a hyphen instead of a dash.
Congratulations on 18 years. I have been visiting your website since the beginning. Pokémon was my first fandom and this website has been a huge part of that experience. Thank you.
The page appeared when I was clicking on the ¨featured section¨ tab for a random page.
