Testing, testing...

[venta]

FAO sammason, everyone else please ignore...

Suppose I were to pose this question to you:

Have you ever tickled an ocelot?

If you click on the button, does it do what you're wanting?

Comments

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Well, it does what it's supposed it. What I _want_ it to do is take care of the presentation I'm trying to write and the marking that I have to do after that, make me a cup of coffee, and give me permission to go home and do a bit of dressmaking prior to a nice early night, and it doesn't do that.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

(Sorry, I am not sammason and should therefore have ignored your post. I shall now start ignoring it.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Now if you'd asked me to create a button that did what you wanted, clicking it would have done all of those things (and sung three choruses of the National Anthem - bugs are inevitable).

However, you can't ask for a button, because you're ignoring this post.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Dammit, if only I weren't ignoring this post!

[triskellian]

I'm not ignoring this post, and my button requirements are very similar to sushidog's (this is perhaps not a surprise). I'd like tea instead of coffee, and knitting instead of sewing, and my marking won't actually arrive until Friday, but I'd like it done now anyway. I have no amendments to the presentation-writing, though. Can you make a button for me?

[venta.livejournal.com]

<whistles through teeth>
All that stuff and time travel?
Dunno about that - it's not the labour, it's the parts...

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

The great thing with time-travel, though, is that you don't have to have the parts now. So long as you'll get your hands on them eventually, you can still do the job!

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

That's not how you titillate an ocelot!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hey, hey, we'll have none of that filth on here!

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

boo!

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh, go on then, maybe just a little!

[sammason.livejournal.com]

{sigh} I asked a perfectly sensible question and now look.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I didn't :(

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

If we are requesting buttons I would like one that gets the little bit of steak out of between my teeth where neither floss nor fingernail nor any other tool can remove it. It is driving me crazy.

Venta's Test Question

[livejournal.livejournal.com]

User bateleur referenced to your post from Venta's Test Question (http://bateleur.livejournal.com/360479.html) saying: [...] Originally posted by at Testing, testing... [...]

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

If we're debugging, after I tried clicking on it myself, something has marked every single link on LJ as being one I've already followed. (Using Firefox 9.0.1 on Win7)

[venta.livejournal.com]

It's a built-in LJ mechanism, so I don't think I can do much in the way of debugging of it :(

That didn't happen to me (Firefox 10.0.2 on Win XP)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if you'd get a pingback appearing here for everyone who did so. That might be nice.

And also: what's the code for creating such a button? I'm lazily asking you rather than looking for myself, on the assupmtion that it'll be fresh in your mind…

[venta.livejournal.com]

Apparently not - as far as I'm aware, three people have answered it and I've got only one pingback.

The code is covered in the LJ FAQ #313 (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=313), and to create the above I did:

<lj-repost button="Answer in your own journal">Have you ever tickled an ocelot?</lj-repost>

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Ah, ta. Now to think of a fun use for it…