But that's what I don't get: if I chat *inherently* gets special markup (a table, or a special CSS class), why does it need a dedicated Post Format type (since the special markup still needs to be applied)?<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:09 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@mfields.org">michael@mfields.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> I'd like some further clarification on all the Post Format types, but that<br>
> one in particular. It doesn't make much sense to me as how it would have<br>
> custom layout/style applied.<br>
<br>
</div>I have a few ideas on this:<br>
<br>
1. The post content could be filtered and the text could be given<br>
different classes or even reconstructed as an html table that would mimic<br>
the formatting of an actually chat dialog screen. I actually wrote code<br>
like this, but abandoned actually using it in my theme because it would<br>
only match a single pattern and I'm sure there are more than one out<br>
there.<br>
<br>
2. For archive views the chat transcript could be displayed in a box with<br>
a height set to about 18em and overflow set to auto. This gives a certain<br>
chat style appearance to the box while allowing the entire transcript to<br>
be read directly from the archive without hogging too much vertical real<br>
estate. To accomplish the chat transcript needs to be in it's own<br>
container and the most logical one IMHO is a pre tag. Single views would<br>
display the complete transcript without a scrollbar.<br>
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