pMachine is old and was/is

JeevesBond — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:42:33 +0000

pMachine is old and was/is free, they have since moved to Expression Engine.

Ahhh, thanks for the update. I didn't know that.

I'd say that you are making

webwiz — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:54:44 +0000

I'd say that you are making your pull quote in exactly the right way. Using blockquote for a pull quote seems wrong to me.

I suppose if you were to split hairs, you could argue for using the Q tag (inside a DIV or ?), but since browser support is not good for Q, a classed P element sounds the way to go.

Geez what a bonehead. I

Roo — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:10:15 +0000

Geez what a bonehead. I forgot that I set up my templates to wrap the message body in p tags so I would not have to type them in every time. So I could remove them from the template, but then I'd need to go and re-edit every post.

I don't have the need to use a pull quote very often so I suppose I might be able to live with a few pages not validating. In the meantime I simply made a new class that that has the background image in it. not exactly what I wanted but is okay for now.

pMachine is old and was/is free, they have since moved to Expression Engine.

Megan's right, if the

JeevesBond — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:57:13 +0000

Megan's right, if the bloomin' blog software works a certain way and you can't change it then there's no point worrying. It's not a huge error and probably doesn't cause any issues in browsers.

Isn't Pmachine commercial software? They should certainly have support channels where you can go and ask about this sort of thing.

Is there a way to get

Megan — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:35:26 +0000

Is there a way to get Pmachine to stop doing that? Maybe by switching to a different posting mode? I know in wordpress you can turn the WYSIWYG editor off. In drupal here there are several input formats to choose from (not sure if you see those as regular members).

To be honest, though, I wouldn't obsess over it not validating too much. It's not the end of the world if it doesn't validate. Doing the pull quote would trump keeping it valid IMO. Did you try putting a div around it?

But, it would be better if pMachine didn't do this because this isn't the only situation where you'd want to put in something that's not a paragraph. What if you put in a table, would it wrap that in tags? Report it as a bug if you can.