Conversation logging improvement examples
Below are examples of how chat logs generated by Snak 5 for Macintosh appear in a Web browser, a system based on my conversation logging improvement proposals adopted by Snak’s developer, Kent Sorenson. The first example is unformatted HTML, followed by the default Snak formatting by Nick Shanks. Finally, I have demonstrated some styling of my own based on my ShadowIRC kit. The log source code, while stripped of the wrapper code, is left intact for your inspection as to how it lends itself to various formatting styles.
Unformatted
This is how the text looks before being formatted:
irc.undernet.org #macintosh 2:30:23 PM 12/4/052:30:23 PM kev: I just have seen a lot of really bad abuses from the "natural remedy" people
2:30:28 PM im a philosopher in that respect equinas, and logic and history holds science in a skeptical vew
2:30:30 PM i totally agree
2:30:35 PM the natural remedy people are almost no better
2:30:36 PM camino's old ain't it?
2:30:36 PM wanders out onto his balcony to get some sun
2:30:40 PM ladies
2:30:46 PM because they dont understand herbs or natural remedies anymore than i think scientists understand medicine
2:30:48 PM for instance, "try our new super prostate formula! If you have prostate symptoms, try our formula for six months. If you don't see remarkable results in 6 months, return for a full refund"
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Snak default
Using Nick Shanks’s stylesheet:
2:30:23 PM kev: I just have seen a lot of really bad abuses from the "natural remedy" people
2:30:28 PM im a philosopher in that respect equinas, and logic and history holds science in a skeptical vew
2:30:30 PM i totally agree
2:30:35 PM the natural remedy people are almost no better
2:30:36 PM camino's old ain't it?
2:30:36 PM wanders out onto his balcony to get some sun
2:30:40 PM ladies
2:30:46 PM because they dont understand herbs or natural remedies anymore than i think scientists understand medicine
2:30:48 PM for instance, "try our new super prostate formula! If you have prostate symptoms, try our formula for six months. If you don't see remarkable results in 6 months, return for a full refund"
2:30:56 PM science if it's good science holds science in skeptical view
2:31:04 PM that's what science is
2:31:07 PM right
2:31:10 PM but skepticism is bad marketing
2:31:17 PM medical companies therefore cant afford skepticism
2:31:17 PM a girls once gave me a bunch of little white herbal pills and said to take a bunch of them, the more the merrier
2:31:23 PM i took them sparingly
2:31:23 PM hey jotham
2:31:29 PM so the patient having symptoms, tries the formula for six months instead of going to his doctor. After six months, it fails, he gets his money back, and goes to his doctor, and find out his prostate cancer is 6 months more advanced than it would have been"
Custom formatting
To follow my own ShadowIRC kit formatting, using some example ShadowKit CSS:
2:30:23 PM kev: I just have seen a lot of really bad abuses from the "natural remedy" people
2:30:28 PM im a philosopher in that respect equinas, and logic and history holds science in a skeptical vew
2:30:30 PM i totally agree
2:30:35 PM the natural remedy people are almost no better
2:30:36 PM camino's old ain't it?
2:30:36 PM wanders out onto his balcony to get some sun
2:30:40 PM ladies
2:30:46 PM because they dont understand herbs or natural remedies anymore than i think scientists understand medicine
2:30:48 PM for instance, "try our new super prostate formula! If you have prostate symptoms, try our formula for six months. If you don't see remarkable results in 6 months, return for a full refund"
2:30:56 PM science if it's good science holds science in skeptical view
2:31:04 PM that's what science is
2:31:07 PM right
2:31:10 PM but skepticism is bad marketing
2:31:17 PM medical companies therefore cant afford skepticism
2:31:17 PM a girls once gave me a bunch of little white herbal pills and said to take a bunch of them, the more the merrier
2:31:23 PM i took them sparingly
2:31:23 PM hey jotham
2:31:29 PM so the patient having symptoms, tries the formula for six months instead of going to his doctor. After six months, it fails, he gets his money back, and goes to his doctor, and find out his prostate cancer is 6 months more advanced than it would have been"
Cheers to John Blumer for actually providing me with a sample Snak log, so that I could finally see what Kent and Nick Shanks did with my idea.