This is a test. This is only a test.

[neadods]

So, LJ has a new kind of text cut specifically for spoilers. So, if I say that at the end of FALL Sherlock goes waltzing off in a purple tutu it's supposed to be cut until you scroll over it and make it pop up.

If I've done this right, the tags are lj-spoiler text="Not an actual spoiler"> and /lj-spoiler>

And - I do like this part immensely - it's supposed to work in comments.

Comments

[lizbetann]

Worked beautifully and I love this addition to the functionality.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Oo, and it remains spoiler-cut even when I go to the page in question. Niiice bit of functionality that.

[stlscape.livejournal.com]

Hmm....Nothing happened when I scrolled over it. I clicked it and it did NOT pop up, it un-hid itself and won't hide itself again no matter what I try. I'm using Windows Vista and Firefox 10.0.2

ETA: It *does* re-hide when I refresh the page.

[sethrak.livejournal.com]

Same for me. I also use Firefox.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

So do I - I'm not getting a pop-up, but I am getting the ability to open and (via refresh) close.

*And* - it does work in comments!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I may have been wrong about the pop-up vs the click. It sounds like it does have a way to be seen and not seen.

Although, the next question is does it work in comments like they say?

[lizvogel.livejournal.com]

It does, it does! Work in comments, that is.

I don't think it's supposed to pop-up or do anything on scroll/hover -- the LJ news post only mentions it working when clicked. It seems to do that very nicely indeed, however.

(I have to wonder if they cribbed this from Dreamwidth's expand-cut-tags feature; it's functionally the same think from the user end, albeit without the un-expand option.)

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

i have to click it to make it work, but it does! interesting!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I have to click too... I'm obviously wrong about the pop-up, at least in Firefox - but I was able to just use a spoiler cut in comments.

(It's above this comment in the thread, so I'm going to see if the cut resets itself when the page refreshes when I post.)


ETA: Oooo, it does!

[bentleywg.livejournal.com]

Trying it out.

I click on it in Friends page, and the blue text is replaced with the spoilery text. So then I click on the post title to open just the post, and it's turned back to blue text. And if I do a print preview, it's blue text.

What does this do to posts with multiple spoiler tags? Every single one has to be clicked individually? And if you do this on the Friends page and you happen to want to print the page, you have to click on every spoiler tag all over again?

I'm not commenting on usefulness, I'm just asking questions.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

No clue.

[inamac.livejournal.com]

For me it doesn't look any different from doing an LJ-cut in the middle of text (which I do sometimes). I still have to click it, and I get the hidden text come up as part of the normal post.

But I work in S2 and use html code to do cuts anyway - I doubt that I'll bother to use the html 'spoiler' tag if this is all it does.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Well, I just tried it out in comments. IIRC, the cut tag doesn't work in comments, so the spoiler tag does have a certain function in that regard.

[fyrdrakken]

Also sometimes a person wants to see only some spoilers in a post, and not all, or wants to read the parts of the post that are talking about other things and not be spoiled about last night's TV they haven't seen themselves yet. Spoiler-cuts do no good at all once you're off the friends-list or journal view and onto the page for the post itself -- I do like this little function (and would have had no idea it was there if you hadn't done this test post!)

ETA: Also, I'm on Google Chrome, and it's working the same way for me -- click to unhide, refresh rehides it.

[trcunning.livejournal.com]

I had to click it to open it, but I like the idea of a mini-cut so I can keep scrolling my flist and not have to open a new tab to read one spoilery sentence.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of a cut that won't open unless people specifically open it - I've got some serious spoilerphobes on my flist.

And it works in comments, which is cool.

[themis1.livejournal.com]

I had to click it as well - I always access LJ via IE (although I use Chrome for other things). It doesn't rehide itself either. So I guess the functionality works only if you have a specific set-up (or possibly specific pop-friendly layouts?)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Dunno. On LJ, I'm seeing it pop open when I click, but reset when I refresh, both on the main post and in a comment.