David Scotson

I think the whole idea of an automatic censor is absurd (on several levels), but putting that aside for a moment: Am I being daft or do none of the suggested solutions address the problem in the first post?

I assume you wish a series of characters (a banned word) to be obscured but not if they are part of a larger word. Adding versions with a space at the start and end will not prevent this unless you also remove the standard version.

If you remove the standard version then a space at the start or end will still incorrectly catch "cumulative" and "locum" etc. whilst a version with a space at both ends will fail to catch hyphenated versions (unless specifically banned also) nor banned words at the end of sentences or otherwise flanked by punctuation e.g. in brackets since those are not equal to space characters.

You could do something more sophisticated with regular expressions but anyone who has received spam for one of the more than a sextillion potential spellings of \/i@g®@ knows that creative spelling goes a long way to defeating these kinds of defences.

Getting back to my philosophical objections to the very idea of an automatic censor, would you be surprised if I told you that the word you are trying to censor in your example was Word of the Day at dictionary.com on Sunday August 10, 2003?

I prefer someone's suggestion that the filter send an email to notify a human who can then decide what to do.

And on a technical note, the current filter doesn't seem to differentiate between words in text and link urls (for example). This could lead to some very odd behaviour.

You beat me to mentioning the Dymaxion Map so I'll provide a couple of other links with nice versions of it:

Printable (and foldable!) PDF

Map in PNG format

The map above is from a site that is linked from the place Tony pointed too, but as it is easy to miss and has a few hidden gems (flash animations etc.) I thought I'd mention it explicitly.

Coloring the sideblocks and the column background uses the same principle e.g. assuming you use <td id="leftcolumn"> then this should work:

#leftcolumn {
    background-color: red;
}

But you can also be more specific and style things within these columns differently too e.g.:

#leftcolumn table  { border: thick solid red; }

#leftcolumn td  { border: thin dashed red; }

#middlecolumn table { border: thick solid green; }

#middlecolumn td { border: thin dashed green; }

#rightcolumn table { border: thick solid blue; }

#rightcolumn td { border: thin dashed blue; }

I think the relevant places to change in those file's I listed are relatively easy to find, though you may need a minimum familiarity with PHP.

There is some relevant info in this post:

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=12169#58776

Creating a course with a lot of content can be a very trying experience when every page refresh that happens after placing a module link causes the focus to return to the top of the page.

Rather than discuss the shortcomings of Internet Explorer, it might be more constructive if we fix the problem. In this case, if we assume that people creating a resource want to see it in context we can simply add the id of the relevant section to the end of the url that you are redirected to after adding the resource.

e.g instead of:

http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=5&topic=all

use this instead:

http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=5&topic=all#section_2

I know this only works in some browsers, hopefully IE6 is one of them. Can anyone confirm this?