Smilies

As you may have noticed, we have smilies back

We'll add a menu or toolbar of them to the editor soon, but I had this other thought today that you folks might find interesting. I was thinking of creating some additional emoticons like ( 8 ) to make the channel 8 logo (8 with wings) or (9) to show a little 9 guy, (10) ... you get the idea. Just thought it might add some nice visual touches when folks want to reference other sites. Any other ideas for emoticons that would fit well onto C9? (vs) for the Visual Studio one? (vista) for the vista icon? I'm just throwing out ideas here

Yay, smilies are back!

I agree with Tommy about not using () for smilies, <9> sounds the best to me too.

And a code block would be great. Just a simple [code]code goes here[/code] that throws the code in a pre that uses a monospace font (Consolas preferably) and some scrolling (similar to what I use on my blog). Syntax highlighting can come later.

EDIT: On an unrelated note, C9 has been having some performance problems the last few days. Sometimes it's snappy, sometimes it's really slow. Often the Ajax load just sits there and does nothing, and then I have to refresh the entire page to be able to retry the request. For example, I had to type this post twice because it just sat on 'Saving' after clicking edit with nothing happening.

I would like to use brackets.

There is less code posted here then smileys.

All we need now are smileys on 8

I like the idea of having (Y) and (N) etc.

How about the -.- smiley? I was asking for that when I joined, maybe now's my chance