Simple reason to do sigs as they are...you don't have to just put a sig in your node template, you can put other tags you like to use. The other is simplicity, this is done and works, and if it ain't broke, nobody is going to volunteer to fix it ;)

Even if they do, their are other complications. Like do you keep all sigs in a seperate field per node? or just automaticaly append a users sig when you view their node (but then historic signatures disappear when you change yours. Well I could ramble on and on, but the point is it works and has some nice features that would be harder to accomplish other ways so I say leave it! ;)


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Eric Hodges

In reply to Re^2: How about some complimentary space preceding "<!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only -->" by eric256
in thread How about some complimentary space preceding "<!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only -->" by princepawn

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