This page allows you to convert the handy links that you get on a flickr/picasaweb image page, into IMG tags that work on Ars' Openforum & others that use the [URL] and [IMG] tags to mark up links and inline images respectivly.
To use, copy & paste the flickr/picasa html link into the first textbox and press the "Process" button.
If all goes to plan, your new link will be shown in the OpenForum textbox ready for you to copy & paste directly into your forum post.
How this works:
It's a simple regex transformation that grabs all the urls out of the 1st textbox and sticks them into a openforum [URL=x][IMG]y[/IMG][/URL] string.
This should work (famous last words) with any html of the pattern:
<a href="x"><img src="y"></a>.
v2 Change : The process is now repeated for all matched pairs, so you can copy and paste an entire webpage into the first box and have all the links stripped out in the div below. If you do this, make sure that the images grabbed are in fact the ones you want to post!