Dreamwidth style system discussion

are you editing the S2 layer code directly? or are you putting this in the customization wizard somewhere?

if directly, then okay, for example, in the S2 layer I am using, the part of EntryPage::print_comment() that prints the userpic is:

if ($*opt_userpic_comments and defined $e.userpic) {
    """<div class="user-icon">$e.userpic</div>""";
}

The stuff inside the """ is a string that's added to the outputted html, with ; marking the end of that expression

so you could try instead replacing it (on yours) with

"""<a href="http://$e.poster.username""" + """.dreamwidth.org/icons">""";

or,

"""<a href="http://$e.poster.username""";
""".dreamwidth.org/icons">""";

(should be effectively the same thing and if the former doesn't work you can try the latter; I recently had a weird issue with something not concatenating like I expected it to)

if you have a double quotation mark in your string then you put it inside triple-quotation marks like that.

if you are doing it through the customization wizard instead somehow then you could ~try~ putting <a href="http://$e.poster.username""" + """.dreamwidth.org/icons"> in the field, that mayyyyy work? but you may have to edit the layer S2 code directly.