Can we please move the posting competition, and analysis thereof, somewhere else?
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Jon B. - Nov 10, 2002 10:22:06 pm PST #1384 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Noumenon - Nov 10, 2002 10:35:12 pm PST #1385 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
It's like the tables belong here, but the discussion belongs in Natter. Maybe a crossposting next time.
§ ita § - Nov 11, 2002 12:24:09 pm PST #1386 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Betsy made what I saw as a small mistake in a post, giving the following HTML:
<p>Your modem too slow? <a href='http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=300&e=17&u=/ibsys/20021108/lo_wisc/1382225">Try this.</a>
But that ' " mismatch broke the table layout, and made the edit function not work. I had to edit the database directly.
Guh. Another thing to fix. Is it something inherent in the tableosity of the pages?
DXMachina - Nov 11, 2002 12:26:14 pm PST #1387 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I wondered what the frell was going on. I tried to edit that post, too, and it just sat there and ignored me.
Jon B. - Nov 11, 2002 12:46:52 pm PST #1388 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Is it something inherent in the tableosity of the pages?
Gahh! Might be worth an effort to recreate the html of that errored page. Maybe if we look at it, we can figure out how to rejigger the page so it doesn't happen again.
DXMachina - Nov 11, 2002 1:15:17 pm PST #1389 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Or recreate the error on the test site. We know what the text was that caused the error.
John H - Nov 11, 2002 1:37:43 pm PST #1390 of 10000
It seems at first glance that the problem is just that no links after that point on the page would work, or to put it another way, the whole of the rest of the page was included in the link, but I don't understand how that would break the Edit function, as it would have come before the error.
§ ita § - Nov 11, 2002 1:50:12 pm PST #1391 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jon, check the test site to see the impact.
Jon B. - Nov 11, 2002 1:50:29 pm PST #1392 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Or recreate the error on the test site.
Yeah, that's what I meant. I wouldn't want to do it again here!
t edit whoops! Hi ita!
DXMachina - Nov 11, 2002 1:53:50 pm PST #1393 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
but I don't understand how that would break the Edit function, as it would have come before the error.
I'm guessing that the edit function is similar to a single post page, in that it reposts the post to be edited, so any ensuing effects would be the same.
edit: To be clear, we could get to the Edit Post page, and edit the text, but the post button didn't work.