In the meantime, it might be wise to add a line to the HTML/Quick-Edit help page that says "Please be advised that misplaced t a href or t table tags can break the board, so double check your code if you use them!"
Oh, I get it. You just don't like who did the rescuing, that's all. Wishin' I was your boyfriend what's-his-height. Oh wait, he's run off.
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Jessica - Nov 18, 2002 3:59:17 pm PST #1602 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Hil R. - Nov 18, 2002 4:00:01 pm PST #1603 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'd think that most people who know enough HTML to be using it would know enough to be able to spot their own errors, especially since the average post would only have a few tags in it.
t edit: x-post w/John
t edit2: the x-post was with Jess, not John. I know how to read. Really, I do.
John H - Nov 18, 2002 4:00:36 pm PST #1604 of 10000
it might be wise to add a line to the HTML/Quick-Edit help page
What she said, only, also put it right above the posting box where we shamelessly encourage people to use HTML...
Rebecca Lizard - Nov 18, 2002 4:11:41 pm PST #1605 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I really like option 2 better
You're right, that's not true. What's true is I like option 1 and I'm a big spaz.
Burrell - Nov 18, 2002 7:13:25 pm PST #1606 of 10000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I think the relevant question is which is easier to code.
Jesse - Nov 18, 2002 8:14:06 pm PST #1607 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
This may not be at all relevant, but I'm curious: how come, when you forget the last " in an a href thingie (which I just did), it messes up the way the page displays, but if you use a ' instead, it breaks everything?
Typo Boy - Nov 18, 2002 8:31:03 pm PST #1608 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Just not allowing the post would a be a bit easier. But since it is John's preference and John is doing the coding that is not a determining option.
John H - Nov 18, 2002 8:32:07 pm PST #1609 of 10000
In both cases, the link HREF contains everything up to the next whatever-it-is.
So the page where you put HREF=" and fail to close it will be missing everything up to the next double-quote and bracket, and the page where you put HREF=' and fail to close it will be missing everything up to the next single-quote and bracket.
I don't know why one should be worse than the other though, just a matter of where Jon's use single and where he's used double quotes.
§ ita § - Nov 18, 2002 8:32:29 pm PST #1610 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
John's doing the coding? Yay!
Hil R. - Nov 18, 2002 8:33:02 pm PST #1611 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
This may not be at all relevant, but I'm curious: how come, when you forget the last " in an a href thingie (which I just did), it messes up the way the page displays, but if you use a ' instead, it breaks everything?
I think that the post that broke everything had a ' instead of a " for the first quote, not the last one.