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...
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John H - Nov 18, 2002 4:00:36 pm PST #1604 of 10000
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.
John H - Nov 18, 2002 8:34:32 pm PST #1612 of 10000
John is doing the coding
Ooh, am I? Scary. I'm just kind of sketching out code, I'm not necessarily thinking I'll be coding the whole interface thing. I just kind of started playing with it because it's a regular-expression type thing.
I was imagining that, like with quick-edit, I'd give ita a chunk of code to insert into the main body of the Board.
Jon B. - Nov 18, 2002 8:47:43 pm PST #1613 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
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.
Double quotes appear more often than single quotes, so using a single quote to start a link and not closing it properly is likely to affect more of the page than if you start a link with a double-quote and don't close it properly.