That's the philosophy that gave me such error messages as "Missing resource error -39" I'm guessing.
Nope, it's the philosophy that reporting such numbers to the user might help that leads to you seeing them. I recommend we never do that.
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Rob - Nov 28, 2002 4:06:59 pm PST #1760 of 10000
John H - Nov 28, 2002 4:19:16 pm PST #1761 of 10000
Fair enough, but, speaking of that, what's the means by which we tell the user that their post had to be fixed?
When I post now, I just go back to the thread, and not necessarily at the page which contains my post.
What's a polite, technically elegant way to tell people "your post had bad HTML in it and we've fixed it for you?" without disrupting their posting/reading experience or embarassing them in public?
Rob - Nov 28, 2002 5:14:19 pm PST #1762 of 10000
Perhaps we could add another link like "edit" and "delete", perhaps "errors", that could lead to a page where we describe what the errors where and how they were corrected.
§ ita § - Nov 28, 2002 5:18:12 pm PST #1763 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't know ...
I'm thinking back on worldcrossing -- it just corrects stuff before it renders it, and says not a damned thing. When you go to edit, you get your own faulty text back.
I don't know if the extra link would ever be clicked on.
Now, if you want incentive, we could add an intermediate screen that says "post buggered continue/edit?"
If you had to have one of those in your face every time you bollixed your HTML, you'd learn pretty quick.
John H - Nov 28, 2002 5:23:01 pm PST #1764 of 10000
Now, if you want incentive, we could add an intermediate screen that says "post buggered continue/edit?"
Gets my vote. Only, you know, with an appropriate quote from an ME show -- "you made an HTML error! Undo it!" or the like...
Jon B. - Nov 28, 2002 6:12:55 pm PST #1765 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Gets my vote, too.
t off to eat turkey
Noumenon - Nov 28, 2002 6:17:39 pm PST #1766 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
screen that says "post buggered continue/edit?"
The continue option is important, so that we don't revive accusations of being "interface fascists."
§ ita § - Nov 28, 2002 6:38:14 pm PST #1767 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think the continue option should be a teeny tiny little button that's never in the same place twice. Why should you continue?
Bad Buffista! No cookie!
Rob - Nov 28, 2002 7:18:43 pm PST #1768 of 10000
There's nothing elegant about an error page, but I don't care for elegant so it's fine for me.
Jon B. - Nov 28, 2002 8:42:11 pm PST #1769 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I think the continue option should be a teeny tiny little button that's never in the same place twice.
Ooooh! HTML coding with a random element! I'm up for it!