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?

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.

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.

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...

Gets my vote, too.

t off to eat turkey

screen that says "post buggered continue/edit?"

The continue option is important, so that we don't revive accusations of being "interface fascists."

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!

There's nothing elegant about an error page, but I don't care for elegant so it's fine for me.

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!

I was thinking about this and I now want it to be another page along the lines of

You made an HTML error. We fixed it. You were short a <b> tag. You can go ahead and post by clicking on the "OK, I'm a doofus and I promise to try harder next time" button.

And a quote from Buffy, maybe from around Willow's addiction period.