Incidentally, I actually made a drop-the-quotation-mark error the other day and it showed up asterisked out. I assume y'all know that, but I was briefly startled. (It was whitefont - I briefly thought "oh my God, the board doesn't like spoilers anymore!" before coming to my senses.)
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I'm okay with that. Just clarifying.
I actually made a drop-the-quotation-mark error the other day and it showed up asterisked out. I assume y'all know that, but I was briefly startled.
Huh?
Signed, startled of Sydney.
Huh?
'Twas my reaction as well. Maybe the SecretHiddenAsterisks near the bottom of the page became a part of the post?
startled of Sydney
Sydney who? And why is he startling?
Yeah, that's what happens if you're missing the last quote marks or whatever. Try it! It's fun!
Or whatever. At least it's easily fixed.
OK I think I speak for all cody people around here when I say I have no idea what you're talking about.
Maybe the SecretHiddenAsterisks near the bottom of the page became a part of the post?
Well yeah, except also the whole of the rest of the page would disappear. And there were problems for Stompyfeet who tried to edit out the problem.
Can you describe the problem in detail, someone?
And there were problems for Stompyfeet who tried to edit out the problem.
That was fixed a few weeks back. Bad posts should always be editable now. And if Jesse's post was the last post on the page, then there wouldn't be a whole lot of "the whole of the rest of the page" left to disappear.
But, actually, only part of the rest would disappear. Once another quote appears (and there are plenty in the code that appears on every page), the page tends to find its way back to normality.
Try it in test, John, and see for yourself.
there wouldn't be a whole lot of "the whole of the rest of the page" left to disappear
I get it. So it's "the whole of the rest of the page, up to a point that we can't determine"...
But the stomp-a-matronic will fix all that.
I actually made a drop-the-quotation-mark error the other day and it showed up asterisked out.
OK I think I speak for all cody people around here when I say I have no idea what you're talking about.
I had that too in Noumenon "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Nov 16, 2002 7:47:50 pm EST (but it's fixed now). I don't know where the asterisks come from either. Lemme post twice to see if this messes up just at the end of the page. [Edit: Yeah. The asterisks are from the end of the page (I thought the "Read New" link would catch it) and it only eats the contents of t a and the t hr between my posts once there's another post on the page.]
Test: I forgot to close a quotation mark on
blog on the Firefly site:
Wallaby in a waistcoat?!