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:
(What do the SHAs do, by the way? I've always wondered...)
IIRC, it fixed a Netscape 4 problem where if there were no posts long enough to wrap onto a second line, the table columns got all furwonky. The SHAs were the only way I could solve the problem.
Of course, I just tried to recreate the problem but couldn't.
Numenon - I edited your post to close the quote on your link, to be extra-safe.
AHHH. did I break the Bureaucracy thread? I typed in a post and hit post and got a screen with the thread title, but no posts.
My post had two (font size="-#") tages that I closed with (/font) instead of ().
when I see your post msbelle, I see 50 million asterisks after it?
I can't see past post #959 in there. huh. can't go in to edit it. Stompy foot? help.
ok now it is fine and I took out my tags in case they were the cause of weirdness.
I couldn't either, until Anne posted a post after msbelle's (# 965) and then I could read the whole page just fine, only there was no separating line between msbelle's post (# 964) and Anne's (# 965).
[Edit: now it's OK for me, too]
If an admin wants to get info on what I had posted to try and figure out what was wrong, email me.
Okay, here's something weird. I was browsing the board using Mozilla, and I noticed that every time I clicked 'Next', it was opening the next page in a new browser window. Also, if I clicked on a piece of text to copy it, instead of selecting the text, I got an outline of the HTML table cell that the text resided in, almost as if I was in a WSYSIWYG HTML editor. Very odd. I tried clicking on an external link, and now everything is working properly again, and I can no longer duplicate the behavior.
I hate computers.
