Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!

Xander ,'Chosen'


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John H - Sep 22, 2002 7:48:15 pm PDT #296 of 10000

What is it about the word "one" that made it disappear when it was "between" the <>s?

It was to stop people putting mischeivous JavaScript into things like links.

You can put

onmouseover="alert('bite me!')"
into a link tag and it will pop up an alert every time the mouse goes over it, for instance.

So the code is "remove any word inside a tag starting with 'on'"


Noumenon - Sep 22, 2002 7:57:42 pm PDT #297 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

What about the t center thing?


Rebecca Lizard - Sep 22, 2002 8:20:25 pm PDT #298 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

So the code is "remove any word inside a tag starting with 'on'"

So, just curious, what did you do to change it? Make it "starting with 'onm'"?


John H - Sep 22, 2002 8:26:21 pm PDT #299 of 10000

Make it "starting with 'onm'"?

Or I could have made it start with just "om" and it would have been BuddhaScript instead of JavaScript.

No, we just delete it, so their code will just have:

alert('biteme')

in it, which won't do anything.

It's possible it will make some browsers confused, but I don't think so. Browsers just tend to ignore attributes they don't understand.


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2002 8:27:48 pm PDT #300 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What if someone tries to link to test ontario link (www.lisgar.on.ca).

Okay -- good. Works.


John H - Sep 22, 2002 8:28:37 pm PDT #301 of 10000

Er, I don't get it.


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2002 8:29:02 pm PDT #302 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Checking to see if the .on. within a link would be deleted.


John H - Sep 22, 2002 8:31:30 pm PDT #303 of 10000

Well only "on" with at least one alphabetic character after it counts, and it has to be preceded by whitespace too.


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2002 8:33:23 pm PDT #304 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Trust me, this was easier than me trying to decipher the regexp.


P.M. Marc - Sep 23, 2002 10:42:43 am PDT #305 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Posting issues this morning. It's occasionally hanging when I hit post, and giving me a "this page cannot be displayed" error. I noticed earlier that a couple of people mentioned having posts eaten around the same time.

Further details if I can think of them.