Looks like the hosting service is having issues.
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
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Gudanov - Sep 23, 2002 11:58:50 am PDT #316 of 10000
Coding and Sleeping
Aims - Sep 23, 2002 12:17:05 pm PDT #317 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I'm having same issues.
IE 5.5 (work)
IE 5.0 (home)
T1 connection at work
Cable connection at home
Jessica - Sep 23, 2002 12:18:05 pm PDT #318 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I think it's HostRocket and nothing to do with the board, but the style sheet seems to be flitting in and out of existance. (About 2:10 EST, W2K, IE5)
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2002 12:40:15 pm PDT #319 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hostrocket says "We are currently experiencing some netork latency, the issue is being worked on and will be fixed as soon as possible."
Typo Boy - Sep 23, 2002 12:46:16 pm PDT #320 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
In terms of closing HTML. This would not be tough to program, but might give some performance issues.
Search through the post for allowed tags, count each tag (number of bolds, number of fonts , number of pres .. etc.) Count closes at the same time (number of end bold, number of end pre, etc..). where there is a positive difference, generate closing tags, and add to end of post.
If we did this, (and I'd be glad to create the code), I think we might add an html check box next to the posting box (by default unchecked).
If checked then we parse for HTML -including generating closing tags. IF not hmtl is just posted as literals (giving a new way to generate fake tags as well). Since a lot of posts have nt html, the savings in not having to parse those would make up for the extra time in checking for and generating closing tags.
Worth the trouble? Or not?
Michele T. - Sep 23, 2002 1:24:33 pm PDT #321 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Can I suggest a simple hack instead? How about just appending closing tags to each post [/i] [/a], etc.? Would that work?
Typo Boy - Sep 23, 2002 1:32:50 pm PDT #322 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
It should. I've never run into a browser that runs into trouble with extra closing tags. But this many extra closing tags? We might discover an unexpected bug. Also it does not take care of all cases. What if someone leaves two tags open? three? Or course the really simple solution is the one we use. Ask people not leave tags open. When they forget close the tag for them, and remind them so they can edit.
Gudanov - Sep 23, 2002 1:35:55 pm PDT #323 of 10000
Coding and Sleeping
As someone who works with XML, I just cringe at the thought of extra closing tags. Yes, it might work fine in all the browsers, but every time I looked at the board I'd wonder if there were extra ending tags just lurking under the surface of the pretty formatting.
Michele T. - Sep 23, 2002 1:39:23 pm PDT #324 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I didn't say it wasn't a hack.
I think there ought to be some more elegant and less computationally intensive way of doing it than either of the solutions presented so far, and if there turns out not to be, my sense of the rightness of the universe will be thwarted.
And if you're looking for extra tags under the surface, highlight the area right below the navigation links but above the text-entry box -- an elegant hack, indeed.
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2002 1:42:52 pm PDT #325 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Well, those aren't tags.
Oddly, Opera 6.04 doesn't have this issue, since it takes the closing of the <p> tag as a block level tag, and closes the inline tags. Just like a </table> will close any open <tr> or <td>.
So can't everyone just upgrade? That's my kinda hack.