Well, you'd better not be thinking what I think you're thinking, because my answer is the same as always — no threesomes unless it's boy-boy-girl. Or Charlize Theron.

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§ 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.


Typo Boy - Sep 23, 2002 2:12:11 pm PDT #326 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.

But apparently Mozilla does not follow this automatic tag closing. Also, not everyone remembers to /p, Also, John said, if someday a true XML compliant browser comes out , the /p won't work anymore, because XML requires the closing of all tags.


billytea - Sep 23, 2002 2:29:01 pm PDT #327 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I don't know if this is an obvious question or not, but what does everyone else do (so to speak)? How do they keep their tags in-post?


Typo Boy - Sep 23, 2002 2:36:00 pm PDT #328 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.

We remember to close our tags. that is for every t b We make sure that somewhere before the post ends there is a t /b

Oh other boards. Good question. Right. Talk amongst yourselves.


§ ita § - Sep 23, 2002 3:07:28 pm PDT #329 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Actually, the code puts in a </p> for every two line breaks. So that's taken care of. No need to remember.

Silly browsers.

I know of one board (Bronze Camp) that does something we've been doing -- closing in a later post.


§ ita § - Sep 23, 2002 3:44:01 pm PDT #330 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I just noticed that WX pages have the following comments at the top:

<!-- Page produced by Web Crossing(r)/Unix-4.1 (http://webcrossing.com/worldcrossing) for WorldCrossing-->
<!-- User interface (c)Copyright 1995-2002 by Web Crossing, Inc. All rights reserved.-->
<!-- World Crossing version 9/18/2002 -->
<!-- Logged in as: ita (4156e) 2002-09-23-21.07.20 GMT from xx.xx.xx.xx Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461) -->
<!-- Currently 2002-09-23-21.11.55 GMT 149.yzhmeXakhCs.13 Master Server .ee6b280 access: -->

Interesting.


P.M. Marc - Sep 23, 2002 3:50:34 pm PDT #331 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

Snerk. And here I thought I was the one who continually volunteered for insanely huge projects. There's the site design, deciding what content to present and how to present it, chasing down umpteen-bajillion dead links when people move or redesign their site structure...

So long as it's a simple layout, with understood weekly checks for dead links, I can deal.

Moved from the other thread. (thanks, ita)

But, seriously... how do we want to handle this?


§ ita § - Sep 23, 2002 3:51:23 pm PDT #332 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

What are your opinions on using the links code?


John H - Sep 23, 2002 4:17:55 pm PDT #333 of 10000

Rio's non-closed whitefont tag led to the post after hers ending up in whitefont as well.

Leaving aside the idea of automatically closing tags, or force-closing tags, nobody bothered to say "Rio doesn't need to code her own white-font tags any more?"

We coded a short-cut, remember?


§ ita § - Sep 23, 2002 4:23:29 pm PDT #334 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

To each ...

But the principle still stands -- some people just (d/w)on't like that, and there are un-shortcutted tags.