apologizes for the geek talk in front of the mundanes
Nah, some of us find it a turn-on.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
Buffistas Building a Better Board
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Connie Neil - Oct 23, 2004 7:52:26 pm PDT #8473 of 10000
brillig
beathen - Oct 23, 2004 8:19:12 pm PDT #8474 of 10000
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
"Is it getting warm in here? [fans self] Do that escape chars, regex code thing again."
Polter-Cow - Oct 24, 2004 9:15:45 am PDT #8475 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Gus:
I tried posting the following code:
"Why are you like this? What did you do?"<BR>"I murdered someone, Jack. My husband."<BR>"Kate."<BR>"I killed him."<BR"No."<BR>"He's dead. But this example for Gus is over."
It cut off everything after "I killed him," and when I looked at the edited post, the rest of the post was gone. The Bs in the BRs had been changed to bs, and the board was trying to close bold tags all over the place. I found the problem was a missing right caret, but it was odd that the board began to interpret the breaks as open bold tags.
Gus - Oct 24, 2004 9:22:23 am PDT #8476 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Looking at your quoted text, P-C, I see an open tag at: "I killed him."
Polter-Cow - Oct 24, 2004 9:23:19 am PDT #8477 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Looking at your quoted text, P-C, I see an open tag at: "I killed him."
I know. Like I said, I understand what the problem was. What I don't understand is how the board went about fixing it. What I'm saying is, I broke something. Fix it.
Lemme try something.
Here is a line
And a line
It converted the open BR to a closing bold tag, which made it think the previous BR was an open bold tag and thus converted the BR to a bR. Freaky.
Gus - Oct 24, 2004 9:25:10 am PDT #8478 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Looking at your quoted text, P-C, I see an open tag at: "I killed him." < BR"
The tag-matcher will assume that " <br" is enough, although it shouldn't. Your find goes on the list for fixing, on a non-drunk-and-watching-viddies day.
DCJensen - Oct 25, 2004 3:16:37 pm PDT #8479 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Too bad there's no way to set a variable in a user's profile whether to see whitefont as white or non-white.
Thread specific, doubly so.
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Hey, my inquiry as to the rolling of post overflow into a new post turned out to be feasable, I thought I would muse anew...
Jon B. - Oct 25, 2004 4:33:14 pm PDT #8480 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Too bad there's no way to set a variable in a user's profile whether to see whitefont as white or non-white.
It's definitely possible. We talked at one time of having user-specific stylesheets and the whitefont is, or could easily be made, a style.
Is it a style? I can't remember. Let's check:
Am I a style?
t edit Nope. It's just a font color="ffffff" substitution, but that's not a barrier.
Gus - Oct 25, 2004 4:43:32 pm PDT #8481 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Yeah, Jon, that's a good play. I have that part of the code open now. I could replace the font part of the 's' quickedit with a div enclosure, if we think that is way to go.
The administration of user style sheets is a larger issue, of course, but the quickedit change would lay some foundation for that day.
§ ita § - Oct 25, 2004 4:43:52 pm PDT #8482 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It should be a style anyway, just so it's not tied in the HTML to the colour of the background.