You always think harder is better. Maybe next time I patrol, I should carry bricks and use a stake made out of butter.

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Jon B. - Oct 25, 2004 5:24:54 pm PDT #8488 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Actually, IIRC, you'd want to use a SPAN tag, not a DIV. A DIV puts its contents in its own paragraph, at least in some browsers (I'm too lazy to check the spec). SPAN does not.


tommyrot - Oct 25, 2004 6:35:17 pm PDT #8489 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

eta: I typed:

<font size="-2">I can't "do" this</font>

and I end up with:

I cant do this

the HTML changes to:

<font size='-2' >I cant do this</font >


Gus - Oct 25, 2004 6:41:43 pm PDT #8490 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Dang, tommyrot discovered the scare quotes gobbler I snuck into the code.

Nah, That's a bug.

OK, span is more better than div, for this purpose. Unfortunately, transparent is giving me a hard time for text color attribute. She don't want to work in some browsers. Grr. I'll try to craft an expression() to grab the bgColor, after work.


§ ita § - Oct 25, 2004 8:18:28 pm PDT #8491 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Crafting expressions makes us browser dependent, doesn't it? If we can control changing the background colour in a style sheet, we can control changing the definition of the spoiler class/style/whatever.

I'd just go that way.


aurelia - Oct 25, 2004 9:11:47 pm PDT #8492 of 10000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

October 25, 2004, 11:02 pm aurelia[795]: ERROR [2] Unknown modifier '2' line 597 of file /home/httpd/vhosts/buffistas.org/httpdocs/classes/post.php

October 25, 2004, 11:02 pm aurelia[795]: ERROR [2] Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/httpd/vhosts/buffistas.org/httpdocs/classes/giles.php:64) line 45 of file /home/httpd/vhosts/buffistas.org/httpdocs/processPost.php

I was trying to post a link to a google results page. Does this mean I was doing something wrong, or that the server choked on something?


Gus - Oct 25, 2004 11:18:27 pm PDT #8493 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

The server choked on something weird in the link. If you still have that link around, you could maybe send it to my profile addy, so I can see how to protect us from it happening again.

eta: Got your link. Thanks aurelia.

It looks fine, to me: [link]

... doesn't choke now, so I'm going with the malevolent gamma rays theory.

further edit: ita, that makes sense. I just added the span to the replacement regex, then. There was already a "spoiler" class in the css, so I used it.


Lyra Jane - Oct 26, 2004 4:59:01 am PDT #8494 of 10000
Up with the sun

In music, attempting to post, I got the following screen:

October 26, 2004, 6:57 am Lyra Jane[238]: ERROR [2] Unknown modifier '2' line 597 of file /home/httpd/vhosts/buffistas.org/httpdocs/classes/post.php

October 26, 2004, 6:57 am Lyra Jane[238]: ERROR [2] Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/httpd/vhosts/buffistas.org/httpdocs/classes/giles.php:64) line 45 of file /home/httpd/vhosts/buffistas.org/httpdocs/processPost.php

And when I clicked refresh, I got:

There has been an error. It's of the type we call fatal. Please don't be scared. You're not the one that's going to die.
Okay, where the $$&(@#& are the developers?


§ ita § - Oct 26, 2004 5:13:21 am PDT #8495 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Were you trying to post a link? What sort of post was it?


Lyra Jane - Oct 26, 2004 5:25:20 am PDT #8496 of 10000
Up with the sun

There was a link in there, but it wasn't just a link -- it was two responses to board quotes (using the > shortcut), including a link in my response. I used the a href for the link -- could that be the problem?


§ ita § - Oct 26, 2004 5:28:53 am PDT #8497 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I used the a href for the link -- could that be the problem?

Probably not. But if you have the text of what you were posting (slim chance, I know), forwarding it to Gus may be useful.