I just tried it over in Gus's lab, and the unmatched quotes were fixed automatically. Pretty cool.
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DXMachina - Oct 31, 2004 3:24:35 pm PST #8554 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Betsy HP - Nov 03, 2004 8:23:25 am PST #8555 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Guys,
I have a really bad typo problem. I tend not to hit the shift key long enough, so I start hrefs with a ' and end them with a ". I do try to check for this, honest.
But whenever I make this mistake, it screws the board up something fierce. Is there any way to check for a ' immediately after href=?
DXMachina - Nov 03, 2004 8:41:32 am PST #8556 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Betsy, maybe just do single quotes only? I know the brain automatically tries, but at least in the short run.
The other thing might be to just put a comma after what you want as the link subject, and just put the link there after it so Gus's magic [link] appears, like a footnote.
Polter-Cow - Nov 03, 2004 7:21:11 pm PST #8557 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
DCJensen - Nov 03, 2004 7:47:39 pm PST #8558 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Nyah Nyah!
DCJensen - Nov 04, 2004 8:39:39 am PST #8559 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Weirdest thing, though. When I broke the board, it was because of a missing quote at the end of the URL in a link.
But when I went to edit it, my posting button woundn't work. I even tried it from IE instead of Netscape. No go.
In the end deleting was all I could do.
DXMachina - Nov 04, 2004 9:10:02 am PST #8560 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yeah, that's happened before. You have to do it just right, but it is possible to make a post that is unfixable. It creates a post that disables everything on the page column below the error. My guess as to the problem with trying to fix it is that the edit page displays the damaged post above the posting box, so the same disabling happens to the "post" button of the edit page, and you can't update.
Sean K - Nov 04, 2004 12:22:08 pm PST #8561 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
It creates a post that disables everything on the page column below the error. My guess as to the problem with trying to fix it is that the edit page displays the damaged post above the posting box, so the same disabling happens to the "post" button of the edit page, and you can't update.
Also, I noticed while hovering my mouse over a particular link while looking at the broken page yesterday, the hover text seemed to indicate that php (or whatever is generating the page code) tries to resolve the screwy link by creating an unresolvable nest of tables.
Not that this helps. I just kind of felt like mentioning it, just in case.
Deena - Nov 04, 2004 4:39:47 pm PST #8562 of 10000
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I was just reading the Lost thread, clicked "next" and got the end of the Bitches thread. Talk about a double-take.
DXMachina - Nov 04, 2004 4:44:28 pm PST #8563 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Are you sure you didn't accidently hit Read New?