Hee. God bless negative reinforcement.
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
'Serenity'
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.
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2004 5:32:00 pm PST #8759 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gus - Nov 12, 2004 8:25:13 pm PST #8760 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Thanks, ita. I'm on it. Wrist-slap comments in the code shouldn't be much of a problem, actually. I can just dump this [link] output inside a comment block.
Tom Scola - Nov 13, 2004 3:20:59 am PST #8761 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
There has to be some point, though, where the input is sufficiently mangled that tidy can't deal with it, right?
§ ita § - Nov 13, 2004 3:57:30 am PST #8762 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If the mangling is unclosed (or unopened) tags, I think that at the very least tidy can protect the rest of the board from destruction, although the post itself may be an illegible wasteland.
And that's what I think is key -- it's the poster's job to make it look like they want. It's our job to protect the innocent bystanding posts.
Haven't thrown anything like t a href='http://buffistas.org" at it yet, though. Don't know what it does.
I don't expect perfection, never did. The difference between tidy doing the tidying and us is the whole "Hasn't someone already invented one of those round things?" issue. They've probably put way more time and diligence into it that we have to spare.
DXMachina - Nov 13, 2004 4:17:26 am PST #8763 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I'm having a problem with threadsuck. I'm trying to suck whole threads, and it ain't working. For example, I can suck the first 4159 posts of Spike's Bitches 11, but if I try to suck the first 4160 posts (or higher) the process just hangs. (IE gives me a technical difficulties error. Mozilla just sits there.) I used to be able to suck entire threads. Has something changed?
Polter-Cow - Nov 13, 2004 4:58:17 am PST #8764 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
DX, I've been having that problem forever.
§ ita § - Nov 13, 2004 6:04:34 am PST #8765 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Has something changed?
Maybe something implicit in the PHP upgrade. I've been having the problem since before then, but I've seen it mentioned more after then.
Liese S. - Nov 13, 2004 6:08:46 am PST #8766 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, I had it too. But I was lazy and didn't mention it.
DXMachina - Nov 13, 2004 6:10:09 am PST #8767 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
The last time I sucked complete threads and saved them was late April.
Gus - Nov 13, 2004 6:36:51 am PST #8768 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
And that's what I think is key -- it's the poster's job to make it look like they want. It's our job to protect the innocent bystanding posts.
Seconding this. However, t a href='http://buffistas.org" does not get fixed, per se, with Tidy 1 (the board version), it merely gets contained. The unmatched delimeter gets converted to an entity. Like this: t a href='http://buffistas.org/"%3E'
Since we already have a better answer than that, I will put in a little post-tidy code to fix it up.
The most mangled html I came up with off the top my head was a busted font tag inside a broken anchor tag. The font tag was between the anchor's 'a' and its 'href'. All kinds of illegal. Tidy cleaned it up right nicely, moving the font outside the anchor and closing both tags real prettily. Impressive.