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'


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P.M. Marc - Jan 22, 2005 7:02:26 am PST #9367 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

Funny thing is, I intentionally double checked that I had two tags, and paired the closes with the opens *before* typing in the "Happy Birthday Windsparrow" because of all the problems with that sort of thing. Plus someone else posted after I did and his post wasn't red for me following my post, so I went off to shovel the driveway and didn't check back. I'm using NS 7.02 in OS9

I think it was wigging because of the way some of the autoformatting works, just based on when I looked at the source of the message (thank you, Firefox!). I changed it so that it went "c font font bold happy br birthday br windsparrow /bold /font /font" (ETA: all on one line)

(BTW, you only need the one font tag with size="#" color="color"--it can save a body typing!)


Typo Boy - Jan 23, 2005 2:39:27 pm PST #9368 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.

Yeah I've had closed tags unclosed by autoformatting. I will post when I can recreate.

One example I did three bigs and the close change to close bold so:

t big t big t big text to make large t /big t /big t /big

ended up as t big t /b t big t /b t big text to make large t /big t /big t /big t /b

to make sure I'm doing it right I will try this example, then delete

Text to make large

So this following should be small again.

Well everything is closed that should be closed. I could swear this once opened a tag I had closed properly, but maybe that was typo boy error. At any rate the /bs are not neccesary; but it does not seem to be a critical error.


§ ita § - Jan 23, 2005 2:49:20 pm PST #9369 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Gus is currently working on completely new tag-closing, DCJ, so this should be a thing of the past once it's tested and implemented.


Stephanie - Jan 24, 2005 1:54:21 pm PST #9370 of 10000
Trust my rage

So I just made a link over in Natter. When I click on it, it takes my current window to that new site. Sometimes i click on a link here and it opens a new window, which I like. How do I make it open a new window?


DXMachina - Jan 24, 2005 2:00:25 pm PST #9371 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

You need to add the parameter 'target="_blank"' to the link tag, i.e.,

<a href="http://www.buffistas.org" target="_blank">buffistas.org</a>

would look like this, buffistas.org , and open a new window.


Stephanie - Jan 24, 2005 2:02:27 pm PST #9372 of 10000
Trust my rage

Thanks, DX. I'll save that for future use.


Jesse - Jan 24, 2005 2:04:23 pm PST #9373 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ooh, me too! Thanks, DX.


Hil R. - Jan 24, 2005 2:32:06 pm PST #9374 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

If someone makes a link like that, is there any way to force it to open in the current window? I know that, on a regular link, you can right-click and click "open in new window" to get it to do that, but is there a way to make one of those not open a new window?


amych - Jan 24, 2005 2:57:12 pm PST #9375 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

is there a way to make one of those not open a new window?

Not that I know of offhand, but that kind of thing is very browser-dependent. Opening in a new tab is usually about the best you can hope for.


Jon B. - Jan 24, 2005 2:58:15 pm PST #9376 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

You could right-click, choose "copy link location" (or your browser's equivilent), and then paste the link into the current window's address bar.

It ain't pretty, but it works.