I just had my first weird bug-that-can-only-be-discovered-through-random-user-behavior. I used the quick-edit spoiler font, and then started the next line with an arrow, using a caret to create the point of the arrow. All the text following the caret got eaten.
Jayne: There's times I think you don't take me seriously. I think that ought to change. Mal: Do you think it's likely to?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Burrell - Oct 27, 2002 11:48:01 pm PST #971 of 10000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
John H - Oct 27, 2002 11:54:51 pm PST #972 of 10000
I don't think the last one is a safe solution, since querystrings can make that still a very long adjusted URL.
I think the formula in my head is "remove all directory information after the domain name, and remove all query string stuff after the name of the document, if there is any"
so
www.somewhere.com/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/porn.htm
becomes
www.somewhere.com/[...]/porn.htm
and
www.somewhere.com/blah/blah/login.php?x=123456&y=123456&z=123456
becomes
www.somewhere.com/[...]/login.php
or something like that.
It's the query strings that are normally the problem, not the dirs, right?
esse - Oct 28, 2002 12:01:46 am PST #973 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Starting with John H.'s post 501 in Buffistatech, everything is aligned with the bullets he made. Which means the page alignment is off.
Angus G - Oct 28, 2002 5:21:15 am PST #974 of 10000
Roguish Laird
I like the third option, because I like if possible to know what file type is being linked to, so that I don't click on a 10MB .exe file by mistake. (Not that any Buffista would post such a thing without warning, but we have to plan for contingencies yada yada yada.)
Jon B. - Oct 28, 2002 5:50:28 am PST #975 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Starting with John H.'s post 501 in Buffistatech, everything is aligned with the bullets he made. Which means the page alignment is off.
Fixed.
I just had my first weird bug-that-can-only-be-discovered-through-random-user-behavior.
Where was this?
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 8:02:33 am PST #976 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
John, as long as you regexp it, it's all good.
Allyson - Oct 28, 2002 11:04:52 am PST #977 of 10000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I think i broke the Firefly thread
Michele T. - Oct 28, 2002 11:06:22 am PST #978 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I think you left out a quotation mark around the URL in the A tag, Allyson.
ETA -- try fixing that, and then let's see what happens.
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 11:13:00 am PST #979 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Got it.
Typo Boy - Oct 28, 2002 11:28:17 am PST #980 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.
If you are looking at automatically fixing long URLs, why not wrap them in an t A HREF="theOverLongURL" tag, with a generic link text (such as "long URL") followed by the t /A