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.)
Time to slay. Vampires of the world beware!
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Angus G - Oct 28, 2002 5:21:15 am PST #974 of 10000
Roguish Laird
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
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 11:29:54 am PST #981 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Because the alternatives proposed are more informative, and as long as John does the hard part of the work, all otherwise equivalent to me.
Jon B. - Oct 28, 2002 11:31:24 am PST #982 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
That was John H.'s first suggestion here: John H "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Oct 27, 2002 11:29:22 pm EST
And what ita said...
Allyson - Oct 28, 2002 12:34:11 pm PST #983 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 swear to god none of you are speaking English. What happened? Slowly....