John, as long as you regexp it, it's all good.
Now you can luxuriate in a nice jail cell, but if your hand touches metal, I swear by my pretty flowered bonnet, I will end you.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffistas Building a Better Board
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§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 8:02:33 am PST #976 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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....
Michele T. - Oct 28, 2002 1:11:26 pm PST #984 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Slowly? OK.
The HTML tag for a link looks kind of like this:
t a href="http://www.micheletepper.com" Me! t /a
You left off the end quotation mark at the end of that URL string, which meant that the browser thought that the URL just kept going and going and going and going.
ita fixed it by adding the final quotation mark back in.
John H - Oct 28, 2002 2:13:28 pm PST #985 of 10000
Sorry about that unclosed HTML thing, gang. I just get so carried away with the abilility to do roman-numeral lists... we were thinking about some kind of HTML-parsing thing to automatically close that kind of thing, weren't we, before I went away?
That still seems scary to me, but ita was confident it could be made to work in theory -- ita, what's the story with that? It's not really urgent, is it?
I'll have some fixing-long-URL code this week for sure.