Preview again....

July 9, 2000 12:00 AM

I was wondering if MetaFilter's tendancy to turn character codes into the characters they represent is because of the preview process, and that's why I'm testing this: < >
posted by Bane to MetaFilter-related at 12:00 AM (6 comments total)

muahahahaha...
posted by Bane at 12:00 AM on July 9, 2000

Yeah I forgot to do the < conversions to &lt: on the fly, but I'll fix it up real soon.

posted by mathowie at 5:51 PM on July 9, 2000

Hmm. Wouldn't it work to code the characters codes?
posted by EngineBeak at 5:36 PM on July 10, 2000

Yeah, uhm... just make it so the 'preview' code converts & to &amp;amp;... as it stands, if you type &amp;lt; it'll convert it to &lt; in the preview.

Currently, to work around this, you have to type &amp;amp;lt;
posted by Bane at 1:21 PM on July 12, 2000

shit... metatalk doesn't have a preview...

The irony is killing me...

that all should read:

Yeah, uhm... just make it so the 'preview' code converts & to &amp;... as it stands, if you type &lt; it'll convert it to < in the preview.

Currently, to work around this, you have to type &amp;lt;

posted by Bane at 1:23 PM on July 12, 2000

left-bracket sigh right-bracket
posted by baylink at 9:50 PM on July 21, 2000