Front page weirdness!

December 24, 2001 1:49 AM

Front page wierdness! Under Opera 5 on Linux, the FPP for Digital Beauties is in Under Mozilla 0.9.2.1 on Linux, the entire front page from that point on is . Looks like it's due to an unbalanced container. And SIZE=1??? What's up with that???
posted by chipr to bugs at 1:49 AM (5 comments total)

Wow ... this post got hammered badly. I included some angle brackets using the character entities like ampersand-l-t-semi . They viewed ok in the preview, but appear to have been swallowed on posting.

It was supposed to have read:

Front page wierdness! Under Opera 5 on Linux, the FPP for Digital Beauties is in SMALL. Under Mozilla 0.9.2.1 on Linux, the entire front page from that point on is SMALL. Looks like it's due to an unbalanced FONT container.

posted by chipr at 1:55 AM on December 24, 2001

That's a longstanding problem. Previewing converts (at least some) entities to their character counterparts. If you uses entities in a post, don't preview.
posted by rodii at 9:25 AM on December 24, 2001

If you uses entities in a post, don't preview.

There is no way to avoid previewing.
posted by kindall at 11:26 AM on December 24, 2001

Previewing converts (at least some) entities to their character counterparts.

Between writing and previewing, open tags are closed automagically, too.

Why is this input munging necessary between writing and previewing, instead of previewing and posting. Isn't it nice to show people exactly what they're about to inflict upon the world, without idiotproofing?

posted by rschram at 4:48 PM on December 24, 2001

Copy your post content, preview, if it's OK, paste and post. Repeat as necessary. Easy as pie.

Come on already, this stuff ain't rocket science...

(...not that I've haven't screwed up numerous times.)
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:03 PM on December 24, 2001