Hit post then... nothing

February 13, 2002 8:24 AM

I wrote my post, hit preview, and nothing showed up. So, stupidly, I hit post, resulting in the world's most terse front-page post.
posted by luser to Bugs at 8:24 AM (9 comments total)

Actually, my browser (K-Meleon - based on Mozilla's rendering engine) shows it fine... except for the huge whitespace between the text and the url you put at the end. Apparently the url wants to be on one line by itself (as it is one "word"), but it doesn't have enough room unless it's below the bottom of the sidebar, so it goes down there, and there's nothing in between.
posted by whatnotever at 8:36 AM on February 13, 2002

Works in Netscape 6.2 (Mozilla again), but breaks IE5.5.

(I'm a big Mozilla fan, so this makes my day.)
posted by mrbula at 9:13 AM on February 13, 2002

Has this been fixed or is it just that Mac IE shows it fine?
posted by mdn at 9:40 AM on February 13, 2002

It piqued my curiosity... "what did luser post...." *click"
posted by jojo at 10:00 AM on February 13, 2002

It looks like you forgot to add a quotation mark in a url, this is what I saw:

<a href=http://foo.com">foo</a> in your original post
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:11 AM on February 13, 2002

Don't feel bad, luser, you can always get a gig writing headlines for the New York Post.
posted by jonmc at 1:13 PM on February 13, 2002

Do you know what's actually at foo.com? Nothing, that's what.

The Web Page for the URL you typed in not currently developed.*
posted by iceberg273 at 2:15 PM on February 13, 2002

(where in is really is. Why are the 'n' and 's' so close on the QWERTY keyboard?)
posted by iceberg273 at 2:16 PM on February 13, 2002

Are you refering to how the post currently appears? I like your prose. As would my composition professors in journalism school.
posted by ParisParamus at 9:49 PM on February 13, 2002