Comments on: Live Preview feature is broken for Ask MetaFilter.

Live Preview feature is broken for Ask MetaFilter.

tylerkaraszewski — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:23:03 -0800

Live Preview feature is broken for Ask MetaFilter.

When replying to to questions an ask, there is handy little "Live Preview" box the displays all your rendered HTML for you, and which I generally like a lot. However, if you want to type the left angle bracket, i.e., the "less than" symbol, it does not render correctly. Presume you'd like to say "Available for less than five hundred dollars", but you type it like this: "Available for < $500" This shows up correctly in the preview, but when submitted, it truncates the line after the bracket, and adds a closing bracket, presumably in some effort to parse it as HTML, and you end up with: "Available for <>" Which is really not what you were trying to say nor what was displayed in the Live Preview box. Note that in this post I have specifically used HTML entities instead of actually typing the angle bracket characters to avoid the problem. You can see an example of what happens with this in this topic.

By: Lexica

Lexica — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:29:42 -0800

Sure enough. Typing this (without surrounding it with <pre> and </pre>):

Testing adding a < to show less than.

Now testing with ampersand-lt-semicolon: <

Yields this:

Testing adding a <> Now testing with ampersand-lt-semicolon: <

If you click preview (instead of using the live preview) it'll transform it into "<", just to make things more confusing.

By: pb

pb — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:32:18 -0800

Yeah, I can duplicate it too. If your entire comment is on one line, you're fine. But if you have a break somewhere the auto-inserted <br> tags throw things off. We'll get it fixed up.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:32:53 -0800

I fixed up the borked AskMe comments.

By: deborah

deborah — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:30:56 -0800

bork bork bork

By: Confess, Fletch

Confess, Fletch — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:01:26 -0800

Why doesn't Jessamyn's gold star appear on her profile page?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:15:13 -0800

It's a MeTa-only gold star and it's going away in a few days anyhow.

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:29:37 -0800

Is the purpose of it to be an "I'M SPEAKING AS A MOD IN THIS POST" marker?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:30:28 -0800

No, it's my five-year anniversary star.

By: cashman

cashman — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:40:07 -0800

It's a MeTa-only gold star and it's going away in a few days anyhow.

It's changing into a red heart for February, isn't it. And then a green clover for March, I get it.

By: jeb

jeb — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:51:33 -0800

It's a MeTa-only gold star and it's going away in a few days anyhow.

Oh man. FWIW beyond the general awesomeness of jessamyn having the star, I actually have grown used to it as a Feature. Like, "hmmm interesting point meTa OP...ok shitload of rando user comments reiterating the same three or four points of view / descending into bickering and 'jokes'...what does jessamyn say about this..." and while scrolling the star jumps out. I actually wish all the mods had something, like...idk cortex could have some sort of minecraft hammer or whatever.

By: Dumsnill

Dumsnill — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:08:40 -0800

I actually wish all the mods had something, like...idk cortex could have some sort of minecraft hammer or whatever.

While it's no minecraft hammer, the MeFi Navigator script adds a very visible "admin" box next to the mods' user names in MeTa.
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By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:58:43 -0800

It's changing into a red heart for February, isn't it. And then a green clover for March, I get it.

It'll be a pink heart.

Sadly, once the cycle gets beyond the purple horseshoe and red balloon, it's just disgusting oat bits for the rest of the year.