HTML tag corrupting a link

July 20, 2003 2:45 PM

There's a corruption at the end of a hot link - http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/27108 - caused by an odd "a href" tag. How would I go about getting it sorted? I've got a corker of a post to put up...
posted by wibbler to Bugs at 2:45 PM (31 comments total)

yup, no comment box for me, tho the buttons [b, i, link, preview & post] are there! (All is well on MeTalk...)
posted by dash_slot- at 3:21 PM on July 20, 2003

I wonder if it's a TB fault?
posted by dash_slot- at 3:22 PM on July 20, 2003

From the mangled source:

I don't really know what to make of this, so I'm taking some [a '_self href="http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html"]measures.[/a]

self-link! self-link!
posted by eddydamascene at 3:22 PM on July 20, 2003

only matt can fix this, i bleeve.
posted by quonsar at 3:22 PM on July 20, 2003

oh, and twas elwoodwiles who broke the site. pile on!
posted by quonsar at 3:25 PM on July 20, 2003

It's broken in IE but not using mozilla firebird, which I d/led after dg's comments the last "everyone who uses IE sucks" thread. I feel so smug now. Thanks, dg!
posted by iconomy at 3:44 PM on July 20, 2003

Not broken in Opera, either

{attitude: smug}
posted by signal at 3:54 PM on July 20, 2003

Aw, shucks, twarn't nuttin' Ma'am.
posted by dg at 3:56 PM on July 20, 2003

so, there are actually browsers out there that are MORE forgiving of broken html than IE. astounding.
posted by quonsar at 3:59 PM on July 20, 2003

q: it's a feature!
posted by mischief at 4:29 PM on July 20, 2003

it's not a feature, it's a bug.
posted by eddydamascene at 5:01 PM on July 20, 2003

well, it's a feature if it gets you to GARB (get a real browser), right?
posted by signal at 5:06 PM on July 20, 2003

unless you BARF (browse at remote facilities).
posted by eddydamascene at 5:36 PM on July 20, 2003

It's broken in IE but not using mozilla firebird, which I d/led after dg's comments the last "everyone who uses IE sucks" thread.

Be very careful, iconomy. Mozilla ate my bookmarks yesterday, after I'd used it for 2 months with no problems. Over 1500 bookmarks. Not backed up recently. /cry
posted by rushmc at 7:09 PM on July 20, 2003

1500?? Yikes - thanks for the warning. I thought I had lost my measly 800 bookmarks last week and I was devastated. Will back up tonight!
posted by iconomy at 7:27 PM on July 20, 2003

whew, I feared I might be the only obsessive compulsive wacko with zillions of bookmarks...it's so nice to know there are others out there like me. My people!

Sincere sympathies rushmc! if that happened to me I would get facial tics.
posted by madamjujujive at 7:58 PM on July 20, 2003

of course, juju, THEY don't sit and sort them hour after hour, mumbling shit like "ah my little pretties"...
posted by quonsar at 8:39 PM on July 20, 2003

quonsar, you hurt my feelings
posted by madamjujujive at 8:57 PM on July 20, 2003

bookmarks?

wussies.
posted by eyeballkid at 10:26 PM on July 20, 2003

Bookmarks? Shoot, I still maintain a homepage for my links. ;-P
posted by mischief at 1:59 AM on July 21, 2003

Hahaha. This is why I don't have any bookmarks.
posted by wackybrit at 2:21 AM on July 21, 2003

Hm. In IE the last three comments seem normal, but in mozilla they seem smug.
posted by iconomy at 4:19 AM on July 21, 2003

Look under "edit, preferences" - you probably have your smirk filters set at the wrong level.
posted by dg at 4:25 AM on July 21, 2003

Careful, if you're using Mac IE, you can't change the predefined smugness settings.
posted by angry modem at 8:35 AM on July 21, 2003

Oh NO!
posted by elwoodwiles at 12:10 PM on July 21, 2003

Smug? Maybe it was the emoticon.
posted by mischief at 1:14 PM on July 21, 2003

does anybody really still call them hot links??
posted by muckster at 5:47 PM on July 21, 2003

I could go for a big plate of hot links right now, actually.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 6:28 PM on July 21, 2003

Mmmmm.... hot links....
posted by jonson at 8:09 PM on July 21, 2003

wibbler, it looks like you can post your corker now.
posted by quonsar at 8:33 PM on July 21, 2003

Update: I found a pretty recent backup of my bookmarks. All is not lost. I shall not soon trust Mozilla again, though (although I will continue to use it).

:::removes noose from neck, surfs on:::
posted by rushmc at 12:59 PM on July 28, 2003