Comments on: HTML tag corrupting a link

HTML tag corrupting a link

wibbler — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 14:45:27 -0800

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...

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:21:03 -0800

yup, no comment box for me, tho the buttons [b, i, link, preview & post] are there! (All is well on MeTalk...)

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:22:31 -0800

I wonder if it's a TB fault?

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:22:45 -0800

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!

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:22:59 -0800

only matt can fix this, i bleeve.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:25:02 -0800

oh, and twas elwoodwiles who broke the site. pile on!

By: iconomy

iconomy — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:44:03 -0800

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!

By: signal

signal — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:54:14 -0800

Not broken in Opera, either

{attitude: smug}

By: dg

dg — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:56:21 -0800

Aw, shucks, twarn't nuttin' Ma'am.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:59:31 -0800

so, there are actually browsers out there that are MORE forgiving of broken html than IE. astounding.

By: mischief

mischief — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:29:27 -0800

q: it's a feature!

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:01:48 -0800

it's not a feature, it's a bug.

By: signal

signal — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:06:25 -0800

well, it's a feature if it gets you to GARB (get a real browser), right?

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:36:07 -0800

unless you BARF (browse at remote facilities).

By: rushmc

rushmc — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:09:05 -0800

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

By: iconomy

iconomy — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:27:19 -0800

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!

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:58:11 -0800

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.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 20:39:31 -0800

of course, juju, THEY don't sit and sort them hour after hour, mumbling shit like "ah my little pretties"...

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 20:57:35 -0800

quonsar, you hurt my feelings

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 22:26:55 -0800

bookmarks?

wussies.

By: mischief

mischief — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:59:23 -0800

Bookmarks? Shoot, I still maintain a homepage for my links. ;-P

By: wackybrit

wackybrit — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 02:21:38 -0800

Hahaha. This is why I don't have any bookmarks.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 04:19:09 -0800

Hm. In IE the last three comments seem normal, but in mozilla they seem smug.

By: dg

dg — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 04:25:00 -0800

Look under "edit, preferences" - you probably have your smirk filters set at the wrong level.

By: angry modem

angry modem — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 08:35:29 -0800

Careful, if you're using Mac IE, you can't change the predefined smugness settings.

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:10:21 -0800

Oh NO!

By: mischief

mischief — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:14:24 -0800

Smug? Maybe it was the emoticon.

By: muckster

muckster — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:47:14 -0800

does anybody really still call them hot links??

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 18:28:00 -0800

I could go for a big plate of hot links right now, actually.

By: jonson

jonson — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 20:09:06 -0800

Mmmmm.... hot links....

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 20:33:14 -0800

wibbler, it looks like you can post your corker now.

By: rushmc

rushmc — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:59:56 -0800

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:::