Preview bug

June 16, 2004 4:36 AM

When previewing a comment to a MeTa thread, the links to separate comments behind the time is broken, it links to http://metatalk.metafilter.com/contribute/metadetail.cfm?link_ID=xxxx#yyyyyy (which doesn't exist) instead of http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/xxxx#yyyyyy.
posted by fvw to Bugs at 4:36 AM (5 comments total)

Another bug: this post breaks the Metatalk front page in FireFox. I think the link is too long and unbroken, and so the rest of the post is forced below the ad box.
posted by smackfu at 6:47 AM on June 16, 2004

Works fine in Firefox for me.
posted by john_son at 7:17 AM on June 16, 2004

thats going to depend on your text size. mine is small enough that i'm not being affected, but i've seen it before. the long URLS are preserved by the browser and this can force the entire text below the sidebar if it doesn't have room to render them without breaking them somewhere.
posted by quonsar at 9:00 AM on June 16, 2004

you can also see this happen if your browser isn't maximized. shrink your browser window to the point the URLS won't fit in the window and watch them pop out of sight! it's not actually a metafilter bug, i've broken the layout of my blog with long URLS too.
posted by quonsar at 9:04 AM on June 16, 2004

fixed
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:32 AM on June 16, 2004