I think what Elena would like is for the bad html to be stripped out when it's posted, but then reappear in the edit box if one clicks on "edit." Not sure how we'd do that, short of keeping two copies of every post -- one with the html stripped out, one kept as is. The former one would get posted; the latter would just sit in a table waiting for someone to click on "edit."
Wash: I didn't think you were one for rituals and such. Mal: I'm not, but it'll keep the others busy for a while. No reason to concern them with what's to be done.
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Jon B. - Jun 12, 2003 4:13:46 pm PDT #4119 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
§ ita § - Jun 12, 2003 4:16:36 pm PDT #4120 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That would be even more intensive -- either database, by duplicating posts, or stripping it before every display.
Jon B. - Jun 12, 2003 4:20:10 pm PDT #4121 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
That would be even more intensive
Oh yeah, definitely. But it doesn't require mindreading or a complete list of html tags. I was just clarifying what I think Elena would like.
§ ita § - Jun 12, 2003 4:23:10 pm PDT #4122 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The complete list of allowable HTML tags isn't the biggie. It's the processing that's the issue. But in that scenario, it's once per post, not once per display.
§ ita § - Jun 12, 2003 4:50:30 pm PDT #4123 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My corner of Earthlink world has decided to stop propagating buffistas.org. I'm good with www.buffistas.org, but that's been propagated since before. Mail.buffistas.org is new to me, and won't resolve.
Chat support guy told me it was because mail servers are often firewalled. I HATE support folk that know less than I know.
They should be hit over the head with a TCP/IP book.
But he's finally forwarding a ticket on, and if anything useful comes of it, bitterchick, I'll pass the info on.
Elena - Jun 12, 2003 4:55:35 pm PDT #4124 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
Jon is correct in what I want, it's actually what I thought we had, but obviously I am mistaken.
Thing is, I know that the bad HTML was stripped, but now the text within the bad HTML is also gone and I don't remember that happening.
Surely it can't be that I never made formatting errors before. Nah.
bitterchick - Jun 12, 2003 4:57:47 pm PDT #4125 of 10000
Thanks, ita. Let me know what happens.
§ ita § - Jun 12, 2003 5:01:51 pm PDT #4126 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When you say "within", Elena, do you mean:
t badtag this is going to disappear t /badtag
or t thisbadtagwilldisappear ?
Elena - Jun 13, 2003 11:43:31 am PDT #4127 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
I mean the first. It disappears in the post, but is also gone from the posting box when I try to edit.
§ ita § - Jun 13, 2003 11:44:55 am PDT #4128 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How bad is the bad tag?
I couldn't get that to disappear unless I forgot the > off the opening tag. In which case, yeah. But that's always been that way.