Gingerbread Man on 21/11/2005 at 21:56
Browsers that don't suck, he said.
Briareos H on 21/11/2005 at 22:01
Oh I see. Sorry GBM, but it didn't work with Lynx either. :p
TheNightTerror on 22/11/2005 at 02:29
I'm seeing everything after Zylonbane's quote in his first post as bold, too. I'm using Firefox.
David on 22/11/2005 at 09:17
It happening on the forums is a side effect of having HTML enabled within posts as the forums don't have an HTML parser.
The additional bolding is down the browsers by the looks of things, it doesn't happen to me on Firefox 1.5RC3, IE 6 XPSP2, or Opera 8.51
It shouldn't happen in PMs though, I just sent myself a PM with the content of ZB's first post and it rendered as per the second.
ignatios on 22/11/2005 at 13:38
The bolding is happening for me in Firefox 1.0.7, but what I saw in PMs was just stripping the <content>. And it was before version 3, now that I really think about it.
Do you know exactly what's causing it, Daveh?
Mortal Monkey on 22/11/2005 at 13:51
The solution is obvious. Don't use angle brackets at all, or use &lt; for < and &gt; for >. It's the same thing you'd do (or let editor do for you) when writing a webpage.
ignatios on 22/11/2005 at 14:26
Yeah, but I'm more interested in the nature of the side effect itself (but I don't want to do the work, mostly because I'm already at work). :p
edit: BAH, never mind -- now that I've had my coffee, I understand.
ZylonBane on 22/11/2005 at 16:11
Quote Posted by Mortal Monkey
The solution is obvious. Don't use angle brackets at all
This becomes problematic when the angle brackets are part of the user's ID, as above.
Mortal Monkey on 23/11/2005 at 17:37
True. What kind of idiot allowed angle brackets in user names anyway? What's to stop me from registering "<!--" for a username?
I'm guessing they get replaced with the HTML characters, but that doesn't help much the second time around.
David on 23/11/2005 at 17:50
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