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Sorry, Dad, I broke it.
Just zis Guy, you know? † Cyclist [A690572] :: At the 51st centile of ursine intelligence Started conversation Sep 23, 1999
Testing the HTML pass-through syntax, I ended up with a problem-ette.
I put this into a page:
Looking for <![CDATA[ a good cup of tea? ]]>
According to my reading of the GuideML spec this should be treated as a literal within the caption string, so passing the HREF straight to the browser. But what you actually get is this:
http://www.h2g2.com/A171424
So then you go back and try to edit it, which is where the fun starts because the GuideML is so badly broken that the Edit buttons are missing from the page!
I managed to remove one broken page by appending &cmd=delete to the end of the Edit cgi string, but what's wrong here?
Sorry, Dad, I broke it.
Jim Lynn Posted Sep 23, 1999
There's a bug (actually two bugs) in the page editor related to CDATA. We will probably be putting a fix up for this tomorrow.
In the meantime, I'll see what I can do to fix your pages.
Sorry, Dad, I broke it.
Jim Lynn Posted Sep 23, 1999
OK, I've removed the CDATA tags from the page. However, it still won't work properly because you've put tags in the caption for the picture, which breaks it because the caption of the picture is also used in the IMG tag as the alt text - because there are > symbols in the text, these are then interpreted by the browser as the end of the tag, and everything following it is printed on screen.
We'll put it on the bug list and see if we can fix it soon. In the meantime, it's probably better not to use tags in the caption for a picture.
Sorry, Dad, I broke it.
Just zis Guy, you know? † Cyclist [A690572] :: At the 51st centile of ursine intelligence Posted Sep 23, 1999
Too clever for my own good, obviously 
I wasn't expecting an Alt tag. No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition....
It could be worse. There's a corrupt document somewhere in surgimp2.nsf which I have to track down and eliminate before I can go to sleep. It's now 11:50pm, and it's going to be a looooooong night!
GUy
Sorry, Dad, I broke it.
Pip Posted Sep 25, 1999
Coo .... this stuff sounds heavy. Where can I learn all this lingo?
Pip
Sorry, Dad, I broke it.
Just zis Guy, you know? † Cyclist [A690572] :: At the 51st centile of ursine intelligence Posted Sep 25, 1999
You could start at http://www.htmlib.com and http://www.h2g2.com/a155701
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- 1: Just zis Guy, you know? † Cyclist [A690572] :: At the 51st centile of ursine intelligence (Sep 23, 1999)
- 2: Jim Lynn (Sep 23, 1999)
- 3: Jim Lynn (Sep 23, 1999)
- 4: Just zis Guy, you know? † Cyclist [A690572] :: At the 51st centile of ursine intelligence (Sep 23, 1999)
- 5: Pip (Sep 25, 1999)
- 6: Just zis Guy, you know? † Cyclist [A690572] :: At the 51st centile of ursine intelligence (Sep 25, 1999)
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