Delicious irony?
In the table that illustrates how simple HTML is compared with markdown, you seem to have made an error in the HTML.
Or was that the joke?
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Little of both, I suspect; the author was clever enough to use < entities in place of opening angle brackets, but the CMS wasn't clever enough to notice that and not attempt to convert the ampersands, so the result was &lt; which renders as < instead of < .
Simple!
Aaron Em, you guess right.
The table is for visual purposes only. Our CMS is not clever enough - or too clever - and wants to render all correctly formed html. Hence the <
And on the stupid side - table looked lovely in our CMS preview - and I was not clever enough to spot before it went live. Fixed
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Everything seems eminently sensible to me, but I'm a little miffed at having to wait a bit to be able to create a topic. Even though I first posted here in '07 apparently, and have a fairly decent upvote/downvote ratio (54/4), I am not yet at 100 posts. On every web communication outlet I use, I try to live by David Byrne's mantra "when I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed". Is El Reg trying to tempt me into posting just for the sake of it, so that I can get my tally to that magical ton?
You could post something worth viewing, or 'Get a Life'. (JOKE!). Or, like me, be unemployed, and have bugger all to do at the pub. (ah...)
Nonetheless, I've upvoted you to help you achieve the coveted Holy Grail of the Sofa Potato.
(I'm at over 830 upvotes, but I wonder if there's gonna be a 'special prize' for the number of downvotes... Sarah Bee, come back, all is forgiven!)
Check out the El Reg Forums roadmap. It's on the list.
That, and quite a lot of work places have a content proxy/filter server (aka 'nanny filter') to keep people from wasting productive work hours on failbook, including mine.
(while I'm immune to it, being the admin of said nanny filter, It does please me that not everyone wants to jump in bed with failbook's broken single sign on.)
quote: Tags: Please could we have <pre> and some way of quoting other people's posts?
i was going to put "+1 for <quote> request"
but then i realised that it is really a bbcode type tag, there isn't an equivalent html tag that could be used is there.
best i can think of is to italicise the quote.
I think, if you have to manually format your quote, that's a good way of stopping some quotetard from putting gobloads of a post's text in a quote and then just typing "me too" afterwards.
Quotes? Of course there is an HTML
HTML blockquote tag - W3Schools
<blockquote> Here is a long quotation here is a long quotation here is a long quotation here is a long quotation here is a long quotation here is a long quotation ...</blockquote>
Your at 101 actually...
<MontyBurns> Excellent.. < /MontyBurns>
BB code is retarded. It was before CMS systems had decent HTML sanitising. A lot of forums use WYSIWYG editors anyway. Mostly it simply replaces < with [ and has a bunch of different ways according to extension for Tables and other stuff beyond basic,
Also HTML allows for easier Copy & Paste from existing source.