Mefi tribute

September 11, 2004 12:07 AM

A while ago, on my old site, I posted this parody of MeFi. (It was subsequently, um, noticed. Yeah, sorry about that.) I thought a fitting tribute would be to post it to my user page. As is plainly obvious, tis fux0red for I am not l33t. Or else, there's some sort of cotton-pickin' interference, as the anchor tags seem to be all kerfluuey. Help, pwease?
posted by solistrato to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

The source code is showing links to be:

<A><br>
href="#">permalink</A><br>

Looks to me like there is a hard return after all of the opening anchor tags (<A>), which is being converted into breaks (<br>). Take out all those hard returns and it should fix it.
posted by rhapsodie at 12:19 AM on September 11, 2004

Doh. Not to mention that the beginning anchor tag closes prematurely. It should be <A href="#"> instead of <A>href="#">. But I don't know how that could have happened...
posted by rhapsodie at 12:27 AM on September 11, 2004

But I don't know how that could have happened...

There's some fixit code that deals with things before they get published, it's quite possibly healing that (what it thinks is) open tag pre-linebreak.
posted by j.edwards at 12:44 AM on September 11, 2004

sometimes, mostly rarely, a webmaster sees a blatant error and cringes. This is, indeed, one of those times.
posted by bob sarabia at 12:50 AM on September 11, 2004

Sometimes, most rarely, a mefite sees a thread they started and cringes. This is, indeed, one of those times.

Thanks for the infamy, sol old buddy.
posted by will at 1:34 PM on September 11, 2004