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Post by xShadowLordx on Aug 7, 2009 16:48:31 GMT -5
That was probably an edited quote. Yeah, come on Mista Failure, what'd you do that for?   |
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Post by General Veers on Aug 7, 2009 18:13:51 GMT -5
Is it that important, since quotes are linked to the original post anyhow?  The message had nothing to do with the pointlessness of your post, so he "snipped" the quote out to prevent it from distracting readers. People will snip quotes when they are either humongous or distracting. For example, if I were to make a list of 100 runs against the Castle Boss indicating what things were dropped at each run, and then make a comment at the end, someone who wanted to quote my comment would just remove the 100-entry list and type in "snip" in its place while preserving the comment. |
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Post by ROBiT on Aug 7, 2009 23:52:30 GMT -5
That was probably an edited quote. Yeah, come on Mista Failure, what'd you do that for? I'm glad our high staff members are so mature as to delete their posts so they make me look stupid. And wrote snip in Ggoodie's quote because that wasn't part of what needed to be quoted for me to get my point across. Edit: Ninja'd by GV  |
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Post by GGoodie on Aug 8, 2009 0:06:24 GMT -5
Oh I see sorry for going off topic. And for going off topic with that last sentence and this one now.
Okay from now on, back on topic.
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Post by Qwerty on Aug 8, 2009 3:10:30 GMT -5
How dare you insult Veers in that manner!
It's nonja, not ninja. Ninja is an extreme insult, nonja is... well, nonja.
I didn't delete my post, if that's what you are going after.
Also, that actually WAS an edited quote, when you think about it.
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Post by Qwerty on Aug 8, 2009 3:38:24 GMT -5
Did you get your posts mixed up or something? That makes no sense.
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Post by xShadowLordx on Aug 8, 2009 10:30:17 GMT -5
Look, the point is, I got off topic first, so it doesn't matter who edited my quote.
I just got a little carried away. I apologize.
Back on-topic, please.
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Post by General Veers on Aug 8, 2009 10:43:02 GMT -5
Don't worry, comments are completely ignored when the page runs through the browser. True, but probably you think a comment starts with "<!--" and ends with "-->". However this is wrong! Correct is: A comment starts with "--" and ends with "--" . And the comment has to be between the markup declaration open delimiter "<!" and a the markup declaration close delimiter ">". And now think for yourself about the following examples: <!-- Comment --> <!---- Not a comment ----> <!------ Comment ------> <!-- Comment -- -- Comment --> <!-- Comment -- Not a comment -- Comment --> and what might happen if you have an odd number of hyphens. It's a good advice to simply avoid any double hyphens in a comment. For this page alone, the validator found 1560 errors and 758 warnings. I didn't check but usually the real number is much lower, because after an error the validator doesn't know what's correct and in which elements it is now. For example after not recognizing a table start it will complain about all table cells. And those wrong comments are doing stuff which is even worse. /meSo, there aren't as many errors as I think there are? If not, then turning the hyphens into equal signs may be the only thing that needs done according to the validator, although I have not thoroughly checked all 1560 errors... |
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Post by ROBiT on Aug 8, 2009 19:00:35 GMT -5
How dare you insult Veers in that manner! It's nonja, not ninja. Ninja is an extreme insult, nonja is... well, nonja. I didn't delete my post, if that's what you are going after. Also, that actually WAS an edited quote, when you think about it. Ninja'd means someone posted what you were posting before you and you didn't see it. And I'm not going to change it to nonja because of some foolish forum trend. ONTOPIC: Once you do that, GV, we can figure out which errors are valid. |
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Post by General Veers on Aug 9, 2009 0:22:33 GMT -5
I changed the hypens inside the commented code titles to '=' (except when used as comment declarations), and the error was reduced by more than two-thirds: there are now only 506 errors and 465 warnings.
One of them is the lack of a DOCTYPE declaration. There are 505 other errors involving variables, "id=" declarations, etc.
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Post by Qwerty on Aug 9, 2009 2:11:05 GMT -5
We can't fix the doctype declaration... Or can we use javascript for that?
[offtopic]It may be a foolish trend, but it is a very old foolish trend that predates most of the current active members. More popular threads have been made for it than any other forum game OR foolish trend. Besides, the original game was the most popular thread in the forum besides the "Is there a God?" thread. Sorry about the rant, just figured I'd mention that this trend has lasted more than half the forum's history. Much more.[/offtopic]
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