(>^.^)>
<(^.^)>
<(^.^<

there is no goddamn semicolon in there

explain plz

8/23/2005 10:35:31 PM

<(^.^<)

[Edited on August 24, 2005 at 12:01 AM. Reason : asdf]

8/24/2005 12:00:03 AM

(>^.^)>
<(^.^)>
<(^.^<)

8/24/2005 12:01:22 AM

you're premie though

i'll be goddamned if i pay $25 to be able to do the kirby dance

8/24/2005 10:24:47 AM

(>^.^)>
<(^.^)>
<(^.^<

8/24/2005 11:56:08 AM

BIG MAN ROCKS MY WORLD!!!!

8/24/2005 4:56:53 PM

8/25/2005 3:18:12 PM

<

but i still don't understand why that happens.

the code for the smiley is ; and )

but this is < and )

and the weird thing is the < stays there, the ) magically becomes a



[Edited on August 26, 2005 at 1:20 AM. Reason : ]

8/26/2005 1:18:44 AM

This really isn't that much of a mystery, folks.

When you post a <, the actual body of the post doesn't contain the <, it contains a character reference representing <—namely &lt;.

CrazyWeb fucks it all up because instead of parsing &lt; as a < first, it parses CrazyCode first. The delimiting semicolon in &lt; is being interpreted as being paired with the ) that follows it. So while you typed "<)" and even see "<)" when you try to edit your post, CrazyCode is seeing "&lt;)" and quite naturally (from its perspective) thinks that the ";)" pair it reads should be a .

How can you avoid this? You can pay for premium access so you can use HTML and thus use character references. To properly display <), you would enter "&lt;&#41;" with "&#41;" being the reference to ).



[Edited on August 26, 2005 at 2:05 AM. Reason : YW]

8/26/2005 2:00:03 AM

damn, that's cool. indeed, the more you know!

8/26/2005 2:10:14 AM

I understand why they would store < and > as character references, since they're the markup tags in HTML and all, and you wouldn't want them fucking up the page. But I think it's dumb that the CrazyCode parser doesn't have an exception for character references.

8/26/2005 2:12:20 AM

it's a sad state of affairs

8/26/2005 1:23:41 PM

i find it neat that an english major is schooling folks on code

8/27/2005 12:35:52 PM