July 05, 2004

Where's me colon gone?: When I preview a FPP, a colon appears so if I have put one in it appears as if there are 2 colons there, so I remove one. Then, when the thing is posted, the colon has gone, so from having two, I have none! This little quirk makes me look a right berk, something with which I require no assistance, can it be corrected?

posted by Fat Buddha to navel gazing at 04:21 AM - 14 comments

Hah, I didn't put that colon there; it was visible on preview, but I thought it would disappear, like the others, but it didn't. So now I look like a berk on two pages. Ta.

posted by Fat Buddha at 04:23 AM on July 05, 2004

Which colon do you see, the large or small? Serously, I see no colon in your post here at all. Which FPP is messed?

posted by billsaysthis at 02:57 PM on July 05, 2004

Someone has removed it!

posted by Fat Buddha at 03:02 PM on July 05, 2004

SportsFilter: Where's me colon gone?

posted by grum@work at 03:22 PM on July 05, 2004

Katie Couric would be so proud of you guys for checking on your colons regularly.

posted by jerseygirl at 05:58 PM on July 05, 2004

I had the same problem. Next time I FPP (so, sometime in summer '06 at this rate), if you see :: twin! colon! action! ::, you'll know what the problem is.

posted by chicobangs at 11:23 AM on July 07, 2004

Well, since I stuck Firefox on the pc I can longer post links, so the problem has sort of solved itself.

posted by Fat Buddha at 01:09 PM on July 07, 2004

eh? firefox does not prevent me from posting to sportsfilter. if you are lamenting the loss of the little button that entered the code for you so you could make links inside comments or sublinks in a posting itself then get ye some olde html coding knowledge. E-Z: <a href="FrickenWebAddress">FancyAddressNameYouWannaUse</a>

posted by gspm at 02:56 PM on July 07, 2004

I am au fait with some basic html, old chap, but I WANT A BUTTON !

posted by Fat Buddha at 03:20 AM on July 08, 2004

the "give us fancy buttons for our non-IE browsers" is a feature request I saw long long long ago (well, last year maybe) so don't hold your breath. unless you are holding your breath while pounding out the code and sending it to the pantheon i guess.

posted by gspm at 04:59 AM on July 08, 2004

Steal it from MeFi: the buttons have been there for non-IE browsers since Moz 1.3

posted by yerfatma at 06:09 AM on July 08, 2004

Yeah! Buttons for Firefox, you lazy pantheon bastards.

posted by squealy at 06:42 PM on July 08, 2004

The updated MeFi code is here; originally from here. Should be able to just replace the current JS and pull the onload call out of the body tag.

posted by yerfatma at 07:34 PM on July 08, 2004

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