I have to fix this several times a week…please read and heed. I’m hoping that if I announce this as a post, it will reduce the problem.
No wordpress.com can’t fix this issue with comments, I’ve asked.
PLEASE be careful when trying to bold, italicize, link, or blockquote in comments. Just one transposed character is all it takes. Also, there’s no need to try to hyperlink URL’s, WordPress will automatically hyperlink any URL you type in like this:
OK, please note this, then burn it into your mind, slash BEFORE, not after. Thanks for your consideration – Anthony
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I just ended up on this site through a link and wanted to inform you that your layout looks a a bit broken, the sidebar looks a little distorted. At least in Netscape, so the problem might be related to my browser.
Just wanted to let you know about it so you could look into it if you want to…
Anthony,
Thanks. I wasn’t sure how to do that kind of formatting here. It’s comforting to know that it’s similar to the formatting with which I’m familiar, except that the squarish brackets are replaced with the pointy brackets.
Aura;
Netscape? Netscape?
I got news. It’s not the site which is broken. Your browser comes from the wrong century. Even AOL has given up on it. Load and run Firefox 3.6.4.1, the most recent incarnation of the Netscape legacy.
I’m surprised you can read any sites at all!
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
K~Bob says:
March 21, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Words are always hard to count especially using numbers.
(Yogi Berra might have said something like that)
I can hardly believe WordPress hasn’t fixed an unclosed italic (or bold or whatever) in one comment spilling over into all the subsequent comments. That was a problem I was dealing with 2 years ago. It couldn’t be that difficult to fix. A really easy way would be to append all the allowed html tags to the end of each comment. There appear to be 14 allowed which would be 109 extra characters per comment which isn’t much in the way of extra overhead. It’s been a while since I did any kludging of wordpress php sources but I reckon’ the above is a single line of code added in a comment processing module. Of course you can’t do that unless you have read/write permission to the wordpress root directory on the server and WUWT is on a cloud server that doesn’t allow it.