Bug in sidebar dates

November 8, 2005 2:01 AM

It's a small bug but when you view the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 years ago links in the sidebar, you get and around the date in the
posted by bouncebounce to Bugs at 2:01 AM (10 comments total)

Damn - I used HTML entities and they got eaten after preview.

There are cfoutput tags around the date in the title.
posted by bouncebounce at 2:02 AM on November 8, 2005

I suppose the disappearing HTML entities are a bug too.
I think I'm done now.
posted by bouncebounce at 2:06 AM on November 8, 2005

Also sometimes my disappears when there's a between the and the other .
posted by Plutor at 3:23 AM on November 8, 2005

Somehow, seeing the words "What the hell?... " at the bottom of the this page makes perfect sense this morning.
posted by mmahaffie at 5:22 AM on November 8, 2005

Knock Knock.

Who's there?
posted by shmegegge at 5:42 AM on November 8, 2005

bouncebounce: "I suppose the disappearing HTML entities are a bug too."

Not necessarily a bug, but I think it's a valid RFE. When I sanitize HTML, I like to just entity-quote tags that aren't allowed, so if someone posts <big><big><big>OMG</big></big></big>, it becomes &lt;big&gt;&lt;big&gt;.. you get the point.
posted by Plutor at 5:47 AM on November 8, 2005

Yeah I get you Plutor. I was just surprised to see the entities render correctly in the preview and get lost on the way to posthood.
posted by bouncebounce at 6:01 AM on November 8, 2005

Maybe this is a good place to mention that it could read "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 years ago."
posted by gleuschk at 7:15 AM on November 8, 2005

I want to forget the first year.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:15 AM on November 8, 2005

and it's been fixed.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:16 AM on November 8, 2005