#dev | Logs for 2018-07-28

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[19:55:57] <TheMightyBuzzard> so many penis jokes. so little time.
[17:54:46] <chromas> Do they have big bite hotdogs?
[12:30:00] <TheMightyBuzzard> FatPhil, remember, you're representing all of SN at the festival. that includes EF. behave accordingly.
[12:20:40] * FatPhil is at a beer festival - no sense expected for a while
[11:19:30] <Bytram> I've got to go to work today but can prolly check back in this PM. Let me know if you still have any issues. Feel free to practice on our development server: https://dev.soylentnews.org
[11:17:46] <Bytram> There are all kinds of checks for UTF-8 / Unicode prohibited chars and char combinations, IDN (International Domain Names with Unicode chars in the URLS), and a bunch of other stuff that I don't remember (haven't finished my first coffee yet this morning!)
[11:16:19] <Bytram> It's some pretty hairy code, as far as I understand it, and it is very easy to fix one thing and cause bugs in other areas.
[11:15:25] <Bytram> After hitting the update button, I again loaded the story as if to edit it, ( https://soylentnews.org ) and I verified that the bare ampersand *was* saved.
[11:14:10] <Bytram> I tried it on that story and had no luck on inserting "&amp;" on my first try, but I was able to make another attempt and insert a bare "&" before the "t=200s" argument. Not ideal, but it should work.
[11:12:58] <Bytram> The workaround is to change the HTML, and immediately (without preview) hit the Update button. Then reload the story and see what comes up with that. Generally, it will work okay, then.
[11:12:04] <Bytram> Make changes to the HTML, and, AIUI, the code renders the new HTML, but does not necessarily start from scratch with the updated html. (/me is waving hands a lot there)
[11:10:45] <Bytram> What happens is this: When you load a story, the system loads the source HTML and *separately* renders the HTML for the preview you see.
[11:09:43] <Bytram> I ran into something like this long, long ago.
[11:09:31] <Bytram> FatPhil: yeah... I see it now: https://soylentnews.org
[08:43:16] <FatPhil> Bytram: it was while trying to edit the story, but the reason I was editing the story was because the url was already mangled
[02:21:54] <Bytram> ~time x