Another new bug

[ElectricBlue]

My copper knife is sharp, sharp as a whisper, sharp as a dream.

Hold still, sweetling. This will sting.

Yes please, milady.

 

[ElectricBlue]

@ElectricBlue If I'm a witch can I at least be the maid as opposed to the crone?

She's twenty, traumatised, her hair gone a shocking white. She's definitely not the crone. It's her sex magick with Maerlyn that gets Uther into Tintagel, to bed Ygraine. The character is thus central to the Arthurian mythos. You stand in good company, witch!

 

[IWroteThis]

It does seem to be a style sheets issue, my mothman story that uses blockquote extensively is definitely rendering differently than it used to, though honestly I'm in favor of using blockquote to only indent and not italicize!

It's just wild that it seems like Lit doesn't have a testing server, and Manu appears to be tweaking things live as we speak on prod

Since Literotica's preview doesn't render blockquote, I used my local Apache web server to review it. It didn't add italics, so I added those inside each blockquote. It also showed normal spacing, which is why I was surprised when the change was made and I viewed on here.

 

[EmilyMiller]

It kills me that you're still surprised by the things that come out of my mouth.

Real quote by me at work:

“The funniest things come into my mouth.”

My SO was in the meeting and nearly sprayed everyone on the other side of the table with his coffee.

 

[IWroteThis]

In any event, this:

****

will never break.

Actually, as those are special characters and require special handling in certain situations, that can very easily break.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

This is kind of how I feel about very nearly ANY formatting in a story. The only exceptions I myself would ever consider using are italics and bold, and even then, the appropriate and necessary uses for either of them are very, very limited.

If a story can't be read in a plain-.txt file, absent any formatting (or, as in this case, superfluous characters) at all, then, rendering is not the problem.

Plain.


Text.



ONLY.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Actually, as those are special characters and require special handling in certain situations, that can very easily break.

Not in the context of Lit presentation, it won't. An asterisk is a standard character on a keyboard. If the boffins haven't got that right by now, we
be er s op using "t"s, because hey'll be he nex o go!

 

[cw5523729]

Not in the context of Lit presentation, it won't. An asterisk is a standard character on a keyboard. If the boffins haven't got that right by now, we
be er s op using "t"s, because hey'll be he nex o go!

Can't they get rid of the letter Q instead? Who even uses it? Sure, we'll have to uote people from now on but it seems like a fair trade.

Alternatively W - just replace it with 2 Us. I mean, it's literally a "double U" anyuuay so uuho the hell thought uue needed it as a separate letter?

 

[lovecraft68]

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The irony is for many years anyone who complained about anything would eventually get "Don't like it leave"

But now the cool kids are being affected and it's a whole different story and Laurel, once deemed a saintly benevolent queen all adored and no one better say a bad word about, is now the evil sorceress reigning down misery on her innocent flock. They cry and beg, "Why, Laurel Why?" and they get no response so they wring their hands and gnash their teeth in impotent fury.

And if you can tune out the cries of woe and outrage, you'll hear it; the sound of all the people who came here and were abused for having the audacity to ever question the then sacred queen and driven off by the mob. And what is that sound?

Laughter and one question shouted over and over.

How does it feel?

I admit to getting some petty amusement out of this, the bickering makes it even funnier.

 

[TheLobster]

Can't they get rid of the letter Q instead? Who even uses it? Sure, we'll have to uote people from now on but it seems like a fair trade.

Alternatively W - just replace it with 2 Us. I mean, it's literally a "double U" anyuuay so uuho the hell thought uue needed it as a separate letter?

As long as yov are trying to make the langvage more vsable by pvrging it of extraneovs letters, the obviovs choice is of covrse to merge the rovnded vpside-down arc with the angled vpside-down arc.

If it was fine Chavcer’s age, then why not now?

 

[FrancesScott]

I had recently submitted an edit to a story (Her Turn) to use blockquote to distinguish a letter from the rest of the story and another (Contract Clash) where I used it to distinguish the original text of the story I wrote an alternate ending to, so you're comment made me panic. However, both of them appear fine when I just checked them. In fact, the story with the letter looks better than it did immediately after the edit was done, as the spacing between paragraphs was doubled originally.

I wonder if the How To article by @FrancesScott has increased the usage of blockquote to the point that they tried to fix the CSS to render it better, causing problems for those who tried to work around the extra spacing?

Thanks for mentioning my article. It’s not like it’s garnered 100,000 views however.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Wait, did I hear @onehitwanda is firing up the ancient sacrificial altar again? Am I too late to join?

 

[MillieDynamite]

I still say no bad words about Laural. I'm just on a hiatus from posting here because I don't feel like figuring out why the stories won't post. But then again, I've never been one of the cool kids.

The irony is for many years anyone who complained about anything would eventually get "Don't like it leave"

But now the cool kids are being affected and it's a whole different story and Laurel, once deemed a saintly benevolent queen all adored and no one better say a bad word about, is now the evil sorceress reigning down misery on her innocent flock. They cry and beg, "Why, Laurel Why?" and they get no response so they wring their hands and gnash their teeth in impotent fury.

And if you can tune out the cries of woe and outrage, you'll hear it; the sound of all the people who came here and were abused for having the audacity to ever question the then sacred queen and driven off by the mob. And what is that sound?

Laughter and one question shouted over and over.

How does it feel?

I admit to getting some petty amusement out of this, the bickering makes it even funnier.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Wait, did I hear @onehitwanda is firing up the ancient sacrificial altar again? Am I too late to join?

It's a male sacrifice this time. I think Wanda and Penny have something planned for later.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Alternatively W - just replace it with 2 Us. I mean, it's literally a "double U" anyuuay so uuho the hell thought uue needed it as a separate letter?

Twice as much typing, that's never going to work.

 

[PennyThompson]

Twice as much typing, that's never going to work.

If we brought back þ in place of th, we would still come out ahead!

 

[IWroteThis]

Not in the context of Lit presentation, it won't. An asterisk is a standard character on a keyboard. If the boffins haven't got that right by now, we
be er s op using "t"s, because hey'll be he nex o go!

Yes, it's a standard ASCII character. But, it's also a special character in pretty much every computer language, including HTML. Most commonly, it's the wildcard character, but it has other special case uses as well. So, yes, it can break things if not handled correctly.

 

[Bamagan]

If we brought back þ in place of th, we would still come out ahead!

:þ is also a superior version of the tongue-sticking-out face.

 

[Bamagan]

Yes, it's a standard ASCII character. But, it's also a special character in pretty much every computer language, including HTML. Most commonly, it's the wildcard character, but it has other special case uses as well. So, yes, it can break things if not handled correctly.

It's the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything. So of course it's cataclysmic if mishandled.

 

[PennyThompson]

It's the answer to the question of life, the universe, and everything. So of course it's cataclysmic if mishandled.

(Close your eyes @Britva415 , there's multimedia )

 

[MillieDynamite]

A bug here, a bug there, bugs everywhere. Everybody, stomp your feet and smash them suckers.

 

[ElectricBlue]

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(Close your eyes @Britva415 , there's multimedia )

Twelve legged spider?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

One thing I will never do is post a link to that.

 

[PennyThompson]

Twelve legged spider?

It's an assterisk!

 

[Britva415]

Yes, it's a standard ASCII character. But, it's also a special character in pretty much every computer language, including HTML. Most commonly, it's the wildcard character, but it has other special case uses as well. So, yes, it can break things if not handled correctly.

Cite an example of an asterisk breaking HTML?