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Wednesday, May 26, 2004
11:28:00 AM EDT
Hearing Edge of Heaven -- Wham! Yeah, WHAM. Wanna makes something of it?

Weird HTML Action


Yes, I've definitely noticed that there's something screwy going on with the HTML coding today -- it seems like any html coding after the first couple of links or italics show up in the text after you save the entry. It's affecting me too (which is why you're not getting a journal/blog roundup today), and I'm not sure where it's coming from, although I would suspect it has something to do with the install that happened early this morning. I'm checking into it now and will let you know what's up as soon as I know.

Update 4:52: The AOL Journal techs are working on it. This is a mighty strange bug, my friends.



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  • #7 Comment from tjexpressions 
    5/27/04 6:19 AM Permalink
    This was active yesterday, Weds. early afternoon. I went to edit an entry and BAM all squares and no commas.
  • #6 Comment from jjfgiuffre 
    5/27/04 6:10 AM Permalink
    Hey John, while you're checking into things how about finding out when if ever AOL plans to correct the fact that we haven't been able to use the size 12 text in our Journals since before last December.

    Thanks,
    John G.
  • #5 Comment from mgraves6033 
    5/26/04 8:52 PM Permalink
    Apostrophes seem to be turning into squares.
    http://journals.aol.com/mgraves6033/HumorousVerse/
  • #4 Comment from adamkb 
    5/26/04 2:13 PM Permalink
    It doesn't seem to be as simple as latter HTML not working. Today I revised one of my entries, located at <http://journals.aol.com/adamkb/blog/entries/177>, and it's a mess of some HTML showing and some not. At first I thought it was just certain *tags* not working, but some of my <P> tags are working and some not. The very last HTML in the whole entry is a link, yet an earlier link is messed up.

    As a data point, I write the entire entry in raw HTML. And as I mentioned, this is a revised entry.
  • #3 Comment from marigolds2 
    5/26/04 2:05 PM Permalink
    whoooo....thank you for this entry.  i thought i'd lost my mind entirely.  tried to put part of a post in a different colored text and got html coding instead.  and i don't know diddlysquat about html.  so i just gave up and left it all the same color.  okay, freakydeaky!
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