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What is all this "alt=" height="20" />" stuff?

silversilver In the beginning there was nothing, and then it exploded.USA, Left coast. Veteran

I've come home from a long afternoon out and about, and I see on at least 3 different threads where someone has this type of 'alt = height = 00" type stuff.

Is this a new glitchy thing, because I'm sure they didn't mean to do that -- right?

Just curious.

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  • ToraldrisToraldris   -`-,-{@     Zen Nud... Buddhist     @}-,-`-   East Coast, USA Veteran
    edited December 2014

    Sounds like a glitch to me, like HTML codes being exposed (they're supposed to do things and create effects, not be seen).

    Actually looks like code for embedding an image. You'd have alternate text for hovering over the image or if it didn't show up right, and can set things like the height and width.

  • ToraldrisToraldris   -`-,-{@     Zen Nud... Buddhist     @}-,-`-   East Coast, USA Veteran

    Is it everywhere or just from posts from a particular person? Someone could be trying to use HTML and failing... :wink:

  • ToraldrisToraldris   -`-,-{@     Zen Nud... Buddhist     @}-,-`-   East Coast, USA Veteran

    Oh I see, it's from the new emoticon system. @Linc will need to look into that!

  • silversilver In the beginning there was nothing, and then it exploded. USA, Left coast. Veteran

    Thanks, @Toraldris -- I saw it on one of Rowan's and one post of Federico's and someone else, I forget who. I think it was 3 different threads.

  • NirvanaNirvana aka BUBBA   `     `   South Carolina, USA Veteran

    @silver, we're trying to mess with your mind. So, it didn't work this time, dern it!
    One of these days...

    lobstersilverSarahT
  • silversilver In the beginning there was nothing, and then it exploded. USA, Left coast. Veteran

    ^ ^ ^ ... an oldie but a goodie :smirk:

    Aha! It did it again!------------^^^

    Rowan1980
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited December 2014

    @Linc, do you know anything about it...?
    I think it's this thread being referred to...

  • LincLinc Site owner Detroit Moderator

    Yeah, I did a new code deploy that caused it to resurface. Kinda between a rock and a hard place deciding which code to deploy because something is wrong everywhere it seems. That's the lesser of 2 evils right now.

  • BuddhadragonBuddhadragon Ehipassiko & Carpe Diem Samsara Veteran

    It keeps coming up.

  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Gentle Man Veteran

    @Linc -- it is just the custom ones now, the ones with a : lead coding work fine! Does that help?
    John.

  • SarahTSarahT Time ... space ... joy South Coast, UK Veteran

    I have found the opposite ...

    with a < gives <3

    with a : gives :heart:

    ??????

  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Gentle Man Veteran
    edited December 2014

    Well, in the message, type a space then a : then a ) and you get a smile. Or type a : then a ( and you get a frown.

    :):(

  • LincLinc Site owner Detroit Moderator

    I figured it out; different code bases got out of sync with each other on our server.

    RhodianSarahTRowan1980
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    I'm thrilled.

    Didn't understand a word of that, but yeah.

    I'm thrilled!!

  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Gentle Man Veteran

    So am I-- code that has mixed up versions of it in one supposed up-to-date set will do that, fede.

  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Gentle Man Veteran

    @Linc said:
    I figured it out; different code bases got out of sync with each other on our server.

    >

    Thanks for fixing it, @Linc.

    Vastmindsilver
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    @Straight_Man said:
    So am I-- code that has mixed up versions of it in one supposed up-to-date set will do that, fede.

    >

    Wow. Amazing.
    Nope. Still not getting it...

  • LincLinc Site owner Detroit Moderator

    @federica said:
    Nope. Still not getting it...

    Vanilla has a lot of plugins, which add things to the forum. They are kept in different places ("repositories") on the server. Each repository is managed separately. I updated the main Vanilla one, but not the one that was controlling the emoji. They both had changes that played off of each other and so they needed to be updated together. No one told me this at the office. :(

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    So it wasn't any lack of competence, or error on your part. It was left hand/right hand.

    it figures.
    One thing I do know - when you are mistaken and you mess up, you're straight on the case and you fix it.
    In this case, this wasn't your bang.
    Thanks for the outline.
    You are infinitely patient with this Techno-doofus.

    (I did manage to translate a UK knitting pattern to Italian for my cousin though, so I'm not ALL dense!! :D )

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    edited December 2014

    Now can you do something about the paragraphing?
    It doesn't seem to work.
    Even if we hit the return/enter key, things still all appear on one line.
    If we want to start a new line, we have to hit return twice, and that creates new paragraphs, which is a pain.
    If you hit to edit my post, you'll see what I mean.

  • LincLinc Site owner Detroit Moderator

    Yes, unfortunately I had to sacrifice that 1 thing to move a bunch of other things forward. It's on my list of things to fix ASAP.

  • silversilver In the beginning there was nothing, and then it exploded. USA, Left coast. Veteran

    I have a question, @Linc: I noticed that NB doesn't appear to have one of those 'back to top' buttons like a couple of forums that I know. One of them has a button to do that in the upper right corner of each post and another has just one at the very bottom of the page. Am I missing something here?

  • LincLinc Site owner Detroit Moderator
    edited December 2014

    Nah, we don't have that in Vanilla. Stuff like that is built-in to browsers usually. If you're on a Mac, use "fn + ←", and on a PC use "Home".

  • silversilver In the beginning there was nothing, and then it exploded. USA, Left coast. Veteran

    Thanks, I'll try that.

  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Gentle Man Veteran

    @federica said:
    Now can you do something about the paragraphing?
    It doesn't seem to work.
    Even if we hit the return/enter key, things still all appear on one line.
    If we want to start a new line, we have to hit return twice, and that creates new paragraphs, which is a pain.
    If you hit to edit my post, you'll see what I mean.

    One thing the Mac used to do different than the PC, back when, was that in a Mac you had to hit Enter/Return AND newline to get a line wrap without a double return making a paragraph. Note that some browsers like Chrome for Mac auto-wrap text, ie they handle the problem of text all on one line automagically by inserting newlines as needed. PC browsers ALL autowrapped from day one. I am not seeing text all on one line in what I quoted, or in your post, @federica. I am on a PC using Firefox for browser.

  • ToraldrisToraldris   -`-,-{@     Zen Nud... Buddhist     @}-,-`-   East Coast, USA Veteran

    @federica What I do is hit enter, then space, then enter again. So long as there's something on that line it'll count (even if it's a blank space).

    Like that. :)

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    @Linc said:
    Nah, we don't have that in Vanilla. Stuff like that is built-in to browsers usually. If you're on a Mac, use "fn + ←", and on a PC use "Home".

    >

    Weirdly, the moment I hit the 'fn' button on the Macbook, the whole page 'lifts' and disappears, exposing the screensaver.
    I use the 'ctrl+up arrow' keys, which gets me up to the top, or I just scroll....

  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator

    @Linc said:
    Yes, unfortunately I had to sacrifice that 1 thing to move a bunch of other things forward. It's on my list of things to fix ASAP.

    >

    Boy, I bet you're glad you took this job!! Congress needs to cast a new Medal - and, no, I'm not kidding! It's folks like you keep folks like us and the world, turning!

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