Comments on: Cleaning Up the Sawdust http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/08/24/sawdust/ In a few words, explain what this weblog is about. Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:59:21 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Andrew http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/08/24/sawdust/#comment-111 Andrew Tue, 14 Sep 2004 01:46:56 +0000 http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/08/24/sawdust/#comment-111 Glen said: <em>As for the document.write, can you not use element.innerHTML?</em> Yes, I could, but that would require that an empty element exists in the markup. The current setup creates everything on the fly. I've had a bit more of a think about validating comments and the main issue isn't dodgy html, but instead quotes.It's funny that you should want to continue this discussion Glen, as it was one of your comments that was first to invalidate a post. When someone copies and pastes any part of a previous comment/post that contains true typographical quotes (& #8220; etc), these are not re-converted and get passed through. Obviously a regular expression could be written to find and replace these, but I'm not sure how/if the browser's character set affects this. It is my understanding that the character set of form submissions is controlled by the character set of the page, but I've seen some <strong>very</strong> different results while testing, so I think I'll leave it be for now. Glen said:
As for the document.write, can you not use element.innerHTML?
Yes, I could, but that would require that an empty element exists in the markup. The current setup creates everything on the fly.

I’ve had a bit more of a think about validating comments and the main issue isn’t dodgy html, but instead quotes.It’s funny that you should want to continue this discussion Glen, as it was one of your comments that was first to invalidate a post. When someone copies and pastes any part of a previous comment/post that contains true typographical quotes (& #8220; etc), these are not re-converted and get passed through. Obviously a regular expression could be written to find and replace these, but I’m not sure how/if the browser’s character set affects this. It is my understanding that the character set of form submissions is controlled by the character set of the page, but I’ve seen some very different results while testing, so I think I’ll leave it be for now.

]]> By: Glen Mailer http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/08/24/sawdust/#comment-109 Glen Mailer Wed, 08 Sep 2004 22:52:36 +0000 http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/08/24/sawdust/#comment-109 Well i've been puzzling over the comments problem for a while now and i've yet to find a really good solution. Atm i have a function that strips out any html, then does a BB code style thingy but also checks the BB code for nesting errors. As for the document.write, can you not use element.innerHTML? I'm not trying to be picky or anything, it's just nice to see sites using the proper mime type. I'm using it on my latest project and so far so good, although my fancy javascript tend to be nothing more technical than a classname swap. Well i’ve been puzzling over the comments problem for a while now and i’ve yet to find a really good solution. Atm i have a function that strips out any html, then does a BB code style thingy but also checks the BB code for nesting errors.

As for the document.write, can you not use element.innerHTML?

I’m not trying to be picky or anything, it’s just nice to see sites using the proper mime type. I’m using it on my latest project and so far so good, although my fancy javascript tend to be nothing more technical than a classname swap.

]]> By: Andrew http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/08/24/sawdust/#comment-108 Andrew Mon, 06 Sep 2004 10:24:19 +0000 http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/08/24/sawdust/#comment-108 Glen: I've reverted the individual posts back to tag soup for two reasons: 1) A single bad comment and the page is borked. 2) document.write doesn't work in XHTML 1.1 (application/blah blah...) so that borked my 'gogoGadgetPreview()' function on the comment form. :-( Glen: I’ve reverted the individual posts back to tag soup for two reasons:
1) A single bad comment and the page is borked.
2) document.write doesn’t work in XHTML 1.1 (application/blah blah…) so that borked my ‘gogoGadgetPreview()’ function on the comment form. :-(

]]> By: Glen Mailer http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/08/24/sawdust/#comment-104 Glen Mailer Fri, 03 Sep 2004 00:17:52 +0000 http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/08/24/sawdust/#comment-104 is it just me or has the site revered to text/html? is it just me or has the site revered to text/html?

]]> By: Chris Gwynne http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/08/24/sawdust/#comment-76 Chris Gwynne Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:49:18 +0000 http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/08/24/sawdust/#comment-76 lol your call :p lol your call :p

]]> By: Andrew http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/08/24/sawdust/#comment-69 Andrew Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:00:55 +0000 http://leftjustified.net/journal/2004/08/24/sawdust/#comment-69 <blockquote><p>It's possible your site could break daily thus losing visitors just to maintain real XHTML.</p></blockquote> It has broken daily so far, all because of: <ol> <li>Auto <acronym> Plugin (I've since converted it to an <abbr> plugin)</li> <li>Faulty weather data and poor server caching on my part.</li> <li>Microsoft Word</li> </ol> I like to think of it as a challenge...and I can always load up IE when it breaks ;-)

It’s possible your site could break daily thus losing visitors just to maintain real XHTML.

It has broken daily so far, all because of:

  1. Auto <acronym> Plugin (I’ve since converted it to an <abbr> plugin)
  2. Faulty weather data and poor server caching on my part.
  3. Microsoft Word

I like to think of it as a challenge…and I can always load up IE when it breaks ;-)

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