Okay...

Feb. 7th, 2006 12:25 am
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...that Star Trek Role Meme?

FIX THE DAMN HTML.

It's missing a <table> at the beginning of the code, but uses table-formatting and has a trailing </table> at the end. So it shatters my friends page, and I'm sure several others as well. I'm punting folks off of my default friends view as I run across it, but when the same meme breaks my friends page the same way for the third time in an hour... well, I make an announcement about it. :-)

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Date: 2006-02-07 10:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] otana.livejournal.com
People who don't check their memes for broken code by previewing make baby Otana cry.

srsly.

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Date: 2006-02-07 04:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] qdot.livejournal.com
I usually use friends page demolition as grounds for defriending, because i find that most of the friends who I read most of the time are decent enough to pay attention to that. ^_^
From: [identity profile] wolfwings.livejournal.com
And some of them simply don't use a LJ style that is broken by the meme, so they don't think the meme has bad HTML code. I happen to still use a super-lightweight table-based style, so I'm a lot less resistant to breakage.

And I tend to shuffle people on and off of my Default Friends View frequently. Defriending by me usually includes a ban.

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Date: 2006-02-10 05:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alari.livejournal.com
I switched to the "New (S2)" style system, with the "Unearthed" layout. Not only does it seem to not have the problem with bad html in memes, it's also immune to the problem where one really huge word-wrap busting line in one entry doesn't affect the width of all the rest on the page.

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Date: 2006-02-10 05:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alari.livejournal.com
... er, that didn't sound quite right. It does not have that problem with long lines, is what I meant.

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