Monday, August 23, 2010
What is happening to the comment section of my blog?
A cool feature I added to my blog recently is to have comments show up on the right hand side. The odd thing is that random characters get added to the comments. In the middle of a word, #@1 or other characters suddenly show up. Oh well, something I will have to research...
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Your comment section does not appear to support ' . So theoretically I can be really annoying by typing a bunch of them!
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Those are HTML character codes. In general the characters they represent are not valid as HTML elements. So they get encoded that way so as not to cause problems.
But they are supposed to be converted back to the appropriate character when they are rendered.
This is supposed to be transparent, but obviously it's not working right. It will probably get fixed in a future update of the underlying blog software.
It's related to the fact that the "latest comment" widget just displays the contents of the "latest comment" RSS feed automatically generated for the blog. My other RSS reader messes up HTML character codes too. Must be a common RSS issue.
Kurt and Bryan are correct. I couldn't have said it better myself (in fact, I couldn't have said it at all!!!)
I couldn't have said it better myself (in fact, I couldn't have said it a all!!)
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