Glitch Examples

[AB Editor]

Dear AnswerBank Users,

I need help finding examples of some of the site problems, such as:

1. Broken links in answers
2. long links which run off the page
3. any other glitch you have spotted

All the best,

Spare Ed

[Panic Button]

Sometimes when I put things in single inverted commas it displays correctly, and sometimes it puts a / before each comma.

Let's see:

'test'

I always use single inverted commas, because on old AB double inverted commas used to put &quot in instead.

Let's see if that still happens:

"test"

[Panic Button]

Strange, because it did it a few minutes ago. See my answer 11 in this thread

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Motoring/Question818366.html

[mallam]

Post an Answer on p2 of this thread nor working!

PB, I have often seen /' for ' and attributed it to the poster hitting both keys by accident. The case you link to has two exs of this in succession, which does make me wonder.

"I always use single inverted commas, because on old AB double inverted commas used to put &quot in instead."

As you see you dont need to avoid them as long as the hypertext on here is bust, and all you can post is text (without the Preview!). But what sort of hypertext was it that converted " to &quot? That is the OPPOSITE of what it's supposed to do! Mind you, online newspaper software and such is often equally incompetent.

[mallam]

BTW, PB, I meant to add that the Search Bar functions like a preview, and it proves you right. You see ' in the bar after youve typed it, then Return changes it to \', but the results are as you typed it.

[Panic Button]

Mallam, it can't be that I am hitting another key, because there is no backward slash key on my laptop keyboard!

I do have /, asI typed in my earlier comment, but I now realise the erroneous one is leaning the other way.

[mallam]

Yes, well PB, as I have said in my previous posts it all proves you right.

I did say your two corruptiond in succession made me wonder.

And I did replicate the phenomenon we were talking about by entering a sequence with ' in the Search Bar and seeing that ' corrupted to \'. That was obviously what you had been talking about, although we had both got the exact form of the corruption wrong.

Perhaps it would have been less confusing if I had said "One sees ' in the bar after one has typed it, then Return changes it to \', but the results are as one typed it." By saying 'you' for 'one' I may have given the impression that I was talking about you when I was talking about myself!

People mock the "Royal 'one'", but it would have forestalled that confusion here.

Let's see what the software makes of that batch of inverted commas!

[daffy654]

Long link causing text to disappear from the right hand side of posts.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Question818595.html

[LoftyLottie]

Same as Naomi. When I type an apostrophe I can a backslash (or is it a forewardslash - I get mixed up) But it doesn't happen all the time???

[VINNY100_2]

Ive tried doing a backward slash.(mainly when inebriated). not easy,but forwardslashes are a piece of p***..hehe..!(:O)

[smudge]

He, he, that did make me laugh Vinny! ;o}

I don't seem to have any problems with my slashes - well only at two in the morning!