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How not to code an HTML page by hand.

• exciteabletom 5y ago
  <p>How <b>not</b> to code an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML">HTML</a> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML">HTML</a> page by hand.</p>
  • JonathonW 5y ago
    In next week's episode, how not to write your URL-detection regex.
    • sodality2 5y ago
      You can't parse [X]HTML with regex: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454 https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
• kxra 5y ago
  The end of the URL got trimmed upon submition, so its pointing to the unrendered markdown URL for some reason. Here's the rendered page: https://write.as/n5r0vjolumdnuk2k.md#title https://write.as/n5r0vjolumdnuk2k.md#title
  • 988747 5y ago
    Why won't trimmed URL simply redirect to a proper one? Or throw 404 even? This seems like a webserver misconfiguration of sorts, kind of like being able to access raw PHP pages, instead of rendered ones.
    • SahAssar 5y ago
      I'm guessing write.as is supposed to support multiple languages, and only renders the markdown if you have .md as an extension.
      • wnoise 5y ago
        Which is the exact opposite of what I expect and want -- the bare filename should render, and the .md extension should get the markdown source.
        • kxra 5y ago
          Agreed. Write.as is open source, you can file a ticket against WriteFreely on github
        • SahAssar 5y ago
          If the source can be different languages (like md, html, rst, org-mode, wikitext) and the language isn't stored then this choice makes text.
  • Operyl 5y ago
    Thank god, I was thinking it was some stylistic choice to have to read all those links inline in unrendered markdown.