Explain the use of the greater-sign hack...

[Hueij]

Originally posted by JohnT
If I want math done, I'll have one of my minions do it. Like Ogie.

And

Well, there goes all those math posts I've been carefully crafting. Now noone will believe me about my 7 line proof to Fermat's last theorem.

Què?

[JohnT]

JohnT sense < Common sense

What can I say?

[Maniac]

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Dis
test:

<JohnT is a homo

edit: it worked!. Good thing. I called someone a homo in there. You can find it by going to page source.

Or by quoting.

[JohnT]

Not to be unkind or anything, but a person who can't even ask a girl out has no business calling others a homo.

[Skanky Burns]

This bug is the reason they invented code tags.

UR ALL 

EDIT: Ok, maybe it wasn't.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat

Or by quoting.

Damn you
ACK!

[snoopy369]

Try this. Edit: I have the real solution, that actually works, on the bottom. Pre doesn't do squat, apparently.

(Un-pre'd text)
I like to usesigns too. But, I can use them wherever I want... because I know the magic of < pre > !

(Pre'd text)

 I like to usesigns too.  But, I can use them wherever I want... because I know the magic of < pre >!!!

The < pre > tag is 'preformatted' text, similar to the VB code [ code ] for HTML.



edit: BAH! VB code is mucking with HTML code. I'm pretty sure < pre > is the code to do that, normally. But i'm checking.

Some other special characters btw, since that's sort of related to this:

http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/reference/special_characters/

not only > but also ♠ etc.

Re-edit for TRUTH!: Pre apparently doesn't do what < xmp > used to do - which is preserve every single character. My fault for learning HTML back in the Mosaic days and not having used it much recently

I like to use<signs in text. Sometimes>signs too. But, I can use them wherever I want... because I know the magic of < pre > !<br />

Not sure if < xmp > still works in browsers or not - but it might

One other thing though, it only is interpreted as a character iff it is immediately appended by a nonwhitespace character. IE, < 5 is fine as long as it's not <5 > (that's < then 5 with no space in between).



Rereedit: < xmp > seems to work fine, in FF1.06 ... There ya go.

[DrSpike]

Can't you all just say less than?

[Paddy]

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by DrSpike
Can't you all just say less than?

Or pwns?
JohnT > Dis = JohnT pwns Dis.

[Last Conformist]

What's the less than version?

Dis snwp JohnT

?

[Alex]

this thread is fascinatingly spammy...

[St Leo]

Originally posted by JohnT
Now why would I want to do that when the actual symbols are right on my keyboard?

Computer Sense &lt Common Sense.

Because we are allowed to post HTML code. If we were not allowed to post HTML code, your way would work too. However, HTML reserves three characters for its own purposes:
> &gt;
< &lt;
& &amp;

BTW, you do need the semicolons even if you can get away without them in some circumstances.

[Richelieu]

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