Lj just ate my last post.
Someone should suggest that error pages be written so that they will copy the text of the entry you tried to write and re-display it… this would allow people to save the entry. I’d make the suggestion, but I have no idea how it could be done… so my suggestion would not sound very intelligent.
*sigh*
So, I’m here, in Hilo. And I’m soooo sorry to and to anyone else I somehow failed to tell that I was leaving. Anyway, I was kidnapped from my mom’s place around 3:30am and taken to Dean’s. Now I’m just playing on lj, because my mom’s computer is so full of spyware that the internet is almost unuseable… and the connection is only 56k, which means it’s really difficult to download ad-aware. I wish I could save that computer, but I was too exhausted.
Plans for this trip include
- Party at Dean’s
- See and
- See Candace, Daniel and Jenn
- Go to the beach with mom
- Christmas shopping
- send gloating sunny postcards to my miserable friends in rainy Oregon.
- try not to cry more than twice about saying goodbye to Yuu-chan.
This list may be updated… duh.
autarchex | 12-Dec-03 at 7:20 am | Permalink
You should get in the habit of selecting and copying your text before you hit the post button.
If there was a posting error, in all likelihood the text data did not make it to the server intact, so the server would not be able to post an error page back to you that contains your text.
starladear6 | 12-Dec-03 at 8:15 am | Permalink
i can’t imagine it being hard for whatever engine that checks for errors before posting to select whatever data is in the entry box and redisplay it.
Some other journaling/msg board services do this already. it displays the error, and then repeats the “enter text below” stuff immediately below it with your post intact inside it.
I could be wrong, because I know nothing of livejournal’s language… but yeah.
modernman55 | 12-Dec-03 at 9:03 am | Permalink
Well I hope we get a change to hang out some time. I’m pretty busy this coming week with finals, but ill is done on Wednesday. But just give me a call, maybe you called already when I wasn’t home.
autarchex | 12-Dec-03 at 5:56 pm | Permalink
But then you are running the risk of the data not being intact, say, missing the terminating null that defines the end of a string - in which case your error page would display your text and also perhaps twelve kilobytes of garbage characters after it.
starladear6 | 14-Dec-03 at 9:47 am | Permalink
maybe thursday or something. I think I’m shopping and going to the beach tuesday and wednesday, so yeah. :)