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A quick primer in HTML
A quick HTML Primer
OK, we'll make this short for those that already know a little bit about HTML tags.
A "tag" is any command that is interpreted by a browser and performs a display function. It can also delineate a
condition that will display a variable (input) from a user in a particular way.
A tag is read by a browser when the "<" and ">" symbols (less than, greater than, or Tom Wright's avatar) surround
the command. The tag is turned off when there is a forward-slash "/" inside the trailing tag. The quotation marks
are only used here to keep the tags from being read.
For a paragraph, the starting code is "<P>" with user text input going in between, and the paragraph ends with
"</P>".
For a line break, the tag is "<BR>" by itself, no end tag needed.
For quotations, the tag is "<BLOCKQUOTE>" (copy and paste the citation in here) and end with </BLOCKQUOTE>.
For emphasis, italic text is headed by "<I>" and ended </I>. For bolding text, "<B>" and "</B>.
With this little bit, you can create a template in Windows Notepad that can be copied and pasted into either the
blog or comment input boxes. REMEMBER to save only as a .txt file!!! Using MS Word will probably substitute too
many random character artifacts, but I will be testing some things later....
So, here's a full comment for you to play with- just copy and paste it off the page into Notepad, delete the quotation marks and experiment:
"<P>" (insert text here) "</P>"
"<P>" (insert text here) "</P>"
"<P>" (insert text here) "</P>"
"<BLOCKQUOTE>" (paste in here) "</BLOCKQUOTE>"
"<P>" (insert text here) "</P>"
"<P>" (insert text here) "</P>"
"<P>""<B>" Your Name Here "</B>""<BR>"
"<I>" Your Tag Phrase here in italics"</I>"</P>
The site will not take color, font face, size, (and probably many more) conventional HTML tags, but I have located
the javascripts from the unlocked directories (also the avatar (picture) files from the site filing structure), so
who knows what evil lurks....the shadow knows....!
<P><B>Alphonse (Al) Kada</B><BR><I>The Iranians are fighting the Americans in Baghdad so they won't have to fight them on the streets of Tehran</I></P>
OK, we'll make this short for those that already know a little bit about HTML tags.
A "tag" is any command that is interpreted by a browser and performs a display function. It can also delineate a
condition that will display a variable (input) from a user in a particular way.
A tag is read by a browser when the "<" and ">" symbols (less than, greater than, or Tom Wright's avatar) surround
the command. The tag is turned off when there is a forward-slash "/" inside the trailing tag. The quotation marks
are only used here to keep the tags from being read.
For a paragraph, the starting code is "<P>" with user text input going in between, and the paragraph ends with
"</P>".
For a line break, the tag is "<BR>" by itself, no end tag needed.
For quotations, the tag is "<BLOCKQUOTE>" (copy and paste the citation in here) and end with </BLOCKQUOTE>.
For emphasis, italic text is headed by "<I>" and ended </I>. For bolding text, "<B>" and "</B>.
With this little bit, you can create a template in Windows Notepad that can be copied and pasted into either the
blog or comment input boxes. REMEMBER to save only as a .txt file!!! Using MS Word will probably substitute too
many random character artifacts, but I will be testing some things later....
So, here's a full comment for you to play with- just copy and paste it off the page into Notepad, delete the quotation marks and experiment:
"<P>" (insert text here) "</P>"
"<P>" (insert text here) "</P>"
"<P>" (insert text here) "</P>"
"<BLOCKQUOTE>" (paste in here) "</BLOCKQUOTE>"
"<P>" (insert text here) "</P>"
"<P>" (insert text here) "</P>"
"<P>""<B>" Your Name Here "</B>""<BR>"
"<I>" Your Tag Phrase here in italics"</I>"</P>
The site will not take color, font face, size, (and probably many more) conventional HTML tags, but I have located
the javascripts from the unlocked directories (also the avatar (picture) files from the site filing structure), so
who knows what evil lurks....the shadow knows....!
<P><B>Alphonse (Al) Kada</B><BR><I>The Iranians are fighting the Americans in Baghdad so they won't have to fight them on the streets of Tehran</I></P>
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A quick HTML Primer
OK, we'll make this short for those that already know a little bit about HTML tags.
A "tag" is any command that is interpreted by a browser and performs a display function. It can also delineate a
condition that will display a variable (input) from a user in a particular way.
A tag is read by a browser when the "" symbols (less than, greater than, or Tom Wright's avatar) surround
the command. The tag is turned off when there is a forward-slash "/" inside the trailing tag. The quotation marks
are only used here to keep the tags from being read.
For a paragraph, the starting code is "
" with user text input going in between, and the paragraph ends with
"
".For a line break, the tag is "
" by itself, no end tag needed.
For quotations, the tag is "
.For emphasis, italic text is headed by "" and ended . For bolding text, "" and ".
With this little bit, you can create a template in Windows Notepad that can be copied and pasted into either the
blog or comment input boxes. REMEMBER to save only as a .txt file!!! Using MS Word will probably substitute too
many random character artifacts, but I will be testing some things later....
So, here's a full comment for you to play with- just copy and paste it off the page into Notepad, delete the
quotation marks and experiment:
"
" (insert text here) "
""
" (insert text here) "
""
" (insert text here) "
"""
"
" (insert text here) "
""
" (insert text here) "
""
""" Your Name Here """
"
"" Your Tag Phrase here in italics""
The site will not take color, font face, size, (and probably many more) conventional HTML tags, but I have located the javascripts from the unlocked directories (also the avatar (picture) files from the site filing structure, so
who knows what evil lurks....the shadow knows....!
Alphonse (Al) Kada
The Iranians are fighting the Americans in Baghdad so they don't have to fight them on the streets of Tehran
February 14, 2008 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Interesting.
Interprets the tag, and parses it even when quoted in the comment box but allows it in the main blog box.
How bout this:
{}Bold{}
or this:
[]Bold[]
February 14, 2008 3:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lets try this:
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GA_googleFillSlot("Cafe-Box");
February 14, 2008 3:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=BiuBS-6S0R5voI6i64wG9hITwAs-j3ym74Ma6A8WRzKIEABABGAEgtPuuAzgAUMKSwov8_____wFgyYajh9SjgBCgAZG-hP8DqgEVMzcyMTgxOTgzNSs5NDI1NTExMDUxsgEddHBtY2FmZS50YWxraW5ncG9pbnRzbWVtby5jb226AQozMDB4MjUwX2FzyAEC2gFMaHR0cDovL3RwbWNhZmUudGFsa2luZ3BvaW50c21lbW8uY29tL3RhbGsvMjAwOC8wMi9hLXF1aWNrLXByaW1lci1pbi1odG1sLnBocOABApgC4gTAAgHIAo-yxwHgAgHqAghDYWZlLUJveJADtFGYA7RRqAMB6AOmA-gDmgPoAyA&num=1&adurl=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/haditha/&client=ca-pub-7451232131633930
February 14, 2008 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ye shall seek the truth...
February 14, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tom,
I'm poking at this site as if I was a Republican dweeb set on crashing it during the election, partly because I don't think that they have even considered it.
However, there is a strict protocol from security researchers to NEVER publish or talk about an exploit or Proof Of Concept hack until the owners of the code have been contacted and supplied with description of said hack. Only if they ignore the warning, deny the applicability, or just don't care does it ever see the light of day.
Being able to read how their javascripts are written gives an attacker a leg up in writing a code injection. There are a few here that are much better than I (Howard, CodeGen, and others) that could suggest improvements on security. Just having the login time out after too many posts in too short a time won't cut it. All the bad guys need is one shot.
Alphonse (Al) Kada
The Iranians are fighting the Americans in Baghdad so they won't have to fight them on the streets of Tehran
February 14, 2008 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's a link to the latest bugs with Movable Type:
http://www.movabletype.com/blog/2008/01/movable-type-security-update.html
Alphonse (Al) Kada
The Iranians are fighting the Americans in Baghdad so they won't have to fight them on the streets of Tehran
February 14, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Using your thread to test making a link two ways, if you don't mind.
TPM Cafe
TPM Cafe
the first is without quotes around the url, the second with them.
February 15, 2008 11:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
artappraiser,
Be my guest. I think the boys have been mucking around in the backend, because stuff that worked yesterday in the afternoon didn't work later on.
Thanks for your kind comments in TW's threads. I missed commenting for a while, but was reading more and more vicious comments on EC. Stopped me cold realizing that all those heathens were about to show up here......
Notrol
February 15, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want to check if this works.
March 26, 2008 12:43 AM | Reply | Permalink