lessThan character screwing up messages |
typing a lessThan character results in the rest of the message being cut off. This character ( < ) will be typed a lot by the people who visit this forum.
I have successfully made it appear in this message by typing < Most people don't know that, and cannot be expected to do so.
Recommendation
Have the message processer convert all lessThan and greaterThan characters to their symbolic equivalents, if it isn't part of one of the supported HTML tags.
Change
Many forums use the [ and ] in place of the < and &rt; for their in-forum bracketing, so that they can just go ahead and turn all < and &rt; into &rt; and <
There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those that understand binary, and those that don't.