Thanks for getting rid of auto-refresh. It sucked to have the page refresh while typing or scrolling.
Be careful when you do unicode. I know that's often requested, so it'll probably be done, but be aware it makes protection from injection attacks (including sql & script) much trickier. You probably want do do encoding on output and bound parameters on input, rather than trying to filter input.
The last day or two I had error saying I was posting from an open proxy, on multiple devices and networks. It
I've been reading slashdot for a long, long time, but only started posting within the last year or so.
Allowing editing of posts for during a grace period (10 minutes? 30 minutes?) would be a most welcome addition, if only to let me fix things when I screw up closing a italic tag.
But either way, thanks. It looks like you guys are working hard to make slashdot as good or better than it used to be.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @06:26AM (#51706503)
Allowing editing of posts for during a grace period (10 minutes? 30 minutes?) would be a most welcome addition, if only to let me fix things when I screw up closing a italic tag.
I disagree, vehemently. Slashdot, as a forum-like medium, mimmicks conversation. By allowing you to fix things we allow e.g. the GNAA to retro-actively change part of the conversation. Not a good idea.
Where's my UTF8? (Score:3)
Just kidding, I'm sure fixing slashcode for that is going to be a nightmare.
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auto-refresh sucked. Beware UTF8 injections (Score:5, Insightful)
Thanks for getting rid of auto-refresh. It sucked to have the page refresh while typing or scrolling.
Be careful when you do unicode. I know that's often requested, so it'll probably be done, but be aware it makes protection from injection attacks (including sql & script) much trickier. You probably want do do encoding on output and bound parameters on input, rather than trying to filter input.
The last day or two I had error saying I was posting from an open proxy, on multiple devices and networks. It
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I've been reading slashdot for a long, long time, but only started posting within the last year or so.
Allowing editing of posts for during a grace period (10 minutes? 30 minutes?) would be a most welcome addition, if only to let me fix things when I screw up closing a italic tag.
But either way, thanks. It looks like you guys are working hard to make slashdot as good or better than it used to be.
Re:auto-refresh sucked. Beware UTF8 injections (Score:0)
Allowing editing of posts for during a grace period (10 minutes? 30 minutes?) would be a most welcome addition, if only to let me fix things when I screw up closing a italic tag.
I disagree, vehemently. Slashdot, as a forum-like medium, mimmicks conversation. By allowing you to fix things we allow e.g. the GNAA to retro-actively change part of the conversation. Not a good idea.
Use preview.
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"Mimics."
Too late to fix it now...