# Testing extent of allowed board formatting

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**Created:** [September 19, 2000, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-extent-of-allowed-board-formatting/33798 "2000-09-19T23:25:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-extent-of-allowed-board-formatting/33798/1 "2000-09-19T23:25:41Z")

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foo&nbsp;bar

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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-extent-of-allowed-board-formatting/33798/2 "2000-09-19T23:27:50Z")

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Darn.  
Hm. &nbsp; on it’s own perhaps?  
Test

telnet://www.vertigo.darktech.org  
another test.

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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-extent-of-allowed-board-formatting/33798/3 "2000-09-19T23:36:42Z")

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\<!-- And how are comments processed? --\>

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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-extent-of-allowed-board-formatting/33798/4 "2000-09-19T23:47:56Z")

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Hm. So link protocols are allowed. presumably gopher, or, say, mailto: would work too.  
gopher null  
[mail me!](mailto:kyberneticist@deja.com)

Pity about the encoding of & it limits the use of useful character encodings. The only reason I can think of is for fear of losing track of \< and \> in multiple evaluations, or something. Or just bastardliness.  
[any slips?](kyber tries to be clever)  
[any slips?](kyber tries to be clever)  
[any slips?](kyber tries to be clever)

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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-extent-of-allowed-board-formatting/33798/5 "2000-09-19T23:50:19Z")

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ooh! Couple more!  
[any slips?](kyber tries" to be clever)  
[any slips?]('kyber “tries” to be 'clever)

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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-extent-of-allowed-board-formatting/33798/6 "2000-09-19T23:55:00Z")

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Woohoo! Just realised something about current browser bizaareness!!!  
Testing with Google button cause it is easiest…  
[Google button javascript!](javascript:q=document.getSelection();for(i=0;i\<frames.length;i++){q=frames\*.document.getSelection();if(q)break;}if(!q)void(q=prompt(‘Enter text to search using Google. You can also highlight a word on this web page before clicking GoogleSearch.’,’’));if(q)location.href='[http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=’+escape(q)](http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q='+escape(q)))

In case there are limitations on quotes…  
[null](javascript:foo.bar()😉

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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-extent-of-allowed-board-formatting/33798/7 "2000-09-19T23:56:23Z")

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Oh well… I suppose that javascript would only work if I could convince somebody to drag it up onto their nav bar. 😛

Well, that was fun. Off to the forums…

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-extent-of-allowed-board-formatting/33798/8 "2000-09-21T04:19:07Z")

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HTML character codes work if you preview them first. Interestingly, they seem to resolve to the actual character, so if you construct a code out of the codes and preview multiple times, it’ll all evaluate.

Clear?

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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-extent-of-allowed-board-formatting/33798/9 "2000-09-21T21:20:16Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Chronos \*  
> \*\*HTML character codes work if you preview them first. Interestingly, they seem to resolve to the actual character, so if you construct a code out of the codes and preview multiple times, it’ll all evaluate.
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> Clear? \*\*

Sounds clear. Let me try a few common ones.  
-\>&nbsp;\<-  
&trad; it’s either that or ®

Hm. So, \<b\> will resolve to \<b\>?

Odd, wasn’t quite clear, but I think I understand now. It didn’t show up right in the first preview, but the textwindow contained the right characters. The second preview evaluated everything bee-autifully.

Cool! Now’s time to throw in unicode! Kanji on demand!