yayness

[melannen]

To the good: have been reading lindentreeisle's epic and awesome Sherlock gen fic! Which I kind of failed utterly to help her with, but at least I let her flail at me for a little while about it! Major Pieces at AO3. 31,000 words, in which John gets framed as a serial killer. Go. Read. I know there are Sherlock people reading this journal.

To the bad: Have discovered as a result of attempting to read said fic on her DW account that apparently, DW is flaky about <p> tags that contain a style="margin: " CSS attribute of the sort that I believe occurs when you export from Word. (I don't know CSS well enough to narrow it down more than that.)

Specifically, in almost all styles, it ignores the CSS and puts in a proper double line break, like we are all used to in online reading. However, in all the standard site schemes (tropo, etc.) except Light, it only puts in a single line break, resulting in those horrible, horrible solid blocks of text that we all hate so much.

This means that presumably, somebody who generally looks at the world through style=mine and sees entry pages in their style might think their post formatting was perfectly a-ok, while people who look at everything through site scheme are barfing and paging away. Which makes me wonder how many perfectly good fics I have been avoiding because I thought their authors didn't even know that they should put in a double line break. (I wouldn't have even thought to check in other styles if I hadn't been talking to lindentreeisle's proper beta about line breaks in Word.) It ought to either work in both site and user schemes, or break in both site and user schemes, but not half-and-half. (Incidentally: it does not break on LJ.)

I should, by this point, know how to submit a proper DW bug report about this, too, but I still remain too lazy/socially inept to do it, and am instead going for the fallback of complaining on my journal. :P

To the *melty*: I was recently randomly reminded of the existence of siegeofangels's SGA John/Rodney/Atlantis story We Now Return You To Your Regularly Scheduled Crisis, which was for awhile my very favorite slash romance fic ever, and now that I have re-read it, still is. (It is, incidentally, yet another fic that I entirely failed to properly beta.)

To the O.o: I also stumbled on the That Guy With The Glasses kinkmeme t'other day. People have now written RPF high school AUs about people I hung out with in high school. Um. Yay? (At least nobody's written anything with K-Bo...) Does this win me some sort of fandom badge? :D I think it should at least earn me one "get out of free" card RE: RPS guilt attacks.

...I think I shall spend it by finally posting "Cameron Comes Out" to my AO3 account. Yes.

(...oh, the things I will do to avoid writing the sex scene in my kinkmeme wip!)

Comments

[siegeofangels]

You are a really wonderful person. And thank you; I'm really glad you like that story. And I'm sure it is not that you failed to beta; it is that I always fail at actually integrating suggestions that betas give me.

If you don't mind me asking, what were the circumstances of the reminder? *pokes delicious to see if anything falls out*

[melannen]

It really was totally random, sorry! I was poking around in my old entries to try to find context for my last post, and saw some very old discussion that made me go "wait, wasn't there a fic where they had sex to charge the ZPM?" And then go, "Wait, that was siegeofangels! Why haven't I been rereading that yearly?" and then go find it. :D

[siegeofangels]

:D

Oh, okay, no worries! Really, it's awesome that you remembered it.

[sara]

Well, there have been a couple of Yuletides with fic about colleagues of mine, so you're not entirely alone in that experience. If that helps.

[lindentreeisle]

Fuck me, I knew the styles were effed up on LJ, but I didn't realize DW was doing it too, because it looked fine on mine.

That's what I get for trying to save time- I didn't want to manually insert all the tags into the raw text. I should do like lady_ganesh and just insert the tags when I write the thing in the first place. Guh. I actually ended up having to insert the tags manually for ao3, so when I am feeling less lazy I will have to go back to lj and dw and just c&p the text from ao3.

Would be interested in any critique if/when you finish the fic. I would value your opinion!

[zvi]

The reason you get different results in userstyles and site scheme is because in the userstyles, as long as the HTML/CSS doesn't have something identified as forbidden (e.g. javascript), they just put it through. With the site scheme, the HTML/CSS are basically stripped out and replaced with what they hope is the nearest equivalent. There is a good reason for this which I have forgotten, but that's why the treatment is different.

All you have to do to file a bug is open a support request.

[synecdochic]

I think you are thinking that someone manages to get malicious code through in their own journal (the username.dreamwidth.org subdomain), the worst that can happen is they harvest the cookies that allow them to access their own account, but if someone manages to get malicious code through on anything on the www.dreamwidth.org subdomain, they could harvest the cookies and access the accounts of anyone viewing the page. So we're way more strict with things on www than we are in userspace. (This is why we keep moving things: ideally, anything the user can submit should be in userspace.)

In this case, though, the reason is probably just that something in the CSS for the site scheme doesn't like what Word is generating, either due to some of the CSS we use for stripping all formatting to 'reset' it to default for cross-browser compatability, or due to an interaction with some of our other layout CSS.

[seekingferret]

I stumbled across RPS about someone I went to high school with the other week and had the overwhelming sensation of "They're doing a bad job of characterizing her!" and didn't know how to deal with that feeling.

[zanzando]

*is one such Sherlock person*


*wanders over*

[evilawyer]

You can open a support request and give the http address of this entry to the Dreamwidth support person by way of explanation of the problem.

[zlabya]

RPF high school AUs? What is this world coming to?

oh, no, I just realized the parody of "Shogun" I wrote in high school was exactly that! I am doomed to hell from my very first fan-writing days...