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Geek Culture / XKCD is down because the title tag isn't closed?

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 17th Feb 2010 12:11 Edited at: 17th Feb 2010 12:12
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I saw this, thought "omfg hax" and then looked at the source.



Fail.

Anyone else ever made a silly mistake like this and then had it end up live?

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Rudolpho
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Posted: 17th Feb 2010 12:31
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Fail indeed.
Seriously, who doesn't check the results after changing the source?


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Posted: 17th Feb 2010 14:46
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Perhaps it's some kind of massive meta-joke?

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Posted: 17th Feb 2010 14:58
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Ah well, it was up again about an hour ago, go tautology club!

The web designer probably made a one off slip and has stopped checking the new page regularly because he doesn't usually muck up and has probably already seen the comic, if not made it himself.
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Jeku
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Posted: 17th Feb 2010 17:05
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Surely this wouldn't make all the browsers stumble?

Quote: "Fail."


Please. For the love of all that is good. Can we advance as a group and leave behind the stupid memes of past years? Thanks.


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Posted: 17th Feb 2010 17:16
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Quote: "Surely this wouldn't make all the browsers stumble?"


Not all; Firefox and Safari don't seem to trip but IE6 and Opera do. I guess the former keep looking for parent closing tags when the desired closing tags are nowhere to be found?

Quote: "Can we advance as a group and leave behind the stupid memes of past years?"



NO.


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Posted: 17th Feb 2010 17:19
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I made that exact mistake on my own site, and it was months later before someone told me it didn't work in IE. Oh well


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Posted: 17th Feb 2010 17:22
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Wouldn't it mean, though, that nothing else in the HEAD would be processed?

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Posted: 18th Feb 2010 00:31
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I once accidentally added a "." to a filename, so when my school's site went up the banner didn't show up. It was only like that for an hour or so though.
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Posted: 18th Feb 2010 00:37
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The most common mistake I make when making horrid little sites is I make all the media and the HTML on my local Windows machine which is case insensitive and the server is invariably UNIX/Linux which is case sensitive meaning all those uppercase file extensions older versions of Paint Shop Pro like to push out need to be corrected.

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+ 1 Fail to the world..........

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Posted: 18th Feb 2010 12:21
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Quote: "Seriously, who doesn't check the results after changing the source?"


The network admin from a previous job who felt it necessary to make changes on the production server in the middle of the afternoon. He felt like making domain changes because it would be better organized, and no he didn't notify anyone about this. But when help desk lights up (they only had 4 ppl) with a few thousand ppl having access issues..... Amazingly, this guy still has his job.


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