On 15 Nov 2005, at 01:21, Andrew Gray wrote:
Signatures that are broken are, in most cases, sloppy coding that was previously shored up by our parser, I think. However, a lot of other issues aren't bad coding (at least, not on the surface); there's issues with HTML in transcluded templates, for example, which no-one seems sure about; these may be template coding flaws or they may be a problem with the backup code.
I really don't know anything more than what I've just been reading, though...
Its the template thing: it was [[Portal:London]] I saw which has lots. Quite prepared to believe that there were errors to start with; the current state looks like a pretty major change though, so it doesnt seem worth fixing until they have reverted to something that is going to stay stable. If there are problems it would be good to have checking tools on input, or more markup to replace common html uses (html in sigs is rather evil as it cant be cleaned up after if wrong which is rather gross and this should really be fixed).
Justinc