Quoting breaks URLs
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So, I had a URL followed by a footnote in my message. The footnote was effected using <sup> tags.
(Incidentally my post is not being reproduced faithfully here— so that's a bug I noticed from filing a bug report. It's also converted my escaped\*s into*'s and hence italicized part of my post as well, now it's just blatantly trolling me):http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/google-closing-yet-another-service-googlecode/9085/37
Anyway, when EvanED replied to me, all the footnote's formatting was stripped, and the '1' of my footnote is now being interpreted as part of the URL.
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/google-closing-yet-another-service-googlecode/9085/42
Ergo: quoting breaks URLs.
I'm going to see if I can reproduce by replying: http://google.com1
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I'm going to see if I can reproduce by replying: http://google.com1
Boom.
Oh, no, wait. I can use the "Quote whole post" option instead. That should at least preserve the URL, right?
I'm going to see if I can reproduce by replying: http://google.com<sup>1</sup>
Oh. Yeah, about that...
Filed under: Quoting is just fucking broken
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Hmm, maybe we can have normal formatting instead of saying quotes are Doing It Wrong(tm)?
Eh, no, that's Thinking About Doing It Wrong(tm).
Filed Under:
<a href="http://google.com&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt">http://google.com<sup>1</sup&gt</a>
