TINDERBOX: The Missing Carat
Two of them actually. It happened long ago when I made up my own main .html template out of the Tinderbox or Storyspace basic template. I missed two of ^’s on each side of the title within tags.
My life with code has been try, hunt and search for the error and voila! It’s almost always some niggley little character or unit of type.
No, I’m not going back to redo all the other hypertext stories I’ve produced, but from now on I’ll have the damn thing right.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
June 9th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
I think that’s why I started on WordPress and have been so happy with it. It’s exactly like typing this comment right now. No code, no emphatic rules of script and cypher to follow. Having to add my e-mail address was painstakingly detailed, but all I had to do was copy exactly what they said.
Sometimes I think programming computers is like building your own typewriter. I don’t care to, so long as the machine I’m using does what I want. I’ll leave the picky to you.