A long while ago, I tried to add location information to my home node. Doing so that late at night, caused me to add the following garbage to the page...

<!-- location: blah>

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Note the absence of the closing HTML comment. The effect on this was nasty... Since the user-supplied HTML code is inserted before the Edit user settings link, I was then unable to get back to that page to revert the damage.

Thanks to the kind help of Limbic~Region, I was able to get back to the user settings page to undo the damage. However, I think a very easy remedy for this, would be to insert the user-supplied HTML after those important links. This would have avoided my struggle...

I know this is a rather simplistic thing, but I guess it can make a lot towards preventing users from being hurt by their (my) own stupidity...

Best regards

-lem, but some call me fokat

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Re: I wrecked my home node... (filter)
by tye (Sage) on Jan 29, 2003 at 18:45 UTC

    My preferred solution is to filter the HTML from home nodes. This would catch "<!-- unclosed comments" (note that I just typed that in and PM filtered it for me). It would also allow real filtering of JavaScript from home nodes.

                    - tye
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      It would also make it impossible to add custom CSS to homenodes. :-(

      Makeshifts last the longest.

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