A little rural town had one of the highest birth rates in the country and this phenomenon attracted the attention of the sociologists at the state university.
They wrote a grant proposal; got a huge chunk of money; moved to town; set up their computers; got squared away; and began designing their questionnaires and such.
While the staff was busy getting ready for their big research effort, the project director decided to go to the local drugstore for a cup of coffee. He sat down at the counter, ordered his coffee, and while he was drinking it, he told the druggist what his purpose was in town, then asked him if he had any idea why the birth rate was so high.
"Sure," said the druggist. "Every morning the six o'clock train comes through here and blows for the crossing. It wakes everybody up, and, well, it's too late to go back to sleep, and it's too early to get up."
Nit-picking technical tip from a Netscape user: you missed out the semi-colons.
What you should put is <i>. If you don't put the semi-colons in, the browser has to guess where the character entities end. You might have meant (for some reason) <i;>.; which comes out like this: <i;>.;
IE guesses what you intended, but consequently gets the second example wrong (by putting the less-than symbol in). Other browsers don't guess.
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Date: 2002-01-03 12:25 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2002-01-03 01:15 am (UTC)From:Re:
Date: 2002-01-03 01:26 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2002-01-03 01:30 am (UTC)From:Bold and underline work the same way. I'll let you guess the ctrl keys to press. ;~)
Re:
Date: 2002-01-03 01:32 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2002-01-03 01:38 am (UTC)From:Are you up late or early?
Re:
Date: 2002-01-03 01:39 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2002-01-03 01:40 am (UTC)From:Re:
Date: 2002-01-03 01:41 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2002-01-03 02:05 am (UTC)From:A little rural town had one of the highest birth rates in the
country and this phenomenon attracted the attention of the
sociologists at the state university.
They wrote a grant proposal; got a huge chunk of money; moved
to town; set up their computers; got squared away; and began
designing their questionnaires and such.
While the staff was busy getting ready for their big research
effort, the project director decided to go to the local
drugstore for a cup of coffee. He sat down at the counter,
ordered his coffee, and while he was drinking it, he told
the druggist what his purpose was in town, then asked him if
he had any idea why the birth rate was so high.
"Sure," said the druggist. "Every morning the six o'clock
train comes through here and blows for the crossing. It
wakes everybody up, and, well, it's too late to go back
to sleep, and it's too early to get up."
Re:
Date: 2002-01-03 04:52 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2002-01-03 06:40 am (UTC)From:The client puts the tags around highlighted text.
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Date: 2002-01-03 01:27 am (UTC)From:What you should put is <i>.
If you don't put the semi-colons in, the browser has to guess where the character entities end. You might have meant (for some reason) <i;>.; which comes out like this: <i;>.;
IE guesses what you intended, but consequently gets the second example wrong (by putting the less-than symbol in). Other browsers don't guess.
/geek
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Date: 2002-01-03 06:40 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2002-01-03 06:51 am (UTC)From:Otherwise I would have had to have hunted through the source view to notice it. 8~)
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Date: 2002-01-03 07:59 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2002-01-03 08:01 am (UTC)From: