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[nancylebov]

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[h3[km4t3!!!11! J00r k1n6 1z pwnd!!!!!


I wanted to use angle brackets, but lj insisted on trying to interpret them as html. I don't think the ['s look too bad. In any case, buttons are subject only to less-destructive parsing by humans, so please let me know if angle brackets would be better.

Again, any advice on l33t is welcome, and so are opinions about whether the slogans are funny.

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I think that it would likely bell @11 J0uR b@53 r b310n6 2 us!!1!

[boredmder.livejournal.com]

Randomly commenting (you're on my friendsfriends page) -

For angle brackets, use &lt; (<) and &gt; (>).

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

To make angle brackets happen in html, you can use ampersand-g-t-semicolon and ampersand-g-t-semicolon (substituting the actual punctuation and subtracting the hyphens); it should look like this when done properly: <fake tag>

Here's a table of character codes (http://www.tntluoma.com/sidebars/codes/) in HTML that should help.

[thette.livejournal.com]

I would like the title of the entry as a button, too.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Also on this topic, I expect you've seen Microsoft's A parent's primer to computer slang (http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/kidtalk.mspx). If you haven't, of course, go see it. Well worth the time for the giggles (if not ROFLs) it evokes.

[redbird]

As noted already, &lt; will get you a left angle bracket; you can use > without coding for it, because the parser will ignore a close tag if there's no open tag.

I gave up on reading the long word in the title of this post, and the second bit of "leet" in the text--my parsers don't work well on that stuff, it's worse than trying to remember how to pronounce Welsh.

[mneme]

My parser had no problems with the first two, but '[' is not really an adequate substitute for '<'.
For obscurity points, '&#0060;' also works for '<'. The only unicode escape I actually use regularly (which is what that style of html escape is) is '&#8212;'—the 'em' dash.