I got a code in my node....

[captainsblog]

This is a test.

(iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/widgets/like.php?href=http://captainsblog.livejournal.com/814526.html"
scrolling="no" frameborder="0"
style="border:none; width:450px; height:80px")(/iframe)

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Maybe I should explain this. Or maybe not; considering how many comments I've gotten for an essentially blank post, I'm wondering if I've been seriously overthinking this "content" business.

Our friend Joss is to blame. She posted an entry on her blog earlier today, rather begging and pleading for the code that would let her insert a "like" button linked to Facebook at the end of her blog entries. I did some poking about, and discovered a Developer page that showed the magical code to do this.



It looks like this, using Google as the like-able example, only the parentheses at either end of the string are actually left and right brackets, those mystical points of entry and exit into the Kingdom of HTMLand:

(iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=www.google.com" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;" allowTransparency="true")(/iframe)

Trouble is, when you run it through the Facebook wizard to generate that code for the same site (or mine, or Joss's, or anybody's), here's what at least I get (again, I'm replacing the brackets with parentheses so it will display here):

(iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&layout=standard&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=80" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;" allowTransparency="true")(/iframe)

See all those goofy % signs and 3A's and 2F's and other Battleship moves? Those are being rendered incorrectly by (a) Facebook in the first place, (b) my blogging interface (Semagic, if you must know), (c) LiveJournal, (d) Firefox (although IE does the same damn thing), (e) my control panel keyboard settings, (f) all of the above, or (g) none of the above.

It's got me swinging, and I have just officially quit trying to try. If you like my post, link to it on your Facebook page and say so. Kthnxbye?

Comments

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

...of the emergency broadcast system?

[sturgeonslawyer.livejournal.com]

Did I pass? Nobody said there was going to be a test!

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Aww crap, I hate pop quizzes.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Pop is not what's going to be required after this particular exam.

"My advice to you... is to start drinking heavily."
-Sen. B. Blutarski

[baseballchica03.livejournal.com]

This is only a test. Do not attempt to adjust your set.

[bill_sheehan.livejournal.com]

Had this been an actual emergency, the alert tone you just heard would be followed by the sound of running feet.

[glenmarshall.livejournal.com]

It's perfectly good iframe code, However, LJ does not like iframe. RTFM for extra points.