Hidden space - a hole in the MN time/space continuum?

god. I so wanted it to be The Matrix

....and bastian and others

"By nannynick Fri 06-Nov-09 21:49:32

So my theory is that our posts are stored as a collection of individual words... not as a complete sentence. Well that's my theory, if you understood it... not even sure I understand my own theory!"

nannynick, somebody up above said click on page and choose "view source".

I right clicked on the page and chose "view page source".

This will show you the text/word and code breakdown for this thread.

I think I understand what you and BCNSback were explaining now.

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thanks

Is this some sort of e-Magic Eye poster?

Because I never got them, either.

aristo

you need longer sentences/words

try 100, 200, 300 characters before hitting return

and yes mnhq do know

wow
this
is
amazing
wonder
if
MNHQ
know
about
it
did
it
work
for
me?

GreenMonkies -We are wannabe nerds

I see gaps!

How have you managed to write 9 pages of messages devoted to this?

[biscu it][biscui t][biscuit ]

Should be 40 of each, no gaps.

Lists - I think it may be occurring then due to
how a line break is encoded in the database. For some reason a carriage return may be sent to the browser as being but is still being counted in the word length. So once the word length reaches 100, the system terminates that word and starts a new word.
A list of emotions is just a list of characters stored in the database. If the return character is not terminating the word count, then a list of emotions will at some point get a space added - how quickly that happens will depend on the code length for that emotion (varies from 5 for to 9 for .
So my theory is that our posts are stored as a collection of individual words... not as a complete sentence. Well that's my theory, if you understood it... not even sure I understand my own theory!

and because BigTech has locked himself in the shed is busy

Oh this is just brilliant So where's Big Tech with the answer? Is he busy torturing more emoticons?

Rustybear - I think you have sussed it.

It may be to do with the screen resolution then. I thought it was somethng very specific to the computer each person is viewing it on such as thE browser but it could well be the actual screen resolution as that does affect line wrapping in HTML on some web pages depending on how it is coded.

I think we need to all leave this thread now, because the truth is so dull it will be disappointing.

Have just read this whole thread going - wow!

By the way it's easier to see the gaps (and the xmas trees and inverted 'V's if you gaze through the monitor and scroll up and down slightly (

It displays differently from screen to screen

BOOM

The inverted pyramid...was your tree haha

Coooooooooool, rusty. I had no idea what anyone was talking about with inverted pyramids. But I had worked out we were all seeing thread people [that is so funny] different things.

So. Perhaps no-one else saw my Xmas trees then? Wish I knew [no, not really, don't tell me] how to do screen shots. It's fun seeing yours.

nein, nein, nein

ok I'm calling the police now. This has all got too serious.

OK, now This is VWilf's post of 13.02 on my iPhone.
This is the same post on my laptop.

Does this help solve the mystery, or merely confuse the issue further?

I think the problem is to do with the line wrapping and does appear to be every 100 characters of code that the space appears.

Web pages are written in a language called HTML, it's basically just text with instructions on how to display it. For example when you see something in bold characters on a web page it will have this instruction with it . HTML also "ignores" white space (tabs, space, new lines etc) by turning any series of white space into a single space.

Without putting too much time into it, it looks like BigTech is line wrapping text at 100 characters but these wraps aren't converted to HTML line wraps () but text line wraps (just a carriage return). This carriage return is converted to a space when you view the page and is the rouge space. You can see what I mean if you right click on the page and select "view source" or similar (it's different for different browsers)

I won't go into any more detail as I'm sure you're all already bored.