Automated cake ordering process failure

[Manedwolf]

Edible ink + website ordering form + bad code + mostly automated process:



Tasty code!

[Cromlech]

The cake is a lie.

Seriously though, that's funny. 

[Regolith]

 


I'm curious as to whether that resulted because there was a carriage return inserted in the middle of the very last comment closing tag, or if someone tried to use HTML comments in something that wasn't HTML....It doesn't seem that one borked comment tag would screw all the others up. 

Going to have to test that....

Edit:  Looks like the html, as presented works.  Firefox, at least, ignores a carriage return in the code.  They borked it up somewhere else, probably by mixing HTML comments with whatever language they were using to process the orders. 

Edit Redux:  Looks like IE 7 doesn't ignore the malformed comment, however, and does display the rest of the comments due to it.  So maybe it is just crappy HTML.

[Physics]

I'm curious as to whether that resulted because there was a carriage return inserted in the middle of the very last comment closing tag, or if someone tried to use HTML comments in something that wasn't HTML....It doesn't seem that one borked comment tag would screw all the others up. 

Going to have to test that....

Edit:  Looks like the html, as presented works.  Firefox, at least, ignores a carriage return in the code.  They borked it up somewhere else, probably by mixing HTML comments with whatever language they were using to process the orders. 

Edit Redux:  Looks like IE 7 doesn't ignore the malformed comment, however, and does display the rest of the comments due to it.  So maybe it is just crappy HTML.

Nerdsniped!   

[Standing Wolf]

Edible ink +

That's the point at which my alleged "mind" blew a gasket.

[Manedwolf]

That's the point at which my alleged "mind" blew a gasket.

All the cake places do that. Go look at their sites. It's a modified inkjet that does a transfer with food-grade dyes instead.

[Regolith]

Nerdgeeksniped!   

FTFY