I was looking at an answer, I went for its revisions and... The Revision#3 looks really strange... I don't have much time to try to investigate what is the reason for that.. But I'd like, because I've never seen other issue like this in SO before.
PS: I suppose this could be an issue generated when decoding from this plain text to html.. Is SO having problems whith some text-formattings?
It seems like a bug to me.
If you look at the source of that revision, you will notice that the poster used:
> * Example
Which normally produces the following output:
- Example
The default viewer handles this correctly, but the viewer for the revisions is probably a bit different and can't handle this kind of markdown.
This is a supported feature of markdown, however in their examples they show it being done with only a single space (rather than 4):
> * Example
... which produces the same HTML:
- Example
I will modify this post in 5 minutes modified to see if the same problem occurs here.
Nope, I wasn't able to reproduce it with this post.
- Test
Test
- Test
We have improved the revision diff algorithm.
We're currently testing it here on Meta; once we're certain there are no problems, it will go out to the other sites as well. Your example was one of those I tested, and it is handled correctly by the new version.
Even more fun in Chrome in OS X!
Chrome formatting fun! http://s179842339.onlinehome.us/chromeformattingfun.png NOTE: This is only an answer because of the inability to put inline images in comments; probably a good thing.
