Thread:Mathmagician/@comment-188432-20120827220853/@comment-188432-20120828131628

Well, we have to go back to why this sig was causing RTE abortion. The reason was that I pulled the statments for the timestamp out of a template and placed them literally in the Special:Preferences line. That means that when I signed, it created soemthing like:

<span style=

The span tags are therefore actually on the page, not within a template. To fix RTE abortion, you have to make the span tags a part of the second template. But when you do that, the  bit remains on the page, thus creating a sig that looks like:

<span style=This is the time

So the span tag is still there — the RTE is still aborted — and the sig now displays raw HTML. Lovely. Nobody gets anything they want out of this forced solution.