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It's really a short piece of javaScript that I need to debug. Assuming they even get to it.
function charCount(idRef, charMax) {
if(charMax > 0) {
var textBox = document.getElementById('input'+idRef);
var text = textBox.value;
if(text.length > charMax)
textBox.value=text.substring(0, charMax);
document.getElementById('count'+idRef).innerHTML = " "+textBox.value.length+' of '+charMax;
if(textBox.value.length < charMax)
document.getElementById('count'+idRef).style.color = '#080';
else
document.getElementById('count'+idRef).style.color = '#c00';
}
}
So it won't be long - just annoying
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Well
- it worked for a standard user and two version of me.
- it didn't work for two others (admittedly in IT)
So - maybe the first thing I'll do is send them your link!
Thanks.
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It's time you start using a real browser... nothing like lynx[^].
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If I change browsers then its back to SeaMonkey[^]
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W∴ Balboos wrote: measure and limit the number of characters in a <textarea>
You do know that maxlength works on <textarea>s in all modern browsers, right? 
Can I use... maxlength attribute for input and textarea elements[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It was more than limiting the number; I had to report back to the user the char count - so I was going into the DOM, anyway.
It becomes part of a set of functionality: like a VIN checker, or even one for credit card input. Exceptions, in those cases are handled at onblur.
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Actually, I prefer "It works on my machine, not on yours" to "It suddely fails everywhere without any clue of explanation". For any bug/problem, if you can consistently make it work or fail by changing the environment (from your machine to mine), you have made your first significant step in the debugging.
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My experience and nature is I prefer the all-or-nothing version of failure. In that way, I can at least see the problem and know when it's fixed.
The first significant step in debugging is to be able to reproduce the error. Until then, you've a moving target and may only think you've fixed it.
In this case,however, it would seem to have been the two failed users (of this yet unreleased change) both were in IT - so there machines, even their VM's, were different. When it worked for me AND for a regular user, I knew it wasn't my configuration that allowed it to work - so that moved the problem to them.
As finally noted above, it fixed itself - so their browsers were somehow in a unique state and I doubt I'll ever find out what or why (see paragraph 2, above).
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"Anomie," Durkhein called it; "Morbio Inferiore," Hermann Hesse called it; "Alienation," Heidigger, Marx, Satre, called it: who among us has not wondered (sometimes with a dreadful sense of dissolution of our very being) what our death will leave behind that is not just a fringe of superfluous decoration on emptiness ?
But, good news: our dying sooner, rather than later [^] can help great corporations, even governments, save money !Quote: Steady improvements in American life expectancy have stalled, and more Americans are dying at younger ages. But for companies straining under the burden of their pension obligations, the distressing trend could have a grim upside: If people don’t end up living as long as they were projected to just a few years ago, their employers ultimately won’t have to pay them as much in pension and other lifelong retirement benefits.
Who could not love the idea that an earlier death could help the great Lockheed Company bring a new airplane into existence ?Quote: “Revised assumptions indicating a shortened longevity,” for instance, led Lockheed Martin to adjust its estimated retirement obligations downward by a total of about $1.6 billion for 2015 and 2016, it said in its most recent annual report.
We must poo-poo the idea that falling life expectancy in developed nations is somehow indicative of quality of life:Quote: Absent a war or an epidemic, it's unusual and alarming for life expectancies in developed countries to stop improving, let alone to worsen. “Mortality is sort of the tip of the iceberg,” says Laudan Aron, a demographer and senior fellow at the Urban Institute. “It really is a reflection of a lot of underlying conditions of life.” The falling trajectory of American life expectancies, especially when compared to those in some other wealthy countries, should be “as urgent a national issue as any other that’s on our national agenda,” she says.
Instead, we should celebrate these statistics as evidence for heroic self-sacrifice: surely, each one of the one in seven Americans with an opiod prescription is helping here [^] !
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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Fake news.
No one pays pensions anymore.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Nathan Minier wrote: Fake news.
What other kind is there ? 
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
modified 8-Aug-17 8:49am.
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Pension? What's that? I had to look the word up. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Pension? What's that?
The crumbs some company or government gives you for being a good wage-slave, hoping you will be stupid enough to believe you can live on it with any quality of life.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
modified 8-Aug-17 8:49am.
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My quality of life would be good, just not long. My retirement age was recently raised from 60 to 67 and it would pay about $9000 USD per month should I slave away until then. They're hoping they can stress me and others like me to death before then; so they won't have to pay a pension.
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In Thailand, you could live like a proverbial prince on one-third of US $ 9000 per month 
cheers, Bill
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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By the time he retires, $9000 will probably buy you a Twinkie. Just.
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Yes, I have discovered that. I like Thailand a lot. I've been there 4 times and will be in the Big Mango in October. It is an option I'm considering.
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If you visit Chiang Mai, look me up.
cheers, Bill
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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I'm guessing you don't have a wife who was just diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Almost. Last week our boss had caught a cold, now it looks like he delegated it to me. Yesterday I mostly spent in bed, today I had to come in for a telephone conference with our customer. I would prefer to be in bed, but at least I can leave again after we are done.
Edit: The CP lottery is hyperactive today. I get some new random settings with every click.
I need a perfect, to the point answer as I am not aware of this.
Please don't reply explaining what method overloading is
modified 8-Aug-17 7:07am.
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We wish you a quick recovery (and a happy new year  )
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Thanks, but do you really expect it to take that long?
I need a perfect, to the point answer as I am not aware of this.
Please don't reply explaining what method overloading is
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It depends whether you have a healthy lifestyle ... and a lot of developers ... etc. etc. 
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I tend to tell them I can do telephone conferences from home in this situation.
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