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Get Article's HTML in offline not working

4-Jan-12 2:45

I've fixed the issue on dev and will update the site this morning.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Petr Pechovic4-Jan-12 2:21

Petr Pechovic

4-Jan-12 2:21

Hello,

Get Article's HTML in offline is not working. I am getting error like this:

CSS

Something bad happened

We're not sure what, but we have a few guesses.
Problem: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Ticket: 5111310
Server: Web04

Cheers,
Petr.

Re: Get Article's HTML in offline not working

Chris Maunder4-Jan-12 2:48

how to cancel your vote for articles?

4-Jan-12 2:48

Thanks for that. Problem fixed and will be uploaded this morning.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

bosedk4-Jan-12 1:06

bosedk

4-Jan-12 1:06

I one voted an article because I thought it was bad but then realized the author had made references to the shortcomings. The references were hard to spot earlier. Anyway, since I couldn't take back the vote, I changed it to a three. I would have preferred to cancel the vote because that didn't deserve any up votes.

Pete O'Hanlon4-Jan-12 1:10

Pete O'Hanlon

4-Jan-12 1:10

Once you've voted, you've voted. There's no "take backs" in voting land.

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PIEBALDconsult4-Jan-12 2:51

4-Jan-12 2:51

Which doth sucketh, and I have pretty much stopped voting on articles.

Chris Maunder4-Jan-12 2:52

4-Jan-12 2:52

You've stopped voting because you can't cancel a vote?

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Nish Nishant4-Jan-12 3:39

Nish Nishant

4-Jan-12 3:39

How hard would it be to implement an un-vote feature for people like him? Smile | :)

It'd be like a careless-vote day-after pill!

Regards,
Nish

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PIEBALDconsult4-Jan-12 4:01

4-Jan-12 4:01

Partly. The requirement to post a comment with a low vote also played a part of course. I only ever vote 1 or 5, and hardly ever a 5. I found myself voting 1 and then the article would be improved, but not to a 5, and I couldn't remove the 1. So I stopped voting on articles altogether and just report the really bad articles and/or write a comment.

Even if I could remove a vote, going back and reviewing my 1s would be tedious and I probably wouldn't bother. I think it would require an email notification that an article I had 1ed had been updated.

DaveyM694-Jan-12 5:29

DaveyM69

4-Jan-12 5:29

PIEBALDconsult wrote:
I think it would require an email notification that an article I had 1ed had been updated.

This should happen anyway IMO - at least by default with an opt out user setting. If the article has changed substantially then the down vote may no longer reflect the quality and should either be removed or recast.

Dave

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Chris Maunder4-Jan-12 6:12

4-Jan-12 6:12

OK, that makes sense. I thought it was the awful sense of finality that was causing you grief.

"Do I vote? Do I not vote? If I vote a 2 will I regret it later? But I don't want to vote it a 4 because it's not good enough. Oh, if only I could vote it a 2, just for a day, then take it away, rest, and then, maybe, vote a 3 the following day."

So it's more about having your vote stay relevant to the article as the article changes.

That is something I can definitely add to the TODO.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

PIEBALDconsult4-Jan-12 6:17

Error occured while improving the question

4-Jan-12 6:17

Chris Maunder wrote:
So it's more about having your vote stay relevant to the article as the article
changes.

Yes, with an optimistic hope that it will be improved.

However, I feel that the ability to report poor articles is more powerful than low-voting.

Rajesh Anuhya3-Jan-12 20:00

Rajesh Anuhya

3-Jan-12 20:00

just now i tried to improve this solution [^], I got the below screen

Error[^].

I tried second time, then it's fine. i don't know why this error is occurred. This is only the information am giving to the CP team.

Thanks

My Tip/Trick[^]

Re: Error occured while improving the question

Chris Maunder4-Jan-12 2:49

Re: Error occured while improving the question

4-Jan-12 2:49

Thanks for letting us know.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Rajesh Anuhya4-Jan-12 2:52

Rajesh Anuhya

4-Jan-12 2:52

Welcome

My Tip/Trick[^]

A new problem: line breaks in Answers

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov3-Jan-12 10:21

3-Jan-12 10:21

I've just revisited my previous posts in Quick Questions & Answers and found that the rendering of source HTML code has changed.

In the past, double line breaks in the source was rendered as line break. The same posts viewed now don't have them (or there is no an vertical intervals between them, I'm not quite sure).

If I enter explicit <br/> between lines, it works properly, but the problem is: what to do with the already posted material? It was not designed to be rendered the way it looks now.

Thank you for attention to this matter. Best wished in New Year!

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Chris Maunder3-Jan-12 10:31

3-Jan-12 10:31

More than likely this is related to the bug below.

I will dig in. I can't replicate PIEBALDconsult's issue, but maybe if I focus on the line breaks (I know the code to fix) it will fix his issue too.

Hope you had a good break yourself!

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov3-Jan-12 15:31

3-Jan-12 15:31

Chris,

Thank you for this reply. After some more observations, it looks like modified "br". A line break automatically adds a "br" tag, as it probably was before. I checked it up on my old posts. Maybe new code is better, because repeated line break is accumulated in just one "br" break (is it so? you could check it up, as to test it I would need to create a fake question/answer and remove it).

The only problem is that before "br" was probably rendered by a style with 1 em vertical interval (margin), and not it is not.

Could something be done to preserve old rendering of the past posts, as those posts are used, referenced, etc.?

Thank you,

—SA

P.S.: to make this post rendered properly, I've used "p" tags. It would not be a problem; the problem is rendering of past posts designed to the old rendering style.

Sergey A Kryukov

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov3-Jan-12 15:33

3-Jan-12 15:33

OOPS! It looks like old style is back. Did you changed anything when I was editing my previous post?

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov3-Jan-12 15:37

3-Jan-12 15:37

No! It looks like now the stile in this forum is different form Questions & Answers where the vertical intervals between lines are zeros.
In this forum, multiple line breaks cause multiple "br".
See below:

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Slacker0074-Jan-12 0:19

Slacker007

4-Jan-12 0:19

When I edit questions this morning, the formatting for the "text" part won't keep blank lines. It moves everthing up instead. It only keeps the blank lines if I have the "plain text" checkbox checked.

I know you have your hand full and this might have been mentioned already.

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy3-Jan-12 23:01

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

3-Jan-12 23:01

Just edited this question[^] and had the same issue with the line breaks.
In addition to that the indent & unindent feature also seems to be broken.

Regards,

Manfred

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Chris Maunder4-Jan-12 2:47

Confirmation (Re: A new problem: line breaks in Answers)

4-Jan-12 2:47

I've fixed the issue on dev and will update the site this morning.

As an aside, may I say it's a pleasure conversing with someone so polite. You're a gentleman, SA.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov10-Jan-12 10:55

It looks like indenting in pre blocks has taken the day off

10-Jan-12 10:55

Hi Chris,

First, thank you very much for your nice words.

By the moment I've read your message, I did not see that it was fixed. Today, I re-tested the rendering on few old posts taken randomly; it looks like they appear as expected.

Thank you very much for taking care of those issues.

Cheers,

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

PIEBALDconsult3-Jan-12 8:08