Bugs and Suggestions

Re: Forum notifications and Microsoft's SmartScreen filter

20-Dec-10 9:39

Sorry to hear. I just checked my Hotmail account and everythings is fine. My notification of your reply did not trigger the SmartScreen super-duper interceptor radar thingy. Smile | :)

Chris Maunder20-Dec-10 16:37

BUG: Voting Stars Not Showing Properly

20-Dec-10 16:37

We'll look into it here to see if there's anything obvious (or even unobvious) we canb do our end

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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

Slacker00720-Dec-10 7:35

20-Dec-10 7:35

The voting stars are not showing properly...at least with this article: See Here[^]

When you hove over the stars the chart goes behind everything else.

I am using Windows XP SP3 w/IE 7.

Luc Pattyn20-Dec-10 7:39

20-Dec-10 7:39

That looks very similar to a problem I reported the day the new article header got launched: a random tooltip may be showing, as if the mouse was over a widget (e.g. the bookmark widget). Never had it happen on the voting bar though. Chris has looked into it already and called it a timing issue. Anyway, reloading the page seems to suffice.

Smile | :)

Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum

Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.

Slacker00720-Dec-10 7:44

20-Dec-10 7:44

Luc Pattyn wrote:
Anyway, reloading the page seems to suffice.

Sorry, no cigar...still doesn't work. Confused | :confused:

Luc Pattyn20-Dec-10 7:50

20-Dec-10 7:50

Interesting.
I can't get it to fail (FF3.6, Chr7, IE7; all on Vista).

Try CTRL/F5!

Smile | :)

Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum

Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.

Slacker00720-Dec-10 8:00

20-Dec-10 8:00

Luc Pattyn wrote:
Try CTRL/F5!

I did...twice...no luck.

Luc Pattyn wrote:
all on Vista

This might be the problem. Vista and Windows 7 might be working fine but XP may not. I wonder if this site is tested on XP SP3 or just Windows 7?

Luc Pattyn20-Dec-10 8:24

20-Dec-10 8:24

Slacker007 wrote:
all on Vista...This might be the problem

I doubt it.

Slacker007 wrote:
I wonder if

I don't know. My guess is they use Win7+Chr7 most of the time. Not sure though.

OTOH, if it really is a timing problem, then CP staff themselves are worst positioned to solve it as they are bound to get best server response.

Smile | :)

Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum

Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.

AspDotNetDev20-Dec-10 7:45

20-Dec-10 7:45

Looks fine to me (IE8/Windows 7).

AspDotNetDev20-Dec-10 7:46

20-Dec-10 7:46

Although the right of the article looks strange, as some of the widgest are overlapping.

Re: Why does this happen?

Why does this happen?

bleedingfingers20-Dec-10 0:00

bleedingfingers

20-Dec-10 0:00

When I type the correct email id and password, I log in in a jiffy, but when I make a typo, it takes noticeable amount of time before it reports an error and shows that page that it shows. Why does this happen? Is is just me?

PS: This is not quite a bug I suppose but it would be helpful if people could respond as I could learn some bit about web programming.

...byte till it megahertz...

my donation to web rubbish

Luc Pattyn20-Dec-10 2:48

Re: Why does this happen?

20-Dec-10 2:48

it is customary to include a deliberate delay before reporting a safety related attempt has failed; that makes it harder for bots to crack the system in a brute force attack. So I guess that is what is going on.

Wink | ;)

Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum

Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.

bleedingfingers20-Dec-10 20:23

bleedingfingers

20-Dec-10 20:23

Thanks

...byte till it megahertz...

my donation to web rubbish

Advert problem

Tom Deketelaere19-Dec-10 23:31

Tom Deketelaere

19-Dec-10 23:31

Every page I open loads almost immediately but the page indicator still shows the loading symbol.

The loading bar says: 'waiting for a.lakequincy.com'
And the advertisements don't show up.

Just thought you might want to know Smile | :)

Dalek Dave19-Dec-10 23:58

Dalek Dave

19-Dec-10 23:58

Shh...don't mention the adverts! Smile | :)

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Ankur^\m/20-Dec-10 0:06

Ankur^\m/

20-Dec-10 0:06

Ditto.

..Go Green..

Chris Maunder20-Dec-10 0:23

20-Dec-10 0:23

Currently running around in a panic like in the Muppets.

(Actually it's all very calm and boring and Steve is handling this one)

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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

Keith Barrow20-Dec-10 0:54

Keith Barrow

20-Dec-10 0:54

Chris Maunder wrote:
Currently running around in a panic like in the Muppets.

The true situation.

Chris Maunder wrote:
Actually it's all very calm and boring and Steve is handling this one

The spin put on it for the clients Smile | :)

Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
-Or-
A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

Chris Maunder20-Dec-10 2:08

20-Dec-10 2:08

You guys are terrible at keeping secrets. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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

AspDotNetDev20-Dec-10 7:24

20-Dec-10 7:24

Sounds like an advert solution to me. D'Oh! | :doh:

Daily News Email Discussions Section Contains Link to Article

AspDotNetDev19-Dec-10 20:37

19-Dec-10 20:37

I just glossed over the Daily News email from Code Project. At the bottom, there is a section called "Code Project Discussions - Have your say!" I think I've only ever seen this section contain links to the forums. However, it looks like this one has a link to an article "What every developer should know about bitmaps". Seems a bit peculiar, so I thought I'd bring it to your attention.

Re: Daily News Email Discussions Section Contains Link to Article

Chris Maunder20-Dec-10 2:06

20-Dec-10 2:06

I'll pass this on.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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

Printing Articles

CreF19-Dec-10 20:16

CreF

19-Dec-10 20:16

Hi all,
I know I could be marked as "old" but, sometimes, when I find a very interesting Article (like Sacha Barber's ones), I prefer to print them on paper, so I'll be able to make my notes, mark important paragraphs and so on.
Since last review of this wonderfoul site, when I click on the Printer icon, the printer ready page is displayed, but the column "Sponsored Links" is still in the output, so the room on the left for the Artcle is only 2/3 of the correct one. In this way the formatting of Article itself is truly unpleasant and there is a blank column on the right.

Could it be possible to remove the "Sponsored Links" column from printed pages?

Thanks in advance for your help Smile | :)

P.S. By the way, I'm still using IE7, because in the Company I work for this is the standard. Unfortunately also using Firefox (latest version on my PC at home) there is the same problem...

the CreF

Re: Printing Articles

Chris Maunder20-Dec-10 2:30