Bugs and Suggestions

Chris Maunder31-Jan-11 3:54

31-Jan-11 3:54

It was getting messy with too many colours: blue, grey, maroon.

Ah, what the heck. I'll add colourisation back for visited.

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Sandeep Mewara31-Jan-11 3:57

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31-Jan-11 3:57

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Sandeep Mewara31-Jan-11 4:25

Sandeep Mewara

31-Jan-11 4:25

When I view 'My Posts', isin't it redundant to show posters name?
Though it doesn't matter as we have enough space out there, but just not much of significance.

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Chris Maunder31-Jan-11 4:45

31-Jan-11 4:45

Yes, but consistent with the rest of the UI, and if it's a post that you're a co-author on, then both names will appear there.

Not that we provide a GUI in which to do that yet...

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Sandeep Mewara31-Jan-11 4:46

Sandeep Mewara

31-Jan-11 4:46

Chris Maunder wrote:
if it's a post that you're a co-author on, then both names will appear there.

That explains it then.

Ok. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

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Henry Minute31-Jan-11 3:49

Henry Minute

31-Jan-11 3:49

All of that makes sense. It is probably me being old and reactionary.

The first Q I looked at was this[^] one. I looked at it without checking who the poster was. When I exited I saw Chris Maunder where I expected to see the poster and just found it 'odd'. Smile | :)

I also should have mentioned this in the original message but I'm not seeing the 'open in new tab/window' widget. My connection is playing up a bit so they may just not be loading for me but I found them useful, so if they are missing, can we have them back please.

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Chris Maunder31-Jan-11 3:58

31-Jan-11 3:58

I'm open to ideas on how to show everything while keeping things clean. Maybe just stick to the poster? Maybe to none...

As to the open in a new window, I removed them shift+click does the same thing and all they do is add unnecessary payload.

I guess I could add them via javascript...

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Henry Minute31-Jan-11 4:08

Henry Minute

31-Jan-11 4:08

Chris Maunder wrote:
As to the open in a new window, I removed them shift+click does the same thing and all they do is add unnecessary payload.

Yes, I'm set up to use middle click. I just got used to them is all.

Dalek Dave31-Jan-11 3:55

Dalek Dave

31-Jan-11 3:55

Chris Maunder wrote:
My final thought was: what does it tell you if you know the name of the poster? A serious question, this one, and one that I started thinking pointed to a decision to not show poster's names at all. Possibly.

Knowing the poster's name can be polite.
It also allows for more interaction between OP/Responder/Commenters.

Can't it, Chris?

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Chris Maunder31-Jan-11 4:05

31-Jan-11 4:05

You'll always see full poster and editor details on the page hosting the question itself.

Just thought that having a comprehensive breakdown on the Question page rather than on the gateway page would be a good idea Wink | ;)

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Dalek Dave31-Jan-11 4:09

Dalek Dave

31-Jan-11 4:09

Gotcha!

Dalek Dave31-Jan-11 3:53

Dalek Dave

31-Jan-11 3:53

Yuck!

It Implies more importance to views and scores than it does to the questions.
It looks too 'busy'.
There is too much information at that level, and whilst stats can be useful, they should be more unobtrusive as a first page item, and perhaps have the more comprehensive breakdown on the Question page rather than on the gateway page.
And all the tabs as separate blocks underneath spoil the general readability.

Just my 2d.

Chris Maunder31-Jan-11 4:03

31-Jan-11 4:03

Having the answer count (an important metric for those browsing questions to see which need some lovin') on the right was too much of a separation. Bringing it to the left made it trivial to connect answer count and question.

Leaving the view count on the right looked...odd. Removing it would have caused howls of protest (though I'm still tempted). Removing the vote count and replacing it with a single star if it's upvoted seemed, to me, a reduction in noise and a devaluing of the importance of scores.

Dalek Dave wrote:
And all the tabs as separate blocks underneath spoil the general readability.

Readability of the question, or readability of the tags that are a decider for many as to whether they'll read the question? Suggestions? Dim the box?

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Q/A page activity

#realJSOP31-Jan-11 3:14

31-Jan-11 3:14

My activity in the questions doesn't appear to show up on the question list page, but I see everyone else's.

Using IE7 on Vista

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Chris Maunder31-Jan-11 3:17

31-Jan-11 3:17

I cringe when I ask this, but here goes: What activity are you doing in Questions and Answers that isn't showing up.

Remember - this is a PG site, and the "too much information" rule also applies.

(However, "last activity" is currently restricted to edit/answer, not comment. This needs to be added)

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#realJSOP31-Jan-11 3:21

31-Jan-11 3:21

Well, I answersed a couple, and my user ID doesn't appear after doing so. I also edited a couple of times, and it doesn't show up there either.

(No un-KSS activity is occurring in the Q/A section, at least not by me. Smile | :)

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Chris Maunder31-Jan-11 3:37

31-Jan-11 3:37

How's that now?

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#realJSOP31-Jan-11 5:00

Formatting issue in Q/A [modified]

31-Jan-11 5:00

It's not wide enough to display my entire glorious user OID, but I guess it'll do. Smile | :)

#realJSOP31-Jan-11 2:14

31-Jan-11 2:14

Using IE7 on Vista...

At the bottom of the page where it shows "Page 1 [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8...]"

There's some sort of weird overlay thing happening, and the first few numbers insize the bracket are overlayed with other numers. Going to the next page(s) doesn't appear to fix it.

EDIT =========

For a second (if I'm fast enough), I see that it starts out correctly by saying this:

Page 1 of n [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10]

But then some refromatting event occurs, and the bracketed numbers slide to the left so that it looks like this:

Page 1###### 5 6 7 8 9 10]

Where the ###### indicates an overlayed character.

modified on Monday, January 31, 2011 8:25 AM

Chris Maunder31-Jan-11 3:12

31-Jan-11 3:12

The CSS and much of the layout has been updated, so maybe a Ctrl+F5 will help. In IE compatibility mode (== IE7 standard) it's all good for me.

Hmm.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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#realJSOP31-Jan-11 3:15

31-Jan-11 3:15

No change.

Chris Maunder31-Jan-11 3:38

31-Jan-11 3:38

Can you send me a screen shot, please? I'll nut it out in the morning (sorry, 1:30am here...)

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Microsoft C++ MVP

#realJSOP1-Feb-11 1:12