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Re: Mark question as answered

Chris Maunder29-Jan-09 0:20

Chris Maunder

29-Jan-09 0:20

The whole 'mark as answered' thing is getting fully revamped.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Bold tags not being auto closed?

DaveyM6926-Jan-09 10:45

DaveyM69

26-Jan-09 10:45

I was browsing the lower ranked articles to see if they deserved it and came accross this one[^]. All the messages at the bottom are Bold, is there a closing tag missing somewhere?

(Viewing using IE7 / XP SP3)

Re: Bold tags not being auto closed?

Chris Maunder26-Jan-09 11:16

Chris Maunder

26-Jan-09 11:16

Here's the offending code at the end of the author's article

<h2>
<h4 />
</h2>

Perfect XHTML, but no good as HTML since he has effectively left a H4 tag open.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Re: Bold tags not being auto closed?

DaveyM6926-Jan-09 11:40

DaveyM69

26-Jan-09 11:40

I should have looked at the source so I could have been more specific - never thought!

By the way, did the servers recently have a major hiccup? I was getting Server Error pages about half an hour ago for a few minutes (I'm in the UK).

Edit: Ah, just seen your post in the thread below!

Dave
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Re: Bold tags not being auto closed?

Chris Maunder26-Jan-09 11:56

Chris Maunder

26-Jan-09 11:56

Yep - see below. One of the servers had a hard night of it and didn't make it.

The thing I'm kicking myself about is we have automatic monitoring and I turned that off on that server a week or so ago when I pulled it from the cluster after it started misbehaving. I forgot to reinstate monitoring when I gave it a second chance D'Oh! | :doh:

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Re: Bold tags not being auto closed?

DaveyM6926-Jan-09 12:05

DaveyM69

26-Jan-09 12:05

Chris Maunder wrote:
had a hard night of it and didn't make it

Know the feeling, I'm like that on a monday too! Big Grin | :-D

Dave
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What has Bob been drinking?

Pete O'Hanlon26-Jan-09 10:18

Pete O'Hanlon

26-Jan-09 10:18

I've been seeing lots of crashes tonight. Has Bob been partaking the amber nectar tonight?

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Re: What has Bob been drinking?

Dan Neely26-Jan-09 10:49

Dan Neely

26-Jan-09 10:49

I think it's Chris that's been hitting the Beer | [beer]

's hard. In a rush to update the new navigation controls in response to user feedback he's apparently skipped the normal QA process and is deploying untested changes to the live site directly from VS. Tossing the empties at the hamster cages isn't helping either. There's only a few drops left in each, but it doesn't take much to get something smaller than the palm of your hand trashed. D'Oh! | :doh:

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Re: What has Bob been drinking?

Chris Maunder26-Jan-09 11:19

Chris Maunder

26-Jan-09 11:19

One of the servers had been taken out of the cluster weeks ago. Last week I did some testing and it seemed to be perfectly fine so I through it back in the cluster. Turns out it's no good and, because of load balancing, you were getting sent to it perioically and it (the misbehaving server) is dead as a proverbial.

It's been removed.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Top Bar (Login Area)

Rutvik Dave26-Jan-09 6:36

Rutvik Dave

26-Jan-09 6:36

Just an opinion. The White Background Color is looking a bit odd to me. specially when the ad has white background, at that time it looks like something is missing. I would suggest to change it to orange or some other color.

Re: Top Bar (Login Area)

Chris Maunder26-Jan-09 11:21

Chris Maunder

26-Jan-09 11:21

We had it orange, light orange, green, and bright purple but found that the white looked neater, cleaner and less cramped than if we coloured it.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Re: Top Bar (Login Area)

Rutvik Dave26-Jan-09 13:52

Rutvik Dave

26-Jan-09 13:52

OK. I think, it might take some time to adjust with the new layout.

Message Boards

Bassam Abdul-Baki26-Jan-09 4:17

Bassam Abdul-Baki

26-Jan-09 4:17

Love the new look Chris. However, when I first load it up in FF3, the Message Boards menu now opens up well below the screen bottom (1024x768). I only have one extra toolbar than default, and removing it still doesn't show the bottom part of the menu.

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Re: Message Boards

Chris Maunder26-Jan-09 11:22

Chris Maunder

26-Jan-09 11:22

Try a Ctrl+F5. That should force a reload of the offending script. (Kudos to Shog for the fix)

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Job Board maps

Nicholas Butler25-Jan-09 11:07

Nicholas Butler

25-Jan-09 11:07

Just to let you know the maps on the Job Board are messed up in Chrome, Firefox 3 and IE7. IE also has a horizontal scroll bar.

Nick

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Re: Job Board maps

Chris Maunder25-Jan-09 19:10

Chris Maunder

25-Jan-09 19:10

Good catch. Thanks Nick - all fixed.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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New layout problem [modified]

Hans Dietrich25-Jan-09 7:05

Hans Dietrich

25-Jan-09 7:05

Problem: opening a child post will be displayed off the top of the window if the parent post is not entirely visible.

Steps:

Open up this post: http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=2895800#xx2895800xx[^]
Scroll browser window so that the start of Joan's post is above the top of the window.
Click on the first child post (by Perspx). His post is displayed above the top of the window.

Details: FF2 and IE6, Layout=Normal

Ctrl-F5 hit: Yes

Best wishes,
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modified on Sunday, January 25, 2009 1:13 PM

Re: New layout problem

Alan N25-Jan-09 7:31

Alan N

25-Jan-09 7:31

I see this too.

I'm using IE6, XP, display 1400 x 1050 and 144 dpi.

Alan N.

Re: New layout problem

Chris Richner25-Jan-09 23:44

Chris Richner

25-Jan-09 23:44

same problem with IE 8 Beta 2

Chris Richner, raccoom.net

Re: New layout problem

Shog⁹25-Jan-09 9:45

Shog⁹

25-Jan-09 9:45

CP is no longer rendering in Quirks Mode. Therefore, the function EnsureMessageVisible() in ShortCuts.js must be updated to work with the documentElement (rather than body) as the scroll container:

function EnsureMessageVisible(msgID, bShowTop) 
{
   var msgHeader = document.getElementById("F" + msgID + "_h0");
   var msgBody = document.getElementById("F" + msgID + "_h1");

   if (!msgBody||!msgHeader)return;

   // determine scroll position of top and bottom
   var scrollContainer = document.documentElement;
   var top = getRealPos(msgHeader, 'Top');
   var bottom = getRealPos(msgBody, 'Top') + msgBody.offsetHeight;

   // if not already visible, scroll to make it so
   if ( scrollContainer.scrollTop > top && !bShowTop)
      scrollContainer.scrollTop = top - scrollContainer.clientHeight/10;
   if ( scrollContainer.scrollTop+scrollContainer.clientHeight < bottom)
      scrollContainer.scrollTop = bottom-scrollContainer.clientHeight;
   if ( scrollContainer.scrollTop > top && bShowTop)
      scrollContainer.scrollTop = top - scrollContainer.clientHeight/10;
}

(changes in bold - yes, there appears to be something of a regression WRT the message ID)

Thanks Shog

Chris Maunder25-Jan-09 19:05

Chris Maunder

25-Jan-09 19:05

All fixed.

Shog: add another beer to the tally. Or even a good red if you prefer.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Re: Thanks Shog

Shog⁹26-Jan-09 16:51

Shog⁹

26-Jan-09 16:51

The new menu is thanks enough. Seriously.

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Article Rating Bar Problem

#realJSOP24-Jan-09 23:45

#realJSOP

24-Jan-09 23:45

The article rating bar at the top of the article's page is being truncated at the article's rating instead of going all the way to 5. The net effect is that the entire bar is red with no white area.

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Re: Article Rating Bar Problem

Chris Maunder25-Jan-09 0:28

Chris Maunder

25-Jan-09 0:28

Ah. Interesting. FireFox only? Weird.

I'll fix it.

cheers,
Chris Maunder

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Problems with new layout

Mladen Janković24-Jan-09 23:04

Mladen Janković

24-Jan-09 23:04

Ad overlaps 'Articles' and 'Message Boards' menus (screenshot[^] - FF3).

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