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It is both annoying and useless.
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jschell wrote: It is both annoying and useless.
Less than useless. it actively interferes with voting. I wanted to give your post a 5, but the viting link was blocked by someone's picture.
This feature should be optional; preferably opt in.
Where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. ~ Ayn Rand
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Yes - this is due to an issue with jQuery so I've made the pop-up optional. My Settings -> Forums.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I just noticed that if you mouse over a user icon in the forum it creates a object showing their profile picture over the forum. This was incredibly obnoxious when intelitext came up with the idea, and is just as horrid when anyone else steals it from the cess pit where it was cast.
Is there a switch to turn it off, or do I need to start using ABP to prune the sites DOM of blight?
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If you logout, if will turn off. I mean browse the site anonymously... 
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Dan Neely wrote: Is there a switch to turn it off
Yeah, that would be nice.
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It's been turned off by default, and enable under the "Forums" tab of your settings page.
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Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thank you.
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Just when into my profile and clicked Comments[^], when I noticed the title for the page is missing. It just displays the URL in the titlebar instead.
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Fixed. Thanks.
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Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Hi,
If I now search via the Lounge-specific search-box for a keyword like "Nokia," I get results that are not sorted by date, and I don't see any facility to sort them by date.
Similarly, if I use the more "top-level" search box on CP, and click the radio-button to limit the search to "Messages," I also get the same list, and no ability to sort by date.
On a practical level how I experience this as a "deficit" is: let's say I want to make a statement on the Lounge about the recent MS Nokia deal: but, first, I want to see if there's already a recent thread that discusses that topic. Searching on "Nokia" gives me a total of 162 "hits," and that's a lot of pages to work through to try and see if there's a recent thread.
If there's a technique I'm missing here, that's already implemented, I eat these words, and humbly beg you to alert me to it.
thanks, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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At the top left of the search screen is an area "Search Options" with "Sort by" being the first option.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Good Grief ! Apologies, Chris M., and Dave A., and everyone else who wasted time reading this.
I must be going blind, or this must be early Alzheimer's, not to have noticed that !
I EAT those words (taste of "Humble Pie:" yucky).
best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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You've raised a big question, though: why did you miss it? I don't for a second think you're blind. Something about the UI made it a blind spot for you.
How can we improve it?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I don't for a second think you're blind. Something about the UI made it a blind
spot for you.
I too missed it, so much so that I hadn't used the search facility since it changed for this reason.
As to why it is a blindspot, I think it is because the search boxes are on the far right of the screen, it is not therefore entirely natural to go looking on the far left of the screen for ways of refining the search.
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Does this[^] make it easier?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: You've raised a big question, though: why did you miss it? I don't for a second
think you're blind. Something about the UI made it a blind spot for you.
Hi Chris,
Well, that's a much appreciated "best possible light" view of my perceptual deficit 
What is strange to me, now, is that I seem to have a memory of seeing the search-result list of hits on "Nokia" in Lounge posts without any UI on the left side. But, I am unable to replicate that: so, I have to conclude, that was a "false memory" !
The principle of Occam's Razor suggests the simplest hypothesis: I didn't see the UI because I wasn't expecting it. Perhaps was "habituated" to not associating the left side graphics with search ? Or, maybe, I was a bit "wired" at the time, and just didn't look carefully ? Another, more dubious, hypothesis: I am "habituated" to seeing UI sort control of search results in other forms, or in other areas of a web page ?
Perhaps you are aware of the famous experiment where the subjects were shown a video of a basketball game; their expectations were "primed" by the experimentrs so they were focused on looking for certain things: more than half of the viewers of the video had no recall of a woman dressed in a gorilla suit running around, at a certain point, in the video.
You can find a summary of several similar experiments, including the one I mentioned at:
Missing The Gorilla[^]
best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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I always love the Gorilla video.
However, in our case I think your memory is fine. What's happened is we've switched out our old, clunky search and replaced it with a completely new search that has more options than the old. These new options are presented in the left hand column instead of being hidden under a "Advanced search" slide-out panel.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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After doing your search, look at the left hand side there is the search options orange panel, within it there is a sort by field, with 4 Date options and some others.
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Thanks, Dave,
Please see my response above to Chris M., for self-flagellating response.
best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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In question and answer,
chrome can not display "submit solution" button
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Now it works for me.?
Wander in Man-Made Wonder
modified on Monday, April 4, 2011 9:13 AM
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It works for me. Chrome 10.0.648.204
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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And for me, same version - the latest.
Have you tried CTRL+F5 to do a full refresh?
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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Thank you as always. And it seems the message was community-nuked. Excellent!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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