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Re: Post preview screen behaving strangely?
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Date:
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Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:35:01 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Rene Hoffmeister wrote:
> Weird: By clicking the "refresh"-button, the preview is first working then
> again not, with a chance of 50:50 to get the correct preview. Even more
> weird: Comparing the source code of a wrong display with the source code of a
> correct one, shows EXACTLY the same page reproduction.
This has been a long-standing bug that has something to do with the phase of the
moon, leap seconds, and whether the number of white house staff members that are
currently speaking vowels is a prime or not. I've tried to hunt down this
problem in the past, but met with little success.
One thing to note is that looking at the source code in Firefox is not
*necessarily* a good way to look at the page source. In some instances, when
firefox looks at the page source, it will actually do another request for the
page! (At least, I've seen it do that in the past). But it seems to be an
intermittent problem nonetheless.
DaveE
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 | | Re: Post preview screen behaving strangely?
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| Hi Dave, (...) It sounds sense. To be honest, I forgot to make allowance for the phase of the moon, ever thought this would affect the (URL) Wolf Browser> only! (...) Ja, I know, that's why I think it's a combination of 3 things: Browser bug, Table (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| | Re: Post preview screen behaving strangely?
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| (...) In Firefox 1.5 this doesn't happen. I've tried with Firefox 1.0 and was able to reproduce the mistake. Well, since the whole preview box is as wide as the subject line, I thought of a missing WIDTH-attribute in one of the TABLE- or TD-tags (...) (18 years ago, 12-Jul-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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