Testing thread about nothing (I'm trying to diagnose an LQ-related Firefox issue)

Originally Posted by polarbear20000 The icon is a very interesting thing.

indeed. too bad puppy isn't appearing.
not "big" enough, apparently.

While I was creating & catching the dupes, I had "LQ Spy" going in one tab, and possibly another LQ page loading in yet another tab, so if anyone notices any 'extra' stuff here that doesn't seem to jive with the dupe situation, that's likely why.

So this site uses ajax? Well, that explains how your browser is being induced to make the error.

Originally Posted by jiml8 So this site uses ajax? Well, that explains how your browser is being induced to make the error.

How so? I haven't a clue about ajax.. Please expand.

Thanks

Hi,

Just a test on another machine.

Hi all,
just testing the new OS icon feature.

Originally Posted by onebuck Hi, Just a test on another machine.

At the moment, I'm either not willing or not able: The laptop's in a state of "suspended OS animation" as it's between distros; the firewall/LAN server isn't allowed browsing the net; and the roommates machine is, among other annoyances, running XP.

Meanwhile, I'll be interested in what jiml8 may have to say about the ajax angle.

Sasha

Hi,

Originally Posted by GrapefruiTgirl At the moment, I'm either not willing or not able: The laptop's in a state of "suspended OS animation" as it's between distros; the firewall/LAN server isn't allowed browsing the net; and the roommates machine is, among other annoyances, running XP. Meanwhile, I'll be interested in what jiml8 may have to say about the ajax angle. Sasha

I was just testing a setup on another machine. Not replying to anyone. So sorry for the injection

lol,

Thanks Onebuck for the clarification -- I think I need more coffee, I totally misread your post.

Sasha

Originally Posted by GrapefruiTgirl Meanwhile, I'll be interested in what jiml8 may have to say about the ajax angle. Sasha

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)

Basically, with ajax in use, your browser could be doing pretty much anything - whatever the scripting is telling it to do. Looks like maybe when a connection return fails, after a timeout the browser is resubmitting the form or some such, hence your duplicate. Sure looks like a bug to me.

Edited to fix the link, which this site constructed incorrectly. See my next post below.

Hi, and thanks Jim, for the feedback.

That Wiki link is long gone, but anyhow: Are you suggesting a bug on the part of the browser, or on the part of the server? I'm still unclear, but I've the feeling you're suggesting a server-side scripting issue.

Sasha

Weird. I just googled and got that page. I just re-googled, and got that page again - and it loads. Try googling on "Ajax Programming". For me, the wikipedia article came up as the first response.

I would think the bug is in the ajax scripting this site is using, not a browser bug. The script error would be a client side error most probably.

Edit: I just found a bug in this site that caused that link to be bad. I copied/pasted the link, and the site automatically added url tags around it but did it wrong.

The specified URL ends with a right parenthesis, but the url tags were added with the close tag to the left of the right parenthesis. I fixed it; try the link again.

Great, the AJAX link you gave, now works. I'll have a read of that.

PS - I'm sure you will, but if your sure there's a LQ bug that wrongly pasted the URL, perhaps make note of it in S&F or ProjectLQ bug tracker.

Thanks for your continued following of my issue -- If there were thumbs in here. I'd click one for you, but instead: @ jiml8

Sasha

Test to confirm incorrect link reporting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)

Indeed -- for some reason, the closing bracket did not attach to the URL huh?
Sasha

Originally Posted by GrapefruiTgirl Indeed -- for some reason, the closing bracket did not attach to the URL huh? Sasha

Nope.

And Jeremy says it's "not a bug". He says: "for this type of url you'll have to manually use the url tags".

What I say is this: It is a bug. It is unexpected and incorrect behavior. It may be a bug that won't be fixed, but it certainly is a bug. And I didn't use the URL tags to begin with because I wasn't goling to make it a link (me being lazy).