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This website is undergoing an upgrade today to Drupal 4.4. Some things are likely to break, and I'll be working to fix them. If you notice anything wrong, please leave a comment here to let me know -- don't assume that I'm aware of it, no matter how obvious it may be.
For the most part, the noticeable changes should be minimal. In upgrading the theme, I had to make a few changes - let me know if these cause any display problems on your browser. In the long run, the upgrade will offer more power to the site, so it's worth a little pain. Unfortunately the 'All' link is temporarily disabled -- I hope to re-enable it soon.
If you prefer, you can email me at jeremy@kerneltrap.org rather than posting comments here. I'll update this journal entry when I'm no longer actively working on the upgrade.
Update: Everything appears to have gone smoothly. I'm not currently aware of any new issues being brought on by the upgrade. Over the next week or two I'll start adding additional functionality to the site.
left column is way out of proportion
For me (Mozilla 1.5 fedora core 1) the left column with the poll and my account options etc is full screen size. The central columna and the right one look like they'b about right if the left one was a reasonable size.
re: left column is way out of proportion
I believe that was tracked down to a bug in how the gecko engine displays CSS. Try shift-clicking reload - does that help?
I can't duplicate it on Mozilla 1.6 nor Firefox. (Nor on Galeon, Konqueror, Opera or Internet Explorer, for that matter)
it seems to come and go, I've
it seems to come and go, I've no great attachment to 1.5, I'll get 1.6. If I don't complain again in a while, you can assume it's fine.
re: it seems to come and go
Oddly enough, I'm now seeing this on Firefox. I don't see it on my dev server, which I thought to be identical to the main server. I'm still trying to figure out what's confusing gecko, without luck.
In other words, there's probably no hurry for you to upgrade. (What I'm seeing is minimal, but enough to be quite annoying. The left column is sometimes twice as wide as normal - no more. I've compared html source between the wide and the narrow, but there's no difference. Quite frustrating!)
re: it seems to come and go
Came to me twice already, both times when clicking "Add a new comment", not this time though.
Edit: Seems to depend on how fast the page loads.. if it loads slowly the bug will be seen (Not sure, but this is how it happens for me)
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Regards,
Markus
re: it seems to come
I have traced the problem down to the javascript that is used to display the banners. Something about that javascript is confusing gecko.
As to exactly what's wrong with the javascript, I don't know. Perhaps my final solution will be to write a new method of displaying the banners. (javascript is used to rotate the banner even though the page is cached). It's not likely to be a quick fix.
re: it seems to come
Good, and by the way this new page looks really nice :)
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Regards,
Markus
re: it seems to come and go
I was wrong, it was an easy fix.
The page was built inside one big table -- the javascript at the top row displaying the banner did not always return quickly enough for gecko to know how wide to make all the columns. My fix was simple: I broke the page into two tables. One table displays the header (logo/banner), the other displays the rest of the page.
I believe this will fix any remaining issues with older versions of Opera, too.
re: it seems to come and go
This 'bug' still comes and goes. Still depending on the page load time
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Regards,
Markus
re: it seems to come and go
Interesting. I don't see it anymore.
In any case, I know the source of the problem. When I have time, I will re-implement how banners are displayed -- I will replace the javascript with a simple php-based cgi. Hopefully this will solve the problem.
email blocked
When I click on "email blocked" beside someone's name it goes to
http://kerneltrap.org/title/email+blocked
which just shows some search results for the words "email blocked".
Maybe this is not new but it seems fairly pointless.
When I click on "email blocke
Whoops, this is fixed. A filter got automatically enabled during the upgrade, causing anything in brackets to become a link. I've disabled this.
RSS got bumped, reshowing all
RSS got bumped, reshowing all last ten articles.
re: RSS got bumped, reshowing all
Odd. Let me know if there are futher RSS problems, or if the upgrade just caused the last ten stories to be reshown... (I'm guessing the format of the RSS feed changed, causing what you're reporting)
For some time my browser Oper
For some time my browser Opera did show this page in a un-wide way, this now seem to be cured. thanx /Magnus
re:For some time my
Yes, that was the single most consistent complaint that I got, so I was sure to fix it with the upgrade. ;)
Yes thank goodness for the
Yes thank goodness for the upgrade!
It seems that.....
It seem that the Opera browser support it poorly(don't missunderstand,I mean it always look like that ,not just for you upgradeing this time after,but I just say it here).the article in the middle's wide so narrow and the other two sides are so wide.
BTW:Jeremy you did well for this website and thans for you works:)
re: middle column
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What version of Opera are you using? I can't duplicate any problems with Opera 7.23.
Prior to this upgrade, there was a problem where the middle column was very narrow. I do not see this problem anymore.
Yes
maybe you've fixed after this upgrade.I used the Opera 7.21(?,not sure) ,I think you've fixed the problem.:)
BTW:I've not tested after I used the 7.21 Opera last time with the poorly feel .happenedly I found this feedback ,so I just said the truth about last
Comments
Hi,
I maybe noticed something.
You know after the comments get moderated and you only can see the topic something like "some comment blahblahblah by blahblah" and when you click on that you will see the comment. but now, when I click on that link I need to browse down the page myself, earlier it did go down to the comment by itself.. Try here, if you can reproduce. (Reproduced with Mozilla firebird and Opera.)
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Regards,
Markus
re: Comments
I don't understand. Can you give a step-by-step example with actual names to illustrate the problem?
re: Comments
Ok here goes:
Now I go for example to this article: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2229
then I browse down to the first comment, and I only can see: "Okay comment "Thank you!" by Anonymous" and then I click on the "Thank you". Earlier it pointed out straight down to the part of the page where the comment is, now I need to scroll down by myself.
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Regards,
Markus
re: Comments
Ah, okay. Fixed... :)
Users
On the right of the page you saw who was online when you logged in, nowadays you only can see something like: "There are currently 7 users and 1077 guests online." or is this meant to be like that now?
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Regards,
Markus
re: Users
The 'Online users' list should now be restored.
re: Users (again)
now you can see users without logging in, you made that on purpose?
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Regards,
Markus
re: Users (again)
No. There appears to be a bug in which anonymous users are getting authenticated user permissions. I'm still trying to track down the source of the problem...
Editing comment
I don't know if this is a problem for people who have "admin rights" or for all, after I edited my comment it should show me the page which I commented to but I ended up somewhere else. (I noticed this earlier, I'll try other things too.)
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Regards,
Markus
re: Editing comment
This is a Drupal bug -- it has existed prior to this upgrade. Essentially, when dealing with comments Drupal uses a cookie to determine how to get back to where it came from. If you have two windows open, the cookie is overwritten.
I saw a patch at one point that addressed this -- I'm planning on experimenting with it once everything else is ironed out. But as this is an old issue, I'm not in a particular hurry to fix it. (In the same breath, I find it very annoying, so I will work up a fix eventually...)
re: Editing comment
So you mean I would need to have two windows open for the bug to come? which I don't.
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Regards,
Markus
re: Editing comment
That was how I understood the problem. Perhaps there are other issues too -- I'll know more when I actually get to fixing that bug.
re: Editing comment
Please try to edit a comment of yours, you don't need to change anything in it, just press submit when you get to the edit page. And do this with only one window open. Now reproduced with IE too.
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Regards,
Markus
Horizontal scroll bar
http://kerneltrap.org/hackers/ has a horizontal scroll bar. It is not needed and looks to be caused by the banner and topics bar things at the top of the page and the bar thing above the footer expanding more than they normally do.
Looks like the middle column is wider than it should be (poss. due to the
style of the ls -l output in some posts) and this made the relative widths of the header and footer bits just a little bit to big.Happens on epiphany 1.0.7.
re: Horizontal scroll bar
Only if I shrink my viewable window can I duplicate this. This is because I currently have <pre> tags set to cause the text within to not wrap. This is good, as it makes patches and such easier to read. This is bad, because it causes a horizontal scroll bar for people with smaller monitors or ones set to a low resolution.
I see that Epiphany also doesn't display the columns correctly -- the left column should be smaller than the right column, but it doesn't seem to be. This is now on my "known bug" list, and I'll look into it eventually... How I there was a shared CSS standard among browsers.
jabber logins...
...don't seem to work anymore
re: jabber logins...
I have now installed the jabber.module (which I neglected to do after the upgrade). Please let me know if jabber logins now work again.
re: jabber logins...
Sorry, I had to disable this module as it's causing a problem on the user page. I think it hasn't been upgraded to Drupal 4.4 -- one more item for the 'to fix' list.
re: jabber logins...
Please move it up on your TODO list :)
It was very cool way to login - almost single log-on, remeber one password and you can log to any cool site.
(anonymous Tomasz)
No longer saving cookie between two sessions
It looks like we're back to logging in every time you switch between the home and work PC. If you could fix that in the future it'd be great.
re: No longer saving cookie
This should now be fixed. Please let me know if you're still having a problem after tonight...
re: No longer saving cookie
Will do. Thanks much.
Remember Me
This problem isn't directly related to the upgrade because its been happening for ages. For some reason I have to re-login every day.
On Slashdot I only have to re-login after clearing out the browser cookies, but with KT I have to re-enter my password every time I visit the site.
Any idea why?
re: Remember Me
Yes, unfortunately this is a known bug. I've applied this patch which at least restores the 'remember me' functionality, and works perfectly for me. But evidently not for everyone.
Did the patch help for you? Or do you still have to re-enter your password every time you visit the site? A couple thoughts: 1) be sure to check 'Remember me' when you log in. 2) It may just appear that you're not logged in, try to force-reload the page and see if you are "suddenly logged in".
Well I didn't have to login t
Well I didn't have to login today, so maybe it has fixed the problem.
Thanks for the great site by the way.
Paul T.
re: Well I didn't have to login
Please drop another note in a few days or a week to let me know if indeed the problem is fixed for you. Thanks.
Problem with Galeon
With Galeon I have the following problems :
re: Problem with Galeon
I believe I fixed both of these issues yesterday. Please try a shift-reload to force the latest version of everything to be downloaded and see if it fixes these problems for you.
I do see that galeon is not liking the CSS that controls the column widths, causing the left and right columns to be the same size. I'll take a look into this soon.
adversiting links are broken
n/t
re: adversiting links are broken
Fixed.