visited links

Master Wen is busy working on a survey. I asked him and he says "That one I don't have an answer for. You keep asking me!!" (He's right; I bugged him about this for a while. I want him to magically snap his fingers and have it fixed. LOL!!)

Mine does the same thing too; even after I clean my cache, or leave it, etc... and not just on this site so it may be something on our PCS or in our browser. Now ya have me wondering if anyone else is having the same problem?? Or is it just us?? or??

*scratches head* 😐

> Any thoughts Master Wen?

Honestly, I'm not sure what the problem is. But I hope to look into it in the near future. Since it's a total unknown, it may take awhile to track down and figure out.

Wendell

I've got a clue for you.
Pull up a page where the problem shows up.
View the page source. You'll see the "read" threads that vs the "un-read" threads, whether I read them or not for real, are using different CSS classes. There is problem. However what is causing it, you'll have to determine.
I figured it might have something to do with classes since my browser is not using any special settings for that.

I see one of the class settings has a space in name. Is that legal in HTML? I've never seen a class name with a space in it. That there might be the problem.

Anyway, pursue those ideas and I'll bet you a beer that's it.
E.

visited links-Noodles

I am using Safari (Apple browser) and this happens every now and then on my machine as well. No big deal to me but it is strange that it just resets random posts. It's not bothersome so I have not commented on it. And it doesn't happen every day, just once in a while.

Wendell

> I've got a clue for you.
> Pull up a page where the problem shows up.
> View the page source. You'll see the "read" threads that vs the "un-read" threads, whether I read them or not for real, are using different CSS classes. There is problem. However what is causing it, you'll have to determine.

I'll take a look at that for sure.

> I see one of the class settings has a space in name. Is that legal in HTML? I've never seen a class name with a space in it. That there might be the problem.

Actually, that just means that there are two different classes assigned to that tag.

Thanks for the ideas!

Wendell

It just happened to me this morning, but not all of them turned back to blue....

It ALWAYS happens when I click the refresh button up top, if that helps.

I'm also using FireFox, if that helps too......

I just made a tweak to the CSS... please keep an eye on it and see if you continue to have trouble. Turns out there was no CSS class for a:visited, so I added it. Hopefully that will cure the problem.

> I just made a tweak to the CSS... please keep an eye on it and see if you continue to have trouble. Turns out there was no CSS class for a:visited, so I added it. Hopefully that will cure the problem.

IT WORKS!! Well all be damned!!! I just checked it all ways, plus did CNTL F5, etc... and it is still working. YAY!! Now I know it isn't all in my head. 🙂

Is it working for you, Eric??

Wendell is.......................
THE MAN!!!

:hi5: thanks!

It does seem to be working pretty well now... :party:

Eric actually deserves the credit, he found the problem!

Thanks Wendell.
True to form - always, always look at the source generated by a framework.

Edit: does that mean you owe me that beer? 🙂 Might be a "fur" piece to fetch a feller a beer.

E

Seems to be ok now.
It doesn't update for past visited links and that might be expected due to caching. No bigge.

When I view a sub-sub-sub reply in a thread and come out to the top level view. The entire thread and all sub replies are also marked as visited. Is that expected? I don't know - just axin.
E.

> When I view a sub-sub-sub reply in a thread and come out to the top level view. The entire thread and all sub replies are also marked as visited. Is that expected? I don't know - just axin.

Yeah, it counts the entire thread as read.

I've had that problem since day one, and continue to have it. No biggie, just kinda annoying.

Mozilla Firefox here.

Wendell

Mine is still not remembering visited links "properly."

After fiddling with it for a while, it appears to me there is a limit of 200 followed links set somewhere. If I view some of the more recent threads, they turn purple. If I then visit a couple of the older threads with a lot of replies (such as The Beer Leg Word Game or Vintage Pics), some of the previously purple links return to blue.

For example, I clicked on Wattles On Areas, which has 12 entries. When I returned to the forum index, that thread was purple. Next, I clicked on How would you do this which contains 18 entries. When I returned to the forum index, Wattles and How would you do this were both purple. Next I clicked on The Beer Leg Word Game, which contains 167 entries (for a total so far of 197 visited links). When I returned to the forum index, all three threads were purple. Next I clicked on Vintage Pics which contains 63 entries (for a total of 260 visited links) and when I returned to the forum index, Wattles, How would you, and the first 30 entries in The Beer Leg Word Game ( a total of 60 links) were back to blue.

260 – 60 = 200.

Now if I click on I’ve learned more the Last Two Years, which contains 22 entries, when I return to the forum index, another 22 entries in the Beer Leg Word game are blue.

I'm using Firefox 3.6.8.

I tried it with Internet Explorer Version 8 and got similar results, although I didn't do the counting.

Rich

It all makes sense now......

Ain't math great:good:

Wendell

> 260 – 60 = 200.

Rich, you are the man! Sure enough, I went and searched for any 200 values in the settings and that did the trick. Amazing. I bumped it to 500, so let's see how that goes. May have to bump it some more, but I wonder what that does for performance. We shall see.

Thanks!

Wendell

Wow. So far so good.

Certainly no one will read more than 500 posts a day? Right?

"640K ought to be enough for anybody" NOT Bill Gates 1981