Comments on: A Browser Experiment

By: Carol Anne

Carol Anne — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:50:53 +0000

As of yesterday, I have been seeing Mister Boo, although I haven’t had the luck to see what happens when he crosses the smiley.

By: Carol Anne

Carol Anne — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:28:03 +0000

Back on Firefox, reloaded the page, new post showed up, pink background is gone. Probably just a matter of timing that I was loading the page at exactly the time that you were updating it.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:25:28 +0000

The database error probably occurred when I was uploading a minor edit to the latest episode; when I save the system does some pretty expensive queries to update the “similar posts” feature (which is new) – all other posts are affected, so it can chew some server cycles.

When you went back, the error information was probably in your cache, and the browser chose not to reload it (the browser doesn’t know for errors). Naturally, your other browser got a nice, fresh version of the page.

By: Carol Anne

Carol Anne — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:13:05 +0000

The sidebar came through all right in Safari 3.2.2, and I see there’s a new post up. The poll and MOH corner aren’t highlighted in pink, although you may have turned that off.

I see the first smiley, still nothing in the space where the second should be, and the third smiley is the same size as the first, rather than the much bigger one that I saw in Firefox, but it is rendered in slightly more subtle colors than the first.

I have not been lucky enough to have the duck cross the smiley to see what happens in Safari.

By: Carol Anne

Carol Anne — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:00:00 +0000

Well, Mister Boo is supposed to be a Ninja ghost, although I haven’t seen him yet.

By: Carol Anne

Carol Anne — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:58:17 +0000

UM, okay, now the sidebar is full of gibberish, consisting of the top edge of a section header, followed by “WordPress Database Error: [My SQL server has gone away]“, followed by a bunch of code, and repeating.

I’m reminded of the old lyrics, “My Massa’s gone away …”

The sidebar looks all right from the comment page, but it still isn’t right when I return to the main page.

By: pL

pL — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:57:02 +0000

I see two smiley faces, the bottom one being much bigger. Have not noticed the duck’s effects on the faces, but the duck and Shatner seem to be working.

Now, you need a Ninja and Darth Vader…oohhh…a Ninja Darth Vader!

By: Carol Anne

Carol Anne — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:21:03 +0000

Oooh, actually, the duck leaves a ghost of himself when he’s flying from left to right; when he’s going the other way, he flies behind the smiley face.

By: Carol Anne

Carol Anne — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:01:54 +0000

On Firefox 3.5.3, the first just shows up as the words “Emblem-fun”. The second one doesn’t show up at all. The third one is very pretty, but when the duck flies over it, it leaves a copy of the duck in front of the smiley face for a couple of seconds.