Comments on: Browser woes with big posts

Browser woes with big posts

inpHilltr8r — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 10:11:02 -0800

When I shift click on one of Y2Karl's opuses. The magic blue link info box gets left open and doesn't close when I mouse over another link. Doing the shift-clicking alt-tab shuffle leaves a whole string of them open.

IE6 Win2K.

By: me3dia

me3dia — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:26:04 -0800

I've always thought y2karl was shiftless, myself.

(I've got the same config as you, and I need not shift-click, just mouse-over.)

By: crunchland

crunchland — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 12:27:50 -0800

stop the maddness.

By: inpHilltr8r

inpHilltr8r — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:54:23 -0800

To clarify, I shift-click to open a link in a new window, then alt-tab back to the original window, ready to open the next one, so that by the time I've finished opening windows, the first one will have actually loaded. Minimises the amount of time I spend twiddling my thumbs waiting for a page to load.

I use tab-browsing in Phoenix at home, but I use IE at work.

Anyway, shift clicking away, doesn't close the blue box thing.

Also blue box related; boxes for links in the sidebar, appear near the left edge of the main area.

By: me3dia

me3dia — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 15:18:02 -0800

Why not go into your user settings ("Customize" in the masthead) and set it so links open in new windows? Saves me the trouble.

By: inpHilltr8r

inpHilltr8r — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:07:47 -0800

Err, because I don't always want to open a new window?

Y'know, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought this was the right place to report bugs in Metafilter?

By: rhapsodie

rhapsodie — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:15:01 -0800

This is a bug with IE6 and the DHTML title boxes that has been known and mentioned before.

But I don't remember Matt giving any solution for the bug, except for opting to turn them off. Which is sad, because they're pretty darn cool.

By: tss

tss — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 19:55:24 -0800

A more traditional plural of "opus" is "opera". I'm not trying to be pedantic; instead, I actually just think it's pretty cool that one plural of "opus" is "opera".

That said, I'd like to proudly animadvert my new y2karlulator. You may find it useful.

(Self link, of course)

By: tss

tss — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 19:59:03 -0800

Wow, that was totally the wrong word to use. Um, check out the y2karlulator anyway.

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 23:46:04 -0800

tss, this is great. Really. :)

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 06:45:29 -0800

it's not a mefi bug, it's an ms/ie bug.

By: inpHilltr8r

inpHilltr8r — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:56:38 -0800

This is a bug with IE6 and the DHTML title boxes that has been known and mentioned before.

Ahh, OK, seen. Since the alternative is speed reading, and it's not fatal, and I'm just waiting for the next version of Phoenix (assuming they've fixed the bugs in the edit box focussing) anyway, I'll live with it.