bit-tech 2017 refresh feedback: Bugs and errors

Cheesecake

By the way cheesecake isn't spelled Cheesecake

 

Hi guys, surprised this hasn't been raised, so concerned its my setup; but none of the links to articles in the Article Discussion section work for me...

When clicking on the links I get the following (example):
http:////www.bit-tech.net/news/rebellion-announces-evil-genius-2/1/

Notice the 4 slashes
and http not https - but that doesn't break it.

Using IE11 (please don't kill me - its not a choice, and I cant check on anything else)

 

IE11, Firefox, Chrome and Edge all handle those links okay here.

 

Clicking on that link results in an 'address not valid' error page.
If I remove two of the four slashes, and refresh/reload it works fine.

The http/https comment was just an off-hand remark that it was odd to be redirected to http when originaly browsing in https.

 

Awesome I'll add to the rather long list of really poor implementation that they ignore.

EDIT: My bet would be if I bring to their attention, their solution will be to block access to Bit-Tech.

 

I'm afraid that it's probably the former

In the past, when IE8 and 9 were released, I found that broken layouts in browsers were always down to bugs in sloppy HTML markup, CSS and JS, not the browsers (JS always being the worst culprit as those developers seemed to think that they were DOM gods, that the rules didn't apply to them and that they could fix everything with yet more JS.)

Firefox and IE get bad press these days for rendering layout honestly, whereas the likes of Chrome and Edge hide the mistakes by educated guesswork. I prefer the former approach to the latter, I prefer people to know that they're not doing a good job so that they can learn from the process.

 

I guess as IE gets older this will happen. Do you know if the feature you are using is actually a released feature, or if it's in a recommended state but it hasn't been signed off yet (however most browsers have support for it)?
I mention this because of its not finalised and signed off you're essentially using beta implementations of the spec and YMMV in terms of browser support and specific implementation, which can lead to horrible differences in rendering.

It's always best to check the
https://caniuse.com/ website before using new features; to check browser compatibility.

 

JS eh. http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/ Even Edge doesn't support all the features of ES6 yet

As with all things on the web, you have to look at your own visitor stats and make a decision on whether to use a technology based on what proportion of your visitors you're willing not to support; if the technology is not fully supported.

 

Um, is the alert system borked?

I'm getting emails abut replies to subscribed threads, despite having email alerts switched off in my preferences.

 

Dunno if its an error or a feature, but banned members are not show as such and going to their profile shows "This user's profile is not available." error page.

 

The Forum does a sort of "soft Scrolling" where is slows down when you stop Scrolling.
All the time it moves the text is not sharp.
Also, in the articles, the slightly Grey font makes the text "blurry"

 

Was looking at mod of the month, related articles mini-mods-making-simple-cable-clamps is borked 404 styley.

 

hmmm, that is interesting as that will be 404 as I haven't finished writing it yet and it shouldn't be visible at all, not sure why it has chosen that article :/ . Thanks for letting us know @MLyons can you pass this on to the team please <3