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Archive for November 9th, 2005


Not a case for Use JavaScript after all, unless Quizilla are so lazy that they can’t implement a trivial fix. This is the bug report I just sent to them:

Currently a click anywhere in your pages causes Opera to open up the main menu. This is particularly annoying when filling out a quiz as selecting an answer to question one causes the main menu to appear and cover the text of question two.

This is causes by a small typo in your HTML.

<sppan style="font-size: larger; font-style: bold;">Main Menu</span>
<span style=”font-size:smaller;”>Click to Expand [v]</span>

Note the <sppan>. This is mucking up the document parse tree and causing Opera to treat the div with the onClick event handler to remain open.

Change that to <span> and the problem will be fixed.

Some people just haven’t ever heard of rudimentary QA.

[update] - and I’ve never heard of proofreading: “causing Opera to treat the div with the onClick event handler to remain open”. Sigh.

[update 2] - Quizilla have fixed the typo and their quizzes are once again safe for Opera users. Result.


Middle Earth Meme

via Sharikkamur

Rohirrim
Rohirrim

To which race of Middle Earth do you belong? brought to you by Quizilla

Monty Python Meme

via The Virtual Stoa

G'day, you're Bruce! You like to hang out with your friends Bruce, Bruce, Bruce, & Bruce drinking good Australian beer and philosophizing...
G’day, you’re Bruce! You think like a philosopher, especially after you’ve had a few cold ones…Australia RULES!

What Monty Python Sketch Character are you? brought to you by Quizilla

By the way, both these memes are on Quizilla, which has recently been demonstrating an annoying behaviour in Opera (present in 8.02 and 8.50, not tested in the version 9 preview yet) whereby a click anywhere in the page expands the menu on the left. So selecting an option in question one expands the menu and hides the text of question two. This is the sort of thing that User JS can fix, but before I start examing Quizilla’s JavaScript to find the problem, does anyone know if anyone else has already done the work?