• (cs) in reply to JThelen

    FWIW I find that in Firefox you can force a re-render by just changing the text size up a unit and back down (Ctrl-+, Ctrl--)
    This saves a trip to the server

  • endothermal (unregistered)

    Anyone heard of the Page Object before?  It was part of visual interdev, in fact it was the only useful part of visual interdev.  It provided AJAX like functionality before XMLHTTP came about.  It was available in version 6.0 which I think came out in 98.  So for intranet work it was a god send.  You needed a little client script that would call a server script from your page (in the background, asyncronously).  Then we just made server side COM object calls which were contained within MTS or Event manager (in 2000) from the server script block.  All business logic occurred in the COM dlls and nothing in ASP.  Site ran fast, secure and had no visible refreshes.   Not sure if it locked you into IE only though but it rendered as javascript code on the client so it may have worked with other browsers, but IE was the only browser at the time worth using.

  • J (unregistered) in reply to Firefoxer

    http://adblock.mozdev.org/

  • Firefoxer (unregistered) in reply to eagle

    This is the only site I've seen where you need to refresh to display ads correctly. The error has been here for months, and isn't being fixed -- I call WTF.

  • (cs) in reply to Firefoxer
    Anonymous:
    This is the only site I've seen where you need to refresh to display ads correctly. The error has been here for months, and isn't being fixed -- I call WTF.


    I'm viewing this page in Firefox 1.0.6, and haven't had the issue ever. When I have, it's there in Netscape, Internet Exploder, Opera, Safari...  need I go on?

    Yes, there's an issue with the software.  You're not telling us anything new.  Quit trolling, and go away.
  • Firefoxer (unregistered) in reply to JThelen

    I never said anything about Firefox. If a webpage doesn't render correctly in Netscape, IE, Opera, etc, its a WTF?


  • (cs) in reply to Firefoxer
    Anonymous:
    I never said anything about Firefox. If a webpage doesn't render correctly in Netscape, IE, Opera, etc, its a WTF?




    I simply stated that the issue is across all browsers.  That still doesn't change the fact that you're a troll.
  • anon (unregistered) in reply to JThelen

    I'm thinking that the forum's "next page" "previous page" links requiring javascript is a WTF in itself.

  • Dave (unregistered)

    i would read this if the text was not hidden under a blogads banner which floated above the post - it was hard enough to click on the reply link

  • (cs) in reply to anon

    Anonymous:
    I'm thinking that the forum's "next page" "previous page" links requiring javascript is a WTF in itself.

    It's called ASP.Net. And the technology they chose to handle events serverside was via Javascript. Grow up, there's nothing wrong with doing that.

    Drak

  • tim (unregistered)

    Wow, I don't even have to resort to sql injection attacks to work out the database. I can just "view source" on the page. And as a bonus, it has all the wonderful server details that are so hard to figure out. Wow- I'm going to implement all my code this way from now on!

  • (cs)

    Which browsers are concerned by this problem? I've just tried an internal web application (java servlet generating simple HTML 3.2) with several browsers, and neighter Firefox nor Opera "blink" or "flash". Both simply show the next page once it is loaded. In Konqueror, the background shines through buttons during refresh - but I don't think anyone would care enough to justify large efforts to work around that. So, which setup causes so much "blinking/flashing" that anyone cares?

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