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Posted by: Andy Capp Feb 23 2012, 10:45 AM
I created a new thread to draw attention to this issue.
Dear NWN's web administrator, please fix this bug where focus is drawn to the 'Search for' box when you want to jump to the latest post.
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Posted by: Adrian Hollister Feb 23 2012, 10:54 AM
I'm sure they will get to it, but it's a good idea. A fix would be great please.
Could we have a beta.newburytoday.co.uk site next time so that we could all help with the testing?
Posted by: Biker1 Feb 23 2012, 11:41 AM
Pretty please please!!
(IT'S DRIVING ME NUTS!!
)
Posted by: xjay1337 Feb 23 2012, 02:14 PM
I got it too but I hardly notice it because I'm busy looking in the general area of my crotch.
Posted by: Biker1 Feb 23 2012, 02:51 PM
Hmmmmmmmmmm....................There are other things on this forum driving me nuts too!! 
Posted by: xjay1337 Feb 23 2012, 02:53 PM
Steering wheel got stuck up your bottom again? Happens to me all the time.
Posted by: OldNewburian Feb 24 2012, 03:05 PM
And please sort the weather forcast out, I've tried it from 5 browsers to no avail!
Posted by: Brewmaster Feb 24 2012, 06:24 PM
For crying out loud get the clock right!
It is still 1 hour fast on both Newbury Today and this forum.
Posted by: JeffG Feb 24 2012, 07:53 PM
No, as I said earlier, posting times on this forum are fine. I agree the clock on the main website is an hour fast.
(According to me, your post is timed at 06:24 PM. This post was timed at 07:53 PM)
PS: the time shown at the bottom of this screen is also correct.
PPS: ah, all is now clear - I've just looked with another browser which doesn't have Adblock, and there is an analogue clock at the top, which is obviously what you are referring to. 
Posted by: Brewmaster Feb 25 2012, 07:21 AM
(According to me, your post is timed at 06:24 PM. This post was timed at 07:53 PM)
PS: the time shown at the bottom of this screen is also correct.
PPS: ah, all is now clear - I've just looked with another browser which doesn't have Adblock, and there is an analogue clock at the top, which is obviously what you are referring to.
Indeed. Both clocks are now correct.
Posted by: x2lls Feb 25 2012, 09:33 AM
It is still 1 hour fast on both Newbury Today and this forum.
At least it will be right for half the year!!!
Posted by: Simon Kirby Feb 25 2012, 11:47 AM
Is it me, or is the clock now one hour slow?
Posted by: user23 Feb 25 2012, 11:54 AM
Posted by: Simon Kirby Feb 25 2012, 12:31 PM
I think the problem is that the hour hand doesn't move round smoothly, it just jumps an hour on the hour - so 11.45 look like 10.45 because the hour hand is pointing directly at 11.
Posted by: JeffG Feb 25 2012, 12:33 PM
Have they fixed it (I assume you mean the analogue clock) since you posted? Because it's correct for me now. It's a pretty ambiguous clock anyway, just having to work on the angles with no hour markers.
Posted by: Andy Capp Feb 25 2012, 12:38 PM
Agreed; it's rubbish.
Posted by: Biker1 Feb 29 2012, 09:39 AM
Dear NWN's web administrator, please fix this bug where focus is drawn to the 'Search for' box when you want to jump to the latest post.
It's still doing it.
What a pain!
Can't be that technically difficult to fix surely??
Posted by: xjay1337 Feb 29 2012, 09:53 AM
If it's not that difficult why don't you fix it for them.
Posted by: Andy Capp Feb 29 2012, 10:31 AM
Authentication could be a problem. Not to mention it could break the law.
Posted by: xjay1337 Feb 29 2012, 11:03 AM
It's probably "Admin/N3wb3ry" or something.
But again with the literalisms and completely miss the actual point. Someone saying "oh, surely it's technically not that hard to fix it" okay then, why don't you fix it? Or could you even? I hate HTML. It links to div classes (eh eh ehhhhhh) and style sheets and blah it's very confusing. It took me 4 hours to make a box on our guest wireless portal thing sit in the middle of the page automatically based upon screen resolution.
Posted by: Andy Capp Feb 29 2012, 11:13 AM
But again with the literalisms and completely miss the actual point. Someone saying "oh, surely it's technically not that hard to fix it" okay then, why don't you fix it? Or could you even?
Posted by: massifheed Feb 29 2012, 02:58 PM
Four hours?!?!
I'm hoping this isn't what you do for a living.
Posted by: xjay1337 Feb 29 2012, 03:12 PM
It's not
I had never touched HTML before I did that. Metaphorically speaking. You can't really touch HTML unless you print the webpage which is not good for the environment.
Posted by: Simon Kirby Feb 29 2012, 06:16 PM
I had never touched HTML before I did that. Metaphorically speaking. You can't really touch HTML unless you print the webpage which is not good for the environment.
Centering and such is better done in the style sheet than directly in the HTML really.
Posted by: thatcham resident Feb 29 2012, 11:12 PM
I'm fed up with this Newbury Today web site, no weather no poll, font is terrible,pages keep jumping about. No time for it anymore, i'm going over to Newbury sound !
Posted by: xjay1337 Feb 29 2012, 11:16 PM
Cheers Si, you are right. I learnt it in the end after copious amounts of googling. To be honest I still never got it perfect but it was better than nothing.
It was fun but not something I would like to do. I made a website once. On geocities when it was very easy and nice. They changed it now, me no likey.
Close the door, wouldn't want a breeze
Newbury Sound is probably the best of the "local" stations. BBC Berkshire is literally just old ladies moaning about daffodils, Heart FM has those annoying presenters that go right we've got some hits from Lady Gaga on the way..." and then do that really annoying thing where you grit your teeth, press your tongue up against the back of your teeth and breathe in...
And they actually do play the same old crap every day. Some Adele, Katy Perry, The Wanted, and Take That (I said as I kicked Gary Barlow in the ballbag)
They are completely against rap as well...they cut out Snoop Doggs bit in "California Girls" as well, and when was the last time you heard an Indie band, or some hip hop, played on Heart? It's a middle of the road radio station for people who drive in the middle lane on motorways.
The only good show on Heart is Club Classics.
Posted by: Biker1 Feb 29 2012, 11:29 PM
Actually there is something on this forum that is more irritating than the fault highlighted in the OP.
Posted by: thatcham resident Feb 29 2012, 11:33 PM
Oh and i forgot to say, the time is alway's an hour fast.
Posted by: xjay1337 Mar 1 2012, 12:07 AM
yes it's the forum going to the top of all threads rather than the latest post kthxbye
Posted by: JeffG Mar 1 2012, 10:57 AM
No it's not. It's a problem with the widget they chose for the clock so you can't tell what hour it's actually pointing at.
If you download a decent browser like Firefox or Chrome, and install Adblock the problem (the clock and the page jump that panel causes) goes away, although that's treating the symptoms rather than the disease (which really needs to be cured).
Posted by: Brewmaster Mar 1 2012, 09:07 PM
Despite the lack of numerals on the clock I can easily tell that it is an hour fast.
I have Firefox but still the clock problem is there.
Posted by: JeffG Mar 1 2012, 09:14 PM
Did you install the Adblock Plus add-on? That's what gets rid of the clock.
Posted by: xjay1337 Mar 1 2012, 10:59 PM
Along with every other pop up. I had Adblock and NoScript and it restricted my browsing so severely I got rid of it. You have to bleedin' well "allow" on every single site you use. And some sites have multiple scripts so you have to allow each one.
Great if you are a big corporate company who want to maximise security, for the home user (even one who is technically minded), it's like drowning in wall paper paste.
Posted by: JeffG Mar 2 2012, 09:00 AM
Why start talking about Noscript which is something else? Adblock doesn't interfere with your browsing.
Edit: at 09:00 the little hand is definitely pointing to where the 9 would be. As someone else said, it jumps rather than moving progressively, so it gives the illusion of being an hour fast at certain times. It's definitely the choice of clock widget that's the problem, but that's insignificant compared with the screen jumping.
Posted by: xjay1337 Mar 2 2012, 09:06 AM
I know. Normally though people run them together. Apparently it's like Fish and Chips. Fish is nice except it's from fish so it's always bony
Although if you use forums I'd not recommend using AdBlock plus as it messes up with the boards eg when using smilies.
Posted by: JeffG Mar 2 2012, 09:38 AM
No it doesn't. Where do you get your odd ideas from?
Posted by: xjay1337 Mar 2 2012, 09:41 AM
My ODD future.
Posted by: Andy Capp Mar 6 2012, 04:46 PM
Edit: at 09:00 the little hand is definitely pointing to where the 9 would be. As someone else said, it jumps rather than moving progressively, so it gives the illusion of being an hour fast at certain times. It's definitely the choice of clock widget that's the problem, but that's insignificant compared with the screen jumping.
Meanwhile; all one needs to do is read the clock like a digital one. Look at the little hand, say 5, then count the progress of the big hand. e.g. the big hand pointing to the 8 means 40 minutes past. Therefore, 5:40.
Posted by: Exhausted Mar 6 2012, 06:05 PM
Just have a look down the bottom right of your screen and the time is shown there whatever site you are looking at.
What a lot of fuss, how do you manage to work out the time if you don't have the newburytoday forum up.
Posted by: Andy Capp Mar 6 2012, 06:15 PM
What a lot of fuss, how do you manage to work out the time if you don't have the newburytoday forum up.
The point people are making is that the clock is of a poor quality anyway, so why have it.
Posted by: xjay1337 Mar 6 2012, 07:29 PM
Surely since most of you are on computers while posting, you can simply look at the clock in your task bar... ?
Posted by: Andy Capp Mar 6 2012, 08:06 PM
What a lot of fuss, how do you manage to work out the time if you don't have the newburytoday forum up.
The point is, the clock is of a poor quality anyway, so why have it.
Posted by: JeffG Mar 6 2012, 08:44 PM
Yes, I have a clock in my task bar too, but not everyone runs Windows. I imagine Mac and Linux users need the NWN web site to find out the time.
Posted by: NWNREADER Mar 6 2012, 08:52 PM
Not on my MacBook, I don't.......
Posted by: x2lls Mar 6 2012, 09:28 PM
I have a Ratners watch from 1988 and it still keeps going. Original price 3.99!!
I also knew a bloke in the navy, who had a penknife.
Posted by: Exhausted Mar 6 2012, 10:03 PM
My point was whats the point of moaning about a poxy clock that only appears when you're on this forum or is that all you do all day long. I guess the posters on this forum who rely on it must be either very late or very early for work. Why not get a 50p digital watch off of ebay, much less stressful.
Posted by: NWNREADER Mar 6 2012, 10:08 PM
I knew a bloke in the Swiss Army with one......
Posted by: blackdog Mar 7 2012, 12:45 AM
Did it keep good time?
Posted by: Andy Capp Mar 7 2012, 01:05 AM
What is the point of anything. People find the clock annoying because it doesn't show the time correctly and is therefore for a waste of space. It is not because they rely on it for the time.
Posted by: xjay1337 Mar 7 2012, 09:01 AM
Because most of the people on here are here primarily to moan! About anything...
Posted by: JeffG Mar 7 2012, 09:55 AM
It's gone!
Posted by: Andy Capp Mar 7 2012, 10:03 AM
What has gone?
Posted by: massifheed Mar 7 2012, 10:59 AM
The busted clock.
Posted by: Andy Capp Mar 7 2012, 11:11 AM
I still see it. Are we talking about the same thing, the one on the front page?
Posted by: JeffG Mar 7 2012, 11:21 AM
We are talking about the one on the forum. Never mind the useless clock itself, it was the whole panel that was causing the problem with the page jumping that has gone (on browsers without Adblock, that is).
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