Out of the Blue

[Oct 13, 2011, 10:20 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Fed up with Chrome almost always starting up with a complaint that it hadn't been shut down properly, I did a little Googling to see if the source of this problem could be identified. I found threads on this dating back years, with the most tried and true solution being to uninstall the browser, delete all its orphaned subdirectories, and start from scratch. Not having the time or inclination to subject myself to all that, I tried a secondary solution that involved deleting some .tmp files Chrome seems to have generated somewhere along the way. This seems to have mostly cured things, though I had a single incident since trying it. Hopefully this will stick, as it was a bit of a pain.

Links.tmp:	Thanks Ant and Mike Martinez and Acleacius.
Play:	Rebuild 2. Concerned Joe. Hanger 2.
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Science:	Scientists Sequence Genome of Ancient Plague Bacterium. Thanks Neutronbeam. Antigen-Fixed Leukocytes Tolerize Th2 Responses in Mouse Models of Allergy. Thanks TDW Geeks.
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Re: Chrome

Oct 15, 2011, 10:22

Frans

Enahs wrote on Oct 14, 2011, 09:59:
Blue wrote on Oct 14, 2011, 09:24:
Jim wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 19:33:
This is the only site that I visit regularly that forces them, and as a web developer (13 years) I don't recall one incident where this became an issue.

Okay, now I'm confused. I thought you were asking for code to remove underlines, but it sounds like we are adding code that forces them?

I believe he is saying, that if you do not force link underlines on through the css code (just remove that entire line) it will do what the browser is set to by default. By default in most browsers links are underlined, but you can turn that off for your browser.

The style sheets don't meddle with link underlines, and I'm able to turn them off in my Firefox (3.6.23 on Linux and Windows, dunno about other browsers). So I don't understand why Jim can't.




-- Frans

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 14, 2011, 16:46

Mr. Tact

Blue wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 17:57:
It's actually the much-reviled FrontPage 2003.

A man after my own heart. Office 97, best office suite ever made still installed on my PC at home and work.




Truth is brutal. Prepare for pain.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 14, 2011, 16:43

Mr. Tact

kanniballl wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 11:35:
FireFox is great now though so I wouldn't mind switching back.

So, I'm curious... if you did switch back, which verison of FireFox would you use? The reason I ask is I've stuck with version 3 and frankly, haven't heard a reason to "upgrade".




Truth is brutal. Prepare for pain.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 14, 2011, 10:01

Verno

I didn't bother looking at your style sheets but I'm assuming he means letting the browser decide to add them or not by defining the text-decoration style and avoiding the use of the underline style. Most browsers will add underlines by default IIRC but I'm unsure about the newer ones, its been awhile since I did any web stuff.




Playing: Super Mario 3D Land, Tales of Graces F, Fire Emblem 3DS Watching: Hannibal, Community, Life

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Re: Chrome

Oct 14, 2011, 09:59

Enahs

Blue wrote on Oct 14, 2011, 09:24:
Jim wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 19:33:
This is the only site that I visit regularly that forces them, and as a web developer (13 years) I don't recall one incident where this became an issue.

Okay, now I'm confused. I thought you were asking for code to remove underlines, but it sounds like we are adding code that forces them?

Can you clarify that for me? And as Sarris says in Galaxy Quest, "Explain as you would a child."

I believe he is saying, that if you do not force link underlines on through the css code (just remove that entire line) it will do what the browser is set to by default. By default in most browsers links are underlined, but you can turn that off for your browser.




I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. - W. C. Fields

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Re: Chrome

Oct 14, 2011, 09:24

Blue

Jim wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 19:33:
This is the only site that I visit regularly that forces them, and as a web developer (13 years) I don't recall one incident where this became an issue.

Okay, now I'm confused. I thought you were asking for code to remove underlines, but it sounds like we are adding code that forces them?

Can you clarify that for me? And as Sarris says in Galaxy Quest, "Explain as you would a child."




Stephen "Blue" Heaslip Blue's News Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, El Presidente for Life

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 13, 2011, 22:02

Jim

Dades wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 21:24:
Firebug and a copy of notepad++ are probably more compliant and fully featured than using Frontpage. I can't even remember if Frontpage had basic CSS support or not, its so outdated that Microsoft won't even support it anymore. There has to be better WYSIWYG editors these days too. Sometimes its worth switching tools when it benefits your workflow in the long run and allows you to save time.

I've been using EditPlus for about 8 years. It's not WYSIWYG but I have amassed a lot of template code over the years that I can quickly paste in. I have occasionally had to deal with code produced in Front Page (it's been a long time since), but the absolute WORST WYSIWIG editor used to be Dreamweaver. From what I gather newer versions are improved, but I recall having to debug code that produced a site even simpler in layout than Blues News that consisted of a 20 column table, custom tags and all. The web has certainly become a much kinder place since then, but now it's Microsoft that is the most despised player on the web by leaving their antiquated browsers festering for eons.




Jim

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 13, 2011, 21:24

Dades

Firebug and a copy of notepad++ are probably more compliant and fully featured than using Frontpage. I can't even remember if Frontpage had basic CSS support or not, its so outdated that Microsoft won't even support it anymore. There has to be better WYSIWYG editors these days too. Sometimes its worth switching tools when it benefits your workflow in the long run and allows you to save time.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 13, 2011, 21:13

Sepharo

You guys should see how The Oatmeal draws his web comic with just a vector program and a mouse, clickin like a mad man.




[I'm not trolling I'm just] tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. -TrollinThundr

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 13, 2011, 20:59

kanniballl

nin wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 18:19:
Flintstones, meet the Flintstones.

Is that the version with the pterodactyl that types your code onto rock tablets?

This is quickly turning into tease Blue day. I have an excuse, I'm on painkillers...

(Sorry, Blue! )

Hey, be kind.

If it was good enough to chisel the 10 Commandments, it's good enough to render Blues. /rimshot

In all seriousness, if it ain't broke... don't fix it. Re-inventing the wheel (or a website) every X years might feed a consultant's family (or give a programmer something to do) but it's boring and only a handful of users ever notice. The projects I despise the most are "Let's migrate from platform X to Y for this website/application because Y is newer."

Keep on trucking Blue... besides Slashdot you're the only site I've visited since the 90's... and I'm not here for the whiz-bang features and eye-candy.

Content > Delivery
-

This comment was edited on Oct 13, 2011, 21:07.




"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you." -Fry, Futurama

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 13, 2011, 19:50

Quboid

Blue wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 17:57:
Fang wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 16:26:
Now I'm really curious which HTML editor you are using.

It's actually the much-reviled FrontPage 2003.

FrontPage?

It evidently does the job but I'm amazed that anyone still uses that, never mind the web master, sorry, el Presidente of an internet cornerstone.

600 million plus ... on FrontPage. That's all the more impressive.




- Quboid

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Re: Chrome

Oct 13, 2011, 19:33

Jim

jdreyer wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 14:45:
Blue wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 14:08:
Jim wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 14:01:
Blue, I had mentioned this a couple times in the past, but could you kindly remove link underlines in your CSS? This would make this site much easier to read in Chrome and go a long way in getting me to finally ditch Firefox.

Thanks

I'm sorry, but there are no plans to do this. For most users underlined links are considered standard, so removing them is a problem for more people than leaving them. If there were something I could add or remove from the CSS to make underlines optional, I would gladly do that.

Also, the underlining makes it easy to read for colorblind users who may not pick up the color changes, and while links are bolded, a lot of other text that aren't links is also bolded.

No colorblindness here fortunately, but extremely near-sighted. I guess I'll have to keep Firefox around just for reading Blues News.

This is the only site that I visit regularly that forces them, and as a web developer (13 years) I don't recall one incident where this became an issue.




Jim

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 13, 2011, 18:39

jdreyer

Blue wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 17:57:
Fang wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 16:26:
Now I'm really curious which HTML editor you are using.

It's actually the much-reviled FrontPage 2003.

Wow. Didn't see that one coming.

On the other hand, once you've been using something for years there are switching costs when moving to something different, and given that Blue does this site every day, it doesn't leave much time for figuring out new applications.




Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 13, 2011, 18:19

nin

Blue wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 17:57:
Fang wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 16:26:
Now I'm really curious which HTML editor you are using.

It's actually the much-reviled FrontPage 2003.

Flintstones, meet the Flintstones.

Is that the version with the pterodactyl that types your code onto rock tablets?

This is quickly turning into tease Blue day. I have an excuse, I'm on painkillers...

(Sorry, Blue!

)




RollinThundr Apr 17, 2013, 12:25: Eh really tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. If you really want to call that trolling sure. Mr. Tact Apr 17, 2013, 12:33: Pretty sure that's the definition of trolling...

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 13, 2011, 17:57

Blue

Fang wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 16:26:
Now I'm really curious which HTML editor you are using.

It's actually the much-reviled FrontPage 2003.




Stephen "Blue" Heaslip Blue's News Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, El Presidente for Life

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 13, 2011, 16:37

nin

Fang wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 16:26:
Now I'm really curious which HTML editor you are using.

I wondered that also.

Also, The Pyro wins the thread.




RollinThundr Apr 17, 2013, 12:25: Eh really tossing stuff like that in there only to get your panties all bunched up. If you really want to call that trolling sure. Mr. Tact Apr 17, 2013, 12:33: Pretty sure that's the definition of trolling...

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 13, 2011, 16:35

Enahs

Creston wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 15:40:
Enahs wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 15:25:
Now my nerd radar is got me interested.

I think that's called your penis...

No my penis gets me interested in in hot women.




I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. - W. C. Fields

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 13, 2011, 16:28

Fang

The outfit Apple bought wasn't focused on making PC cpu's (hence Creston's comment) but cpu's to be used in things like iPhone's and iPad's.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 13, 2011, 16:26

Fang

Now I'm really curious which HTML editor you are using.

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Re: Out of the Blue

Oct 13, 2011, 16:20

kanniballl

Creston wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 15:00:
jdreyer wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 14:54:
Now if we could just get more competition in the PC CPU industry...

Apple's hard at work at creating their own CPUs. Of course, they'll be of little use to PC users...

Creston

Eh, I hadn't heard that. Last I heard they were happy in the Intel camp. It's really hard to make as much fun about Macs as you used to.

But considering how long they held onto the PPC cpus, I wouldn't put it past them. But I think that was mostly Steve's "thing" and with him gone I'd *imagine* they'll stick with the status quo.




"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you." -Fry, Futurama

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