problems with compression/reply
A couple of problems that I've experienced intermittently over the years that seem to have become worse in the last few days:
When I click "reply" instead of a reply window, I get bounced to the top of the thread. Refreshing the thread helps sometimes, but not always.
When I click on the poster's name to open a compressed post, I get taken to the poster's profile instead; when I click on "expand all" I get bounced to the top of the thread.
Just now, I could neither edit nor reply to this post -- clicking either bounced me to the top of the thread. Refreshing did not work, I had to close down and relaunch my browser (IE).
Ruth Lafler
Oct 29, 2009 01:01PM
If you want to expand a collapsed post, click in the blank area to the right of the poser's name.
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Well, usually clicking the poster's name does it. I just did a little experiment with a thread. Clicking on the name worked for all posts. Clicking in the white area to the right of the name worked on *some* posts: none of the first level replies would open that way.
Oh, and I just got another weird one. I've been noticing that sometimes when I put the cursor on "My Chow" I don't get the drop-down menu. This time, when I put my cursor on "My Chow" I noticed that the drop down menu did appear: in the upper left corner covering part of the "C" in "Chowhound" and part of the banner ad. It disappeared and reappeared as I moved my cursor off and on the "My Chow" tab.
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Re the menu problem, are you by chance using IE? That glitch for that browser popped up a month or so ago. http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/657565
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Yup. I use IE at work; Firefox at home. No one in that thread mentioned getting the weird displaced menu, though. I mean, I wasn't happy about not getting the drop-down menu, but since I could still get to my profile by clicking on My Chow it wasn't a big issue. But having the drop-down menu appear in a completely different area of the screen was just bizarre!
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Did it again. This time both the pull down menu for the chowhound boards and the displaced pulldown menu for the My Chow tab were partially under the left-hand side of the banner ad (the ubiquitous tomato ad).
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All the above-reported errors occurred at least once today on my work computer (some version of IE).
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