Reply to: Thank you NF, Admin & Co

[nodric]

New Problems after this weekend

On IE6 I am seeing quotes randomly not displaying, and instead large white spaces in their place.

I also no longer see the Notifications or Settings menu items unless I hover over them with the mouse cursor.

[NickFitz]

Fair enough for the IT illiterate/disinterested but why on Earth is anyone on CUK still using IE6??

The most likely scenario is that they are with a client that has intranet applications that only work on IE6 (dependency on ActiveX, reliance on IE6 rendering bugs, all that kind of thing). Said organisations can't just get rid of IE6, and don't want the expense of supporting another browser as well, so they stay in the Stone Age.

I often wonder how far these companies have got with planning for the day when MS refuse to support IE6 anymore. I know for a fact that, last year, the IE Team's Platform Architect and former Group Program Manager refused point-blank to extend IE6's life beyond 2010 (13 July 2010 should have been the cutoff point, to be precise). However, MS had a number of large corporate and government customers that had kept their heads in the sand for too long, and were pleading with them to extend it to 2014, when XP support will end. The stand-off was eventually resolved by creating a new and more desirable position for that chap within Microsoft, which happened to involve moving him to a different division, and the chap who stepped up to replace him then agreed to the 2014 extension. I wouldn't expect it to happen again come 2013, though: those people should be planning to end their reliance on IE6 by 8 April 2014, or they'll be on their own...

[TheFaQQer]

Fair enough for the IT illiterate/disinterested but why on Earth is anyone on CUK still using IE6??

Because their client doesn't have any other browser available, and they are surfing from "work".

[xoggoth]

Fair enough for the IT illiterate/disinterested but why on Earth is anyone on CUK still using IE6??

[shaunbhoy]

Nice looking templates Admin, but god help a client if both you & NF are so carte blanche with releases on a client site.

Tapping away last night and the whole site goes down.

Ever heard of release scheduling or letting the punters on the board know

Well to be honest MF, finding a time that you are not on here filling threads up with unrelated gibberish would be nigh on impossible. You should be like I am, and only get drawn into offering advice and input when it is both reasonable and relevant to do so.

HTH

[NickFitz]

Hi all

As might be expected, there are going to be a few bits and bobs showing up where the new theme needs tweaking (or is totally borked). Moscow Mule has kindly set up a new bug reporting thread over in Forum Feedback, which is already doing a brisk trade

Most of these are things that slipped through because, as well as the colour scheme, a heck of a lot of the changes are to the underlying layout to cater for bugs in IE6 and 7. I'll be going through the reports this afternoon and evening, so there may be an update tonight, or tomorrow. However, we won't tell you when, as we know you like surprises

[DS23]

fine job fitzy. fine job indeed.

[MarillionFan]

You were prowling around in one a day and when caught you attempted to justify yourself by pretending to be some sort of moral guardian for IT professionals. You should be grateful they saved your arse.

I was about to own you. You got lucky the site went down.

Next time incompetence won't save you!!!

[doodab]

Tapping away last night and the whole site goes down.

You were prowling around in one a day and when caught you attempted to justify yourself by pretending to be some sort of moral guardian for IT professionals. You should be grateful they saved your arse.

[MarillionFan]

Were you around the time that the site was down for a whole weekend?

There was widespread panic. Eventually some survivors found their way to the FreelancerUK forum and set up camp there.

If Bob had been involved we would have a full change request, testing and full release management.

Much cheapness.

Bob understands process.

[Zippy]

Admin is the client, effectively.

Yeah because this is a business-critical site and we all need to plan how to cope without CUK for a short while.

But he might have been typing a devastatingly witty reposte which is now lost forever. Oh, hang on ...

[Gonzo]

Yeah because this is a business-critical site and we all need to plan how to cope without CUK for a short while.

Were you around the time that the site was down for a whole weekend?

There was widespread panic. Eventually some survivors found their way to the FreelancerUK forum and set up camp there.

[SupremeSpod]

Nick to be thanked

Yes, Stealth is now the default. Profile and notifications bar moved to below the logo and the style chooser links are above the top right banner.

Also Nick made a lot of changes to make the template render better in IE so fingers crossed a lot of you IE6 users will see a good improvement.

Thanks Nick

About bloody time.

(Erm, well done NF, much more professional looking imo)

[Bunk]

Classical contempt for users by socially inept techies.

I need my CUK fix.

Classic contempt for socially inept techies by everyone.

[MarillionFan]

Admin is the client, effectively.

Yeah because this is a business-critical site and we all need to plan how to cope without CUK for a short while.

Classical contempt for users by socially inept techies.

I need my CUK fix.