Alas, in the meantime, the machine/browser (not mine) where I was able to consistently get the "refresh" error was upgraded to Safari 4.0.3 (5530.19) and I can no longer reproduce any "refresh/damage-area fix" issues in Safari 4 related to Exhibit .... It looked more like a browser bug than a simile bug. My remaining cross-platform issue has to do with new sizing and rendering bugs introduced by IE8: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Niels Mayer <[email protected]> wrote:
> PS: Anybody got any clues as to why my box-model-hack-w/-forced > auto-icon-and-text-sizing in the thumbnail view (see <span ex:role="lens" > ex:itemTypes="Podcast" class="podcast-lens" style="display: > none;"><http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/NPRpods3?viewer=code>, > css <http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/ssx/Exhibit/NPRpods3?lang=en>) suddenly > stopped working on upgrade to IE 8? I finally and proudly got it all working > in IE7, Firefox3, Safari and thought "mission accomplished"! (Duh). I > somehow had decided to ignore this browser just like I had ignored chrome. > But since everything worked just fine with chrome, I finally dared upgrade a > perfectly working windows box to IE 8 on my "cygwin X server that happens to > be running windows" that i'm using as my desktop. How depressing... extra > javascript errors all over the place (which i can fix/catch), and the > icon-sizing in the thumbnails, which seems to work on every other browser > i've tried. Worse, my way of indicating status of "retrieved" (green border) > vs "error" (red border) doesn't even show up in IE8... what a giant pain > for a simple button with a constrained size and unconstrained text/image > contents... I guess I can use font and color to indicate podcast status, but > still... bleh! It's just a button! > > Niels http://nielsmayer.com > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Bruce Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> This is what I get when I try. >> >> http://homepage.mac.com/bfr/exhibit.png >> >> Does not seem to show the problem you describe - if I understand what >> you're trying to do. >> >> On Jul 9, 11:17 pm, Niels Mayer <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Using trunk version of Exhibit, I noticed that Safari sometimes doesn't >> draw >> > parts of the Left-hand-side border of a popup-bubble in the timeline. >> > To see this, use Safari to viewhttp:// >> nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/NPRpods3 then click a "podcast" > > > icon. When episodes appear in the timeline, click a node. If the >> left-hand >> > side of the episode bubble intersects or overlaps past the left edge of >> the >> > timeline viewportal, some of the episode-bubble's border gets clipped. >> > (shift-reload often as I'm updating the app quite frequently). >> > >> > I don't have a macintosh here otherwise i'd include a screenshot (I test >> > safari on my father's macintosh). However, I have not seen this kind of >> > problem using IE, Chrome, or Firefox on Windows, nor Firefox on Linux. >> > >> > Nielshttp://nielsmayer.com >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
