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Re: bugs bugs everywhere bugs



Emily,

Works fine for me with Firefox...

Dale/KL7XJ


Emily Clarke wrote:
> There are no browser related bugs for any of the supported browsers.  
> IE 6.0, 5.5 and 5.0 work perfectly.  Konqueror 3.3 works 100% as does 
> Safari, which is based on the Konqueror codebase.  Mozilla, Firefox, 
> Opera and Netscape 7 and 8 all work 100%.  Netscape 4.7 works but 
> doesn't render the same as CSS compliant browsers.
>
> I recently rolled out a stealth upgrade to all of the satellite status 
> pages after previewing them to the board and officers.  However I 
> wasn't happy with the way frequencies were being displayed in the 
> satellite catalog page, and spent yesterday redesigning it.  Some of 
> you may have noticed a temporary reference in red that the data was 
> erroneous.  It wasn't so much that it was erroneous - just very 
> confusing.
>
> Last night and today were spent re-entering the frequency data from 
> scratch as it was apparent after the first attempt to fix it inline 
> that it would be faster to enter it from scratch rather than try to 
> modify and reformat the existing data. (tnx Bill VE7WFG for 
> volunteering to help.)
>
> This was corrected as of 2pm Pacific time today (Monday) and the new 
> display routine was rolled out. I'm pleased that it handles 99.9% of 
> the permutations of satellite frequencies correctly. (AO-40 being the 
> one that comes to mind that could use some special processing.)  
> Obviously there may be some typos since most of the data was entered 
> by hand.  If you find any please submit a bug report.
>
> The bug report page is and has been working perfectly since the site 
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> impact some users.  If you have Norton or some other software based 
> internet security software enabled and have not entered AMSAT.ORG as a 
> trusted site you may not be allowed to submit a bug report.  This is 
> because some internet security software blocks URL Authentication 
> information, without which we can't determine that the POST request 
> originated at AMSAT.ORG.  This is a security issue to prevent 
> spam-bots from trying to use AMSAT.ORG to relay spam.
>
> When this happens you are redirected to a page that displays the 
> following error message:
>
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>
> Unauthorized
>
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>
> 73,
>
> Emily
>
>
>
> At 03:11 AM 4/3/2006, you wrote:
>> works fine for me, maybe it is fixed  :-)
>>
>> Will NA2NA
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "wa6fwf@amsat.org" 
>> <kevinschuchmann@sbcglobal.net>
>> To: <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 9:59 PM
>> Subject: [amsat-bb] bugs bugs everywhere bugs
>>
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>   To Whom It May concern,
>>>   just as a FYI the amsat-na satellite status page is having 
>>> problems, i.e. 6.0 shows 6 triangles only, konqueror shows zero, 
>>> mozilla looks like it shows them all  but they are boxes.
>>>   And if you wondering why I'm posting here and not on the bug 
>>> report page is because when I fill out the bug page and hit submit 
>>> it says page not found, so the bugs have bugs have bugs...
>>>
>>> 73
>>> Kevin WA6FWF
>>> Amsat-UK #6505
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