Um, weird

[-[Raven]-]

In the past 20 mins or so, I've had an ickle problem. For some strange reason, when I occasionally post or try to go to a thread/forum, it either takes me to where I wanted to go, or the main forums listing. The address bar has the URL of where I want to be, and a refresh usually takes me there, and of course pressing back and clicking the link again.

Surely its not just me?

[Skunk]

Bizzare....

Hasn't hapened to me - I've forwarded this thread to our forums technical úbermeister.

[-[Raven]-]

Thats what I thought.

It happened around 8 or 9 times, but it hasn't done it since.

Had me foxxed :)

[-[Raven]-]

Back up comes the post.

Its doing it again.

Right.

1. I opened the main forum listing
2. I held down shift (to open seperate browser window) and clicked a forum
3. Clicked a thread

The main forum listing came back up again, but this is what is in the address bar:

http://forums.gameplay.com/showthread.php?threadid=189934

I'm pretty sure I'm not mistaken now. Also, after just pressing refresh, the correct page loads.

I'm even more confused.

Also, the forums are running abnormally fast today :)

[Mut]

Cant say Ive had that problem and I am using the forums all day with pretty much the same method ( shift opening )

Tried updating your browser ?

M

[Terra]

hey
cool i didnt know you could do that :)

ya learn a new thing every day.

[-[Raven]-]

I'm at IE5.5

Obviously its not a serious problem, but its a problem all the same.

[zsally]

computers can do that ?



shift shift shift

[Skunk]

/me pulls out his list of 101 useful MSIE tips...

Shift while clicking a link opens it in a new window

Dragging a link from one IE window and dropping it into another IE window causes that page to load in the second window

If you type a word into the address box (e.g gameplay) and hit ctrl+enter MSIE will add http://www. and .com to the address - saves a lot of typing ;)

Here's the best one though...

If you see an image on the web that you want to edit in an image editor (for whatever reason) click the image and drag down onto the status bar at the bottom of your browser. You will then be shown the image in the browser on it's own but the address bar will show the path to the image in your browser cache. Copy that path, open an image editor and paste the path into the 'open' dialogue. The image will be loaded into the editor and you can play with it at will :) - if you do this with a jpg sometimes the file in the cache will be called whatever.jpe - you will need to select 'jpg' image type in the open dialogue to load it or the image editor may not recognise the file type.

That last one may seem complex but when you work in web editing it's incredibly useful to be able to poach an image off the net without saving it or anything. It doesn't work if the image is a link though (dragging it to the status bar will open the link) so if that is the case I suggest right-clicking on the image and selecting properties - then select the image URL and copy-paste it into the address bar - this will display only the image. Now drag the image down to the status bar as normal.

When filling in a form hitting enter while in a field that isn't a text box selects submit (except on these forums where it hits preview instead :() - if you use a web based news editing system or something like that (e.g newspro) you can quickly submit things by tabbing to a non-text box field and hitting enter.

Hitting F5 refreshes a web page (great on the forums) - while holding CTRL and F5 forces a refresh of a page (again useful in web design stuff when you want to check changes you just made).

Hitting backspace while viewing a page is the same as hitting the 'back' button.

That's all I can think of at the moment...

Skunk

[Sar]

Skunk involved in "making good use of himself" shocker!

N1 m8, didn't know about the ctrl+enter thing, or the status bar doo-daa.

:)

[Razz]

Hitting F5 refreshes a web page (great on the forums) - while holding CTRL and F5 forces a refresh of a page (again useful in web design stuff when you want to check changes you just made).
CTRL and F5/refresh clears the current cached version of the page that is currently getting viewed.

[Skunk]

That's wot I meant :P

[mali]

These are all really helpful Skunk :E

So err... which hints have you got for totally breaking websites :P :tongue:

[Razz]

:laugh:

[-[Raven]-]

:laugh:

[Terra]

Excellent..ive printed it off and its now stuck on my wall for future ref.

;) Mali hehehe