Comments on: New Continent, New Look

By: MJ

MJ — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:21:27 +0000

As we say at my day job: “Sorry, but we could not replicate the issue. Why don’t you try re-installing the software? In the mean time, we have automatically generated a QA ticket so our developers can review the problem.”

shit, we are the developers. nooooo!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:04:25 +0000

Also also, there’s no link back to previous posts on the main page.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:58:18 +0000

Also, where did this site find / how did it know to use my yin-yang avatar? That’s kind of cool.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:55:13 +0000

Looks cool. I like the background, though I’m quite sure what it is. In FF3/XP there is a slight problem that a good deal of the text seems to turn link-colored when you hover over it, even though it’s not a link. I’ve seen this before and it was caused by anchor tags like , which FF doesn’t seem to handle correctly – changing them to fixed it.

By: Dave Jacob Hoffman

Dave Jacob Hoffman — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:37:39 +0000

White text on a black background has always hurt my eyes, but I do most of my blog reading in google reader anyway, so that’s not a problem for me. A problem you should take care of, though, is that the link color is the same as the body text color, so you don’t know if something is a link unless you hover over it. And I know how you like to slip links in your posts.

By: mccollam

mccollam — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:12:34 +0000

It turns out it WAS a caching issue, but not with your local browser cache. I run a wordpress caching plugin that makes static copies of pages that can be served faster, with less server load than dynamically generated pages (on that hypothetical day when I write something really trendy and this site hits the front page of Digg, I’d like it to survive).

I’ve cleared the server-side cache, so all the pages should be showing the new theme now, I hope. Thanks for the bugreport.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:59:16 +0000

The plot thickens. I tried it on IE 7 and it was the same: the comments links from the old post showed the old theme, as did “More shameless self-promotion”. Trying to add the first comment to an old post used the new theme; the comment I just posted showed on the new theme. More strangely, the existing comment on “¡Bienvenidos a Argentina!” used the new theme. I doubt it’s a caching issue, as I tried it in two browsers, but I guess I could be wrong.

I am actually meant to be hunting my own bugs on a work website right now, so maybe I should shut up and do that. I can look at this tonight, though, if it helps.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:48:24 +0000

When I clicked on an older post (“Observations from the first week in Argentina”) to read the comments, it switched back to the old theme – was that intentional? This one’s opened up fine on the new theme, but there weren’t any pre-existing comments on this post. I’ll see what happens with this one once I’ve saved it.

Looks smart, otherwise!

I’m using Firefox 3.0.7 on WinXP Pro SP 3.