UI Bites
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra is that IE Mode?
Either that or something designed to look pretty close to it when the server isn’t sending their own 404.
But since this looks suspiciously like a vendor crapware browser window, it could easily be an IE mode window intercepting a 404 and using an almost IE11 404 page for shits and giggles.
It is not just a UI bite, but a healthy sized WTF bite too, whatever the actual reality.
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@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra is that IE Mode?
Embedded IE, yes, that's still a thing as mentioned elsewhere.
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@Tsaukpaetra oh embedded IE. I'm not sure if that's better or worse.
inb4
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra is that IE Mode?
Embedded IE, yes, that's still a thing as mentioned elsewhere.
I recently mentioned it, and it was this very piece of crapware where I saw it.
I had the dubious pleasure of using that “thing”, with the added complication that I had to log in with a different account that the one I was logged into windows (because I was connecting to a customer network), but the Microsoft login dialog won't ask you which account unless you've used more than one—but because this is IE and not Edge, I haven't used the customer account in it. That's how I found it is indeed IE webview (eventually I found a way to back from the login error to get the needed prompt).
But since this looks suspiciously like a vendor crapware browser window, it could easily be an IE mode window intercepting a 404 and using an almost IE11 404 page for shits and giggles.
The whole login process is implemented in a webview. It has to be. It is OAuth2 / OpenID Connect and that requires a web view—as a way to allow different identity providers to use different authentication methods and second fucktors.
It kinda makes this aspect not a
(I do not imply there are no other s in that äpp). The client needs a webview to run the login process in, and the authors wanted it to work even on old versions of Windows—so they could either bundle one, bloating up the package, or use the old library that is available even on old windows. Choosing the old library makes sense in that context.
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I did something really bad today. After switching my machine on this morning and reading one article in Nature, I left it alone. For several hours. And guess what my computer did?
TaskManager just showed me:
Fortunately, my ISP removed the 100 GB per month limit at no extra charge last year - otherwise I would not be able to read WDTWTF ofr the next few millenia.
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@BernieTheBernie I like how you got a special exemption from the Laws of Physics to enable that to happen.
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@dkf Maybe because I disabled Windows Updates on that machine, and because I was not looking...
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That's irresponsible. What's gonna happen if there's an update to the laws of physics?!
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@Zerosquare The Laws of Physics were encoded long ago in FORTRAN libraries. No updates required.
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@Zerosquare said in UI Bites:
That's irresponsible. What's gonna happen if there's an update to the laws of physics?!
Maybe that's what happened. Maybe the latest update to the laws of physics is 18,446,744,073,709,550,286 bytes.
I think I'm going to need a bigger hard drive.
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A few months ago, I applied for a job at %company%. Today I received an email from them telling me that they still have my data, and would delete them in 2 weeks. But I may extend that for another couple of years by clicking blah blah blah.
Noting unusual, GDPR crap.
But the subject line of the email was more interesting:Deine Bewerbung als %jobTitle%
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Nice try, OVH, but could I interest you in [% $TemplateSystem %] written in {{ .language_of_the_day }} that will be so much easier than your current <shit>?
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Every now and then I will encounter a retarded website that only works properly with Chrome, so for those instances I use Brave as my chrome-ish browser. It works OK and doesn't suck any more or less than any other browser.
But then today I noticed something. I wanted to re-size the browser window and make it a little taller, so I did what I've done with every program since forever, grab the top of the window and drag it up to make it a little taller.
Except, I can't grab the top of the window. I can grab the sides or the bottom, but I can't grab the top of the browser window.
I eventually discovered that I grab one of the top corners and re-size the window that way. But still ...
How/why do you even do something like that?
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@BernieTheBernie said in UI Bites:
A few months ago, I applied for a job at %company%. Today I received an email from them telling me that they still have my data, and would delete them in 2 weeks. But I may extend that for another couple of years by clicking blah blah blah.
Noting unusual, GDPR crap.
But the subject line of the email was more interesting:Deine Bewerbung als %jobTitle%
%funnyComment%
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@Gern_Blaanston said in UI Bites:
But still ...
How/why do you even do something like that?How?
Magic
says: Hiding the window borders, painting your own, and fucking up WM_NCHITTEST.Why?
Because somebody got a nice bonus for it.
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Raymond Chen, 2006: The Quick Launch bar and Favorites menu belong to the user.
Microsoft, 2024:
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@ixvedeusi that's not just 2024. Microsoft has both deeply schizophrenic divisions and always acted as Rules for Thee, Not for Me. So much so that pointing it out anytime MS breaks those rules themselves is against Raymond's blog ground rules.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in UI Bites:
But still ...
How/why do you even do something like that?How?
Magic says: Hiding the window borders, painting your own, and fucking up WM_NCHITTEST.Why?
Because somebody got a nice bonus for it.Another instance of Brendan Eich Knows What’s Best For The World? (The man behind JavaScript.)
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Many people use the notification area to provide quick access to a running program
I know one such guy: Fritz (you may remember him from
). And he enforced that crap on all machines - he used his domain administrator privileges to do so. 
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@Gern_Blaanston said in UI Bites:
But still ...
How/why do you even do something like that?How?
Magic says: Hiding the window borders, painting your own, and fucking up WM_NCHITTEST.At a previous company, they kept pushing us to do that. We finally got them to back down (and roll the change back) when we pointed out that we were constantly fixing various bugs with it ("Look, it's costing us a lot of money" - then they listened). Who would have guessed that the borders look different based on themes and Windows versions!
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The manual for Semantic Mediawiki sucks donkey balls. For so many reasons.
But today's comes courtesy of some fucking genius web designer.
So I'm reading the manual to see if this thing will help me with something I'm working on, and I realise this particular help page has some loading it's doing.
Those three grey bars are animated. It's a nice little animation.
It's also moving the entire fucking sidebar up and down +/- 5 pixels.
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Contains 25% of the Daily Recommended Dose of Jellypotato.
