Load Image from Local Drive
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Now, I can't specifically blame the person who did this, since this forum's got the wysiwyg post input and maybe it can be a little confusing, but I found this in the source of a post on this forum and I had to have myself a little chuckle.
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>...<FONT color=#a9a9a9>IDs, etc. As is usual for this type of list, you can click on the
headers to sort the list by different columns.</FONT><br>
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<img src="</FONT><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff size=2>file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/keppelst/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/cr1.png</FONT><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>" alt=""><br>
<FONT color=#a9a9a9>Now let's try to sort by "Time in State":</FONT><br>
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<img src="</FONT><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff size=2>file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/keppelst/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/cr2.png</FONT><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>" alt=""><br>
<FONT color=#a9a9a9>Not only does it not sort chronologically, which is almost excusable,</FONT>...</FONT>Now, I've looked and I don't even have keppelst in my Documents and Settings folder...ok, I didn't really look.
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No wonder I was so insulting when reading the site earlier - my name is
keppelst, and i have many pictures of crap in my my pictures folder
named cr1-cr99.
I thought someone had stolen my crap pictures and posted them on the interweb, but it turns out it was just a mistake! hahaha!
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@flobi said:
Now, I can't specifically blame the
person who did this, since this forum's got the wysiwyg post input and
maybe it can be a little confusing,
A little confusing! Just a little, you think? This one is my fault, and I think you are right, you can't blame me (too much)!
So I'd have to guess, with a bit of hindsight, that the only way to post an image is with a reference to an URL, and not inline, the latter of which is what I was trying to accomplish, with the results that you see.
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Here's another attempt:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevekj/93599164/
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Ha ha... ok, how about doing it in the HTML view.
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Alright, that's more promising except that the link isn't to an actual image... how about this way?
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OK, now we're cooking with gas. So the original post was supposed to go something like this:
The software we're using for code reviewing, by Smart Bear Software,
isn't so smart when it comes to sorting. It can show a list of
code reviews, in columns, and each column header can be clicked on to
sort. This is a standard sorting UI.
So we can see that the time column is in a human readable format, which
is nice - but who wants to bet that it's using an underlying numerical
format for sorting? Let's click on it and see.
Nope!
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Checkout the 'Time in State' column...
seems to be a String sort on that column... a WTF none the less, but thats the only sorting i can see going on there.
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@sao said:
Checkout the 'Time in State' column...
seems to be a String sort on that column... a WTF none the less, but thats the only sorting i can see going on there.
sorry - i admit i didnt read / interpret your post correctly.
but using a string sort on a numerical column happens all the time!
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@sao said:
but using a string sort on a numerical column happens all the time!
Yes, indeed it does - if not all the time, at least on a distressingly regular basis. That was pretty much my point with this posting.
I don't know too much about the toolkit that would have been used to display this tabular data, so I don't know how little thought the original developers actually put into it, and whether it's even possible for them to have done a better job with just a few more minutes' effort. But no matter how you look at it, it's definitely a WTF.