UI Bites
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Wikipedia does a mouse-over preview on their links.
Nifty?
This is bad, because I'm at work, and "sodomy" is apparently on the Wikipedia front page somewhere today,
E_NO_REPRO must be a different day...
Or maybe, like Google results, Wikipedia has started customizing featured articles based on your previous search habits.
-
@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Wikipedia does a mouse-over preview on their links.
Nifty?
This is bad, because I'm at work, and "sodomy" is apparently on the Wikipedia front page somewhere today,
E_NO_REPRO must be a different day...
Or maybe, like Google results, Wikipedia has started customizing featured articles based on your previous search habits.
Well it should have included Zoophilia, Integrated Circuit, Boo, and a variety of other things...
-
@HardwareGeek If that was the case, surely it would have featured some kind of network protocol headers or a timeline of obscure C compilers or something like that instead.
Although the picture did remind me of my Xcode days. (I was the goat, to clarify...)
-
Status: Wow, excellent user interface, Microsoft...
Essentially, it meant to say "The account you logged into doesn't have permission to access this server." but that gobbledygook is what came out instead.
-
@Tsaukpaetra The one time Microsoft is explicit in their error messages, you complain?
-
@Tsaukpaetra Your post was 404th in this thread. Should have been 403rd ...
-
@Tsaukpaetra The one time Microsoft is explicit in their error messages, you complain?
I complain if it's "explicit" or not, because in both instances there's no clear path on what to do. If it was "Error 400: 0x918437b824 The device is unavailable" or "Error 400: {Insert paragraph on all the GUIDs you have but don't work}" you're still (as a user) no closer to accomplishing what you wanted to do.
Errors happen, I get that, but there's no excuse for this.
-
Better?
-
@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
Better?
Nope, that's the "Error 400: 0x918437b824 The device is unavailable" example I mentioned.
-
I see. I was too busy dealing with
Painterror message authoring app when you posted that.@Zecc - you're right, all they do is complain anyway... it.
-
@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
I see. I was too busy dealing with
Painterror message authoring app when you posted that.Maybe something like this:
@Zecc - you're right, all they do is complain anyway... it.
Hey, so long as bugs delete user data at the will of beta radiation, who cares, right?
-
@Tsaukpaetra
Dammit, your Paint skills are leet. I cede my trilby slightly to the left and scratch my forehead in reverence.
-
@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra
Dammit, your Paint skills are leet. I cede my trilby slightly to the left and scratch my forehead in reverence.Aww, you flatter me.
Really, I just had time to kill watching Windows Update...
-
Microsoft Teams
There couldn't possibly be any way to show one more channel in that list. No room at all, nothing that could be replaced.
-
@hungrier
What, and no comment on the absurd spelling of the word at the top of the list?
-
@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
Another shot from my favorite web app ever:
...
Note the reasons things can break. Not included--you hit submit and the squirrels that power the system were on break. Or the moon was in the wrong astrological house. Or...And "actions" always require a full page reload and take multiple seconds to complete...if at all.
Is this the one running on JBoss / Hibernate? We run into problems like this. Classes in the
SESSION
scope are synchronized (within that scope, so, for each user session), so if you end up getting another request sent while one is processing it chokes. I've dealt with this shit many many times.
-
@boomzilla said in UI Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall said in UI Bites:
Another shot from my favorite web app ever:
...
Note the reasons things can break. Not included--you hit submit and the squirrels that power the system were on break. Or the moon was in the wrong astrological house. Or...And "actions" always require a full page reload and take multiple seconds to complete...if at all.
Is this the one running on JBoss / Hibernate? We run into problems like this. Classes in the
SESSION
scope are synchronized (within that scope, so, for each user session), so if you end up getting another request sent while one is processing it chokes. I've dealt with this shit many many times.Yup. I've seen the Hibernate errors, and I remember seeing something about JBoss. It's an ancient (circa 2000) version as well, so....
-
-
@hungrier
What, and no comment on the absurd spelling of the word at the top of the list?We're not lazy colonials who can't even be bothered to put all the letters in words
-
Stripe (on HumbleBundle if it matters):
You have to type the numbers, btw. There's no calendar.
-
@Zecc What's the issue? 01/09 is in the past.
It accepts future expiry dates in the format shown.
-
@loopback0 It's a Chrismas miracle. TRWTF was me all along.
-
Not pictured: me subtly editing out most of the background because I'm self-conscious about what I include in screenshots
-
Thanks, Cisco. Could you make this any less readable?!
Filed under: From the Jony Ive school of design
-
Not pictured: me subtly editing out most of the background because I'm self-conscious about what I include in screenshots
That's what you thought, I made a GUI in Visual Basic and got it back again. It was just as I suspected!
-
@Cursorkeys said in UI Bites:
Not pictured: me subtly editing out most of the background because I'm self-conscious about what I include in screenshots
That's what you thought, I made a GUI in Visual Basic and got it back again. It was just as I suspected!
Draft Script
-
When adding a file to a commit in git's own gui:
-
@marczellm That's a GUI made by (CLI) programmers if I ever saw one. "Just make a window and show the text inside!"
-
@marczellm said in UI Bites:
When adding a file to a commit in git's own gui:
OK, so things are stuck. It would have been nice to know what each button does. Could you continue if you press Continue or do you first need to click Unlock Index a few times? Only one way to find out!
Filed under: You did back up your git repo folder, right?, RIGHT?
-
Thanks, Cisco. Could you make this any less readable?!
Yes, they could have. The text is a very slightly different color than the background, and I was able to read it, just barely, after zooming in. They could have made it exactly that same color.
-
@HardwareGeek I had to look at it from below the monitor at an 150° angle to even see it, so my coworker probably thought I’m insane.
-
Filed under: You did back up your git repo folder, right?, RIGHT?
And the answer is: LOL! Just re-clone it dummy!
-
-
@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
The text is a very slightly different color than the background
OMG - there is text in there! (had to move the image to my 4K monitor - zooming on the normal monitor showed nothing)
-
@dcon I can see there's something there on my phone. I had to open the non-resized version and zoom in to make out what. I'm still not sure I read it with 100% accuracy.
-
Save and open Cisco_WebEx_Add-on.dmg after it has finished downloading. If it does not start automatically, go here to download it again.
-
-
Save and open Cisco_WebEx_Add-on.dmg after it has finished downloading. If it does not start automatically, go here to download it again. Ah. Well, I got most of it. I didn't see the underscores, so I didn't realize "Cisco" and "WebEx" were part of the file name. I also missed that "go here" was a link.
-
@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
The text is a very slightly different color than the background
OMG - there is text in there! (had to move the image to my 4K monitor - zooming on the normal monitor showed nothing)
You know, I thought y'all were talking about the fading address bar.
I'm 175% zoomed in on a 2k monitor and only just realized you were talking about the blank white expanse constituting the content area.
As it stands, I can only see it if I make it black-and-white only:
-
@Cursorkeys said in UI Bites:
Not pictured: me subtly editing out most of the background because I'm self-conscious about what I include in screenshots
That's what you thought, I made a GUI in Visual Basic and got it back again. It was just as I suspected!
Close, but you didn't do anything with the mark below ".com" :)
-
@HardwareGeek said in UI Bites:
my coworker probably thought I’m insane.
Are you claiming he's wrong?
If he’s right then not for those reasons.
-
@loopback0 said in UI Bites:
Cisco_WebEx_Add-on.dmg
It’s awful, but it’s better than the alternatives.
INB4 someone suggest a totally not business-appropriate alternative like using disco[rd|urse] for conferencing.
-
-
-
@Cursorkeys It looks like it picks a random font or something? Here's another screenshot featured on the TDWTF Front Page of yore:
Here's one from Reddit:
-
@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
I'm 175% zoomed in on a 2k monitor and only just realized you were talking about the blank white expanse constituting the content area.
As it stands, I can only see it if I make it black-and-white only:
Looks like it worked better for you than for the miners
-
It looks like it picks a random font
Can't wait to see a screenshot with the dingbat font
-
@TimeBandit said in UI Bites:
It looks like it picks a random font
Can't wait to see a screenshot with the dingbat font
Oh my god, it's full of
-
@JBert Fascinating, I've just taken the
.msi
apart and this is the richtext font table for that control:{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg10000\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset77 Arial;}{\f1\fswiss\fprq2\fcharset0 Arial;}}
So, a Mac charset is the default on font
f0
and an ANSI charset on fontf1
but its declaring codepage 1000 (Apple Macintosh Roman) for Unicode to ANSI conversion, so I guess that's what's cocking things up.As to why it picks a random font when it can't find the codepage
Edit: Nope, it's the
swiss
font family that's doing it, changing to the defaultnil
font family fixes it.
-
@JBert I hope it explicitly excludes Comic Sans or Papyrus or I may have to murder a bunny.