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Tell Me How Many Times I Screwed Up Please
14 Jul 2004 by Jim Coudal
I was last month’s guest here at SvN but since the guys didn’t turn off my account I’ll sneak this one in. Daniel Burka has made this post at Delta Tango Bravo about a contingency issue that has always bothered me.
“Hold on, did the page reload or is this the same message I saw a second ago?”
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14 Jul 2004 | dan said...
Hmm. The site appears to be down, displaying the text:
Site Temporarily Unavailable
This site is temporarily unavailable as we perform maintenance. We will restore the site as soon as possible. Please check back soon. We appreciate your patience.
- Administrator
14 Jul 2004 | Anonymous said...
Try reloading the page.
14 Jul 2004 | dan said...
I already had (multiple times), getting the error each time, but I just tried again and got to the site.
14 Jul 2004 | Daniel Burka said...
We had an issue switching our database server a few minutes ago and hence Delta Tango Bravo was down for a bit. Sorry about that.
14 Jul 2004 | Coudal said...
Nice timing Dan
15 Jul 2004 | p8 said...
Hold on, did the page reload or is this the same message I saw a second ago?
I had the same thing clicking on the "About This Site" in the right corner on the coudal.com. I clicked while looking at the status bar which states: "Open Pop-up" and expected to see a pop-up window. Not seeing the pop-up. I kept clicking with obviously no results. Only to find out later that "What's All This Then?" is the pop-up.
Maybe it was my anti-ad blindspot that reacts to unexpected flashing changes in headers.
Also the logo (http://www.coudal.com/i/crois/86342B.gif) is cropped 1 pixel too low resulting in a flat spot at the bottom.
15 Jul 2004 | waylman said...
Yeah, I've had that problem before. Whenever I find myself in such a situation, I always look at the nice little animated icon on the tab in Firefox. If the icon starts spinning immediately after I click on submit (or login, or whatever it is) then I know I'm ok. If I miss the little animation, well, then I'm not so sure. I receintly tried using a different browser which does not have this feature and I really felt lost a few times.
15 Jul 2004 | Coudal said...
Only to find out later that "What's All This Then?" is the pop-up.
Maybe we should us the 37s "yellow fade technique."
Also the logo (http://www.coudal.com/i/crois/86342B.gif) is cropped 1 pixel too low resulting in a flat spot at the bottom.
So it is. Fixing that. Thnx.
