[LON-CAPA-users] Re: previous tries window hangs and/or fails to close

Felicia Berryman lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:41:02 -0500


Hi Jay,

Please share the URL of one of the problems so I can check this out and 
submit a bug report if necessary.

Thanks,

Felicia

Jay Sullivan wrote:
> As a followup, I should point out that the problems that experience the 
> "buggy" behavior are most likely using the jsmath display feature (I 
> don't have access to the source code, so I can't confirm that with 
> absolute certainty).
> 
> Also I can only reproduce the problem on Internet Explorer. Firefox 
> doesn't seem to be affected.
> 
> Thanks,
> J
> 
> On Jan 10, 2008 10:11 AM, Jay Sullivan < jmsloncapa@gmail.com 
> <mailto:jmsloncapa@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I am seeing a situation where the previous tries link intermittently
>     fails to work properly. When you click on the link one of two
>     possibilities occurs:
> 
>     1) A blank popup window is shown. The status text at the bottom left
>     shows that it is being downloaded, but it never comes through. Some
>     times it just loads a blank window and doesn't even report anything
>     about the download.
> 
>     OR
> 
>     2) The page is loaded but then the "Close Window" button doesn't
>     work. Clicking the "X" on the upper right of the window results in a
>     browser crash.
> 
>     What's annoying is that this buggy behavior only occurs for certain
>     problems. Other problems behave normally. The problems that seem to
>     be affected were not written by me. However, all the problems are
>     being imported into the educog server (bccc domain) either from VCU
>     (my remote construction space) or other locations.
> 
>     Has anyone else seen this problem?
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Jay
> 
> 

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