Webmonkey bugs

Revision as of 04:14, 26 September 2009

Egads! A Bug!

This wiki page is for reporting, documenting and commenting on bugs or performance issues on Webmonkey.com. Have at it...

Interface and UI Issues

• Whenever I view this site on my ipod touch, it crashes. This needs fixing ASAP because its very annoying, as it takes ages to load on my ipod. I try to avoid webmonkey on my ipod now.

• the search filter for css doesn't seem to be working:
  • http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/tag/user_experience_design/web_basics/stylesheets/positioning/visual_design/classes/css
  • http://www.webmonkey.com/search/tag/css?keywords=xhtml
  • http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/tag/web_basics/css
• None of the permanent links work! Can't get to the comments on any of the articles from the blog.
• Next page link replaced by Previous page link on blog pages > 1
• Can't delete or replace profile image
• Contact us page has been moved
• All the emails to the Web Monkeys are broken
• Web forms are hideous and compacted in Firefox, Safari, Opera...all browsers that aren't IE (Firefox Screen Shot)
• Javascript error on every page: Line 603 char 5 Error: 'null' is null or not an object. This bug does not seem to be affecting overall functionality, but it is showing bad monkey habits... All monkeys should strive for perfect, error free coding.
• In Monkey Bites sections, links in 'see also' sections with apostrophes will create unicode encoding errors. See example of problem screenshot
• this section http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Facebook_Presents_Scalability_Secret%3A_Memcached

has messed up the divs, well it still looks acceptable but its still messy viewed with: firefox 2

• Tutorials > Programming > Build a Website with Flash and MySQL (Parts 1 and 2 ) fail to reload after toggling to the Discussion tab and returning to the Tutorial.
• Create an Account pop-up > All buttons disappear, had to use firebug to track them up. FireFox 3

search results show a templated page with no actual content. I tried using Safari (version 3.2.1 (5525.27.1)) and the awful firefox (v3.08) -- both give me the same empty result --

These pages, for example have no content text in them at all that I can see: http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Make_Your_Site_An_iPhone_App http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Autoformat_Your_Website_for_iPhones_With_Intersquash

• When adding a Favorite website on a profile, the prefix "http://" disappears from the box. When the user doesn't add these themselves the link is suddenly found within the Webmonkey-site instead of external. This could lead to many incorrect notices of a 404. The solution to this would be adding a check in the form handler to see if the prefix is present.

Tagging Issues

• Go to Reference > Cheat Sheets. Even though the search is narrowed by tags "cheat sheets", it displays mostly glossary entries.

• Go to Code Library > See All Code. Most of the articles listed there under the headings HTML, CSS, etc. are not properly tagged and do not appear when you go to Code Library > HTML, Code Library > Stylesheets, etc.

• Tried adding a tag to document "Blank HTML Document". I edit the page. I type in a tag next to the Add Tag button, press Add Tag!, and the tag disappears. It does not appear possible to add the tag. (Using Firefox 2; MSIE 7 having same problem.) There appears to be a javascript error.

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Commenting/Discussion on Pages

• http://www.webmonkey.com/services/contactus does not load in Firefox3 RC1. Viewing with IE7 shows the contact form. Firefox3 gives the error: 'Webmonkey has moved! Oops! A web server error is preventing the page you requested from displaying. If you clicked a link somewhere on our site and were led to this page, please let us know so we can remedy the situation as soon as possible.'
• On the blog: Viewing comments and posting comments not possible in Firefox3 RC1. I've tried turning Javascript on and off, to my knowledge I'm not running any weird extensions that might create such behavior. I've tried loading the page in IE instead and the comments show up, but clicking the 'post comment' link does nothing. I'm assuming there's supposed to be some kind of a submit form below the comments, but it doesn't show up.

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Suggested readings

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All RSS feeds have encoding issues and cannot be consumed. "<" and ">" are converted to HTML entities, and the files are terminated early.

• spam links in tutorial index page latest links http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial

Broken Links

• There is a broken link on David Thaus JavaScript Tutorial - Lesson 2. The "Image Swapping" example link named a [# basic image swap] doesnt work.

• On error pages (404, 500) the contact link is broken. It leads to http://www.webmonkey.com/services/contactus instead of http://www.webmonkey.com/services/contact

• Don't know whether it's a Google Reader problem, but clicking the Permalinks of items in the RSS feed actually sends me to a link like that: "http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/where is stikipad" which produces a view of all the recent articles, instead of the actual one (in that case the one here: http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Where_Is_StikiPad_ ). So either Google Reader strips the permalink of the underscores or something with the RSS feed is borked.

There is a broken link on Mulders Stylesheets Tutorial - Lesson 4 under the Background Images for Everything section. THere should be a backround image in order to hightlight some examples but the bg.gif link is broken

• The PHP and MYSQL tutorial that was up for years has gone missing (http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/PHP_and_MySQL_Tutorial). Instead it is an empty article!

• All the feeds are broken links for me. When I click on every link for the feeds I get this:

Internet Explorer cannot display this feed 
This feed contains code errors.

• The link on Mulder's Stylesheet Tutorial #4 linking to lesson #5 is broken

(http://www.webmonkey.com/tutorial/Mulders_Stylesheets_Tutorial_-_Lesson_4).

• The RSS Feed for the Monkey Bites Blog doesn't seem to be working.

• On the Codelibrary page there's a broken link under Editor's Picks for HTML hCard

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