{"id":44,"date":"2011-02-23T14:37:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T14:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/makehistory\/?p=44"},"modified":"2025-03-11T10:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T10:06:28","slug":"troubleshooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/makehistory\/2011\/02\/troubleshooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue Log B1.05"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beta 1.05 has now been replaced. Please ensure you are using B1.07.<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Can’t enter events with same start and end date.<\/p>\n

– ‘1 entry found’ label sometimes sticks above the timeline, even when you’ve searched for another event.<\/p>\n

– The \u201csearch event\u201d box seems to be broken.\u00a0 You must type in an event *exactly* as it is written in the timeline, in its entirety, including the appropriate upper case letters.\u00a0 For example, searching for \u201csatellite\u201d doesn\u2019t find anything, nor does \u201csatellite tv\u201d or \u201cphone\u201d.\u00a0 Instead, you must search for \u201cSatellite TV\u201d.\u00a0 The auto-dropdown tries to solve this, but unless you start with the right word, it doesn\u2019t help (as in \u201cphones\u201d).<\/p>\n

– Also, searches with no results don\u2019t feedback anything to the user.<\/p>\n

– The order of events in the search box drop-down appears to be random (perhaps it\u2019s the order they were created?).\u00a0 For example, the last item in the list is \u201cDAB radio\u201d, and event which is neither last alphabetically nor chronologically.<\/p>\n

– It would be nice if pressing ENTER submitted the search request, instead of having to press \u201cGo\u201d.<\/p>\n

– The flash frame seems to be scaled based on the screen resolution, not the size of the browser window.\u00a0 In both IE and Firefox, the resulting flash frame is extremely wide, and I needed to maximise the window to see all the controls.<\/p>\n

– This also causes a knock-on effect on my dual-monitor setup, where even when maximised, the timeline is unusable on my secondary monitor (where my browser window opened up by default) because the flash frame width was set according to the resolution of my primary monitor which is much wider than the secondary.<\/p>\n

– Sometimes the \u201cfit-to-width\u201d zoom (the left-most zoom button) pushes all the actual timeline content off the left-hand side of the frame, and as it\u2019s \u201cfit-to-width\u201d, there\u2019s no scrollbar to get it back.\u00a0 You have to zoom in a little to get the scroll bar back, then click the scroll bar to suddenly snap everything back in view.<\/p>\n

– To reliably replicate, click max-zoom-out, scroll all the way to the right, then click \u201cfit-to-width\u201d zoom.<\/p>\n

– After using some of the zooming controls, the event bar thumbnails go wrong and show the wrong images.\u00a0 At the moment, \u201ci-Pod\u201d is showing an X-Box thumbnail and the \u201cNintendo Wii\u201d has become Wikipedia.\u00a0 At first I thought the event bars were overlapping, but the images can come from bars that aren\u2019t even in the same horizontal line.\u00a0 Clicking on a bar to show the details always shows the correct image and text.<\/p>\n

– To reliably replicate… refresh the page, then click \u201cfit-to-width\u201d, then use the zoom-in button \u201c(+)\u201d, then click \u201cfit-to-width\u201d again.\u00a0 Some or all of the bars will now have the wrong images.<\/p>\n

– Depending on the zoom level, some of the dividing line dates show in \u201cMMM YY\u201d format, and others are \u201cDD MM YY\u201d, and others can be \u201cDD MM YYYY\u201d and bold.\u00a0 The former is arguably more readable, but I guess the others are helpful where the timeline\u2019s precision is in days.\u00a0 Mixing two of the three together looks odd.<\/p>\n

– Even at maximum zoom the \u201cDD MM YYYY\u201d dividers are in bold, but the \u201cDD MM YY\u201d\u00a0 are not.<\/p>\n

– Is two days per divider the ideal maximum scale to use on a timeline that spans decades?\u00a0 Is this controlled by the author?<\/p>\n

– At some zoom levels (mainly \u201cfit-to-width\u201d), the lines on the dividers (where the dates are displayed) go out of line with the dividers on the actual timeline (where the event bars are displayed).<\/p>\n

– Several users have commented that the timeline title should be displayed much more prominently on the published timeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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