Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:27:36 09/01/99
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On September 01, 1999 at 12:48:24, Tim Mirabile wrote: >On August 31, 1999 at 21:48:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 31, 1999 at 16:19:15, Dave Gomboc wrote: >> >>>On August 31, 1999 at 10:23:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>>>This isn't the situation. I see (say) 4 messages in one thread. I click on >>>>the last one and _instantly_ at the bottom of the screen I see _another_message >>>>tacked on to the end. This happens regularly. And there are just milliseconds >>>>between when I see 4 messages and the 5th one shows up at the end. I doubt >>>>that someone is posting during that interval. Once or twice, yes. But I >>>>am seeing this dozens of times.. >>> >>>Are you getting pages through a proxy that other people might also be reading >>>CCC from? >>> >>>Dave >> >>No... And the thing is, that this is a reasonably recent happening. >>Unfortunately, I visited redhat's web site a while back and upgraded everything >>to the most recent for their 6.0 errata stuff. Which included a new netscape >>among other things. It still crashes if I try to reply to a long post here and >>insert a few lines here and there... so maybe this is _another_ netscape bug >>I get for free... >> >>:) > >This does sound like a netscape bug (Linux version only probably). One thing >you (or anyone who has a problem like this) can do if you see it happen again is >to save the HTML page, then forward it to me so I can check to make sure it's >well formed HTML at least. I looked at this already and it didn't look broken at all... just not there... > >Also, when you click on the last link, and another appears, was there already a >space for it, or did the stuff at the bottom of the page get pushed down at the >same time? Or was the stuff at the bottom not even there, possibly meaning the >page was not fully loaded or fully displayed? No... it simply isn't there at all... netscape (linux) is not the most robust beast I have ever seen (if I edit a long message here, it will crash and drop a core file if I am lucky, otherwise it will hang the X server totally so that I have to reboot)...
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