The bug that caused unpredictable navigation through products in the store has been fixed. Now you can click through every product without being bumped between categories.
Source link: http://blog.mises.org/4677/browsing-bug-fixed/
Browsing Bug Fixed
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I’ll take your word on that one, not having experienced it.
However, the problem with the (site wide?) two-level drop-down menus still exists.
The menu items that appear when the cursor is placed over ‘Media’ and ‘Publications’ cannot be normally selected because the drop down menus shift to ‘Store’ and ‘Students’ respectively when the cursor leaves ‘Media’ or ‘Publications’.
I just accidently found that the drop down menu can be frozen in place by holding down the right mouse button as the cursor is moved. This allows the preciously unavailable selections to be clicked, but it is clearly a kludge.
Regards, Don
I just accidently found that the drop down menu can be frozen in place by holding down the right mouse button as the cursor is moved. This allows the preciously unavailable selections to be clicked, but it is clearly a kludge.
Holding down the left mouse button does this as well.
Regards, Don
Don, I can’t reproduce this problem. What browser are you using?
Jeffrey,
IE6.0.2800.1106, SP1, 18 Q’s ending with Q905915
Regards, Don
Using the IE6 browsing environment of Maxthon, the error does not appear. Using IE7 beta, the error does not appear. Does anyone else have this problem mentioned by Don? Perhaps it relates to screen width?
Jeffrey,
From what I see, I can’t imagine it working any other way than what I see. If the cursor is over ‘Media’, for example, the dropdown menu contains 4 items starting with ‘Media Archive’, and ending with ‘RSS and Podcasting.’ If, without pressing any mouse buttons, the cursor is moved off the ‘Media’ block, then the dropdown menu is replaced with another depending on what direction the cursor moves. How could it do anything else?
Could it be that you don’t have any menu headings above one another? What I see is the ‘Media’ block being above the ‘Store’ block, and the ‘Publications’ block being above the ‘Students’ block.
From left to right I see :
‘About Us’, ‘Daily Articles’, Media/Store, Publications/Students, ‘Events’, ‘Resources’.
Regards, Don
Ah, ok. Well, it sounds to me like your screen isn’t wide enough to accommodate 800px, so the right of the screen is being bumped around. If you use IE “Favorites” or “History” try turning off that side menu to give yourself more room.
Jeffrey,
No, I don’t have anything that uses up horizontal space except the right hand scroll bar.
However, the Mises site is almost unique in that I see a full one inch margin of whitespace on both the left and the right all the way up and down. No such margins exist for the Austrian Economics Forum, for example, which is full width.
The large margins also appear in the comment screen when it is expanded to fullscreen.
Regards, Don
Jeffrey,
The large margins also appear in the comment screen when it is expanded to fullscreen.
I partially take that back. Sometimes the expanded comment screen has the one inch large margins and sometimes it doesn’t. It seems likely that explaining this inconsistency would help figure out what is going on.
Regards, Don
Well, Mises.org is somewhat unusual in choosing a centered, fixed pixel width instead of an auto-sizing percent. This creates some issues in the image map in the header. But overall, it seems to work. I can recall that the first Mises site that (beyond the first few raw versions) were 600px and it has expanded as screens have expanded. It considering designs, we’ve always put reading clarity above all else, since the primary goal of the site is to provide support texts for Austro-libertarianism. Too wide a margin can be a problem in this regard.
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