Gosh I hate Internet Explorer. I recently redesigned dumpr.net’s interface and changed everything to be ajax’d! Yay, now even uploading was done in the same document and prompted you with a nice “Uploading” and then “Working” overlays.
Though I really screwed up. I was really happy when I uploaded, and I checked to make sure that people are still uploading with dumpr. All was well, and dumpr even had some increase in visitors these days, when all of a sudden emails saying this shitty service doesn’t work. I tried to get people to explain what doesn’t work, but nobody could put the finger on the problem, just that it was slow.
Today I realized (after the 6th email) that I should try and see what people are complaining about (after all, dumpr still generates over 2,000 images a day.) So I fired up the first browser that is not Firefox, Internet Explorer 7. And my oh my, IT DOESN’T WORK. I freaking hate this shit browser; who the hell wrote it? Microsoft has a nice thing going with “if it doesn’t work, keep it that way”. You don’t want to UNBREAK older browsers, do you. It’s pretty cool that there’s an asynchronous onload function, that is actually synchronous! Furthermore, an observer on an iframe cannot be registered with onload; no sir! you have to use attachEvent for that!
So I fixed this problem and now dumpr.net is back online. I searched my mailbox for all the people who were nice enough to email in and I apologized to each and every one. I can’t believe I missed that big fish.
In related where’s-the-tower-where’s-the-gun news, Reiser just confessed for 8 more killings. Where’s the journaling rollback now? Eh?!
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