Done, but with errors on the page

[The Statman]

...that is the message I always get on the homepage.

When I log in at work several threads appear in bold even though I've just read them (and I haven't simply hit the 'back' button), but it seems to non-bold the ones I have just read, but not unboldified the ones I read several hours ago!

It isn't really a problem, as I'm usually able to recognise which ones I've seen, but it does seem a bit odd.

[elvaago]

Could be a cookies and/or javascript problem. Are cookies and javascript enabled at your work?

[elvaago]

And btw, I always get a 'Done but with errors on page' in the home page too. It's a minor problem that shouldn't affect anything else.

[snookersfun]

I also noticed (already some while ago) and I am sure it wasn't like that in the beginning

[RaNeN]

I get it too. Wht does this mean?

[elvaago]

Click on it. It'll tell you it was expecting a ; instead of some other character. It's a very minor code error.

[Curtis]

Since this was moved over to my server I have seen the error, but it is fairly minor and have not had the time to dig into it to see if I can fix it.

I will get around to it one of these days, I promise

[Robert602]

I'll just don my techie hat for this one. That error's due to dodgy clustermaps code.

Line 813 of the homepage, which is this:

<a href="http://clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://www.thesnookerforum.com/index.html&amp;type=small&amp;clusters=no&amp;map=world" target="blank"><img src="http://clustrmaps.com/counter/index2.php?url=http://www.thesnookerforum.com/index.html" border=1 alt="Locations of visitors to this page"onError="this.onError=null; this.src='http://www.meetomatic.com/images/clustrmaps-back-soon.jpg' this.width="460"; document.getElementById('clustrMapsLink').href='ht  tp://clustrmaps.com/'"></a>

Should look like this:

<a id ="clustrMapsLink" href="http://clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://www.thesnookerforum.com/index.html&amp;type=small&amp;clusters=no&amp;map=world" target="blank"><img src="http://clustrmaps.com/counter/index2.php?url=http://www.thesnookerforum.com/index.html" border="1" alt="Locations of visitors to this page" onerror="this.onError=null; this.src='http://www.meetomatic.com/images/clustrmaps-back-soon.jpg' this.width=460; document.getElementById('clustrMapsLink').href='http://clustrmaps.com/'; "/></a>

A few bits and pieces wrong with it, most importantly the last bit of code that tries to change the link in case of an error was pointing to nothing, as the first bit fails to include an id. There was also a slight formatting error with speech marks being used inside another set of speech marks (around width=460).

Just given that a quick test and I it seems to work for IE. Firefox doesn't show any errors either way. (Incidentally the glitch doesnt appear to be Curtis' fault as thats the standard line given out by clustermaps.)

The other issue is unrelated and probably somewhat deeper, but I get it too. I'd suspect that when you start up the browser and first go to TSF, it shows as new all threads that have been posted to since your last login. On the other hand once you start browsing it saves all that stuff to a temporary cookie or session, which is forgotten as soon as you close the browser. Just guessing though.

Edit: Just to follow up on that last point. It does appear that when you close your browser and go back in (or move to a different computer) the threads shown in bold are the ones posted to after your last visit time (shown near the top of the page under 'Welcome, xxx'). The more clever method of monitoring which specific threads you've actually looked at appears to be just temporary, in a local cookie or something like that, and there may be no realistic way of linking the two together. Probably the same in all vB boards, I just haven't noticed.