I just had the darndest trouble with newest nodes. I assumed it had been broken for the past three days. What actually happened? I hadn't checked it for a few days before that, and it got too big for nutscrape. Nutscrape would show the big bar, and the links under it... then it would render the rest of the page blank-ly. Not even a chatterbox to complain in. ;)

I tried viewing the source to get the contents of that clear last checked button, but nutscrape crashed rudely every time I tried.

The solution was 'lynx -cookies www.perlmonks.org'. I logged in and cleared the flag. Handy little tool isn't it?

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RE: newest nodes
by turnstep (Parson) on Aug 08, 2000 at 16:44 UTC

    I had a similar problem - I was out of the country for a while, and when I returned, there was lots and lots of posts in the newest posts page. So many that the page would not load completely sometimes. Maybe we could relocate (or duplicate) the "I've checked all of these" button to the TOP of the page?

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      Maybe it just needs more-style processing, showing the first 100 with a button at the bottom saying "man, you've been gone a long time, are you sure you want to see more?" or something. {grin}

      -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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RE: newest nodes (HTML tables)
by ybiC (Prior) on Aug 08, 2000 at 18:30 UTC
    I've not poured over HTML presented by PM, but sounds like an HTML tables "feature" = nothing within a table will render until all content in the table has been retrieved.

    If this is the case, a number of HTML solutions are possible.

    Update: Adam says it more clearly below.  ie: Browser will display nothing within HTML table until browser receives closing tag </table>.   So your browser probably didn't hang, it was just waiting to retrieve all of table before displaying any markup within table.
        cheers,
        ybiC

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      This is correct. You need the end tag </table> in order to display a table.
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