Minor bug: pop-up menu under "Auto-save drafts"

[josborne]

Here's a fun bug for your web developers to fix:

If you go to your own profile page on the discussion forums, you will see a list of autosaved draft messages.  This list of messages is right-justified in your web browser.  So it always appears on the far right.  So when you click on an item in the list, the pop-up menu goes off screen.  You can't easily click on anything in the submenu without some clever scrolling in your browser.  Kind of annoying.

This is happening on my IE 8 on Win7 x64.

 

[JackDunaway]

I have seen the same behavior:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/Feedback-on-NI-Discussion-Forums/A-few-bugs-with-Autosave-Drafts/m-p/1275090...

and a screenshot from that thread:

[Laura F.]

Thanks, I've reported this issue.

Regards,

Laura
Web Support & Operations
National Instruments

[RavensFan]

I've noticed another issue with autosave that seems to have started since the last forum upgrades.

I'll start a reply and start typing in it.  I might get half a line typed when autosave kicks in and causes the browser (IE8) to freeze up for a second even up to 5-10 seconds.  Sometimes the screen jumps during the process.  Sometimes, in the process of typing, I'll hit a backspace, but if it happens in that period of time that the freeze up occurs, IE jumps back to the previous screen thus losing my typing.  (However because it did auto-save, I am able to get the typing back.)

Autosave in the past was pretty transparent.  But now, it can sometimes cause a freeze up that can really interrupt the message typing.  And it has just started in the past week.

Is anyone else seeing this as well?

[JackDunaway]

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@Ravens Fan wrote:

I've noticed another issue with autosave that seems to have started since the last forum upgrades....Is anyone else seeing this as well?

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Bill - I haven't seen this on Chrome or IE8.

[RavensFan]

I forgot to mention that it actually happened to me while typing that particular message.  It happened a couple times tonight while replying to a different message.

And it just happed to me while creating this message.  I actually had to click in the editor again after a few seconds to get the cursor back.

Twice for this message.  The second time it took about 20-30 seconds to get the cursor back!!!!

[Laura F.]

Ravens Fan - I've reported this issue and found out that Lithium is aware of it and working on a resolution.

Thanks,

Laura

[RavensFan]

Thanks Laura, it is good to hear it's not just me and they see and are on it.

[Laura F.]

Ravens Fan - are you still seeing this behavior with freezing?

Thanks,

Laura

[RavensFan]

Yes I am.  It did on on the last message I typed earlier today.

And it did it on this message.