Stupid, but I have to share

[Phil]

Scroll to the bottom of the page.

Click on any of the words in the sentence "Email me when people reply."

Notice the status of the checkbox changes.*

Click on any of the words in the sentence "Add to my Update Feed."

Notice the status of the checkbox does NOT change.

WOO-HOO! You just wasted 15 seconds of your life, and you'll never get them back again.

*could be browser dependent

[Félix]

Maybe you should have resisted on this one.

[Mary]

Ooooooooh....kay.

::easing real slow-like out of the room::

[Phil]

I did software test for many years. Lack of consistency is the type of thing I notice.

What kind of inane shit catches YOUR eye?

[janine]

that is stupid but also fascinating, to me anyway.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

So what does that mean? Are they written in two different types of code?

[Lori]

How, interesting?

[Phoenix]

Holy dead thread resurrection LG! And FTW? as far as the confusing crap at the top goes.

[Phil]

Lobstergirl wrote: "So what does that mean? Are they written in two different types of code?"

It means the programmers aren't following any "best practices" and basically make stuff up on the fly.

That, by the way, is known as job insurance for testers.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Interesting. Seems like the programmers here do make a fair number of mistakes and I am often seeing formatting inconsistencies. There was one recently where members' last names were being revealed at one place on the site (members who thought their last names were being kept private), but not at other places. If you read through the Feedback group you'll learn about a lot of other examples.