I was trying example from What to do for elements not having class in Watir section and for this HTML:

Watir always returned nil:

ie.element_by_xpath(“//area[contains(@href , 'PieChart.html')]/”)
# => nil

I asked Angrez am I doing something wrong and he replied to check if generated HTML (that is rendered in the browser) is the same as source HTML.

Brilliant!

There seems to be a bug in Internet Explorer 7 (IE). If you create HTML file with above HTML (only that code, do not add anything else) IE puts map tag inside head tag.

Firefox 2 puts it inside body tag, of course.

The workaround is to put map tag explicitly inside body tag.

I usually search application logs using Windows Explorer and it works fine. But this time, I tried to search for string @domain and Search Companion pop up appeared with error message “The Indexing Service query cannot be completed successfully because the volumes you have specified are not indexed.” I knew that there was nothing wrong with indexing because all other searches were working fine.

Google search found a page Unsolved Annoyances that said you will get that error message if you search for strings that start with either of following characthers: !#@

Steps to reproduce:

1. open Internet Explorer 7
2. go to any page (required only if blank page opens when IE7 starts)
3. press Ctrl+ (increases size of text and images)
4. open another tab
5. go back to first tab
6. text is scrambled

Not reproducible every time, try it several times, and it should reproduce.

A few days ago I wanted to upload an image and got this error message.

The uploaded file could not be moved to [...]/wp-content/uploads/[...].
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at [...]/wp-admin/admin-functions.php:1879) in [...]/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1219

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I searched for that error message, but did not find anything useful. I looked at source files mentioned, but I am not very familiar with PHP, so no luck there too.

Then I remembered that I had problems previously after upgrading because WordPress did not have permission to write to upload folder. I checked it and yes, that was the problem. I fixed permissions and upload worked again.

I am just surprised how error message did not say that WordPress does not have permission to write to a folder, but something about headers. I thought that not having permission is one of the common scenarios.

I noticed a minor bug in Internet Explorer 7. Tab is separated from the page (see picture). That extra space disappears when I move focus from Internet Explorer window.

I started to get a lot of spam comments, and yesterday I installed Askimet. This morning, I found a bug in Askimet. Don’t you just love to start a day with a bug?

This is bug report I sent.

I think I found a bug.

I have WordPress 2.1 and Akismet 2.0.

At “/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?page=akismet-admin” page (Comments > Akismet Spam) I have 51 spam comment, just enough for two pages.

There I can click “2″ or “Next Page »” link that leads me to “wp-admin/edit-comments.php?page=akismet-admin&apage=2″ page.

There are links “« Previous Page” and “1″ that lead to “wp-admin/edit-comments.php?page=akismet-admin&apage=” page (please notice that the number “1″ is missing at the end of the url).

At that page I get this error message:

“WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '-50, 0' at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved = ‘spam’ ORDER BY comment_date DESC LIMIT -50, 0″

I guess that is because I am at page “[...]&apage=” and it should be “[...]&apage=1″ (again, the number “1″ is missing at the end of the url).

Links “2″ or “Next Page »” point to “[...]&apage=2″ and links “« Previous Page” and “1″ point to “[...]&apage=” instead of “[...]&apage=1″ (once more, just to be sure, the number “1″ is missing at the end of the url).

I was very surprised today when I saw this advertisement in Windows Live Messenger 8 this morning. This looks to me like Arabic alphabet, but since I can not read it, I really can not be sure. I wonder why Messenger thinks I can read Arabic? Maybe my Croatian preferences confused it?

In any case, this looks like a bug to me. Why?

Commercial is there because somebody wants me to buy something from them. Right? But it should be written in language that I understand, otherwise I would miss it. Even if commercial is written in language I can read, it should be written in alphabet I could read. Commercial written in any other alphabet, even in language I understand, would miss me.

Maybe this advertisement is intentionally strange to intrigue me. If that is the case, it succeeded. I clicked that commercial and it leads to http://get.live.com/messenger/features.

Should internet radio behave like ordinary radio? In general. You should be able to change stations, adjust volume. Well, that is about it (do turn on and off count as features?).

You could also add some useful features.

Say, pause a song. Phone rings while your favourite song plays? Pause, take your call and resume playing when you are finished with the call. Very useful.

Then, forward a song. You have heard that song ten times today (I listen a lot of radio), or you just do not like it? Press forward button and enjoy the next song.

But there is behaviour that I (nor Brent) would not call a feature.

(I guess) Brent noticed that stop button is not disabled. As a good tester he tried it while listening to a song, and noticed that after you press play button, the song does not resume playing from the point where you stopped, but from the beginning. That means you can play your favourite song over and over? Yes! Do not report this bug to Microsoft.

I do not know how I noticed my bug, but I guess it was by accident. I must have pressed mute button instead of pause (or stop) button when I wanted some silence and was surprised when after a while radio started playing without me turning mute off. So I investigated a bit, and found out that mute turns off at the end of the song.

A bug, I would say. If I clicked mute, I meant mute, not mute until the end of this song.

But this bug has interesting side effect. Click mute during commercial. Continue what you were doing. Volume is back to normal after commercial ends. I will quote myself: “Do not report this bug to Microsoft. ”.