spacer?

splinter · #1 (**permalink**) 02-16-2004, 09:15 AM

What's that image in the blue menu bar for? It's just to the left of "Link To Us" and when you hover over it the word "spacer" appears.

When you click on it, a little window appears showing a tiny portion of the site.

paulhiles · #2 (**permalink**) 02-16-2004, 11:00 AM

LOL!! I see it there too... there have been elements removed from the site's menu header in the past, and this may be just a small part of the remaining legacy code. I hope you didn't try to venture any further into that tiny window.. for me it conjured up some bizarre vision such as "Alice through the Looking Glass!" :o)

Seriously though, I could tell you the purpose of this "hidden link" but then I'd have to kill you.. I'm sure you understand! ;o)

Paul

voodooboy · #3 (**permalink**) 02-16-2004, 11:20 AM

How far down does the rabbit hole go, Paul?

vfaulkner · #4 (**permalink**) 02-16-2004, 01:22 PM

Twas where the Black Hole known as the Chat Room used to be...
hhhmmmmmm

splinter · #5 (**permalink**) 02-16-2004, 03:03 PM

So why didn't they just get rid of it?

mikmik · #6 (**permalink**) 02-16-2004, 09:03 PM

Ya, what the heck kind of an operation you runnin' here?

And the URL is to the "spacer.gif" - why does it open up a "_http://webproworld.com/blah.php" thing??
Are you using window.open??

I demmand an explain, huh?

sonnie · #7 (**permalink**) 02-16-2004, 09:20 PM

I am using Firefox and do not see an image. However, there is definately a link there. My browser sees it as http://www.webproworld/viewtopic.php?t=14114#

Huh?

mikmik · #8 (**permalink**) 02-16-2004, 09:38 PM

You young whippersnappers and your new technology, what do you think of Firefox?

I have but haven't surfed with it yet - is good for double checking my - ahem - 'designs' lol.

I haven't put it through the paces yet, seems pretty much like 7.0, though.

The image is about the width of the 'link' gif beside it, but it is exactly the same color as the rest of the header to the left, so is pretty much invisible. There are two tiny, tiny little small (alright already!) white dots just at the points where the gif ends, inside the borders (top, bottom) and I am starting to wonder just what the hell is going on over across the pond there - talk about good eyesight on that splinter fella. BTW, I think he will make a good mate for raising caca with us practical jokers like sonnie and mikmik LOL!

sonnie · #9 (**permalink**) 02-16-2004, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by mikmik

You young whippersnappers and your new technology, what do you think of Firefox?

mikmik: whippersnappers?

Come on, I'm 49. Firefox seems to be working OK. Not real happy on the way it handles the graphics, but executes about twice as fast as "Internet Exploder".

Is it Ale time?

vfaulkner · #10 (**permalink**) 02-16-2004, 11:23 PM

What!? you haven't figured it out yet??
it's a mad diabolical plan to keep us all here, never to leave!

minstrel · #11 (**permalink**) 02-16-2004, 11:52 PM

As others have noted, if you click on "spacer", a little WPW window opens, non-resizable.

If you click on spacer in the little window, another little window opens but replaces the first one.

If you right click on spacer in the little window, a big window opens and now reveals the message "The topic or post you requested does not exist".

==> Now... click on spacer in THAT window and it's a different URL... which opens up another little window... you guessed it: "The topic or post you requested does not exist".

do-do-do-do-do-do....

Rod Serling
Veteran and General Spook

On another note, I downloaded Firefox and it won't run... starts up and then locks up... I have to bring up task manager to get rid of it... so after about 4 tries I got rid of it permanently...

Faster than IE6? Not on my machine... it's not even as fast as NS4...

pete61uk · #12 (**permalink**) 02-17-2004, 12:51 AM

Could this be a hidden portal to the parallel universe where Captain'Slog (ever mentioned, never seen) disappeared to?

mikmik · #13 (**permalink**) 02-17-2004, 04:53 AM

minstrel · #14 (**permalink**) 02-17-2004, 09:31 AM

It's missing the first closing </td></tr> tags? or was that a typo...

paulhiles · #15 (**permalink**) 02-17-2004, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by minstrel

It's missing the first closing </td></tr> tags? or was that a typo...

I thought it was an exclamation such as "ta-da" or maybe a "ta-ra" ? ;o)

or mebbe's it's just not nested nicely...hmmmm...

masterpeace · #16 (**permalink**) 02-17-2004, 09:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by minstrel

As others have noted, if you click on "spacer", a little WPW window opens, non-resizable.

If you click on spacer in the little window, another little window opens but replaces the first one.

If you right click on spacer in the little window, a big window opens and now reveals the message "The topic or post you requested does not exist"...

I right clicked on it in IE6 and chose "Opened link in new window"... and got this page again! <insert twilight zone music here>

minstrel · #17 (**permalink**) 02-17-2004, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by masterpeace

I right clicked on it in IE6 and chose "Opened link in new window"... and got this page again! <insert twilight zone music here>

Or did you? Could it be that, being in Oz and therefore upside down, all that blood rushing to your head is causing you to hallucinate?

mikmik · #18 (**permalink**) 02-17-2004, 12:00 PM

In answer to the " <tr> " debacle perpetrated by myself, it is a nesting error.

I was looking through the source by right clicking in the 'little' window (which I used to sign in on, BTW, but it never got any bigger, so I finally closed it after trying to hack my way into the iEntry financial reports, but then I heard this 'music' like dodo,dodo,doodoo,doodoo and then Captain Slog was yelling "Start eight, start eight" so I got scared and )

masterpeace · #19 (**permalink**) 02-18-2004, 04:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by minstrel

Quote:

Originally Posted by masterpeace

I right clicked on it in IE6 and chose "Opened link in new window"... and got this page again! <insert twilight zone music here>

Or did you? Could it be that, being in Oz and therefore upside down, all that blood rushing to your head is causing you to hallucinate?

LOL!

I feel like all the blood is rushing to my head at the moment, but it due to the HEAT!

We are having a power crisis here in West Oz at present and we aren't allowed to use airconditioning etc... Little old me has just moved up from "down south" which is much cooler, and I feel like my head is about to explode with the heat!... I want my air-con!

minstrel · #20 (**permalink**) 02-18-2004, 08:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by masterpeace

We are having a power crisis here in West Oz at present and we aren't allowed to use airconditioning etc... Little old me has just moved up from "down south" which is much cooler, and I feel like my head is about to explode with the heat!... I want my air-con!

I believe there is a United Nations international law that says you cannot have air conditioning AND high-speed internet access - you have to pick one or the other.

Of course, in the US, most people ignore that law. They sort of do in Canada, too, but there are natural laws here which supersede anything the UN says anyway - for example, Canadian law states that your AC will only work on cool days because when it gets very hot (or in the winter very cold) the power goes off...

masterpeace · #21 (**permalink**) 02-18-2004, 11:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by minstrel

I believe there is a United Nations international law that says you cannot have air conditioning AND high-speed internet access - you have to pick one or the other.

Well they can't tell me off just yet... I still only have dialup! (but next month...)

paulhiles · #22 (**permalink**) 02-27-2004, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by vfaulkner

Twas where the Black Hole known as the Chat Room used to be...
hhhmmmmmm

The Black Hole has returned, and taken over the space formerly known as 'spacer'. But still only features a teeny weeny window.. like a microcosm of WPW! :o)
Hmmm... the plot thickens!

watch this space.. I mean spacer!