I got sloppy
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We had a production release last week with some minor updates to a website. Because we are working on something else (something big) to be released later, I just hid the new features on our web pages thinking that nobody would care or notice. Today we received several reports of error that seemed so weird: Apparently users were trying to access to a new page that they were not supposed to. The link to the new page is not visible, so I denied the existence of such users and told the manager that they were not real, they must be bot programs. :) It turns out they are the ones who like to use "Enter" key instead of mouse clicks. They tabbed the exact number of times to land focus on the hidden link on the page and pressed "Enter". Fortunately I came up with a quick fix that does not require any recompiling or redeploying, etc. Phew! :)
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We had a production release last week with some minor updates to a website. Because we are working on something else (something big) to be released later, I just hid the new features on our web pages thinking that nobody would care or notice. Today we received several reports of error that seemed so weird: Apparently users were trying to access to a new page that they were not supposed to. The link to the new page is not visible, so I denied the existence of such users and told the manager that they were not real, they must be bot programs. :) It turns out they are the ones who like to use "Enter" key instead of mouse clicks. They tabbed the exact number of times to land focus on the hidden link on the page and pressed "Enter". Fortunately I came up with a quick fix that does not require any recompiling or redeploying, etc. Phew! :)
Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:
I came up with a quick fix that does not require any recompiling or redeploying
Hit the power button on the production server?
Somebody in an online forum wrote:
INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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We had a production release last week with some minor updates to a website. Because we are working on something else (something big) to be released later, I just hid the new features on our web pages thinking that nobody would care or notice. Today we received several reports of error that seemed so weird: Apparently users were trying to access to a new page that they were not supposed to. The link to the new page is not visible, so I denied the existence of such users and told the manager that they were not real, they must be bot programs. :) It turns out they are the ones who like to use "Enter" key instead of mouse clicks. They tabbed the exact number of times to land focus on the hidden link on the page and pressed "Enter". Fortunately I came up with a quick fix that does not require any recompiling or redeploying, etc. Phew! :)
Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:
It turns out they are the ones who like to use "Enter" key instead of mouse clicks. They tabbed the exact number of times to land focus on the hidden link on the page and pressed "Enter".
If I were a university professor teaching anything computer science related... I would not allow anyone to use a mouse in my class. You would navigate the OS, write code and everything using only a keyboard your freshman year. Sure they might hate me... but after they graduated their software would work properly. :) Best Wishes, -David Delaune
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Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳 wrote:
It turns out they are the ones who like to use "Enter" key instead of mouse clicks. They tabbed the exact number of times to land focus on the hidden link on the page and pressed "Enter".
If I were a university professor teaching anything computer science related... I would not allow anyone to use a mouse in my class. You would navigate the OS, write code and everything using only a keyboard your freshman year. Sure they might hate me... but after they graduated their software would work properly. :) Best Wishes, -David Delaune
:thumbsup: We didn't have mice on our VT100s in college. :-D
