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Design flaw in the number/items per page selector
I've been answering questions lately (they're remarkably easy here, coming from SO :)), and noticed this:
Pretty selector:
Not pretty selector:
(produced by hovering over a choice)
Could we ...
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When `code` is included in a link, it is not highlighted in blue
While typing the title I was directed to this question from 2011 (it was even edited by Jeff Atwood!), but there are no answers or comments, and the issue still exists:
When making an inline link ...
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Moderator tools from the review pane are broken in Safari and Chrome
I have asked on the main meta for a fix, but not all sites have this bug. I'll open this bug report here since I care more about a fix here than a general site wide fix of something that I only see ...
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Email responses prompt crowds Answer button
The Add Another Answer/Answer your Question button is floated to the left, causing the prompt to receive email notifications appear somewhat awkwardly to the right:
I'm not positive it doesn't end ...
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Tag selector causes scrolling within the page
The tag selector on this site and its Meta causes the content container to scroll in Chrome/Firefox, which isn't desired:
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Why are AskDifferent and AskDifferentMeta not retinafied yet?
Being sites for Apple related questions, you would think that AskDifferent and AskDifferentMeta would be retinafied by now. But they aren't. And they look terrible on retina MacBook Pros!
Are there ...
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Can the design of the “inform moderator” flag count be updated to a higher contrast design for readability?
I'm seeing this on the report to moderator box:
Can the design of the "inform moderator" flag count be updated to a higher contrast design for readability? The black text on a dark red background ...
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Shadow missing under the info box of the edit queue
The yellow box informing the users that their edits will be placed in a peer reviewed queue is missing the shadow under the bottom-right corner.
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Odd box framing on review page
Browsing the review page, I noticed a minor framing bug. On the right side of the Review| header, appears a small scroll bar holder (see image below), as if that div’s height is bigger than its ...
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Score box and question box are misaligned on the flags page
The score box and the question title box have different heights on the flags page (see image below). Also, if the score is negative, the text wraps inside its box.
OS: 10.6.8
Browser: Safari 5.1.7
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Warning pop-up is difficult to read
The colors should be changed. I can't see what is written. That yellow and white color make it impossible to read. It can be read but you need to select the text with your cursor.
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Retina graphics for Ask Different?
As retina displays are becoming more pervasive in Apple hardware, and we're here to support users of Apple products, I think it would be great if the AD site included retina versions of its image ...
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What does the logo for AskDifferent and the symbol for command stand for?
Is it a flower? Indian symbol? I know that Jobs was a hippie in the 70s so maybe it comes from that times. Don't get me wrong, to me it looks like a svastika on steroids. But I am looking forward for ...
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Strange layout on the main page with the iPad competition (I think)
On the main page there appears to be some "additional content" and it looks as though it is related to an iPad. However, I can't tell for sure because it looks like this:
At first, I put it down ...
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Can we make the the tags look like the buttons in Lion?
In chat today, Timothy mentioned that the tags in oneboxes look a lot like the buttons in Windows XP:
Compare to Windows XP button:
Can we make the oneboxes and the tags on the main site look ...
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The @mention highlight color in chat is the same as default OS X highlight color
When I'm mentioned in chat, my name in the person's message is highlighted blue. 99CCFF, to be precise. The problem is, that's exactly the same color as the default OS X highlight color, and I always ...
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Reputation breakdown fails to show when (e.g.) +50 and -50 =0
On this page where your reputation is graphed which is the page you hit just clicking your score in the header, if you lose some reputation (say a 100 bounty) and then gain the same amount of ...
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Misleading hover text in Favourite Button
Hover over the favourite button, and you see the following text (Spelling mistakes amended ;) )
"This is a favourite question (click again to undo)"
This implies that you have made the question a ...
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Inconsistent Notification
If you try to upvote a question or answer twice, you get the nice yellow box that give an indication of the problem "You already voted on this question ....etc", and an obvious "Click in this box to ...
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The background doesn't change when a question is deleted
I deleted my own question, http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/34705/problems-when-connecting-to-wifi-with-the-ipod (the link is for 10k users), because I discovered that the problem is the ...
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Clicked tab is backwards
You have got the ‘clicked tab’ metaphor in reverse:
To me, it looks like all the other tabs are clicked. Or maybe it’s the Apple® way.
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Multiple Tag Wiki Edit Screen Style Bugs
It seems that some old and new style bugs have cropped up with the various style changes that have occurred over the course of 2011.
Which is, well, all of them? :)
Let's take a look at the tag wiki ...
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Why is there a Google Plus ad on the main Ask Different site?
Is the google plus ad a community promotion advertisement or something else?
I clicked it but nothing shows if I don't log into google - what is this?
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Search box text colour
Just noticed that the colour of the text displayed on the search results page does not show the search query very clearly until the search box is re-selected.
Blank search box waiting for a query:
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Visual bug when viewing your own questions
I just asked a question and noticed what I think is a bug.
When you view a question that you have asked, you see the "Know someone who can answer..." message at the bottom, as well as the "Would you ...
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Is this supposed to look different?
Is this supposed to be here? It doesn't fit with the colour scheme of Ask Different, and it appeared recently, without warning or explanation (that I could find).
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<pre> elements on blog don't scroll for overflow-x
On Ask Different, content in a <pre> element that is wider than the box will cause the box to scroll (CSS overflow-x: scroll;).
On the Ask Different Blog, that doesn't happen. The too-wide ...
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Some links on meta fade away on mouseover
Links in the "X people chatting" box and related questions section fade away to an obscure color on mouseover, as if they don't want to be clicked.
Perhaps a leftover from the old 2-tone ...
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Formatting bug for “Would you like to have …”
The bug in this question: Visual Bug in “Not the answer you're looking for […]” text.
… is there again, but slightly different:
Chrome 15 on OS X, reproduced on Firefox as well.
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the number of inform moderator flags remaining can not be read
The black number partly within, partly without a dark red circle is illegible to me.
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Why is the link to Ask Different Chat sometimes missing from Ask Different meta?
In an answer to Apple Chat Room:
The link to Ask Different Chat is sometimes missing from the right hand column of Ask Different meta.
In the meta page to the left of that screenshot:
no ...
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Is the CSS different between Main and Meta?
When I switch between Main and Meta within the same browser, the layout changes slightly, most noticable when viewing my reputation scores, where the icons move over further to the right on the main ...
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Why is the “new” label so hard to read?
I suspect some CSS rule is being incorrectly applied to the "new" feature notifier.
I'm talking about the "new" block that appears when a new navigation or other site element is added. It showed up ...
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Layout bug in user profile for answers with a negative score (Chrome)
In Google Chrome (stable) I noticed the following bug in a user profile with a negative answer score:
The bug does not occur in Firefox.
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What is the significance of the blue background on some questions?
This question is a reaction to a hint in a comment on an answer of mine on this thread.
I'm a new user, and have been surprised not to find any explanation (in the FAQ, for example) of the ...
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Light blue border around bottom, left, and right of Gravatar on user page
On the user pages there's now a light blue border around the bottom, left, and right of the Gravatar:
I suspect that the border area around the image has grown and caused this - I don't remember ...
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Is the pale blue of texts — on white, pale blue and beige backgrounds — too pale at Ask Different?
Is the pale blue too pale?
I think so, but alternative answers will be appreciated.
Thank you
Background
I'm usually a careful reader, but at least twice I have missed things of importance, ...
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Code-formatted links aren't highlighted blue
Links wrapped around `code` snippets aren't highlighted as links, so they're hard to notice. This should probably behave more like SU and SO, where they're still highlighted blue even though they're ...
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Ask Different Moderator Cards
We recently printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great.
It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for ...
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Stacked Buttons Need Attention on apple.stackexchange.com
Hey, just wanted to give my 2 cents here - The way that the buttons are all the same shape and relatively the same size on apple.stackexchange.com questions is kind of distracting, visually.
I ...
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Layout should use overflow-y: scroll to prevent flickering
It's the first time I've noticed this on a SE site but I guess it applies not only to Apple.SE.
On pages where the contents load relatively slowly (e.g. sometimes, the "Users" page) there is a ...
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In the flag-weight page, the vote block is not rendered correctly when the question/answer has been down voted
A flagged question/answer that has been down voted is shown as in the following screenshot.
The minus sign is in the middle of the grey block, and the number is partially shown outside that grey ...
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Some questions' titles not shown (Safari only)
Sometimes I see a question that, when seen from the homepage, appears to have no title. You can still click its box and go to the question's page, where the title is visible.
In the below screencap, ...
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Visual bug on tabs with bounty questions
When looking at the front page, the Featured tab looks like this:
When I browse to the Featured tab, it looks like this:
Notice how there are artifacts outside of the red oval.
I'm running ...
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The “user responses feed” link cover the pager
When I look at my responses page, the pager is covered by the "user responses feed" link.
I notice this in Firefox 4, and Safari 5.1.
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Visual bugs on user panel with new Lion style
This old visual glitch seems to have returned:
It's in the responses tab, I also see it on the activity and reputation tabs. (at least for my userid).
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Search box visual glitch
The corners of the search box (After the redesign) looks weird on Chrome 10/OSX:
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Some design changes
Hi all, as you might have noticed, I made some design tweaks to the site.
Here's the before and after comparison.
The most obvious change is the removal of the 2-tone dark background colors. The ...
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Weird background icons behind “Not the answer you're looking for?”
There's a weird arrow behind the "Not the answer you're looking for".
After a few search, it might be related to this question.
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The 'expand this' arrow in the updated reputation view is missing
The other SE sites have a little arrow that points to the right, or down if you've expanded the reputation activity for that date, just to the left of the date. But the Apple.SE site is missing this ...
