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What are the Grails bugs that developers have to work around?

In some of the articles I've read, and some of the podcasts I've heard, people have been saying they need to work around a number of bugs existing in Grails. As a beginner Grails developer, how will I know what those bugs are ( so that I wouldn't have to waste time researching them )? Are they listed somewhere? ...

Firefox hide embeded object bug workaround?

Hi there is a well documented bug in firefox(since version 0.9!) where hidding a flash, java applet, quicktime... really anything you can put in a "embed" or "object" tag makes the embeded content be restarted/reloaded when shown back again. It seems to occur when modifying any display related attribute on css. Normally this wouldn't be...

Obscure browser bugs to look out for

What are browser bugs that are obscure in the sense that they are hard to find or only occur under certain conditions, but can seriously bite you? Please also provide fixes or workarounds where available. Things like the IE6 float margin or PNG bugs are well known by now, please concentrate on rarer problems. This is a community wiki, ...

Annoying Trend - Stylesheets on Alternate Domain - Firefox Problems

Is it just me or does a site like: http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/04/fubu-mvc often load without a style, because the author put the stylesheet over on: http://cdn1.infoq.com/styles/style.css I know this is all trendy way to do css, image and javascript files now. But I seem to bump into this issue all the time. Is it only a Firefox is...

Bug in Word 2007 ConditionalStyle

I'm using the Word 2007 object model to manipulate tables. Whenever I read the Shading or Borders properties of a ConditionalStyle object for a table's style (using VBA or C#), it resets the table's applied conditional styles to Header Row, Banded Rows, and First Column, and it clears all table-level formatting (borders and shading). ...

CSS menu where buttons etc. could be aligned to left and right

I need to make following kind of menu, but I don't know how I can align buttons to left and right with CSS, so that it will work in IE too. Menu should also have fixed height, but that seems to cause some problems.. |Button1|Button2|-----------------------------------------------|Button3| |table here -----------------------------------...

sIFR ok on one browser not on on onother (not trivial!)

Hi, I use newest sIFR version. It works on some browsers and does not on other. Flash version doesn't seem to matter, and on one computer it works on IE8 but won't go with FF3. The thing is that if it fails to work it just displays nothing, no regular text/typefaces, just an empty space. The site is http://www.winaisery.pl/ Do you hav...

WPF Application Crash (Easy reproduction) - Is it a microsoft BUG??

Issue: Our application crashes when a user type some text into the WPF TextBox. Please help! The easy 3 minutes reproduction appears below Reproduction: Register a WPF TextBox (m_textBox) TextChanged event to the method below private void OnTextChanged(object sender, TextChangedEventArgs e) { // This line of code throws Unhandle...

flex3 menubar: bindings in "enabled" property

is this a bug or my fault? <mx:MenuBar width="100%" labelField="@label" itemClick="menuItemClickHandler(event)"> <mx:XMLList> <menuitem label="User" > <menuitem label="Log In" showDialog="LoginDialog" enabled="{model.FlowUserState == 0}" /> <menuitem label="Log Out" dispatchEvent="LogoutEvent" enabled="{model.FlowU...

[C++ stringstream] why this conversion doesn't work?

Below is my func. I call it with if(try_strtol(v, rhs)) and RHS = "15\t// comment" bool try_strtol(int64_t &v, const string& s) { try { std::stringstream ss(s); if ((ss >> v).fail() || !(ss >> std::ws).eof()) throw std::bad_cast(); return true; } catch(...) { return false; } } It returns false, i except true with v...

When my software has a new version, how can Bugzilla know that I am now working on a newer version?

I am using Bugzilla and SVN. Right now, the project version in Bugzilla is version 1.0. What if I decide to create a tag in SVN, for version 2.0. How can I notify Bugzilla that I would now be working on version 2.0? Do I simply edit the version number of the project in Bugzilla? Buut what if a user would like to file a bug for version 1....

BUG: IIS7 managed requests

(I don't know whether should I also post this question to ServerFault, since it's about IIS configuration?) In IIS7 we can tell a module to run for managed content (thus speeding up static content serving) by: <modules> ... <add name="WhateverName" type="WhateverType" preCondition="managedHandler" ... </modules>...

How do you fix a bug you can't replicate?

The question says it all. If you have a bug that multiple users report, but there is no record of the bug occurring in the log, nor can the bug be repeated, no matter how hard you try, how do you fix it? Or even can you? I am sure this has happened to many of you out there. What did you do in this situation, and what was the final outco...

UISlider alpha issue

Hi! I'm want to figure out such an issue: I have a UIView dervied class in which there are several controls. Some of them must appear and disappear depending on selected mode. This is made by means of setting aplha value to respected component. All controls adds procedurally through code in initWithFrame in normal way. All controls wo...

Dropshadowfilter on textfield disables the html-links inside. Is there a way around this?

When i put a dropshadowfilter on a dynamic textfield with html-content, the links (a href) stop working.The textfields rotate in flash 3D space so they have a transformmatrix applied to them. Could this be the reason? Anybody had problems with html-links and dropshadowfilter applied to the textfield? it makes no difference if you put the...

Tough Catch 22 with end users..

I've developed an automated crash reporting system that sends in realtime (via email) any issues that happens to the end users application, I get all the details (eg which user, which class/method etc) This is great, and even the crash reporting system has a secondary crash report system for its self (in case it fails) which writes to a...

SubSonic 2.2 Left join error

I know this may have been answered but SubSonic 2.2 causes an error in the SQL provider when trying to do a Left join (Left inner join to subsonic) instead of creating SQl like SELECT * FROM table1 LEFT JOIN table 2 ON table1.id = table2.id it creates: SELECT * FROM table1 LEFT INNER JOIN table 2 ON table1.id = table2.id and this ...

How many possible bugs are there?

A user has to complete ten steps to achieve a desired result. The ten steps can be completed in any order. If there is a bug, the bug is dependent only on the steps that have been taken, not the order in which they were taken (i.e., the bug is path independent). For example: If the user performs three steps in the order 10, 1, 2 and pr...

ASP.NET - Client-Side OnClick Event of Button is Breaking Page Validation

I have a button on a form that saves a unique value to my database and to prevent the user from submitting twice and getting an error I added some JavaScript logic to do a client-side disable of the button after it is clicked. Functionally this all works, but it created an unexpected side effect that field Validation is being fired on a...

Sharepoint Designer Workflow - value reset itself

I have a SharePoint Designer workflow like the following: (just an example) If ActionId equals 1 Email InfopathForms:Customer Email Sometime later, it changes itself to the following: If field equals 1 Email InfopathForms: Where the field ActionId is lost and the Customer Email is lost too. Also in the email body, all the Lookup field...