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2010-03-30 5:41 AM

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Subject: Refusing pace and way too small number boxes
In the training input screen you can no longer see the numbers you're typing in. There is enough space to see a colon but you have to trust you put the right numbers in.

For instance this morning's swim was 36 Min and 01 sec. I typed the 36 (tab) 01 and the cursor was in the right window but I had no idea whether the numbers were right until I did the Save and return to blog.

Second thing, after putting in the 2000 for yards swam and hitting the "Calc" button, 1.8 came up. Normal stuff. I hit the "Save and return to Blog" button on top and an error box came up and said, "1.8 cannot be put into this box, only certain numbers can be put here" Huh?

Just a head's up.


2010-03-30 7:48 AM
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Subject: RE: Refusing pace and way too small number boxes
Can you tell us what browser you're using?  There was a change made last night to that area but we hadn't seen anything like what you're describing in testing.
2010-03-30 9:37 AM
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Subject: RE: Refusing pace and way too small number boxes
Whoops, sorry. CentOS (Linux) 5.3 with Opera 10.10.

The up/down arrows are not there and it looks like it did two days ago when I look at it in Firefox.

Lemme try various browsers/OS combos and see about screen shots.
2010-03-30 9:48 AM
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Subject: RE: Refusing pace and way too small number boxes
Here's what I see in the boxes to fill out for training times:



Seems the "1.8 cannot be put in this box in this form" is model so I cannot take a screen shot of it but I was able to get it to work right in Firefox.

This only started this morning as I swam yesterday morning as well and all was happy with the numbers being put in.
2010-03-30 10:28 AM
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Subject: RE: Refusing pace and way too small number boxes
This is a "quirk" of Opera and the way it implements a new HTML5  feature.

In the latest HTML spec, input fields can be assigned types and other attributes. We recently added a definition of numeric fields on that page as "number" types because in Safari on the iPhone this causes the software keyboard to default to numeric input, saving people a step when logging from their iPhone.

Opera, unfortunately, has decided to force the inclusion of spinboxes with "number" type input fields which clutter up the screen horribly, and they've also decided to include formatting validation that no one's asked for.

Given that we have more people who log with Safari on the iPhone than with Opera on all platforms, I'd recommend sticking with FF for now. There are some ways around the validation stuff which we'll add but I haven't found a way yet to disable the spinboxes. Opera really needs to remove those, or at least make it possible to have a number field without them.
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