tea.mathoverflow.net - Discussion Feed (Software bug) 2018-11-04T23:18:22-08:00 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher Anton Geraschenko comments on "Software bug" (14154) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1020/software-bug/?Focus=14154#Comment_14154 2011-04-22T15:34:55-07:00 2018-11-04T23:18:22-08:00 Anton Geraschenko http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/2/ What is your browser/OS? With Chrome on ubuntu, I can't type more than 600 characters (they just don't appear). With Firefox on ubuntu, I can type more than 600 characters, but the submit button ... What is your browser/OS? With Chrome on ubuntu, I can't type more than 600 characters (they just don't appear). With Firefox on ubuntu, I can type more than 600 characters, but the submit button doesn't do anything if I'm over the limit (so I can still modify the text). In either one, I don't have a problem submitting comments of exactly 600 characters.

I used the (unimaginative) comment

0123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789

If somebody wants to try to reproduce this bug, feel free to play around on faketestsite.

]]> Michael Hardy comments on "Software bug" (14152) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1020/software-bug/?Focus=14152#Comment_14152 2011-04-22T14:50:49-07:00 2018-11-04T23:18:22-08:00 Michael Hardy http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/291/ When you write a comment, you're told how many characters are left. If you exceed the limit, you see a negative number. If you stop when it says "0 character [sic] left", you get ...