Memory Loss
Posted: Thu 8 May, 2008 Filed under: Cynicism, Geeky 2 Comments »Yesterday evening, I was working on fixing a problem by using a small bit of javascript, and I couldn’t get it to work. Annoying, but them’s the breaks.
Finally, I realised why I couldn’t get the thing to work on a browser, when I was sure I’d written it correctly – and double checked it when it didn’t work first time.
I’d turned javascript off in the browser to do something else, and hadn’t reactivated it yet.
[Edit : I forgot to add the thought in the next par when writing the post initially]
It’s the only time I’ve found so far where tabbed browsing is inferior to separate browser windows – if you turn it off in one place, you turn it off in all of them, which doesn’t happen (as easily) with multiple windows.
Grrr, twenty minutes of debugging and re-reading code – and all because sometimes I’ve got the memory span of a goldfish.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve done that, especially when auditing using the web accessibility toolbar. It makes it all too easy to turn off javascript and css and forget that you’ve done it.
Indeed. Fortunately (in some aspects) I’ve usually got a webmail client open that runs entirely in javascript, so I soon figure out what the hell I’ve done.
Last night, though, I didn’t as I was at home, so it took a bit longer to work out what the problem was.