When i type in either of the textboxes i get little circles appearing instead of text. Why is this happening and how do i stop it?
Code is as follows:
HTML:
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="MainPage.aspx.cs" Inherits="Foods.MainPage" %>
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@Lix Please stop flagging rooms for deletion because they're not interesting anymore. If they're dead, they'll get culled automatically eventually, and it's a public chat.
@balpha - sure thing. I thought that this was the accepted behavior. The room did not contain anything extremely valuable (on a technical standpoint). I was just trying to do my job at cleaning up. If you feel this is an annoyance - no problem - I'll let the rooms get removed automatically... Sorry.
There has been little material response apart from "we'll take a look".
What can we do to push this forward somehow?
People have worked hard on this script with enthusiasm (had to learn JavaScript for it too), and it's a real motivation killer to see it ignored for so long
It would be good to at least understand the difficulties in integrating it into the site.
@balpha Thanks for taking a look. I am simply worried that those members of our community who have worked on this and more importantly who are able to work on this (most of us don't know any JavaScript at all), will lose their motivation.
I am sorry if I sounded harsh, I didn't mean to. I was just trying really hard to draw some attention.
@balpha Ever since the Mathematica front end (front end = GUI) started including syntax highlighting, blue meant undefined, and black meant defined. This has been translated to the syntax highlighter as: built-in functions--black, other symbols---blue. Since most Mathematica users are not programmers (they're physicists, mathematicians, academics), they won't have the expectation that keyword->blue, non-keyword->black. Instead they'll expect to see the same as in the Mathematica front end.
@balpha I think it's a really important point that we follow the convention. There's an eclipse-based IDE for Mathematica developers (not normal users, but package developers), which has defined:darkblue, undefined:light blue. But most people don't use this IDE.
@balpha Once common source of error is when people use either a built-in or a defined symbol as a "pure symbol" (e.g. as a variable in a symbolic equation). The syntax highlighting immediately draws attention to this. I've spotted errors in code posted to Mathematica.SE thanks to the syntax highlighter user-script (e.g. people using the uncommon but defined K). I think it's important to go with the convention and not break what we're used to.
@balpha Also, even on SO: the conventional colouring will be immediately familiar to anyone who uses Mathematica. The opposite of it will just be confusing. I'd think it's better to consider the target audience rather than those who might stumble upon a post but don't know any Mathematica. I've got to go now (a lot of work ahead..). Thanks for taking a look at this!!
@Szabolcs with the same argument, you could ask that C# questions should use the standard visual studio coloring (at which point the monodevelop users will come complaining, as well as those people who changed their VS colors), android questions should use eclipse coloring, objective-c questions should use xcode coloring, and so on. And suddenly stack overflow is a christmas tree of syntax highlighting colors, and people will still be complaining.
As I said, for mathematica.se I can see this (if that coloring is really such an overwhelming default for all mma users), but for SO, I very much object to this.
@balpha That's not really a good example because all those languages are used with many different IDEs or editors. This is not the case for Mathematica. Another difference is that in the Mathematica front end syntax highlighting is dynamic: it depends on what is defined at a given moment and what is not. So people pay attention to it. It's an important tool in avoiding mistakes. This mindset/habit carries over to reading code online as well.
@balpha That said, personally I only care about Mathematica.SE. It's a bit strange if SO uses the opposite, but there's little activity there these days, so it doesn't matter. I'd suggest to align all the colours with the other SO colour schemes on SO, including patterns (which are green and italic right now), to make it very clear that a different scheme is used.
@balpha But please do keep the current scheme of the userscript for Mathematica.SE. If you have doubts that this is important, post a question on Meta.Mma.SE to poll the community.
> The standard front end is used by default, but alternative front ends are available. They include the Wolfram Workbench, an Eclipse based IDE, introduced in 2006. It provides project-based code development tools for Mathematica, including revision management, debugging, profiling, and testing. Mathematica also includes a command line front end.
Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, engineering, and mathematical fields and other areas of technical computing. It was conceived by Stephen Wolfram and is developed by Wolfram Research of Champaign, Illinois.
The name of the program "Mathematica" was suggested to Stephen Wolfram by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs although Stephen Wolfram had thought about it earlier and rejected it.
Features
Features of Mathematica include:
*Elementary mathematical function library
*Special mathematical function library
*Matrix and data manipulation tools including support...
@balpha I use Mathematica daily, and I communicate with people who also use it. I am not trying to win an argument here. I am trying to make sure that Mathematica.SE will be usable and attractive for Mathematica users (not programmers). Please trust me on this---you yourself have said that you don't have much experience with Mathematica. I have a decent picture about what is being used and what is important.
@balpha It's up to you what you use on SO, but please listen to me, or at least ask the community when it comes to Mathematica.SE.
It wouldn't be productive for me to start going into details about what those alternative front ends are and how often they're used or what syntax highlighting they support ... the only one that's relevant is Workbench which I already mentioned.
Please don't accuse me of not caring what you say -- you're the expert here. And for the third time: "for mma.se, I can see this". However I'd still like to know some facts before deciding, and what wikipedia says (and you now say) contradicts what you said earlier.
@balpha I am sorry if I sounded confrontational. I am not a native English speaker, so if I sounded harsh, it was not intentional, maybe I tried too hard to express myself :-)
People made all sort of front ends. Practically no one uses them because the "official" front end provides essential functionality not available in the kernel. There are two exceptions: some command line front ends (still rarely used) and Workbench, which is an IDE for package development (commonly used by those who develop packages and have access to it). Workbench has blue for both cases, but different shades.
The code comment mentions the colors were chosen "due to many requests", so I assume there has already been discussion on that. Do you happen to know where?
@balpha There were two arguments to use the "inverse" scheme (blue-defined, black-undefined): 1. consistency on SO. That's a good point, but do we need consistency across sites? TeX.SE has a different scheme which matches the site design. 2. programmers are used to blue meaning defined. Well, most of our audience are not programmers, in fact one of the reasons of having a separate site was to make people who are not programmers feel welcome. And people who use Mathematica in the ...
... standard way are used to blue meaning undefined.
@balpha Let me search
@balpha I think most of it happened in chat. It'd be difficult to pick up all the pieces and put it together, the discussions are spread across several days. If you want a definitive community opinion, I suggest you post a new question on meta. I was the one who first suggested making the colour scheme consistent with the front end. But then I was the one who had the most comments on the highlighter anyway and helped halirutan with testing. To be honest, I don't remember the details.
@balpha Don't worry about duplication, just ask about it. I have to close this now, I'll miss my train ...
@balpha Here's part of the chat discussion. It seems others didn't get involved in the colour scheme discussion much ... so it's best to ask again on meta to make sure it's not just my opinion that we should mimic the front end ;-)
Bye now! And thank you again for getting this moving again :-)
> I think you are on to something. Taking out the mark-down let me post but it would be good to see if I can get your solution working. The "(seemingly arbitrarily) inserted line breaks on lines with high Markdown" were added by Stack Overflow when I clicked the list formatting button. ==EDIT== It works - thanks – dumbledad [5m ago](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/126236/im-getting-your-post-appears-to-contain-code-that-is-not-properly-formatted-as/126239#comment341717_126239)
@balpha There's something interesting here - it seems like the way the editor auto formats lists is causing SO to think the list is actually code
The problem is Win XP SP1 - it shipped with IE6 and loads of comapnies are still using thier old ghost images for formats... So people are left with IE6 ... :/
@balpha And, to be fair, Rebecca did just mention the other day it was being looked at when she asked halirutan and I about maintenance. (Maybe Szabolcs wasn't aware of that, though)
I also had some concerns about the performance of the gigantic keyword regex. I'm not sure that the impact is significant enough to be noticeable, but in a relative sense there's a pretty appreciable difference performance numbers-wise.
You should have cared, I posted a comment with Science™!
I also just found out that I apparently forgot we were playing Words with Friends at some point, and it seems I've now lost due to forfeiting the match.
How does the vote count work? Is it gradually reset or is there a specific time when it all gets reset?
i.e. does it count how many votes I've made in the last 24 hours, and it doesn't let me vote until that has gone below 40, so if I for instance have made 40 votes within the last 24 hours, if I wait one hour, I might only have made 39 votes?
OK, that's what I thought, but then there must be a bug somewhere.
I spend all my votes last night and it said I had to wait 21 hours until I could vote again. Just now it says I have to wait 7 hours. That all makes sense.
But I just managed to vote on a question nonetheless. It still says I can't vote though and that I have to wait 7 hours.
Now you might think "He voted on that question yesterday, but he didn't notice it until now", but the question is only 2 hours old, and I haven't been able to vote since yesterday.
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The name "equinox" is derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night), because around the equinox, the night and day have approximately equal length.
At an equinox, the Sun is at one of two opposite points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator (i.e. declination 0) and ecliptic inters...
Dang, someone reversed the troll before it oneboxed.
I know there are badges for X number of times a question is viewed via a personal link to it.
Is there any way (with the data explorer or something else) to view all of the referring pages for all of my questions?
That way I can see who/from where all the views are coming from on my questions.
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I don't think it has come to it yet anywhere, but if it ever does, is there a mod impeachment process in place to remove a(n evil) mod from his or her throne if it comes to it?
@balpha To add to what @Szabolcs mentioned earlier today, here is the background to the script — specifically, you can see that we tried to maintain as much functionality of the front end as possible (i.e., detecting patterns in function definitions) and only the part that requires knowledge of the scope of the variable (which is beyond what js can do) has been left out.
Most of the conversation took place in chat and hence is hard to search for, but you can try looking for conversations around this and this
/r/science is currently discussing the possibility of heavier moderation, while most of Reddit revels in unmoderated stupidity. Sounds a bit familiar. The interesting part about this thread is the users are demanding heavier moderation, while the moderators are saying they wouldn't be able to get away with it.