Error when using CrazedList
DaveC
Using Firefox, I enter some search terms, and from the drop-down menus I
select "Sales/Wanted" and "Electronics". Then, rather than selecting
particular cities, I choose the region "West Coast".
When I click the Search button, I get the error "You must choose at least one
city to search!" I thought that selecting a region superseded choosing
cities.
I think it's a bug.
This seems to be a recent problem. I used CrazedList, successfully about a
year ago but now when I try it I'm getting this error.
Anybody else getting this error? Solutions?
(CrazedList says it won't won't work with Safari -- something about requiring
disabling of "referrers"...)
Thanks,
Dave
Mac OS X 10.5.8
Firefox 3.5.5
DaveC
Dave
notme
> use the site?
If you re-read my post you might stumble over:
"Using Firefox ... I get the error "You must choose at least one city to
search!"
("Now where did I leave those reading glasses...")
DaveC
> to parse a sentence.
>
> What part of the message "You must choose at least one city to search!"
> confused you? The word "must" seems to me to be a bit of a giveaway.
OK, I'm done. You apparently are abusing a substance or have a handicap that
interferes with your comprehension skills. I will presume the latter and wish
you well if it is the former.
Can someone who actually understands what the problem is please contribute?
Tim McNamara
Dave Balderstone <dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca> wrote:
> In article
> <0001HW.C71FA52C...@news.eternal-september.org>, DaveC
> <inv...@invalid.net> wrote:
>
> > (CrazedList says it won't won't work with Safari -- something about
> > requiring disabling of "referrers"...)
>
> Hmm.
>
> CrazedList says it doesn't work in Safari. In a big popup when you
> visit the site in Safari, no less.
Huh. Safari 4.0.3 on OS X 10.4.11 and minneapolis.craigslist.org works
just fine for me. No popups, no problems. Weird.
dorayme
> <http://www.crazedlist.org>
>
> Using Firefox, I enter some search terms, and from the drop-down menus I
> select "Sales/Wanted" and "Electronics". Then, rather than selecting
> particular cities, I choose the region "West Coast".
>
> When I click the Search button, I get the error "You must choose at least one
> city to search!" I thought that selecting a region superseded choosing
> cities.
>
> I think it's a bug.
Can't reproduce this in my FF 3.5.5 on Tiger. What I get is a notice to
disable referrers. For the reason given, namely that the sites that will
be searched will otherwise block these searches. Remember that anything
that stops people from going directly to a site also can stop them from
seeing ads and things that are the means these sites survive or do
business. This notice, of course, is not a bug.
However, it was particularly easy for me to use the site because I have
the web developer extension and it is a simple menu item to disable the
referrers. There are other means you can do this too, as described in
the notice that maybe you are not seeing?
Even where no ads are concerned, some people object to their website
pages being incorporated into other pages controlled by others with, for
example, an HTML technology called Frames. For various reasons they
object and fairly enough. In this case they have simple ways to block
this happening (by forcing the target to a new window mainly). I mention
this as a well known procedure that is nevertheless not a bug.
Having said all this, you nevertheless may be experiencing a bug. But
since I am not reproducing it, I cannot tell? I doubt if it would be
worth tracking on this site anyway because the whole site is
choc-o-block with simple mistakes and poor practices. The man who made
it sounds like fun, but he is a bit slack when it comes down to good
practice. It is obviously not on topic to go into this here.
--
dorayme