How many developers does it take…
…to spot a really simple web problem. 3 and about 2 hours. Had a case where I was given some new styles to add to a stylesheet, added them and an image that should have been appearing on a hyperlink wasn’t showing up on my machine. Try the usual suspects, relative paths, does the image exist, check, proxy caching, check, delete cache, check, restart browser, check, restart machine check. Apple guy can see the images, another Windows user can see the images, just not me. Install new browser (Opera) check - hooray images appear…but why weren’t they showing up on IE/Firefox? Well after what seems like an eternity I clicked on the link in Opera…and watched the image disappear from view right before my eyes. Help mammy the image monster is eating my icons. Aha! The link was missing a visited state. Me being the only person to have clicked on the link was the only person seeing the effect. It was so bizarre having the same thing happen in Firefox and MSIE and not be able to understand what was wrong. Doh, doh and thrice doh! Another one to add to the collection.
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