I run a private enterprise SMW with Echo installed and I've noticed that the bell icon for alerts has been visibly erratic in its visibility. I dismissed this thinking it was something that had to do with some custom css I hadn't properly thought through, but then I noticed that same icon on mediawiki.org was doing the exact same thing.. anyone else experiencing this?
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Hey :) Please could you elaborate/specify what you mean by cattywonkus and visibly erratic? Perhaps compare "what you get" with "what you expected". Screenshots might also help. Thanks!
(p.s. I can't resist noting the standard spelling, partially because I love the word: wikt:catawampus ;-)
Hi! .. thanks for the reply :-) .. I was worried that maybe my choice of words would offend someone, but it's great that you like it. Cool :-)
ok.. What I expect: I expect the icon to be stable .. unchanging.. except for the red numeric integer that should only vary when the value changes.
"What I'm getting" admittedly varies situationally .. right now.. sitting at home on my laptop using chrome.. no problems.. and I even feel silly discussing it... at work (enterprise network without any admin control of my browser) .. I see a flickering icon that varies corresponding to the mouse movements.. as I move my mouse across the page, the alert bell icon flickers as if the icon image is being updated with every mouse movement .. and .. such that I can jiggle my mouse anywhere on the page and change the outcome of whether or not it is displaying... wierd.. i know.. i'm sorry to even be reporting this.. however, when this was only happening on my own wiki.. i assumed it was something i screwed up in my configurations (custom css or something) .. but then I saw the same behavior on this site (mediawiki.org) and I thought, "ok.. this is not my configuration. This must be something related to my browser... But what?" ... and so I thought I would ask if anyone out there was seeing similar behavior. Thanks for taking me seriously. cheers! :-)
please see the following screen capture snipit 
Intriguing! I'll pass along to the devs. Oh, what browser are you using, and any esoteric add-ons?
Hm, this is super weird, especially since the "cut" of that top of the bell doesn't even look straight, it looks like there's something else obscuring it.
I can't reproduce this, so I wonder, @Revansx, can you note what browser you're using, and if there are any gadgets that you have?
Can you try to load a page and add ?safemode=1 to the URL? This should load the page while preventing gadgets and scripts from loading, so if it doesn't happen when yo utry that, the fault is likely a script. Otherwise, it might be something weird with a certain browser/OS combination, so it would be helpful if you can give details on those.
Forgive me, the image was a gimped screenshot to 'try' to show what it looks like.. Here's a screen capture video I took using VLC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=448Xim8bcQI Ignore the mouse smeared across the video, that's a VLC player glitch I think.. keep your eye on the Alert bell.. especially towards the end.
Adding ?safemode=1 to the url made the Alert bell ocluded altogether. the link is there, but it is as if the image of the bell is on display:none by css
Revansx, which browser/OS? And any esoteric or powerful addons that might be involved? (Thanks for the screencast!)
well... that's what I thought, but when I saw the same behavior on this site, I thought, "It can't be my installation". It's so weird because the notification inbox icon is solid. Only the alert is affected.
I'm using Win 7 SP1 ..
The problem exists with the site when I view it with Chrome
IE and Firefox are ok
I'll test it on some other workstations with different configurations and let you know. Thanks for your continued assistance.
this just in.. I went to the Chrome Help menu and without asking me it immediately started updating... I didn't catch what version it was..
and then when Chrome was finished updating and required a restart. Once it restarted all was well with the bell icon... dang.. updating Chrome.. why didn't I think of that? *derp*
I'm happy it got sorted out, but I'm a bit meh about the chance that the icon may not be working with older versions of Chrome. We're using a bit of a nonstandard CSS but all of it should be well supported by all browsers, definitely including Chrome's last few versions.
Thanks for checking and updating, @Revansx! If you run into this again - please let us know!