How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my container”

Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by dunham on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:47PM (#36888691)

> "I don't know whats wrong, it works on my machine"

I had one of these years ago where QA had an issue that I couldn't reproduce.

I walked over to his desk, watched the repro and realized that he was someone who clicked to open a dropdown and then clicked again to select, while I would hold the mouse button down and then let up to select.

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Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by voyagerfan5761 on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:55AM (#36889922)

I do not even want to know what sort of weird-ass GUI code or behavior made those two operations dissimilar.

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Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by dunham on Thursday July 27, 2023 @03:15PM (#36898698)

Yeah, it's been way too long to remember (maybe a decade ago). Best guess is the click event was propagating up the dom and triggering something. These days, it looks like chrome generates a click even if you don't let up on the mouse.

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Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by ParetoOptimal on Thursday July 27, 2023 @09:12AM (#36892909)

> he was someone who clicked to open a dropdown and then clicked again to select, while I would hold the mouse button down and then let up to select.

I didn't know the latter was possible, but I also don't know which of these I do.

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