Comments on: Point of No Returns http://ycoolthing.com/archives/364/point-of-no-returns One Cool Thing from Yahoo! every weekday Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:18:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Michael Wexler http://ycoolthing.com/archives/364/point-of-no-returns/comment-page-1#comment-1121 Michael Wexler Wed, 30 May 2007 14:20:31 +0000 http://ycoolthing.com/archives/364/point-of-no-returns#comment-1121 Sounds great. You know, it would be nice if there was a link to the "customer care form" on the maps.y.c page. THe help menu links to http://help.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/maps/cgi_betafeedback but that's not the same thing. A sort of "help us correct errors" kind of link, very obvious. Sounds great. You know, it would be nice if there was a link to the “customer care form” on the maps.y.c page. THe help menu links to http://help.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/maps/cgi_betafeedback but that’s not the same thing. A sort of “help us correct errors” kind of link, very obvious.

]]> By: jr http://ycoolthing.com/archives/364/point-of-no-returns/comment-page-1#comment-1120 jr Tue, 29 May 2007 19:53:08 +0000 http://ycoolthing.com/archives/364/point-of-no-returns#comment-1120 Interesting. Perusing the bug list for maps, there do indeed seem to be a number of reports of this. Unfortunately, it's not something that's turning out to be very easy to chase down. Platform specifics are a really big help here: (e.g. browser (with version), OS (with version), extensions and plugins (with versions) would be tremendously helpful in aiding debugging. Likewise, you can try using the <a href="http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/maps/general.html?from_url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelp%2Eyahoo%2Ecom%2Fl%2Fus%2Fyahoo%2Fmaps%2Fbroadband%2Fbroadbandaddress%2Ehtml" rel="nofollow">Customer Care form</a> which captures some of that information for you (and yes, people really do look at those, it's just that there are a LOT of folks sending in stuff like "Where are my keys?" Or "How do I find the USA?" that the customer care folks have to get through.) Interesting. Perusing the bug list for maps, there do indeed seem to be a number of reports of this. Unfortunately, it’s not something that’s turning out to be very easy to chase down. Platform specifics are a really big help here: (e.g. browser (with version), OS (with version), extensions and plugins (with versions) would be tremendously helpful in aiding debugging.

Likewise, you can try using the Customer Care form which captures some of that information for you (and yes, people really do look at those, it’s just that there are a LOT of folks sending in stuff like “Where are my keys?” Or “How do I find the USA?” that the customer care folks have to get through.)

]]> By: Sean http://ycoolthing.com/archives/364/point-of-no-returns/comment-page-1#comment-1119 Sean Tue, 29 May 2007 18:58:15 +0000 http://ycoolthing.com/archives/364/point-of-no-returns#comment-1119 Did they? Copying from any of the text boxes seems to work fine for me (as well as from the textual descriptions in the search results, though that's more amusing because the item tries to drag along with your cursor as you highlight the text). That's with Firefox in Windows, Flash Player 9. Did they? Copying from any of the text boxes seems to work fine for me (as well as from the textual descriptions in the search results, though that’s more amusing because the item tries to drag along with your cursor as you highlight the text). That’s with Firefox in Windows, Flash Player 9.

]]> By: Michael Wexler http://ycoolthing.com/archives/364/point-of-no-returns/comment-page-1#comment-1118 Michael Wexler Tue, 29 May 2007 18:00:29 +0000 http://ycoolthing.com/archives/364/point-of-no-returns#comment-1118 Of course, in all their cleverness to make the pasting smarter, they disabled Ctrl-C to copy addresses from the box. You have to right click to get to the copy command. Whoopsy. Of course, in all their cleverness to make the pasting smarter, they disabled Ctrl-C to copy addresses from the box. You have to right click to get to the copy command. Whoopsy.

]]> By: Sean http://ycoolthing.com/archives/364/point-of-no-returns/comment-page-1#comment-1116 Sean Sun, 27 May 2007 06:54:16 +0000 http://ycoolthing.com/archives/364/point-of-no-returns#comment-1116 Well, you know, it's no MyBlogLog tagging. :P Well, you know, it’s no MyBlogLog tagging. :P

]]> By: jr http://ycoolthing.com/archives/364/point-of-no-returns/comment-page-1#comment-1115 jr Sun, 27 May 2007 05:42:08 +0000 http://ycoolthing.com/archives/364/point-of-no-returns#comment-1115 "Minor cool features?" That's code for "insanely useful stuff", right? “Minor cool features?”

That’s code for “insanely useful stuff”, right?

]]> By: ope http://ycoolthing.com/archives/364/point-of-no-returns/comment-page-1#comment-1114 ope Sun, 27 May 2007 00:30:51 +0000 http://ycoolthing.com/archives/364/point-of-no-returns#comment-1114 thanks, i cant tell the hours n places i've been too with that map. thanks, i cant tell the hours n places i’ve been too with that map.

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