Re: MasterCounter Weirdness -Resolved!

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 15139
interpreted = N
texte = Bad html style has come back to haunt me... After looking at the WebDNA for the MasterCounter I surmised that the counter values could be victim of a failed [lookup] based upon the URL name. So I went hunting and found a page in the site that had the first letter of the hyperlinks capitalized. So anytime someone clicked on one of those links the capitalization of the URL got toggled and the MasterCounter lookup failed (since it's case sensitive) so the counter got reset to 1. I wish I could find someone else to blame but I think I did that one...DOOH! >I've been testing the MasterCounter WebDNA sample and getting some strange >behavior. I'm seeing #hits values actually drop?? on some pages and bizarre Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: MasterCounter Weirdness -Resolved! (Marty Schmid 1997)
Bad html style has come back to haunt me... After looking at the WebDNA for the MasterCounter I surmised that the counter values could be victim of a failed [lookup] based upon the URL name. So I went hunting and found a page in the site that had the first letter of the hyperlinks capitalized. So anytime someone clicked on one of those links the capitalization of the URL got toggled and the MasterCounter lookup failed (since it's case sensitive) so the counter got reset to 1. I wish I could find someone else to blame but I think I did that one...DOOH! >I've been testing the MasterCounter WebDNA sample and getting some strange >behavior. I'm seeing #hits values actually drop?? on some pages and bizarre Marty Schmid

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