ncc74656's Journal: What's with the boxes scattered about in /. posts?

http://alfter.us/files/slashdot.png

Notice the boxes that show up around posts...anybody have any idea what they're supposed to be? Is it just a worse case of /. b0rkenness than usual, or are they supposed to do something useful? I think it's been like this for at least a week or two.

(That I'm using a beta version of Firefox isn't the explanation...it looks the same on Firefox 3.0.x on my other machines, and in Safari on my iPhone.)

Just Brokenness.

[Qzukk]

They're pieces of the sliders that control # full/abbreviated/hidden posts on the page. I get them while the javascript is still processing, which takes a while on pages with more than 200 or so comments.

Unblock fsdn.com and slashdot.org in noscript and it should "work" again.

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[ncc74656]

Unblock fsdn.com and slashdot.org in noscript and it should "work" again.

Tried that yesterday (already had /. unblocked; just needed to unblock fsdn.com), and again just now...didn't make any difference.