Changing themes in user settings strangeness

[Joey The Saint]

Hey Monks

I was just playing with my user settings and noticed some particularly odd behaviour when I tried to change my theme. I could change it (using the selection list) but I had to submit the form twice to get it. Each time I hit 'submit' the new page I was presented with was the one I had expected to see from the previous time.

Okay, that probably wasn't very clear. Maybe an example. I'm currently using the green theme. I go to my user settings and select the red one and hit submit. The page I get presented with is still in the green theme, but the form shows I've selected red. So I choose a different one, say blue, and hit submit. The new page is presented in the red theme (!) and blue is selected in the form. If I hit submit again without changing the theme from blue, the next time the page is displayed in the blue theme. :-) It's interesting, I didn't know the user settings were a game too.

Anyway, I took a quick look around using SuperSearch looking for 'user settings theme' and didn't see anyone else mentioning the same problem, so maybe it's just my browser or something, but I thought I'd mention it just in case it isn't an isolated problem.

If it makes any difference, I'm using a Phoenix nightly build from January 27th, 2003.

-J.

[tye]

The theme setting is changed during the loading of the page after you hit submit. But that page has already started rendering at this point so it renders using the old theme. A great many things in the site work that way.

Work has already started to "fix" some instances so that changes get applied before the page starts rendering and to "fix" others so that you get told something like "Your change has been noted, please refresh to see the effect."

                - tye