Huge qqTimer Update!

[RyanReese09]

Derp. Why not though? Purely curious.

 

[qqwref]

The reasoning was that DNFs are usually mess-ups or times that weren't supposed to be recorded (such as forgetting to stop the timer before spending several minutes finding/fixing a pop), and a lot of people get DNFs in a session. Thus I figured it would be most useful (as a measure of skill or whatever) to give the worst *non-DNF* time.

 

[David0794]

Today I got an error message...does this mean that I have to delete the qqtimer cookie and thereby lose my whole session?

Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

Cookie: session0|1=16384,14736,13449,14812,12746,12527,14080, and so on...

 

[joey]

How many solves did you have in there?

 

[Julian]

Today I got an error message...does this mean that I have to delete the qqtimer cookie and thereby lose my whole session?

Same. Before this was happening only on mzrg.com/qqtimer, but now also on qqtimer.net
Is this a result of too many solves in a session?

 

[qqwref]

It might be. I guess some browsers/servers don't do well with storing a lot of information there :|

 

[David0794]

~1700 solves I think...

 

[Julian]

Okay, how can I get it back? Would clearing my cache do the trick? Or, is there another qqtimer page?

 

[Lucas Garron]

If you store the data in the cookie mostly as a string, how about transparently changing the storage mechanism to HTML5 local storage (which has pretty wide support these days)?

 

[Julian]

If you store the data in the cookie mostly as a string, how about transparently changing the storage mechanism to HTML5 local storage (which has pretty wide support these days)?

Sorry; have no idea what you mean.

 

[cubernya]

Sorry; have no idea what you mean.

He wants to store the information on your computer, basically

 

[aronpm]

He wants to store the information on your computer, basically

This is what cookies already do.

What Lucas said is probably better, though.

 

[qqwref]

I think I remember that the last time I tried to test out localstorage it had some weird bugs/issues that made it really hard to deal with. Lucas, if you want to try to rewrite the functions to get and save cookies/sessions, I'll be interested to see if you can get them to work.

 

[AustinReed]

I'm manually entering times. Then I reset the session and it goes back to spacebar to start/stop.

Mac OSX, Chrome.


Edit: Resolved. Switch the time style to Gottlieb.

 

[Lucas Garron]

I think I remember that the last time I tried to test out localstorage it had some weird bugs/issues that made it really hard to deal with. Lucas, if you want to try to rewrite the functions to get and save cookies/sessions, I'll be interested to see if you can get them to work.

I was going to look into this later, but I looked into localStorage for an assignment. Turns out that it's basically a consistent one-liner in all browsers.

These changes try to be a bit more robust by falling back to cookie support if localStorage is not available. If you want to be bold, you can literally replace each of the cookie functions by a one-liner. (localStorage.getItem(...) also returns null if the key is not found.)

This works for me in Chrome, FF, and Safari.
(Opera doesn't seem to respond to the spacebar for qqtimer at all, and I can't test IE.)
caniuse.com is very optimistic.

 

[DavidWoner]

Why did you decide to ruin the 3x3x4 scrambler with S2 and M2?

 

[qqwref]

I could put it back to the old style; basically I thought it'd be better to not have so many F2B2 and L2R2s cluttering up the scramble. It was pretty long and hard to read (at least, I thought it was).

 

[DavidWoner]

Yeah but M2 and S2 suck to execute. At least different scramble types would be nice.

 

[iReviewCubes]

The timer doesn't even work for me. When I hit the spacebar it doesn't start the timer, and when I try entering times manually it still doesn't add the times.

 

[stevecho816]

try it on chrome. That's how my timer worked