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Profile picture Contributor of the month Bug buster Innovator Top reviewer mbrett Tue, 2009-06-09 12:58

New Betas tab layout

Like the new BETA Applications / Experimental Applications split on the Betas tab.

May help to guide some users.

Does this mean the tab name needs to change ;-)

The forum trace needs to be updated now, but you'll already know that.

eg Graduated » Nokia Beta Labs » Forum » New Betas tab layout

Click on Graduated, Current or Archived and you get a dead page.

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#1 Profile picture Staff Ilkka Tue, 2009-06-09 13:15

Thanks! I suppose teemu is

Thanks! I suppose teemu is on this already.

The tab name needs to change, yes, from Betas => Applications. Force refresh your cache, and the CSS should update too.

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#2 Profile picture Contributor of the month Bug buster Innovator Top reviewer mbrett Tue, 2009-06-09 14:21

Might suggest a wording change under the BETA Apps heading

At present it states:

"Serious stuff on a fast track to graduate to commercial Nokia offering: still rough around the edges, but built to last."

You may get some interesting comments due to the reference to "fast track to graduate" in the case of some apps. as time between beta releases is usually described in months.

Sports Tacker has been in existance for well over a year.

Maps has not had a new release since february.

Wellness Diary has not had an update this year.

etc.

Just a thought ;-)

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#3 Profile picture Contributor of the month Bug buster Innovator Top reviewer mbrett Thu, 2009-06-11 08:55

Like the move of Graduated and Archived apps to the About pages

Like the move of Graduated and Archived apps to the About pages.

Tidys the forums path links nicely.

May I suggest that you place a Graduated/Archived explanation statement at teh top of these pages to further identify the meaning of these categories.

BTW: Still Seeing a "Betas" tab for the Apps.

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#4 Profile picture Staff Ilkka Thu, 2009-06-11 10:28

Definitely

In a similar way as in the "Betas" and "Experimental". Yup, sounds reasonable.

Must be an issue with caching somewhere. Does this have "Applications" or "Betas"?
http://betalabs.nokia.com//sites/all/themes/betalabs/images/navi-bg.png

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#5 Profile picture Contributor of the month Bug buster Innovator Top reviewer mbrett Thu, 2009-06-11 10:36

That has Applications

The link displays applications

Deleted my cache over 15 times yesterday to try to get the tab to update form betas to applications, with no luck.

I'll try again now and update this post if it changes.

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#6 Profile picture Contributor of the month Bug buster Innovator Top reviewer mbrett Thu, 2009-06-11 10:49

Nope. . . Still "Betas"

Cleared Cache in both Firefox and IE6.

Emptied Cookies folders, Emptied temp folder, Emptied Temporary Internet Folder, etc.

Still "Betas"

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#7 Profile picture Staff Ilkka Thu, 2009-06-11 11:42

I believe Beta Labs does

I believe Beta Labs does some server-side caching as well, I'll ask teemu if this could be related to that.

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#8 Profile picture Staff Ilkka Thu, 2009-06-11 11:49

A proxy caching that image

A proxy caching that image perhaps at some point, suggested teemule. He edited the css and renamed the image.
How about now?

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#9 Profile picture Contributor of the month Bug buster Innovator Top reviewer mbrett Thu, 2009-06-11 12:17

Still the same

Deleted cache in both Firefox and IE6 and still see "Betas" tab.

This is just a graphics issue as the tab has always taken me to:
http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps

It is just that the tab image is still "Betas".

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#10 Profile picture Staff Ilkka Thu, 2009-06-11 14:30

I'll suggest we

try the solution "let's wait, maybe it'll go away" then :), since it would seem most likely to me, there is a proxy somewhere between that caches the CSS and the images... That's the best explanation we've come up with and since it's just a graphics thing.

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#11 Profile picture Contributor of the month Bug buster Innovator Top reviewer mbrett Thu, 2009-06-11 15:03

I've used that solution a few times for different things

I've also used the other solutions of "walk away and get drunk" and "pray". ;-)

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#12 Profile picture Contributor of the month Bug buster Innovator Top reviewer mbrett Sat, 2009-06-13 22:21

Good news.

On my netbook the betas tabs has now changed to Applicaitions.

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