is not working in the latest version of Chrome, v 96.0.4664.93. If I mouseover any part of the path except Home, the cursor remains a simple pointer, and does not indicate an enabled link.
If I mouseover the root, “Home”, the pointer changes to indicate that it is an enabled link, but clicking it opens the Search modal.
Firefox isn’t much better, especially in its last few releases. It’s gotten slower to load, for one thing. And for pages with mixed security, like realplayer.com, you can’t add exceptions anymore, but have to choose interactively to load the page.
But you make a good point. This morning, the breadcrumb trail is broken again in Chrome. Now, yesterday, I was on my work machine when I accessed the forum. This morning, I’m on my personal machine. I’ve got the latest release of Chrome installed, v96.0.4664.110, and both machines are Win10. I’ll have to boot up my work laptop and see, but there may be something else involved.
I’m thinking of trying the Opera browser, just to see how it does.
Still broken for me, no matter what browser I use.
The word “home” is your clue–if it appears “broken” there’s a inty magnifying glass in there that sends you to the “Search” function.
It’s still a pain. I find I need to go to the Community Tab, and pull down the entire listing, then being stuck to the browser’s Back Button for navigation.
It’s like being on a forum in the 90s, only not quite as easy to navigate.
Yeah, I’m now logged in to my company’s network on my work machine, and the breadcrumb trail works correctly. But that just makes it more difficult to diagnose the problem.
As far as a company’s application developers and testers go, it’s difficult for many organizations to keep up with all the changes, from websites to browsers, and then throw in hardware of all kinds. So there’s a lag. The situation is like an arms race. And I wouldn’t be surprised if Kalmbach’s IT staff numbered no more than a dozen individuals, since Kalmbach isn’t an application development company. So they’re always going to be a little behind, in reaction mode.
I work for an application development company, that makes software for school districts to manage their data, and we see that kind of cycle. Now, we anticipate change, to make sure that we can reduce its impact. In my area-testing-we increase our coverage by automating our testing, reducing the amount of time it takes to test the code. But we can never eliminate it completely.
I had a conversation with our online lead today and we’re working toward a solution. The truth is the Forum hasn’t been updated since I want to say 2014 or 2015. The platform is old and the company that made it doesn’t support this version anymore. In fact, it’s not even the same company anymore. All the coding for the Forum for a long time has been done internally. There are no plans to replatform the Forum right now, so I have given a comprehensive list to the team stretching back years and including all of the various reports from members over that time. And we’re going to start working through them. There is no quick solution. Believe me, I wish there were. But we are working on it.
