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Occurred, oddly enough, at Hackademix.net

(for those who don't know, that's Giorgio's blog.)

While doing the recaptcha dance, somewhere between reading the letters and moving the mouse pointer to the "I'm a human" button, the warning popped up.
I toggled the layers, and saw no obvious change, other than a red border appearing around the box. Is that just the CC alert, or does that indicate that the borders are overlapping another page element?

Didn't happen on my previous post in that thread, which was only a few days ago.

I made a typo in the post in question, so posted a correction, with no CC warning.
So, not sure if I can reproduce.

TA'd hackademix.net and api.recaptcha.net.
RequestPolicy: Already have whitelisted requests from Hackademix to recaptcha.net, noscript.net, and informaction.com
In Blocked Objects menu, TA'd <IFRAME>@http:api.recaptcha.net/noscript.

Sent the report, as in the title: 319065

I am sure Giorgio will look and get back to you but I think its just a CSS painting issue that caused it, we'll see. Some tweaking of the CC has been happening lately, it might be an artifact of that.

bump

The difference as seen in your report was a 3 pixels tick grey bar at the bottom of the frame, which was probably an artifact of the OS theme you're using.
Either way I couldn't reproduce at all.

Giorgio Maone wrote:The difference as seen in your report was a 3 pixels tick grey bar at the bottom of the frame, which was probably an artifact of the OS theme you're using.
Either way I couldn't reproduce at all.

Thanks, I wasn't really worried about it. It's just never happened before, and I've posted there intermittently for a few years, with always the same OS theme:
Windows Classic (on XP), which replaces the fuzzy, round-cornered XP theme with a more Win98-like GUI.

If it was a one-time anomaly and needs no adjustment, cool. Thanks.

As suspected, a painting artifact, which is usually exasperated by custom themes and also anything that modifies the CSS or content of a page (like ABP, Ghostery, etc) because I couldn't reproduce it either and I access the site frequently. Seems that Giorgio has confirmed that too. Themes are a great contributor to false errors like this. So Tom, go ahead and mark it as UNRELATED so it won't be considered a functional error of NS.

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Not a "custom" theme, but among the default choices in XP Display Properties > Themes. Used since 2005, including @ Hackademix.

I can't reproduce it either, but thought "better safe than sorry", and let Giorgio know about it.
Good to know it was a one-time thing, and that there's no problem with the site.

Oh I wasn't saying that YOU used a theme that caused this, just saying that themes are a great source of this issue as well as they modify the interface causing enough shifting sometimes to trigger it. It also happens anytime something like say ABP modifies the content of a page removing something that can shift the layout. Anyway, you get it, I was just lending some extra information as an FYI.