43

If you have wildcards in your favorite (or ignored) tags on the site, the mobile view will not correctly highlight questions that match these wildcards. For instance, I have mass-effect* as a favorite tag on Gaming:

side-by-side comparison of highlighting in mobile and normal views

This is because the mobile version of applyPrefs just does a direct equals comparison of the texts, so the * is interpreted literally and thus nothing ever matches.

Improve this question
7
  • 2
    "the last one didn't read right so you get this instead" Well, I feel cheated - I demand a refund!
    – Yi Jiang
    Commented Apr 3, 2012 at 9:20
  • 2
    +1 just for the fantastic "headline". More posts should follow suit.
    – cdeszaq
    Commented Apr 3, 2012 at 12:48
  • +1 just because you have mass-effect favorited.
    – Taryn
    Commented Jun 20, 2012 at 17:09
  • :O you can have wild cards in favs/ignores? There's one feature I didn't know about.
    – Jeroen
    Commented Jun 20, 2012 at 19:40
  • @Jeroen Yep. You just have to be careful when adding them, since if you accidentally make a selection from the autocomplete it'll remove the *
    – Tim Stone
    Commented Jun 20, 2012 at 19:42
  • Well, I alfeady f****** love it! Gonna search meta see if there's more of these hidden gems! +1 on the Q too, nobody should be cheated out of this feature, not even Safari users!
    – Jeroen
    Commented Jun 20, 2012 at 19:46
  • +1 I didn't know about this wild card feature either, thanks for sharing.
    – Jeremy Thompson
    Commented Jun 23, 2012 at 2:16

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
5
+400

This will start working after the next build. The rules should be the same as the full site, e.g. if you're visiting /questions/tagged/feature-request then the [feature-*] wildcard will not apply (since everything would be highlighted, or grayed out, or hidden). Everywhere else they should work, highlighting your favorites and graying/hiding your ignored.

Please keep in mind if you have a lot of wildcards and an under-powered mobile device you may see a performance impact...but I think you'd have max out both ends of that spectrum to see a noticeable difference.

Improve this answer
1
  • Sound good! Thanks :)
    – user154510
    Commented Jun 26, 2012 at 16:08

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .