I'm using Epiphany 1.8.5 under Gnome 2.12 on FreeBSD 6.0/i386. I noticed that on the emusic.com website, the "Release Date" section for albums has been appearing like a full Oracle timestamp, like: "Tue Mar 14 12:42:00 2006", when the release date is supposed to read "Mar 14, 2006".
I contacted emusic.com initially thinking this was just a problem on their side, like they forgot to run the timestamp through some formatting function before displaying it on a page, but to my surprise, they said they couldn't reproduce it. I checked again, using Epiphany 1.8.5, and the erroneous timestamp was still there. I then booted up Firefox 1.5, which to the best of my knowledge, should be using the same Gecko rendering engine as Epiphany 1.8.5 (unless Epiphany is using a slightly older version, I have no idea, I didn't compile Epiphany or Firefox myself), and to my surprise Firefox 1.5 displayed the correct timestamp, "Tue Mar 14, 2006"! I checked multiple albums and the consistent behavior is that Epiphany is showing these long timestamps while Firefox is not. I looked at the page source handed out by the emusic.com server and it's not using any sort of Javascript function to compute that date, which was my first guess at why it should be different, but it actually appears "hard-coded", like the output of any PHP or ColdFusion script would appear to be. I contacted emusic technical support again and explained the problem, letting them know that it only existed in Epiphany and not Firefox, and they said to get in contact with you, and that if you decide to look into it, they'd be interested in hearing from you (you, the Epiphany team). Here's the full e-mail from emusic.com concerning this problem: Hello, Thank you for contacting eMusic Customer Support. If you's like to contact them, please do. You can include this email in your contact. I'd be interested in hearing from them. Regards, Josh eMusic Customer Support Team --Original Message-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03/14/06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE:Website Issues [#2425394] I am still seeing the timestamps, but curiously enough it seems to be limited to the Epiphany web browser that comes with many Linux/*BSD systems. I also have Firefox installed and, when using that browser, I do not see the timestamps, only the correctly formatted dates. So, I do not see the problem in Firefox, only in Epiphany, which is quite odd seeing as Epiphany uses the same Gecko rendering engine that Firefox uses. If you think this is something for the Epiphany web browser team, I can contact them about it. Thanks! Chris Thielen On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 09:15 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you for contacting eMusic Customer Support. > > I'm not seeing the timestamp at this point. If you're still seeing it, please let me know. > > Regards, > > Josh > eMusic Customer Support Team > > > > --Original Message-- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 03/14/06 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Website Issues[#2425394] > > Ticket ID: > First Name: Christopher > Last Name: Thielen > Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone Number: > Operating System: Other > Drop Down: Cable/DSL > > ---------------------------------------------- > Contents: > > Recently (in the last few days), various albums (I think all albums) have been showing a "Release Date" containing extraneous information. For example: > > (copy & paste from an emusic page) > Artist: Ran Blake > Release Date: Tue Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2006 > Genre: Jazz > Label: Tompkins Square > > It could just be my preference, but formatting the date to include such erroneous date like 00:00:00 EST doesn't look as good as the previous method the website used to present release dates. > > Thanks! > > > Browser: > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060303 Epiphany/1.8.5 Firefox/1.5.0.1 > > Let me know if you guys decide to look into it. I am not on the epiphany-list mailing list, so I'm assuming I won't hear any replies back, so if you could CC me in any discussion on this, I'd appreciate it. Let me know if you guys are looking into this slight cosmetic anomaly. Thanks, Chris Thielen _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
