I'm back after a too-long hiatus from Skrittering, and everything was going fine until about ten minutes ago, when the little grading circle next to the word just stopped showing up. I'm using IE 9, 32-bit version, and I've tried restarting with no luck. Unfortunately, Chrome's hanging up on the study page, everything seems to load up just fine but no items are coming up, it's just "... to review" and a blank space above the study box's toolbar, so I can't check if the grading circle is working there or not.

I'm using the beta site, for what it's worth.

I remember this has happened before, but I don't remember exactly what the issue was - seems like it might have been a bug that piggybacked in with an experimental feature update or something...

Hmm, it's back. Good thing I mentioned it here, otherwise it would never have come back - one of those Douglas Adams-esque axioms of life where the problem never occurs when you take the car to the shop but I swear it was making this noise that sounded like a dead horse coughing and all that. Of course, the second part of that axiom is now that I've declared the problem to have resolved itself, I'll run into it again in the next five minutes. So it goes.

Hey FatDragon--is the Chrome hang happening both on live and beta?

Looks like it, and to my surprise it's still happening after a day, though I haven't restarted the computer.

Chrome 18.0.1025.11 beta-m

Hmm, the grading circle is gone again - not sure how long it'll be gone, but there you go.

When exactly are you expecting it to show up? It should only appear after finishing the last character of a word.

Yeah, I thought it might have been user error since I was gone for so long, but it isn't showing up at all. It's been back and forth. Two days ago, it showed up for about five (Skritter clock) minutes, then went away for about 15, then came back for the last ten. Last night I had it for five to ten minutes, then it was gone and no amount of restarting IE would bring it back. I didn't try the stable version of the site, though.

I'll put it on my bug list, I guess. I'm not in a rush to work on non-critical non-iOS bugs right now, though--hope you will understand.

Understood. Since I seem to be the only one experiencing it, it makes sense that it's low-priority.

I've also encountered this problem with IE 9.0.8112 on win7. The grading circle is gone. But, in my case, it will not come back automatically and I've to do something to unhide it.

The trick is to invoke the developer tools by pressing F12. Then randomly delete a few characters shown inside the HTML tab and then close the tools. The grading circle will reappear and continue to behave normally until the end of that session. This cannot completely solve the problem, and I have to repeat the above procedure for each session.

Hope that this may help some fellow Skritters vexed by this problem.

Thanks! I'll have to give that a try. Skritter finally started working in Chrome again, complete with grading circle, but performance has been less than stellar so I'd be happy to get back to IE for Skritter for the time being - as much as I dislike IE, to the extent that I get upset with my girlfriend whenever she uses my computer and defaults to IE for web browsing, Skritter just runs so much better on it these days.

Hairpull! It's like a monthly drawing to see which browser + operator system + Flash version combinations run well and which don't. Skritter Flash performance is often worse than it was two years ago doing much the same stuff because some change in one of the stacks made performance regress. Although the iOS app doesn't get us to as much of the mobile market as Flash did for the web, it's pretty nice to know that performance there will just get better and better instead of better and worse!

While it sucks that I'm getting poor performance Skrittering in Chrome and I have to do this workaround for IE every once in a while, on the bright side, IE is currently running Skritter better than I've ever experienced it - good performance used to be maybe 5-10ms lag, but there's no perceptible lag in IE9 now; the strokes appear exactly as I write them.