Murphy strikes back (I broke the forums)

David Voss wrote:

It's definitely an issue related to Explorer 7.  I'm working on replacing the current editor (where you post a message w/ the toolbar buttons) with something else that should work with Safari & IE 7.

jwb wrote:

I wish all would just switch to FF.....

David Voss wrote:

It's definitely an issue related to Explorer 7.  I'm working on replacing the current editor (where you post a message w/ the toolbar buttons) with something else that should work with Safari & IE 7.

You da man!  Thanks David! 

Bgrigg wrote:

And Firefox 2.0 released today. I downloaded it off the Mozilla FTP server last night, as I'm an impatient sort. It breaks some of the extensions I use, but I expect that to be rectified shortly. Remember that "Friends Don't Let Friends Drive IE7!"

sigh, unfortunately there is no one perfect browser.  That's why I keep several in my arsenal as some sites work well with one browser but not the other.  Firefox used to have lot's of problems with most of the sites I go to, but not so much anymore.  Now it's IE7's turn to be hosed. 

Bgrigg wrote:

Ain't that the truth. I run Firefox as my default browser, IE7 as my surf Microsoft browser and also have Opera on hand to keep the other two honest...

A wise strategy my friend. 

Hippy-Ed wrote:

And quit trying to fix what aint broke

Oops, I did it again.  

David Voss wrote:

Hippy-Ed wrote: And quit trying to fix what aint broke Oops, I did it again.

I just Found that OUT David!!!  GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

What am I gonna do Dave???!

No smilies, no preview,  the whole reply screen is different....

email inbound :( 

Hippy-Ed wrote:

No smilies, no preview,  the whole reply screen is different....

As for the smilies, I hope to get those back in soon.

The preview is gone because it wasn't working and I didn't have the time to figure that out right now.  If you previewed the post and then went to hit post (on the preview screen) you would lose your post.  A work around is to post the message and use the edit option.

As for the reply screen, aside from the editor, I moved the display of the message you're replying to underneath the editor.  It's still there if you need to refer to something in the message, but now you're able to use the editor without having to scroll down past the message your replying to.

This should fix the problems people were having with IE7, Safari, and other minor issues.

David Voss wrote:

Hippy-Ed wrote: No smilies, no preview,  the whole reply screen is different.... As for the smilies, I hope to get those back in soon. The preview is gone because it wasn't working and I didn't have the time to figure that out right now.  If you previewed the post and then went to hit post (on the preview screen) you would lose your post.  A work around is to post the message and use the edit option. As for the reply screen, aside from the editor, I moved the display of the message you're replying to underneath the editor.  It's still there if you need to refer to something in the message, but now you're able to use the editor without having to scroll down past the message your replying to. This should fix the problems people were having with IE7, Safari, and other minor issues.

Dave, tried safai 3 times & it crashed all 3 times when I hit "Post"

seemed a bit "choppy/jerky" took forever to load a page

I do like the message being at the bottom tho, Thanks for that at least :) 

Hippy-Ed wrote:

Dave, tried safai 3 times & it crashed all 3 times when I hit "Post"

You're absolutely right, it does.

David Voss wrote:

Hippy-Ed wrote: Dave, tried safai 3 times & it crashed all 3 times when I hit "Post" You're absolutely right, it does.

David, I told ya... 

Hippy-Ed wrote:

David Voss wrote:  Hippy-Ed wrote: Dave, tried safai 3 times & it crashed all 3 times when I hit "Post" You're absolutely right, it does. David, I told ya...

Dave, don't you know  Ed's ALWAYS right.................... :P

Bud

call me a spoilsport, but the thought that consatntly runs through my mind is "the old forum was better, the old forum was better..."

no offense to the hard working people who run this place of course.  

Tankmaster7 wrote:

call me a spoilsport, but the thought that consatntly runs through my mind is "the old forum was better, the old forum was better..."

/sigh

I know, I know... believe me, I'm not 100% happy with these forums either, but the old forums were no longer an option for a number of reasons.  The primary reason was the requirement of using forums built in asp.net.  That really narrowed down the number of choices we had. 

One other thing I wanted to mention is that you should no longer see pages where the width of the page gets pushed out because someone posted a really long link or a very long unbroken line of text.

Here's an example

(sorry tigerman, just the first example I could find)

David Voss wrote:

One other thing I wanted to mention is that you should no longer see pages where the width of the page gets pushed out because someone posted a really long link or a very long unbroken line of text. Here's an example (sorry tigerman, just the first example I could find)

 That by itself is almost all worth it. Good job. I wondered if that problem would be fixed. We're getting there!

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David Voss wrote:

Hippy-Ed wrote: Dave, tried safai 3 times & it crashed all 3 times when I hit "Post" You're absolutely right, it does.

Well, I don't know why it was crashing Safari.  So all I can do is to disable it for Safari users and give them a plain 'ol textbox to post in.  On a positive note, at least Safari users will be able to post images using the bracket tags again.  I know posting imags has been a problem with Safari.

David Voss wrote:

David Voss wrote:  Hippy-Ed wrote: Dave, tried safai 3 times & it crashed all 3 times when I hit "Post" You're absolutely right, it does. Well, I don't know why it was crashing Safari.  So all I can do is to disable it for Safari users and give them a plain 'ol textbox to post in.  On a positive note, at least Safari users will be able to post images using the bracket tags again.  I know posting imags has been a problem with Safari.

Dave if ya check your emails from when the forums 1st changed over, you'll see a few from me on what was wrong with Safari besides image tags.... quoting was also an issue... all kinds of html tags

Anyhow, I'm offline tomorrow & I hope that you can get the Smilies back before I return...