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Old 02-August-2009, 12:14 AM
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I've having problems with the little "buttons" for color, font, underline, etc. in both the Quick Reply box and in the regular edit screens. They don't work - nothing happens. Same thing with the smilies. When I float my cursor over them, they say what they should do, but nothing happens when I click.

Now, I'm at home and have a painfully slow connection, but that never has lead to this before. And if I hand type in the code, it works fine.
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Everything seems to work for me except the color thing. There used to be a drop down list of colors now there is not. I am using chrome.
ETA: I think the color botton issue has been around since well before yesterday so it might not be related to the update.

ETA-II: The color thing is also dysfunctional in Firefox.
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ahem...the colour box has always cascaded down in the ordinary, i.e., quick reply mode and editing mode. It has not worked in the 'advanced mode', unless of course one types in the code....

I wasn't aware of it having problems with Firefox. Works okay with our Firefox.
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ahem...the colour box has always cascaded down in the ordinary, i.e., quick reply mode and editing mode. It has not worked in the 'advanced mode', unless of course one types in the code....

I wasn't aware of it having problems with Firefox. Works okay with our Firefox.
Firefox 3.5 on Windows XP. Yeah, the color box does not drop down except as a small empty square. I tried the standard and enhanced editor styles. I'll try to put in an enlarged screen cap.

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Yep, that behavior started with the previous upgrade, not this one. In the simple Quick Reply thingie it works as it should.
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Well I'm still having the same problem (and this is all the buttons, not just the old color problem).
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Do you have some sort of javascript blocker than may need to have en exception added?
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Do you have some sort of javascript blocker than may need to have en exception added?
Weirdly, I do, on this computer from work, and I always had to OK the exceptions every session. Since the upgrade, I don't, for the URL insert.
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Well I'm still having the same problem (and this is all the buttons, not just the old color problem).
I have the same problem at work, but before the upgrade. IIRC no difference between IE and Firefox. I suspect there's some HTML sanitizing going on there, between my PC and the internet. I know there's a Novell Bordermangler involved somewhere.
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I've seen cases where a virus checker though one of the java-script files needed for the editor was a virus, if there's a false positive that's getting sanitized, functions needed by the editor could be missing.
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I have the same problem at work, but before the upgrade. IIRC no difference between IE and Firefox. I suspect there's some HTML sanitizing going on there, between my PC and the internet. I know there's a Novell Bordermangler involved somewhere.
I'm at work now and no problems (see bold!). Might be something new from my home anti-virus software or something with the upgrade. Anyone have a work-around?
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This is a test I don't remember the color selection EVER working before.
When I wanted color I always had to quote another post that used colors
to remind me what the command was, then guess what the available color
names might be. This time I got a nice drop-down box on the Quick Reply.
All the functions appear to work.

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Two more cents: I just tried IE 6.0.29xx and the color box is still a small empty box. I'm using Avira AntiVir -- dunno if that's the problem or not.

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Mine works fine. I'm just not a fan of color anywhere but in the sig line (and that's an exception I had to add just to reduce hypocrisy.)

Does the forum upgrade bring any new tools or options or fun gizmos?
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Other than the bug I'm having (and I don't know if this is from the upgrade), the only other thing I've noticed is that in my PM Inbox, when I am looking at a message, the Quick Reply box is already filled in with a quote of the message I'm looking at. Not a big deal, but a nice feature for me.
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Well I'm still having the same problem (and this is all the buttons, not just the old color problem).
I have the problem with the color drop-down, only, but in both regular and advanced modes.
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No problems with colour here!

Actually that was done with the quick reply box, when I go to advanced, I get the same problems as Nowhere Man, just a little white box in the drop down menu.

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how many posts do I need to join the esteemed order of Kilopi?

What the heck is Kilopi? just seems esteemed
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how many posts do I need to join the esteemed order of Kilopi?

What the heck is Kilopi? just seems esteemed
3142. IOW, 1000 times pi. Presumably named for the asteroid kilopi.

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3142. IOW, 1000 times pi. Presumably named for the asteroid kilopi.

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Wow! I'll never get there. Kudos to the people that posted that many.
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3142. IOW, 1000 times pi. Presumably named for the asteroid kilopi.

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Actually named for the first member to reach that number.
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Actually named for the first member to reach that number.
Actually, no. GrapesOfWrath was the first. He then started a new username (back when we allowed such things) as kilopi.
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I've recently noticed that the links to previous quotes are now in the broken by design "permalink" format, where the they used to be in a proper format that could actually be used by other people, which was how I used to make references to posts.
Now there's no longer any automated way to construct a link to a post that'll show the whole page as context as well as work for people with other page length settings.
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