08-22-2008 09:30 AM
I have come across some awkward behavior with new Discussion Forums message editor.
Previously, if you wanted to add a smiley, or a link or image, when you clicked the button aboved the edit window, those features behaved more like a menu drop down or had a dialog box. With the new editor, those features come up in a separate window. Using IE6.0 at work, the new behavior is pretty similar to the way it worked before. However, using IE7.0 at home, these come up as separate tabs within IE. So instead of getting a small menu dropdown or dialog box to select a smiley, a new IE tab gets created that is mostly blank except for the smileys. Insert an image, a whole new IE tab comes up where you fill in the lines such as the URL to the image.
I like the older method of it behaving like a menu drop down or dialog box, it is awkward how in IE7, these come up as separate tabs in IExplorer.
08-22-2008 10:17 AM
Hi Ravens Fan,
I found this IE7 behavior annoying on more sites than just the Forums, so I changed my settings so that these types of links would open in a window instead of a tab. In the Tools > Internet Options menu, I changed the Tabs Settings on the General Tab to "When a pop-up is encountered: Always open pop-ups in a new window" Tabbed browsing still works the way I expect, I don't think I changed any of the other settings.
Thanks,
Laura
Web Support & Operations
National Instruments
08-22-2008 10:51 AM
08-22-2008 11:02 AM
Laura F. wrote:Hi Ravens Fan,
I found this IE7 behavior annoying on more sites than just the Forums, so I changed my settings so that these types of links would open in a window instead of a tab. In the Tools > Internet Options menu, I changed the Tabs Settings on the General Tab to "When a pop-up is encountered: Always open pop-ups in a new window" Tabbed browsing still works the way I expect, I don't think I changed any of the other settings.
Thanks,
Laura
Web Support & Operations
National Instruments
Thanks, I will give that one a try.