NI Discussion Forum Upgrade - May 20, 2009

[smercurio_fc]

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Thoric wrote:

Am I the only person who finds that the space character at the end of an unfinished sentence gets removed by Firefox when typing at the end?

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Nope. I reported this bug when the forums were first upgraded many months ago. This current upgrade was supposed to fix the bug.

I find myself checking that I don't get characters at the end of the line getting deleted while I'm using other apps like Notepad or Word.  It's quite annoying, isn't it?

[smercurio_fc]

Another editor issue (not sure if this has been mentioned before). When you want to insert a list of bullets a new line gets added, but only after you post the message. In the editor the new line does not appear. Steps:

1. On a new line enter some text, e.g. "For example:".
2. Press Enter on your keyboard.
3. Click the Bullets icon in the editor toolbar.
4. Bullets will appear with no line separating "For example" and the first bullet.
5. Post the message.
6. A new line magically appears before the first bullet.

Note that when you do this with the ordered list the new line before the first item appears in the editor (as expected). I believe this has been around before the upgrade.

[Laura F.]

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smercurio_fc wrote:

A new one: When looking at a user's profile page the layout is all messed up on Firefox. It was fine before the upgrade. Attached is a screenshot of what it now looks like.

UPDATE: The level of "messed up" seems to vary. For example, take a look at altenbach's profile.

The profiles look just fine in IE. Hmmm... wonder how much testing Lithium does on non-IE browsers?

Message Edited by smercurio_fc on 05-21-2009 09:46 AM

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This is a caching issue that I also experienced. Clear your firefox cache and you should see it correctly.

Thanks,

Laura

[smercurio_fc]

That worked. Very odd. Thanks, Laura.

[altenbach]

The huge image inserted by Ben above makes my browser (IE8) nearly unresponsive. scrolling takes literally forever.

[Ben]

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altenbach wrote:
The huge image inserted by Ben above makes my browser (IE8) nearly unresponsive. scrolling takes literally forever.

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While my IE 6 does not blink.

Ben

[Ben]

While posting I noticed my edit screen is half in English and half in some other language. See image.

Ben

[altenbach]

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Ben wrote:

While posting I noticed my edit screen is half in English and half in some other language. See image.

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I guess that's the same as this.

[Ben]

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altenbach wrote:

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Ben wrote:

While posting I noticed my edit screen is half in English and half in some other language. See image.

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I guess that's the same as this.

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Well now that you point that out, yes. So I am confirming the mixed language issue (using IE 6).

Ben

[Laura F.]

I've reported the multiple language issue.  Very strange.

As for the bullets - I just assumed it's the way the HTML gets interpreted - when you start a bulleted list I thought it is interpreted to start with <p> which will show extra space at the beginning and end of the bulleted list.

• test
• again

So I guess if you don't realize this, you end up inserting unneeded lines in the editor so you get even more space once the message is posted.  It would be better if the editor automatically displayed those extra spaces.

Thanks,

Laura

Message Edited by Laura F. on 05-21-2009 01:21 PM