NI Discussion Forum Upgrade - May 20, 2009

[Thoric]

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altenbach wrote:

OK, 1000 is probably not enough. I estimate that I will run out in less than a year. OTOH, the curret UI will not work well with that many pictures anyway.

I would prefer an additional mode where I can upload and insert an image but it does not get added to my gallery, but to some generic shared gallery and directly inserted in the post (e.g. as before).

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Agreed - I intend to keep my account for many years, and if Altenbach can get through 1000 in less than a year, I'm sure I'll run out in about 5 to 10 years. A common gallery somewhere would be usefu.

P.S. This may not be the appropriate place to mention this, but is Opera not supported? I use Opera Mobile on my phone to browse the forums, but I cannot use the Reply button (Javascript issue?). However, Internet Explorer on my mobile does let me reply. However, IE on my mobile is very difficult to use so I'd much prefer if Opera Mobile would work. Again, don't know if this is a support problem, or an Opera Mobile problem...

[altenbach]

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Thoric wrote:

P.S. This may not be the appropriate place to mention this, but is Opera not supported? I use Opera Mobile on my phone to browse the forums, but I cannot use the Reply button (Javascript issue?). However, Internet Explorer on my mobile does let me reply. However, IE on my mobile is very difficult to use so I'd much prefer if Opera Mobile would work. Again, don't know if this is a support problem, or an Opera Mobile problem...

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There seem to be similar issues on Iphone and Andriod (e.g. G1). See this recent discussion.

[tst]

 I'm also seeing the mixed language issue:

Currently, it seems to happen with every reply I try to post (IE8). When I posted earlier today I didn't notice it, but it might have been there.

P.S. I like the new image inserting, but I agree that not everything needs to be added to the gallery. It would be easier if we could just attach to the thread as default.

P.P.S. I agree that the link should default to open in a new window. This has always annoyed me.

[smercurio_fc]

A change request: Please stop changing fonts on me. I have no idea why the fonts are different when replying to a message. It's quite jarring. Has anyone else seen this?

[altenbach]

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smercurio_fc wrote:
A change request: Please stop changing fonts on me. I have no idea why the fonts are different when replying to a message. It's quite jarring. Has anyone else seen this?

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Yes, I notice that too. The fonts are all over the place. You can easily see that in tst's reply above. The quoted post at the bottom of the image is a few clicks larger than it should be.

[Thoric]

I've just experienced a language oddity. I have some chinese text in my subject, even though I didn't edit it.

I'm using Firefox 3.0.10 under Windows XP SP3

But it didn't happen in this message, which is almost identical in content (text and one image) to the post with the problem, after one edit (as this message now also has).

Message Edited by Thoric on 05-26-2009 12:42 PM

[RavensFan]

Was the person you were replying to japanese or chinese?  That willl happen when they reply.  They create the foreign language version of "Re:".  Then when you reply, you create the English "Re:".  Then back and forth".  I will also see it for some users who for some reason their reply message puts a space between the e and the colon.  Then you get a long string of Re:'s with and without spaces.

Two notes:

1.  For reason this morning, replying to this message is painfully slow with long delays between screen updates as I type.  Although it may be something IT is doing to our computers in the background.

2.  I got the language thing also with at least two things in this showing up in French.  Attached is the source code for this screen.  (the notify if somebody replies check box and the Add Attachments link"

[Laura F.]

Thanks Ravens Fan, I sent that file along to Lithium for their troubleshooting.

Regards,

Laura

[Laura F.]

Also, I've submitted suggestions for the following:

• An option that allows images to be uploaded without going to the user's gallery since the majority of our images are only used once
• Uploaded images that have a smaller size selected when embedding should be able to be clicked on to see the original size of the image
• General improvements for managing images in your gallery - organization for starters.

Thanks,

Laura

[TCPlomp]

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Ravens Fan wrote:

One more comment about IE8.  I use the code capture tool and was able to paste the image link directly into the attachments fill in box in IE7.  On IE7 at work, it still works fine.  However in IE8 at home, the paste command is greyed out and Ctrl-V doesn't work.  I have to hit the browse button, wait for the file dialog to come up, then I am able to paste into the filename box there.  Perhaps this is a forum problem, but I tend to lean to some major security "improvement" that MS must have shoved into IE8.  Good news is that IE8 doesn't crash on my home PC like IE7 used to do where suddenly all IE windows would say (Not Responding).

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Firefox does this from version 3 upwards, it seems to be some security measure taken to prevent malicous websites to silently load files from your system.

Now if you use the Code Capture Tool (and you should) the workflow hasn't changed that much. Click the browse button (or the file-field in FF) and paste the name into the browse dialog.

Ton