The custom control for the editor we use is actually a 3rd party control.  There is an update available but I believe they dropped IE6 support in the update.  Since too many people still use IE6 on the forums, we can't simply drop support too.  This latest update may provide spell checker support (either built in or through Firefox), but I'm not too sure.  I'll do some research and see what I can do though.  Switching the control to something new entirely is not an option for the moment.

I also hate the way links work in the editor.  Copy/pasted URL's should be detected automatically and set to be links.  The latest update may fix this as well.

Bara

Oh please please please (I had to install textlink extension so I could just doubleclick those plain text links). And update the current link insertion button to actually work NOT backwards would be great.

Zyxpsilon

reply 16

 


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Sounds like a nice little rap lyric or poetry...I love it!

I use a spell checker I installed in my browser. ieSpell. I couldn't do without it.

Kitkun

reply 23

Quoting GunslingerBara, reply 21Since too many people still use IE6 on the forums, we can't simply drop support too.
 

 

Tell me about it

Bara

We use IE6 at the college where I work - its compulsory

You should see the mess it makes of the WC front page. The toolbar buttons, Home, Gallery, Articles etc are all duplicated dozens of times making a toolbar about five deep

I also have to use IE6 at work, we're not allowed/able to install/update system services at all. Amusingly, that actually allowed to to upload avatars while Flash10 was bugged, since I couldn't update from 9 to 10 if I wanted to (it's still at 9, btw).

me too.....butt ugly top of page.....I use FF at home now...for some reason...IE7 never liked the idea of installing on my machine.

I've read in other posts that forum support for IE6 has been dropped long ago. Your statement seems to imply that it's still supported. Is it still supported?

Perhaps that was in discussion about Impulse?

As far as I know, we are still supporting major IE6 issues, but ignoring minor things.  Of course, I'm trying to push away from that, and to go with the "2 versions of IE supported" policy that other companies follow, so that we only support IE7 and 8.  We'll see what happens.

Bara

Well personally I'd be fine with dropping support for IE6 (even as I'm posting from it, yay work) as long as the basic forum functions would at least remain working. I wouldn't insist on all the bells and whistles, but being able to at least post would be nice

I just updated the forums again.  Please do another hard refresh to get the latest javascript! (Press Ctrl + F5 to hard refresh)

This update AJAX's the view edits button.  That should decrease load times and the page load issues some people were having on some posts.  I've also done a bit of parsing on the edits so now quotes, smilies, links, etc. will show up properly.  Please let me know if you notice any issues!

Bara

NICE!  Looking back to my reply 14 of this thread I can see the color overrides you put in place inside the View Edit box.  The first edit was in red the second edit was in green the third was in blue....all of which got ignored (as it should be) inside the view edit box, but the colors still stuck in the post.  GJ!

Now the only "problem" with it is the fact of forcing a color background for the text.  Those two edits had a black background forced, so in the second edit, when the text got overrode to black, now you cannot read it due to the forced black background... Tis why I did the background color forcing...

At that rate, IE14 & Opera22 & Firefox16 will still battle it out for supremacy notwithstanding cross platforming compatibilty nightmares for users - where's the legendary simplicity of NetScape when we need it.

Here's the situation -- Browsers are dashboard radios in your cars, it comes stock from assembly lines and if you want the latest gimmick you need to learn how to wire it in, connect speakers and fit it in on the tight space alloted.

IE simply welds the music and the tuner so hard, treble becomes trouble and bass becomes cash. ActiveX and invasive bars are the usual collections of CDs & cassettes in the glovebox.

Sadly, all of it is rusting in dumpyards -- eventually.

Name a dragster which isn't customized by THE driver, fast & furiously.

I'll see about ignoring background colors as well.  Thank you.

Bara

Newp, Thank you!

With regards to the view edits function-is there any way for it to only show what has actually been changed highlighted?

For instance, I have a paragraph 5 sentences long and I change 3 words in it.  Currently, it shows that I have deleted the entire paragraph and rewritten the paragraph as a whole with the new words inserted.  It's difficult to see exactly what has changed, and I was under the assumption that the highlighting was intended to make what was changed obvious.

I was under the assumption people liked that, since it helps to hide minor spelling mistakes and errors.  This system wasn't intended to show every minor detail.  It was meant to show major changes to posts to prevent confusion and people aggressively modifying their posts.

Bara