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16th July 2008, 10:00 PM
Big Shed

Can't enter posts

Never a dull moment............

Tried to answer a question re Balinese Hut, forum spat the dummy and demnded a reply of at least 1 character, can understand that. Problem is I typed in a whole sentence.

Also tried to answer a PM, got the same stern response from the forum.

???? down Firefox, tried again, same result.

In desperation I sunk as low as firing up IE and lo and behold I could enter posts and PMs

So is the forum broke or is Firefox broke? I have not updated my Firefox today and have entered several posts before this happened.

As Alice said "curiouser and curiouser"..................
16th July 2008, 10:03 PM
wheelinround

BS only now this cause its happened to me make sure you have typed outside the quote boxes at least part of

Ray

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Shed

Never a dull moment............

Tried to answer a question re Balinese Hut, forum spat the dummy and demnded a reply of at least 1 character, can understand that. Problem is I typed in a whole sentence.

Also tried to answer a PM, got the same stern response from the forum.

???? down Firefox, tried again, same result.

In desperation I sunk as low as firing up IE and lo and behold I could enter posts and PMs

So is the forum broke or is Firefox broke? I have not updated my Firefox today and have entered several posts before this happened.

As Alice said "curiouser and curiouser"..................
16th July 2008, 10:07 PM
Big Shed

Quote:

Originally Posted by wheelinround

BS only now this cause its happened to me make sure you have typed outside the quote boxes at least part of

Ray

Thanks Ray, but neither the post or the PM had quote boxes, just typed in to the blank text box. Did it several times with the same result, even typed it again in the text box that popped up with the "at least 1 character" message.

Works in IE, doesn't work in Firefox, only happened since my last post before the Balinese Hut reply.
16th July 2008, 10:07 PM
steven

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Shed

Never a dull moment............

Tried to answer a question re Balinese Hut, forum spat the dummy and demnded a reply of at least 1 character, can understand that. Problem is I typed in a whole sentence.

Also tried to answer a PM, got the same stern response from the forum.

???? down Firefox, tried again, same result.

In desperation I sunk as low as firing up IE and lo and behold I could enter posts and PMs

So is the forum broke or is Firefox broke? I have not updated my Firefox today and have entered several posts before this happened.

As Alice said "curiouser and curiouser"..................

Hi there

Having a look at this now, can you try replyng to my PM.

wheelinround has a good suggestion in his post, quoting text isn't as clear as it could be.
16th July 2008, 10:10 PM
Big Shed

Quote:

Originally Posted by steven

Hi there

Having a look at this now, can you try replyng to my PM.

wheelinround has a good suggestion in his post, quoting text isn't as clear as it could be.

Thanks Steven, no I didn't have quoted text at all.

Will try to reply to your PM when it gets here, both from Firefox and IE.

Fred
16th July 2008, 10:39 PM
watson

G'day Steve,
Had three PM's from Big Shed.
IE.....with quote...and typed text worked.
Firefox .....could see the quote but no typed text.
Checked again.
IE....with quote....and typed text worked again.
Noel
16th July 2008, 10:39 PM
Big Shed

Try again in Firefox, different computer............

Edit:

Well, that worked in Firefox, same version 2.0.0.16), different computer.
16th July 2008, 10:43 PM
watson

Big shed,
can you use that same (the second computer) use a quote and add typed text..then all bases are covered.
16th July 2008, 10:46 PM
Big Shed

Quote:

Originally Posted by watson

Big shed,
can you use that same (the second computer) use a quote and add typed text..then all bases are covered.

Done from second computer
16th July 2008, 10:47 PM
watson

Worked like a dream!!
16th July 2008, 11:03 PM
Big Shed

Quote:

Originally Posted by watson

Worked like a dream!!

Switched to Basic Text Editor on first computer

Edit:

That did the trick! So why does WSIWYG work on one computer and not on the other? And why did this happen all of a sudden?

Edit 2:

Switched to Standard Editor

Edit 3:

Still worked, oh well guess I will be using the Standard Editor
16th July 2008, 11:06 PM
watson

I'll leave that to Steve.........
17th July 2008, 09:04 AM
wheelinround

For Steven

Ah now I understand Steven's Pm's
Now my problem with the Error Message was prior any major updates ages ago Steven, only because I typed everything inside the "Quote Box" and got the same message as Big Shed. Once I put any text outside the box it was ok :2tsup:
18th July 2008, 09:29 AM
Big Shed

After quite a bit of experimenting and investigating I have finally resolved my little editor problem.

As stated above, I suddenly could not enter messages or posts using the WSIWYG editor. This happened on my main use computer, a notebook running Win XP. It did not happen on my desktop computer, and older Pentium III running Win2000. Both have Firefox 2.0.0.16 as their web browser. When using IE7 the WSIWYG editor would work on the notebook.

I eventually noticed in Firefox that the NoScript icon (bottom right hand corner) was partially red because yahooapsis.com had not been enabled for scripts. When I allowed scripts for this the WSIWYG editor worked again:2tsup:.

Just thought I would post this as there may be other users experiencing this or similar problems in Firefox, the moral is check NoScript permissions.:doh:
18th July 2008, 09:47 AM
mikm

Nice work, BS. As of yesterday, I had the same problem. I never bother allowing scripts from sites unless they are the site I want, or a derivative of. Dunno how 'yahooapis' fits in with this forum, but what the hey, it works...
18th July 2008, 09:48 AM
steven

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Shed

After quite a bit of experimenting and investigating I have finally resolved my little editor problem.

As stated above, I suddenly could not enter messages or posts using the WSIWYG editor. This happened on my main use computer, a notebook running Win XP. It did not happen on my desktop computer, and older Pentium III running Win2000. Both have Firefox 2.0.0.16 as their web browser. When using IE7 the WSIWYG editor would work on the notebook.

I eventually noticed in Firefox that the NoScript icon (bottom right hand corner) was partially red because yahooapsis.com had not been enabled for scripts. When I allowed scripts for this the WSIWYG editor worked again:2tsup:.

Just thought I would post this as there may be other users experiencing this or similar problems in Firefox, the moral is check NoScript permissions.:doh:

Hi there

Nice find, thanks for posting the solution.

I've reverted the setting back to its original setting, so the problem shouldn't exist anymore.

regards
18th July 2008, 09:52 AM
ubeaut

Hahaaar.... Steven enabled something to do with Yahoo sometime last week. No idea what it was or does but that is probably the culprit.

Hey Steven... What was it? :?:?:?
18th July 2008, 09:53 AM
steven

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikm

Nice work, BS. As of yesterday, I had the same problem. I never bother allowing scripts from sites unless they are the site I want, or a derivative of. Dunno how 'yahooapis' fits in with this forum, but what the hey, it works...

There is a setting that allows you to use yahoo to host the javascript files, they're used for things like the wysiwyg editors, image popup and AJAX features like quick reply etc..

But if using it causes problems like this, its not really worth the half a second of load time it 'could' save.

Quote:

YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library) script files are hosted locally on your server, you may however have them served from Yahoo's own servers, saving you some bandwidth and potentially decreasing load times.
18th July 2008, 09:57 AM
steven

Quote:

Originally Posted by ubeaut

Hey Steven... What was it? :?:?:?

In the admin panel goto Server Settings and Optimization Options, its the last setting. Best to leave it off hey :wink: