Reply to: Forum Fixes

[Old Greg]

I'm upset about all the poor innocent tokens that are expiring when my PC goes to sleep, it has to tell me when I switch to CUK when it comes back

It's PC gone mad.

[vetran]

I'm upset about all the poor innocent tokens that are expiring when my PC goes to sleep, it has to tell me when I switch to CUK when it comes back

[BR14]

Yeah, I think he meant that!

wot? - this?





you sure?

[Zigenare]

wot? - this?

Yeah, I think he meant that!

[Old Greg]

Seems intermittent now.

Still an issue if it is a new thread.

[BR14]

I know

But that's nowt to do with me; you'll have to take it up with admin.

And definitely don't do this:

wot? - this?

[NickFitz]

The Nazi smiley still isn't working.

I know

But that's nowt to do with me; you'll have to take it up with admin.

And definitely don't do this:

[Zigenare]

Admin and I have just sorted out the database stuff, so now both older and newer posts with characters like ☭, €, and ♬ should be displaying correctly

The Nazi smiley still isn't working.

[xoggoth]

Good thing I haven't got your job, i'd make it so that posts by certain people are replaced entirely by characters like ☭ and €.

On the emulator thing, it's a pain. Used to use Opera Mobile Emulator a lot but don't think it's been updated for a long time. No way of ensuring a page works on all devices without spending a lot of dosh.

[NickFitz]

BTW, the forum has switched from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 character encoding which has left some weird characters in the database for things like smart quotes (“”) and £. I believe admin is hatching a plan to sort these out, but it at least means you’ll now be able to copy and paste from external sources without things like Å appearing for no reason, so it’ll be worth it in the long run

Admin and I have just sorted out the database stuff, so now both older and newer posts with characters like ☭, €, and ♬ should be displaying correctly

[NickFitz]

Turning off WYSIWYG mode works!

Jolly good

On the emulator, it works in non-WYSIWYG mode even with WYSIWYG mode enabled. Not sure why that doesn’t happen on your real phone, but it just goes to show you can’t trust what you see on an emulator

[fullyautomatix]

[QUOTE=NickFitz;2619796]What exactly is the problem on the phone? Can you not type stuff or not post stuff once you

Turning off WYSIWYG mode works!

[Old Greg]

Did the forum used to prevent identical posts within a five minute period?

Seems intermittent now.

[Old Greg]

Did the forum used to prevent identical posts within a five minute period?

[NickFitz]

Cannot type anything in the editor. Fail to get focus when I tap inside of it. Will try your tip and let you know.

OK, I'll have to see if I can install Visual Studio on a free Windows VM intended for testing Internet Explorer, which I'm currently downloading to run under Parallels on my iMac; if so, I can presumably then install the Windows Phone emulator and see if I can work out what's going on

If none or only some of that works, I'll be a bit stuck, I'm afraid

EDITED to add: Can't replicate on IE Edge Desktop using its emulator mode pretending to be a Nokia Lumia 650; but I had a feeling that would happen. AFAIK a desktop browser emulating a mobile browser just tweaks a few bits so you can test CSS Media Queries and so on, which isn't the same thing at all. Visual Studio has almost finished installing…

EDITED to further add: Oh FFS, Parallels Normal Person Edition doesn't support virtualisation within VMs so the emulator won't run! Now importing the Parallels VM into VMWare Fusion to see if that will work…

EDITED to also add: Well, I'm doing this edit from the Windows Phone 10 (I think it is) emulator running in a virtual machine, and it's obviously letting me type OK. So I'm not sure what to do about it, other than try to find somebody with a real Windows Phone

EDIT yet again, though not in the emulator as it strains my eyes a bit viewing it on my widescreen monitor: I do see that the option to enable the WYSIWYG editor doesn't function. (I always use the non-WYSIWYG one.) So let me just enable that on my account, then try the emulator again… it appears to automatically disable the WYSIWYG editor. So you could try that in your account settings (near the bottom - select "Standard Editor - Extra formatting controls") but then you'll be stuck with that everywhere. And it might not work anyway, as an emulator obviously isn't the same as the real thing…