New website editor

Quote no longer works for me using FireFox 10.01 on Windows 7.

Typing is exceptionally slow, I feel like I am typing underwater, it is so slow that I find that I am making mistakes as my fingers are ahead of what appears on the screen.

Even more frustratingly, the built in FireFox spell checker which is perfectly functional has now been disabled, only to be replaced by SCAYT which, when turned on makes a slow text editor even slower.

So all in all a dismal failure as a text editor a retrograde step that doesn't even correct one of the many enormous shortcoming that this forum software has, and that is the ability to preview a message before posting; a standard feature of just about any other forum software.

The 'link' button just makes the whole tab fade, as if a pop-up will appear, and then freeze, though I can see other tabs normally. This is Firefox 3.6.10 so perhaps upgrade time...

I was most disturbed to se Dias Costa's "two simple testes" - I thinke hes talking bo%&*$^&£.... no signal

The image tab also makes the active screen fade in the same way.

Thats with IE on Vista

J

Rule 1 for engineering at sea

"if it aint broke don't fix it"

We called people who tried to fix things that alreaky worked "tweekers"

Edited By Ady1 on 16/02/2012 20:43:00

Excellent advice Ady, just a bit too late!

Ian P (and I'm and addicted tweaker)

Upgraded to Firefox 10 (oops only seven versions out of date...)

Link function works fine now.

Neil

Hello Neil.

As I wrote in my message English is not my mother tongue and this makes dificult to me understand, sometimes, the English writen in the forum.

Maybe for the above reason, I couldn't understand completely the last paragraph of Your post.

You write in Your message “I was most disturbed to se Dias Costa's "two simple testes" - I thinke hes talking bo%&*$^&£.... no signal “.

I'm so sorry My message provoked that efect on You.

Can I give You any further detail to help You in some way understanding what I've done?

I assure You the testes I made are real and were made just by copy from the three editors followed by paste to the forum editor. Without any intervention on the text.

Best regards

Dias Costa

Hi Dias,

I think Neil's remark was about the text you choosed for your test. I liked it

But why the heck did you write twice 'posted from MS Word 2003' ?

Well this is a test for the new editor also. At least quoting is working again so that I can write on the left margin without the quote bar (but I needed a couple of trials to get here).

Greetings, Hansrudolf

Hi Dias,

I don't think you need worry about Neil's comment. I think he's making a play on an unfortunate spelling mistake. I assume you meant to write:

'test' - to try something out

instead you typed:

'teste' - which Neil has converted to the plural 'testes', part of the male reproductive organs, for which a slang equivalent is 'b@ll@ocks'

I don't understand the 'no signal' bit though; and I would claim to be a native English speaker.

Regards,

Andrew

Hello Hansrudolf.

Thank You for You answer. And yes, I confirm about the phrases from Jethro Tull in general not just about my previous post...

| But why the heck did you write twice 'posted from MS Word 2003' ?

Just by mistake. The third set of lines was copyed from Open Office so I should have writen Pasted from Open Office.

And there's another error, as kindly noted by Mr. Andrew Johnston I typed wrongly the word test as teste (it's so writen in my native language) and Neil made a joke with it.

Greetings

Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 16/02/2012 23:49:45

Hello Andrew.

Thank You for helping me understand what happened.

Here in Portugal we have a say which says "The portuguese language is very treacherous” meaning sometimes the words may be inerpreted in a sense completely diferent from the sense it was writen in.

And when the writer and the raeader have not the same mother tongue, the things may only become worse.

Best regards

Dias Costa

But it works with FF11 on XP. perhaps Windows 7 is the culprit?

Regards

Terry

It now works on Windows 7 with IE9, when I tried about an hour ago it didn't!

Word 2007 on Vista Home Premium typed directly into Word

Posting from IE version 9 on Windows Vista.

Word is a word processor application, NOT a text editor. It should not be used for anything that is going to be put in a web page. This is because as someone has already pointed out it adds a myriad of extra characters behind the scenes which web browsers don't like. It doesn't matter whether its for the original web page or added via the online editor, it still has to be parsed by the browser when it is displayed.

Use Notepad which is a text editor or download the free Notepad++

Interestingly I also noted the requirement to press the browser back button twice to 'go back'

Edited By Wolfie on 17/02/2012 23:05:18

Something must be happening, it appears as though I now have 'quote'. 'link'  capacities

Edited By Tel on 19/02/2012 22:09:21

If you want to use text from ms word you can avoid problems by pasting it into notepad, then copy that and paste into your post.

Nigel

Hi All

RE Pasting from Word.

All the other engineering sites that I post to can accept a paste from word without difficulty. No special buttons to push just copy and paste. I can name them but this is not the place to do that.

Yes the text has to be parsed, so what? The web page software should parse the data anyway it is not that hard to determine the file type behind the scenes than use the appropriate subroutine to parse it.

A robust software design will do that anyway to avoid any conflicts that can possibly cause the web page to become unstable or distorted, Word is not the only software that uses control characters.

This is how it is done in 2012.

Cheers

John

Edited By John McNamara on 20/02/2012 03:39:10