Firefox 1.0PRE problem with dgrin

rutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins

October 11, 2004 edited November 11, 2004 in Dgrin Forum Support

With Firefox 1.0PRE on both OSX and linux, "enhanced edit' mode is no longer really WYSIWYG. Clicking on the letter icon just adds the opening or closing tag to the message. I never see the imbedded picture. Similarly with bold, italic, etc. Also the emoticons are displayed as text.

If not now, when?

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Baldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator

October 11, 2004 edited October 11, 2004

Hi Rutt,

You might check mozilla.org and see if they're aware of the bug and are working on it.

Thanks,
Baldy

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rutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins

October 11, 2004 edited October 11, 2004

Baldy wrote:

Hi Rutt,

You might check mozilla.org and see if they're aware of the bug and are working on it.

Thanks,
Baldy

I tried to do that, but I don't think I know enough about what exactly is wrong to find be effective. Is anyone else seeing this problem? Do you have a clue? I'll report a bug if we can narrow it down a little.

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rutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins

October 11, 2004 edited October 11, 2004

I submitted a bug to the firefox project. Here is the url.

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rutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins

October 11, 2004 edited October 11, 2004

I finally found the right link. Turns out the vbulletin folks know about this and have a "fix", sort of. Look here.http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/bugs.php?do=view&bugid=3373

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rutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins

October 11, 2004 edited October 11, 2004
Workaround for the brave.
Reading the posts on the vbulletin site led me to a workaround in firefox 1.0pr itself. The majority of dgrin users probably won't do this, so I stil think it's a good idea to apply Scott's fix to the dgrin code. But here is the browser fix for the brave:
Type about:config in the location bar.

Type useragent in the filter field

Change the value of general.useragent.vendorSub to 1.0

Viola!
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wxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins

October 11, 2004 edited October 11, 2004

rutt wrote:

Viola!

Viola?

Sid.
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rutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins

October 11, 2004 edited October 11, 2004

That's why they call it dislexia.

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rutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins

October 11, 2004 edited October 11, 2004

rutt wrote:

That's why they call it dislexia.

And I just hate it when I spoil such an excellent piece of nerditude that way!

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wxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins

October 11, 2004 edited October 11, 2004

rutt wrote:

And I just hate it when I spoil such an excellent piece of nerditude that way!

Sid.
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Baldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator

October 12, 2004 edited October 12, 2004

Wow, that's some good detective work, Rutt. I was wondering why Ofoto rejected me yesterday with the newest Firefox but I could use Netscape.

Seems like a crazy thing to do to tell websites that you are version 0.10.

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cletus Registered Users Posts: 1,930 Major grins

October 13, 2004 edited October 13, 2004

Thanks rutt

I'm now back to WYSIWYGclap

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rutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins

October 13, 2004 edited October 13, 2004

cletus wrote:

Thanks rutt

I'm now back to WYSIWYGclap

We'll all want to remember to unset this config value before upgrading to the 1.0 release!

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onethumb Administrators Posts: 1,269 Major grins

November 8, 2004 edited November 8, 2004

Baldy wrote:

Wow, that's some good detective work, Rutt. I was wondering why Ofoto rejected me yesterday with the newest Firefox but I could use Netscape.

Seems like a crazy thing to do to tell websites that you are version 0.10.

It's not crazy at all. Every software company does this, from Microsoft (IE 6.0.2900) to the Linux kernel (2.4.22). Once you pass .9, you go to .10.

This is vB's fault, and the fault of other broken websites, not Firefox/Mozilla/etc.

Don

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Baldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator

November 8, 2004 edited November 8, 2004

onethumb wrote:

It's not crazy at all. Every software company does this, from Microsoft (IE 6.0.2900) to the Linux kernel (2.4.22). Once you pass .9, you go to .10.

This is vB's fault, and the fault of other broken websites, not Firefox/Mozilla/etc.

Don

Yeah, it was a topic of some debate in Firefox forums when it happened, with many engineers concluding that sites like Ofoto, vBulletin forums, bank sites, etc., should have known that .1 > .2 > .9 > .10 > 1.0 is a logical progression.

Not surprisingly, users who posted about it in Firefox forums didnt blame the sites they visited because other browsers didn't have the problem.

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rutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins

November 8, 2004 edited November 8, 2004

So, did you guys apply the patch? I can't tell because I hacked my firefox.

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Baldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator

November 10, 2004 edited November 10, 2004

rutt wrote:

So, did you guys apply the patch? I can't tell because I hacked my firefox.

No, I'm afraid the honest answer is I'm not going to. I have quite a number of higher-priority things on my plate. Firefox 1.0 is out so hopefully that'll fix it.

Thanks,
Baldy

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gubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins

November 11, 2004 edited November 11, 2004

Baldy wrote:

No, I'm afraid the honest answer is I'm not going to. I have quite a number of higher-priority things on my plate. Firefox 1.0 is out so hopefully that'll fix it.

Thanks,
Baldy

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