But there is some good info I have to pass on. About a year ago, something happened and I was unable to post… Anything. I would fill out the form, hit the post button, and I would get an error message fromt he Forum saying I had not filled out the form. What the heck? Even with private messages, I would fill out he response and again, nothing would post. It was is if my words and typing just wsnt sticking.
So, I finally gave up trying. Well, a few days ago out options and really missing the place, I sent an email out to the staff of Kalmbach looking for help. I explained my problem in detail and sure enough, they said that they have seen some issues with Internet Explorer 9 having some sort of conflict issue with the forum. She said to try using Google Chrome or FireFox.
I like Google so I downloaded Chrome in 2 minutes and used that for my web browser and bingo! I can post again!! It was getting to be a real drag not being help out in conversation or post updated pics of my switching layout.
Good to be heard again. I have a lot of progress pics of the Whitton Branch line, even though I am taking it down for a new layout. design. But that is for another day.
I am becoming a fan. Even in the 20 minutes or so that I am using it, it is fast. Its noticeable. Even working my photobucket.com account, which can bog down due to adds and such, worked much quicker.
Until it does oen of it’s autoamtic updates and somethign stops working.
IE9 works fine here, just click the compatibility mode icon. The irony is that as IE starts adhering more and more to standards and does away with the special Microsoft customizations, the more sites break. I’ve tried the others, but use IE mostly. No issues with spyware, viruses, etc. - to the point of the logs of my AV software are actually clean, so it’s not a case o , well, they were there, just caught before they did damage. Might have somethign to do with my OS being 64 bit and not 32 (Win 7). IE8 and IE9 don;t play as well with Windows XP.
No doubt. I am sure it is something with my computer, either missed an update or some setting that didnt switch. And I am not even 100% sure it is my IE9. All though, I looked for the compatibility icon and couldn’t find it. All though I admit, I didnt have much patience after this week and I haven’t had my coffee yet. I just know that it works now and I am happy. [;)]
This website, is the only website I had any issue with. Never had a problem anywhere else.
The issue is the editor this site uses when people write posts and messages. Something called TinyMCE. When IE changed the way they did things in IE8 or IE9, the version of TinyMCE used with this site could not handle it.
Now, if it had been my site, I would have gone to the people making the forum software (i.e. Telligent), and demanded that they get a new version of TinyMCE from the makers of TinyMCE (a version that can deal with IE8 and IE9 in a way transparent to the users), test it with their forum software, and then have released a patch for the forum software (which may just consist of swapping a jar-file for the TinyMCE library, for all I know).
Kalmbach, for reasons known only to the person in charge of the website, does not seem to go that way. Instead, they depend on users passing information to each other about how to get newer versions of IE to act like it was an older version of IE (so TinyMCE works) - i.e. how to find and click on the backwards compatibility button in IE.
A suboptimal strategy, in my book, but it is not my web site.
Welcome back…although I do miss your old avatar. I think it was a photo of you jumping in the air kicking your heals together carrying a bag of “stuff” out of a hobby shop. I always got a kick out of seeing that…
Welcome back! I had almost the same problem. I installed a new hard drive downloaded all the Microsoft programs upgraded IE to 9 and nothing when I came on here even when I clicked on compatability button. That was 2 days ago! Couldn’t download abode flashplayer without all the add on’s and when I deleted all the unwanted add on’s or disabled them I lost the flashplayer. Got on the phone with Abode and he directed me to Google Chrome, reluctant as all get out, but what an awakening. Fast, Fast, Fast and no more hitting compatability buttons! Glad I changed over from IE! Jim
Might be a little truth in this, but there is also a whole of truth to the fact that Microsoft products aren’t even compatible with each other. Everytime they install another Microsoft update to the network at work, all progress comes to a halt for two weeks while IT tries to get it running again.
Everyone loves to laugh at Microsoft, but as a consultant who specializes in Windows servers, Active Directory, Exchange, and SQL, I find that when it’s actually set up properly it’s all quite stable and the really wacky problems that make the big news are VERY few and far between.
So now y’all know what my day job is when I’m not playing with trains.
Hey, Big John! I think most of us recall your sorry time four years ago. That must have been quite a bad time. But, you appear to have bounced back, and it is good to see you posting here once again. I hope it is a happier time for you these days.