Yes IE7 is a beta {version three} and is the version that will be on the new vista operating system. I have had no"bugs" with IE7 on any sites including this one untill the change last month. I am not going to load a new “different” browser just to use this one site correctly. it would better serve (>>telligent systems) the software licence provider to make it’s product compatable with IE7 before it hits the streets in widespread use later this year with vista.
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I can’t seem to post pictures using XP and IE 6. Previously, all I needed were the bracket IMG prefix and suffix and my image URL from railimages. Something has changed.
I’m also using XP and IE 6 and had no problem with posting a picture doing exactly what you say you’re doing, except from Photobucket. The photo is of the old SP station in Monterey.
[ i m g ]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/andrechapelon/1aa97eca.jpg[ / i m g ] (just copying the URL)
With the spaces removed:
It works fine for me. Could the problem be at your end rather than at MR’s site?
Andre
OK, then, lets back it up. What sort of toolbars/plugins/pop-up blockers, etc. are you using? Often third party freeware can cause grief. However, you’ve never had a problem with another site. Its still got to be something. Tell you what. I’ve got some time this week, I’ll download IE7 and see how this site reacts.
OK, this is interesting. The editing bar doesn’t show up with IE7 and the message window is teeny tiny. Let’s see how the quote shows up.
OK, river, I’ll eat my share of crow. They’ve got a lot of work to do to make this work with IE7. I’ll try playing with some settings and trying the other sites I frequent regularly.
Beats me, Andre. I am doing nothing different, so unless something funny is going on with railimages or with the software here… Maybe I should get a photobucket account and see how that works.
-Crandell
To all, I’m very surprised to hear all the comments about, what if it’s something wrong with your computer, your browser, your blah blah blah and so on… To make it very simple, answer this question: Why did the old forum work with exactly the same hardware and software and the same way of doing things? And I do not mean myself now. I mean everyone that could use the old forum, but have problems with the new one. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand that this forum has changed. Can’t we just agree that something is wrong with this forum and try to do something about it? From now on I suggest that EVERYONE that have a problem with the forum send a email to Bergie and tell him about it. I did that a couple of days ago. Just open a post by Bergie (example: Changes coming July 12) and there you have his email.
Man this forum is free. Quit the complaining. If you want to leave then just go. Don’t waist time making a new topic when there is real questions to be answered. Get used to it. The old software was out of date.
FINALLY, words of wisdom.
8500HPGASTURBINE, That was the most stupid answer so far… So only because it’s free, we can’t tell anyone about the problems so they have a chance to correct them? The old forum was also free, but at least it worked so I don’t understand what you mean by outdated. Do you mean that it’s better with a forum that does not work? Or maybe you think it’s better just because it happens to work for you? What if you where one of the users with problems. Would you be satisfied with the answer, get used to it? The problems with this forum can be corrected, the only questions are, do they want to do it or do they not care? I want to give them a chance by telling them about the problems so they at least know about them. Is that wrong? END OF STORY
It’s a rare day when I agree with Mr 831.
I daresay, the move to this software has proven a nightmare for Klambach. Perhaps, they have completely over-shot their budget and have to “breathe” a bit before sending their software engineers back in.
But if people like Tom are leaving–and I consider Tom a great asset to this forum–something is broken.
I left on vacation a couple days after the software switch and came back two weeks later. There was a significant difference. When I left there was excitement about the new software. When I returned, it was a though the life was drained from the forum. Posts were down. The number of people on the forum were single digits, not the 30-50 we used to see constantly.
And the posts were boring.
Not because the posters had nothing intelligent to say, it that the fun was gone from them. The interaction of old friends is missing.
Edit: I just noticed that in the week that I’ve been back I’ve posted 16 times. Compare that to the 11/day that I’ve averaged since I joined.
I’m guess I’m in the minority, but I do like the new forum. It’s much faster (Yahoo is the slow one now), and the quote feature works really nicely (for me). I rarely post pictures so I can’t say whether that’s gotten harder or easier. I don’t miss the polls or the stars and I prefer the reduced number of posts draining less of my time. But I don’t want to lose the sage advice provided by a lot of the old timers either. And the search is as bad or even worse than ever.
That said, I would hope that Kalmbach would fix whatever it is that is not working for a LOT of common configurations. Or at the very least, prevail on the software makers to put up a temporary support line and permanent FAQ/trouble-shooting web pages. They ought to have a good idea of what user configurations are having problems by now (hint: Mac, IE7, Netscape).
Electrolove, thanks for sending your summary of your problems directly to Bergie.
yours in training
Fred W
I’ve played with all the security settings, taking them down to levels that I would say are unsafe and this is the result. Still no editing bar and I’m betting this quote doesn’t work.
I’d have to look into it, but I’m wondering if IE7 tries to “fix” HTML code that gets embedded when you are quoting or posting pictures and ends up screwing it up.
I’m slowly switching sides here. I would think that this would have been tested with IE7 and on Macs before launch to have bugs worked out, but apparently that didn’t happen. However, I can still use the site OK, I just can’t quote (and I haven’t tried to post a picture).
skiloff, I’m very glad that you posted about your problems. Your quote does not work as you suspected. As you already said, this forum should have been tested before letting us in and use it. It seems to me that it’s very poorly tested, if it’s tested at all. I have been working as a webdesigner and a VERY importent thing a do with a finished site is to test it with the most common OS and most common browsers before releasing it to the customer. All webdesigners I know do exactly the same thing before releasing anything. Most of the problems can be sorted out that way.
went over to telligentsystems site, forum has 45 pages of bugs and issues with this forum software, would do direct link but, you know? …sorry you will have to copy and paste… http://communityserver.org/forums/128/ShowForum.aspx
What I am saying is I would also like for him to stay. Am I going to loose sleep over it, no. Why come here and create a 8 page topic saying you are leaving, just go. I also would hate to see several people here leave, but there will be others to replace them and us long after we are gone. And why should MRR have consulted us, all I forgot we do pay the bills for this sight and also for the software and the time the MRR people put into it. Man that must have slipped my mind. I am not trying to come across like a hardas* but if you have a problem then contact the source, don’t start a whinning topic saying you are leaving. It took me several hrs to figure it out playing around. Things change, we don’t still all get around the old timers way.
electrolove, I’m a web programmer, too, and I guess I gave the benefit of the doubt that anybody would test multiple versions of multiple browsers. I was wrong, apparently. I know from experience that there are issues that crop up because people have different setups on their individual computers and sorting through all of those can be a nightmare, but my experiment showed me that it plain wasn’t tested or just ignored. I think one of the bigger problems is the lack of response regarding the issues. Not even a “sorry, we’re working on it” post. Just silence. Now we’re starting to bicker with each other over it and people are leaving and others are being divided. Its just not a good thing all around.
Maybe all you IE users could install and try Mozilla Firefox as an alternative browser and see if that doesn’t help eliminate some things. Here’s the link:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
Thankfully, I have not experienced ANY of the problems you all have mentioned with posting pics or editing. You can have more than one browser program installed on your computer and choose either/or when viewing sites on the Internet. I’ve been using Firefox for nearly 2 years now and highly recommend it.
Hope that’s a help for some of you…
Tom