2000 AD Online Forum

This thread is for bug reports and issues only.
Feature requests belong in the Feature Requests thread (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,25665.0.html).


If you run into any problems on the forum, please post about them here.

Please try to include one or more of the following in your report:

• Description of the issue you experienced
• Name of the browser and operating system you're using (eg. Firefox, Win98)
• URL of where this issue was observed
• Steps to reproduce the issue
• Description of what you expected to happen
• Screenshot of the issue

I'll try to address any issues you report as quickly as possible.

Issue
Background images characters appearing off the bottom of the screen when viewed in less than a 1600px height window.

Resolution
Modified CSS background position to bottom. Also changed background colour to #FFF so people with a higher resolution then 1600 will see white above the end of the fade-to-white image.
As a result, background will also be white for anyone who doesn't have the image load.

Issue
Really disliked the way around the user information on the right was laid out. Made no sense and placed the most identifying item in a rediculous location.

Resolution
Rejigged the whole thing. Now name first, title, stars, avatar, title, personal text, post count stuff, and control buttons. Also fixed a bug with the ignore button while I was in there.

Issue
MessageIndex (forum thread list) column titles were misaligned/uncetered.

Resolution
Modified percentage widths for column titles so they share the space properly and text looks like its centered.

Issue
Top bar pagination buttons in the MessageIndex (thread list) were crammed right up against the black column title bar, making them difficult to locate/see/click.

Resolution
Added a 10px margin between the buttons and the column title.

Issue
White block between posts

Resolution
Removed space table row and added horizontal rule between posts.
Hopefully long non-breaking posts should just expand by themselves and leave other lines alone.

Re: Issue White block between posts.

It is now a clear space, which shows the background image. Very annoying, and very off putting. I'd rather have white space back.

View unread posts doesn't work for me.
I haven't been online since yesterday, and click View unread posts to see what new posts have been made since I was last online- nothing apparently.
I'm using Windows XP, and viewing in IE7.

Or am I missing the point of the view unread posts, as it's always empty. AND what is the difference between this, and View Active Topics?

Issue: No button, when in the forum, to take me back out to the 2000adonline site proper. I know it's easy to open a window and type the URL, but we don't want to loose people do we? Clicking on the 2000ad logo at the top of the scree should ideally take you back to the homepage of 2000adonline.com.

Steev

UKD- I actually like the gap between the posts being transparent. Think it's cool.

Quote from: Bolt-01 on 28 July, 2009, 08:31:59 PM
UKD- I actually like the gap between the posts being transparent. Think it's cool.

I'm with UKD on this.

"My Messages" screen is still FUBAR in Safari, BTW.

Cheers

Jim

Quote from: ukdane on 28 July, 2009, 07:30:53 PM
View unread posts doesn't work for me.
I haven't been online since yesterday, and click View unread posts to see what new posts have been made since I was last online- nothing apparently.
I'm using Windows XP, and viewing in IE7.

Hm, this is server side based on your page requests, only clicking "mark all messages as read" should clear it, besides having visited each thread with a new reply.
Usually hitting the "Mark all topics as read" button will rejig it into working again, but if you're certain there are unread topics and they still aren't showing up, come back and tell me which topic is unread (topic ID or link) and I'll look at the database.

Quote from: ukdane on 28 July, 2009, 07:30:53 PM
Or am I missing the point of the view unread posts, as it's always empty. AND what is the difference between this, and View Active Topics?

View Active Topics contains a list of all topics, regardless of if you've read them or not, which have been posted in within the last 7 days, ordered by the most recent post.

View Unread Posts lists all topics which have had new replies since you last visited that topic. If you visit any of these topics they will disappear from the unread list.

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 28 July, 2009, 08:50:12 PM
"My Messages" screen is still FUBAR in Safari, BTW.

I'm not sure whats up with that, can you post a screenshot? I don't have Safari at home.

Quote from: ukdane on 28 July, 2009, 07:27:46 PM
Re: Issue White block between posts.

It is now a clear space, which shows the background image. Very annoying, and very off putting. I'd rather have white space back.

Theres a horizontal rule between each post now which shows up no matter what part of the background its over, rather than the white spacer from before which I always felt blended each post togeather.

Feel free to post a Poll about it and I'll change it back if the consensus is strong enough.

Quote from: SpookyTheCat on 28 July, 2009, 08:11:09 PM
Issue: No button, when in the forum, to take me back out to the 2000adonline site proper.

This is a good point. Fixed.

Not as much of an urgent one I guess, but the black header stretches down over the top links (Home / Help / Search etc) on the iphone, so you can't see them. The links still work, but only because I have a rough idea of where they're supposed to be...

Issue

Vertical white bar between post and profile in a reply to a thread takes up, like, 100px. This makes any ignored replies take up excess space.
Likely a simple CSS issue.


Resolution

Changed the white bar to be the table cell background, so it scales to the post. No more excess wasted space.

Is it just me or is the background on the top part of the page gone all dark making reading the active topics, unread posts etc... unreadable?

Quote from: Buddy (previusly Uncle Umpty) on 30 July, 2009, 06:53:46 PM
Is it just me or is the background on the top part of the page gone all dark making reading the active topics, unread posts etc... unreadable?

Actually it's fine in firefox but buggerd in ie.

The footer of the page is transparent. This makes some of the text and drop downs hard to read/locate, as it so clashes with Tor Cyan's legs, and Ukko.

Can we have a black footer, that is the width of the message board please? (on my screen, it's from Red to Slaine).

Using IE.

Quote from: Buddy (previusly Uncle Umpty) on 30 July, 2009, 06:53:46 PM
Is it just me or is the background on the top part of the page gone all dark making reading the active topics, unread posts etc... unreadable?

I just checked for this in IE8 but I'm not seeing the issue. Can you screenshot it for me?

Edit: Might have been a stray CSS entry I just took out. Can you test and confirm/deny?

Quote from: ukdane on 30 July, 2009, 07:56:02 PM
The footer of the page is transparent. This makes some of the text and drop downs hard to read/locate, as it so clashes with Tor Cyan's legs, and Ukko.

Yep, IE only. Looks like a failure to clear floats right at the end. I'll have a poke around.
Edit: Nope, stray form element not being closed. Fixed.

Issue
Bunch of links overflowed their assigned area on IE, showing up some unsightly underlines.

Resolution
Fixed dem links. IE now looks a damn sight tidier.

QuoteYep, IE only. Looks like a failure to clear floats right at the end. I'll have a poke around.
Edit: Nope, stray form element not being closed. Fixed.

Sorry Vincebot, but it isn't fixed on the various boards (which lists thread titles i.e.: Message Board, View Active Topics, View Unread Posts, and View New Replis to your posts)
The page numbers and the mark all topics as read are still on "invisible" backgrounds, so the text disappears behind Ukko and Tor Cyan's legs.

Quote from: VinceBot on 30 July, 2009, 09:15:53 PM

Quote from: Buddy (previusly Uncle Umpty) on 30 July, 2009, 06:53:46 PM
Is it just me or is the background on the top part of the page gone all dark making reading the active topics, unread posts etc... unreadable?

I just checked for this in IE8 but I'm not seeing the issue. Can you screenshot it for me?

Edit: Might have been a stray CSS entry I just took out. Can you test and confirm/deny?

Quote from: ukdane on 30 July, 2009, 07:56:02 PM
The footer of the page is transparent. This makes some of the text and drop downs hard to read/locate, as it so clashes with Tor Cyan's legs, and Ukko.

Yep, IE only. Looks like a failure to clear floats right at the end. I'll have a poke around.
Edit: Nope, stray form element not being closed. Fixed.

Is OK now.. I'm still on ie7 by the way.

Quote from: ukdane on 31 July, 2009, 05:27:11 PM
Message Board, View Active Topics, View Unread Posts, and View New Replis to your posts [...] The page numbers and the mark all topics as read are still on "invisible" backgrounds, so the text disappears behind Ukko and Tor Cyan's legs.

You're not wrong there - probably part of the intended layout so I'll have to modify that a bit. I'll see what I can do.

Edit: Fixed. Its a quick fix so its kinda ugly, but it works.

Personal Message screen seems to be all over the place in safari. The input box appears on the very far right of the screen, the banner is in the correct place though. Probably something simple :)

-pj

Quote from: pauljholden on 10 August, 2009, 03:43:47 PM
Personal Message screen seems to be all over the place in safari. The input box appears on the very far right of the screen, the banner is in the correct place though. Probably something simple :)

I mentioned this a few posts back but forgot to supply the requested screenshot. Here it is:



The problem is the layout, not the blurring before any smart arse thinks of saying that.

Cheers

Jim

I tried to report a few spam posts - most submitted okay, but one just kept returning to the "database error - if you see this again notify an administrator" screen - is this maybe an already-reported post?

I can't seem to reproduce the report problem or see anything up with your account compared to anyone elses. If you come across the issue again, can you post here, incluing a link to the post you can't report?

Jim, looks like a missing line break in the template. Should be fixed now, sorry for the delay!

Quote from: VinceBot on 11 August, 2009, 09:30:58 AM
Jim, looks like a missing line break in the template. Should be fixed now, sorry for the delay!

Superb! Thank you, sir!

Cheers

Jim

Not a forum issue, I suppose, but on the actual front page of this site, none of the links in the news section on the left actually work, barring the top one.

Cheers

Jim

When a large image is posted, should it push the profile and avatar off the right of the screen? Most posts are neatly lined up with a small strip of illustrated blue border at each side, but something like Mygrimmbrother's post (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,24092.270/topicseen.html) today on the doodle thread pushes everything right. Not a biggie, it's easy enough to scroll over to see who posted on the rare occasions it's needed, but thought I'd mention it just in case you weren't aware and it is a bug.  :)

Thanks for the report, but no, thats the expected behaviour.

If someone posts content wider than the regular forum width then their post box will expand to the right in order to accodondate their post - be it an overside image, long text string, whatever.

Only their post should be affected by the expansion, so all other posts will remain the correct size for the forum.

There's the thought that we could place the post body within a scroll:auto; (css) box, which in effect would cause scrollbas to appear around the post for any content larger than the specified width/height of the post box we specify.. But unfortunately this all behaves radically different across different browsers, and you can end up with vertical scrollbars on posts that should just be tall and not scrolling.

There seems to be persistent bug on this site whereby every second word is now Sláine.   Any chance you could add Sláine (and accepted variants Slaine, Slawnye etc.) into some kind of profanity filter? 

:-*

Quote from: TordelSláine on 18 August, 2009, 08:31:43 AM
Sláine seems sláine be sláine bug sláine this sláine whereby sláine second sláine is sláine Sláine.   Any sláine you sláine add Sláine (and sláine variants Slaine, Slawnye sláine.) into sláine kind sláine profanity sláine?  

:-*

Sláine sláine sláine sláine sláine sláine, sláine sláine sláine sláine sláine sláine sláine sláine sláine sláine sláine sláine sláine.
Sláine sláine sláine sláine (sláine sláine sláine) sláine sláine sláine, sláine sláine sláine sláine sláine sláine sláine - sláine sláine sláine sláine sláine.

Sláine.

When I post a linked image from my picasa account, I'm having problems, they are temperamental when viewing them in the thread as an [img] embedded image - the [url= links seem to be fine...
Thanks in advance if this can be 'fixed' and it's not me being computer illiterate!

Apparently Picasa doesn't allow hotlinking (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Picasa/thread?tid=08667e121dca6f04&hl=en) to pictures, so thats their end, not ours.

There's a guide on their help page about Embedding albums, images and slideshows from Picasa (http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66969) which may help you with what you're trying to do, though I haven't looked into it myself.

Issue

Stickied threads were inobvious

Resolution

Made stickied threads a horrifying shade of green. Feel free to suggest other colours and hex values for stickies if the green makes you gag.

Vince- I just had a mail from Kerrin that:

Vince has decided to allow me and Jim to sticky posts for the comps but I can't post at all or even read PMs, let alone send them.

Can you sort for him please.

Thanks Bolt, glad you could get the message to me as they could have remained silent for quite some time otherwise!

Sorry about that to both Kerrin and Jim, who'll have both experienced that little hiccup. All I can say is I assigned your new member groups in an "inappropriate" fasion, and while you could control stickies you lost all your regular privileges. Like posting.

Should be fixed now.  :-[

Yeah, all fixed now. Thanks again Bolt for your superpowered assistance, and cheers for getting it sorted Vince.

Just updated to SMF 1.1.10 and fixed a few bugs in the Active Topics list.
Give me a prod if anything abnormal happens.

I think I've fixed the issue where some people were finding themselves unable to report certain posts - this pertained to an SQL injection flaw in the Create Post on Report mod, now fixed.

I don't know if this qualifies as a bug report or a feature request, but I can't view Active Topics when browsing the forum from my mobile. Is this fixable?

What mobile/mobile browser are you using?

There are at least 3 Disney/Marvel threads in various places that could do with merging.

I can't change my avatar. I can either have what I've got at the moment or nothing.

Quote from: Kerrin on 31 August, 2009, 07:14:21 PM
I can't change my avatar. I can either have what I've got at the moment or nothing.

Do you encounter any kind of error when you attempt to change your avatar?
Can you post (attach or link to) the image you're trying to use as your avatar?
Can you describe the exact steps to reproduce the issue? e.g.

1. Go to Profile Page (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php?action=profile)
2. Go to Forum Profile Information (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=50589;sa=forumProfile)
3. Click the radial button for "I will upload my own picture"
4. Click the "Browse" button, choose a file.
5. Click "Change Profile" (bottom right)
6. Return to the Forum Profile Information page and observe the profile image has not changed to the image I selected.

Issue

Users unable to attach files to posts.

Resolution

Storage was full - enlarged the storage capacity of the forum from 10mb to 100mb. Not sure what the size of the disk is, so hoping 100mb will us do for a little while.

We have plenty no worries  ;)

Quote from: VinceBot on 01 September, 2009, 11:15:28 AM

Quote from: Kerrin on 31 August, 2009, 07:14:21 PM
I can't change my avatar. I can either have what I've got at the moment or nothing.

Do you encounter any kind of error when you attempt to change your avatar?
Can you post (attach or link to) the image you're trying to use as your avatar?
Can you describe the exact steps to reproduce the issue? e.g.

1. Go to Profile Page (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php?action=profile)
2. Go to Forum Profile Information (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=50589;sa=forumProfile)
3. Click the radial button for "I will upload my own picture"
4. Click the "Browse" button, choose a file.
5. Click "Change Profile" (bottom right)
6. Return to the Forum Profile Information page and observe the profile image has not changed to the image I selected.

Yep, should have given you more information Vince.

The problem is that I'm trying to load a new image as an avatar from Photobucket. I know the link works because I've posted the image in the "Hot Dang Doodle!" thread here (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,24092.315.html).

The link also appears in my list of links in the 'I have my own picture section' of the profile page. When I select the url code and hit 'change profile' it has a think about it and then flicks back to the image I have now.

I've tried hitting enter after selecting the url in the window at which point the image I'm after appears in the top left corner of the window beside the set lists ie old icons etc, but then when I hit 'change profile' it just goes back to the image I've got, which at no point moves from the current image window.

I'll keep trying it but if you have any ideas, let me know.

You mean this guy;



Cause thats totally what I'm seeing on your profile/posts. You might want to try a Ctrl-F5 to force a refesh of your page cache.

I've also changed the way avatars from external URLs work, so now they're brought onto the forum and hosted here rather than attempting to use the external hosting. That might help solve future issues.

Well I'll be...

So does that ctrl f5 thing work on a mac Vince, and where precisely would I do it? In the profile information page?

Success! I think it's just F5 on a mac Vince. Cheers for your help again dude.

No problem, we get that in web a lot when someones cache fails to update they still see the old resources.

I guess it depends on your browser, but F5 should be refresh (check for any changed media on the page, download if it has changed), whereas Ctrl-F5 will force refresh the entire contents of the page, re-downloading everything regardless of change.

Test Post.

Quote from: TestBot on 07 September, 2009, 11:53:19 PM
Test Post.

It works!

Actually it doesn't.

Test post.

Broken link to the Submissions Guide on Creative Common - Rules to be read before you end up dead (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,25668.0.html) ...

Cheers!

Jim

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 08 September, 2009, 11:11:22 AM
Broken link to the Submissions Guide on Creative Common - Rules to be read before you end up dead (http://2000adonline.com/forum/index.php/topic,25668.0.html) ...

Cheers!

Jim

Sorted

Hi.

Its PeterWolf.

Today i have tried to login and for some inexplicable reason my password that i use over and over again was not recognised.I dont know why this is as i dont recall changing it and i dont see that someone would have changed my password without my knowledge and without notification.

??? ???

So despite repeated attempts i could not login.

Also i could not redirect my password reminder to any other email account other than the email account that is registered in my account.

This problem is compounded by the fact that my email account is inaccessable due to "scheduled maintenance"-[servers are down at Mail.com] which has no end in sight so i have been effectively locked out of both accounts which is pissing me off no end .

Had i been able to access my email account i would not have had to open this secondary account but my patience has run out after 12 hours waiting and i might as well be waiting until Xmas at the rate they are going at.

Perhaps this problem of not being able to login because my password is not recognised can be sorted without having to access my email account which i cant do anyway.

In the meantime i have opened this account that i will scrap as soon as i can access my usual account.

Any help here will be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.

Peter.

Who are you, and what have you done with the real PeterWolf?

Cheers!

Jim

Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 16 September, 2009, 07:32:13 PM
Who are you, and what have you done with the real PeterWolf?

Cheers!

Jim

Back.

Everything went tits up yesterday.


Thank you Vincebot.

My weekly emails to Tharg and Dreddlines have been bounced back as undeliverable - is this a site issue or a 'bloody hell block that diddy' issue?

Why is it sometimes when SmallBlueThing replies to a post I see his old username in the main forum view as last poster. (did answer my question as to where Steev went)

Quote from: James S on 23 September, 2009, 10:58:36 AM
Why is it sometimes when SmallBlueThing replies to a post I see his old username in the main forum view as last poster. (did answer my question as to where Steev went)

I'd noticed this as well! But I'm trying not to let it worry me! I'm still here, just i'm now an incog-neato.

SBT

I don't see PetitBleuTroc's old username -- only his new one ...

Cheers

Jim

I'm thinking I should disable the ability to change your display name?

I doubt it's just me but I keep seeing a subject come up on the forum frontpage that says, "The subject you see here...", but when you go to the subforum it's something else entirely. Not a problem, just wondered what it's all about.

Can't say I'm seeing it. If you come across the issue again can you copy the link its giving you and paste it here? Thanks.

Quote from: VinceBot on 23 September, 2009, 10:27:05 PM
I'm thinking I should disable the ability to change your display name?

No. That way we couldn't have a brief fad for using your real name after somebody has  a tiff about something I can't remember.

More seriously, I just tried to add a reply to an older thread and got this message:
Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days.
Unless you're sure you want to reply, please consider starting a new topic.

Could this message be amended to read simply:
DANGER: NECRO-POST!!

Never understood that daft necropost guff to begin with.  Electric shocks to anyone who attempts to give (usually a new user) any sort of static over that sort of thing.

Quote from: Mike Gloady on 12 October, 2009, 09:58:49 PM
Never understood that daft necropost guff to begin with.  Electric shocks to anyone who attempts to give (usually a new user) any sort of static over that sort of thing.

I don't understand.

"Necropost" seems a good term for a reply to a thread which has been dormant for a while and it becomes mildly amusing through repetition. Like mulching in the Groo letters page. You're more likely to see people being directed to an existing thread if one exists rather than taken to task for reviving an old one, unless I've missed something.

I don't think any of it matters, so long as the post is meaningful.
That warning is an auto warning from the forum, not something we set up.

The Website clock appears to be still running on pre-daylight savings time...

Thanks, I'm still looking into it.

[spoiler]i had a quick look at the forum settings but then got distracted by programming[/spoiler]

Something I find mildly irritating is that when you use the quicksearch box, it only appears to search within the thread or subforum you are currently looking at rather than defaulting to the entire forum.

Well, it's either that or nobody's ever posted about "necrophiliac badger-baiting"

Its a little confusing isn't it? I would change it, but its probably more usful the way it is.

Inspired by the ghost story thread that has just been started i wanted to search for a thread that i started that was titled "spooky story".i know its there somewhere but a search using those two easily recognisable key words fails to produce any results because there were no matches but thats wrong because the thread was not deleted and should be in the archive.

This has happened quite frequently with other searches as well and as i am not a technophile with websites and search engines i dont know what the problem is but if a search engine cant find a thread that is here then there must be a problem .

Thanks in advance for any solution to this problem

Hey Peter, was wondering when this would come up.

SMF is notoriously poor for its searching, it uses a combination of indexes and methods, none of which produce all the results it should.

On some other forums we deployed a mod which utilises the Sphinx search engine to index posts, and it works exceptionally well. We've thought about deploying it on this forum but it requires testing and installation of the Sphinx Search daemon on both our external and test servers.

The installation will happen eventually as we're starting to deploy sphinx on new websites, but it'll be a while before it makes its debut on 2000ad.

I haven't read through all this thread, so apologies if this has been reported already.

I'm using IE8 on Windows Vista at the moment. On entering my text into the box when making a post, I find that, if I exceed the size of the window (cue scroll bar) the window will keep on scrolling up. As I type, the cursor remains in the same place, and I get a brief image of what I'm typing before it scrolls up again. This means I have to scroll down manually to check what I've written. The moment I type it scrolls up again.

I didn't have that problem with Firefox. Unfortunately that browser is playing up in other ways (not related to this site, by the way, it just gets verrrrrry sloooooow, on occasion) hence my reason for using IE.

Thanks Mardroid, nobodys been able to give us a good handle on what might be causing this issue or a straight diagnosis, but now we might stand a chance of tracking it down.

Can you do me a favour and go into Help > About in IE and tell me what version of the browser is says you're using?

Quote from: VinceBot on 21 November, 2009, 07:43:49 PM
Can you do me a favour and go into Help > About in IE and tell me what version of the browser is says you're using?

Sure. Here is what I see:

Version: 8.0.6001.18828
Cipher Strength: 256-bit
Product ID: 01402-997-7332157-00211

I'm sure you probably don't need the cipher strength and Product ID, but I thought it can't hurt to copy it all just to make sure.

Thanks, I'll look into the issue.

Issue

When typing long posts in Internet Explorer 8, the textarea content jumped around and moved position for no good reason.

Cause

A bunch of required CSS, and selection tracking JavaScript. Both needed, both yet to be "fixed" by SMF, even though its an IE8 issue.

Resolution

Added the "make IE8 render in IE7 compatibility mode" meta tag, forcing IE8 to render as IE7, avoiding the IE8 specific bug.


<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />


Issue

Wrong timezone.

Cause

"Etc/GMT-1" in database "smf_settings" table

Resolution

Set to "Etc/BST", for automagic daylight savings time adjustment.

On the Members page, the 'search for a member' and 'view all members' links (top right) are practically invisible as they dipslay as white-on-white. I thought the search function didn't exist anymore until I accidentally highlighted a big chunk of the page!

huh, I'd been looking for that myself.

It's now blue.

wow, that's what I call efficient service!

My 'View Unread Posts' button isn't working which is a shame as it's my button of choice!

In what way isn't it working? It's working for me.

Sorry Vince, that wasn't very helpful was it? I go to the 'View unread posts' bit and there's nowt there, so I click on the 'View Active Topics' and there's loads with the 'New icon' next to 'em. I realise I''m a bugger for jumping on the forum on different machines but many of these are genuinely new posts/threads. It's been quite noticable the last few days...

It's not a big deal, I'm happy to use the Active Topics bit if it's something my end, i.e. cookies or some such.

Oh, and typically, it's working again now!

Thanks Pete. Can't say I can think of a reason for it to go trippy, though.

The whole mechanism should be platform-independant, so browsing multiple machines, or two browsers at the same time it should be just fine. The Active Topics was a bit of a bodge though, so there is a possibility it's gone out of whack date wise.

If it happens again, usually hitting "Mark all posts as read" will un-jam it. I don't really know enough about the inner voodoo of SMF to help much more than that.

I can't post links in the url brackets. Every time I click and drag a url address from the top of a web page to the brackets it just pings back again. This is on a Mac with Firefox. Any ideas?

Hey Kerrin, could you do that before? If not, I'd just copy and paste it between the url brackets as that'll work :)

Quote from: Kerrin on 20 March, 2010, 12:27:52 PM
I can't post links in the url brackets. Every time I click and drag a url address from the top of a web page to the brackets it just pings back again. This is on a Mac with Firefox. Any ideas?

Works in Safari. Just tried it in Firefox -- if you highlight the text in the address bar and drag then it does, indeed, ping back. If you drag the little 'document' icon on the immediate left of the URL text then you get the desired effect.

Cheers!

Jim

AHA! Thanks for that fellas. I was thinking I'd managed to alter some settings, or something.