Forum Software Upgrades

[PotomacCyclist]

It seems to be an Internet Explorer issue. I just tested it out on IE and I had the same problem. I can look at the 1st page of the threads with the characters in the title, but I can’t browse to other pages in those threads.

The titles are also displayed oddly. The blank spaces show up as small squares, not spaces. I don’t see any of these issues with Google Chrome.

It looks OK in Firefox as well.

So at least on this computer, the “character-title” threads display and function normally on Google Chrome and Firefox, but not with Internet Explorer. I don’t have Safari installed.

Those threads also seem to work normally on the standard Android mobile browser. Every browser seems to handle the updated forum software except Internet Explorer. I’ve read that Internet Explorer has had issues with compliance with web standards. Maybe this is related to the problem?

[brendan]

@PotomacCyclist 105294 wrote:

Those threads also seem to work normally on the standard Android mobile browser. Every browser seems to handle the updated forum software except Internet Explorer. I’ve read that Internet Explorer has had issues with compliance with web standards. Maybe this is related to the problem?

For more than a decade…

B

[Powerful Pete]

@Amalitza 105278 wrote:

Yes, Internet Explorer.

Not trying to be snippy, but why would one surf the intarwebz using IE these days? Goodness, even Safari is passable (runs and hides from the Mac users).

[Anonymous]

@Powerful Pete 105301 wrote:

Not trying to be snippy, but why would one surf the intarwebz using IE these days? Goodness, even Safari is passable (runs and hides from the Mac users).

Because one is using one’s work computer, which is loaded with IE and only IE, and one is forbidden and blocked from downloading any “unapproved” software.

[jrenaut]

Every time someone willfully uses IE, software engineers everywhere weep. IE has set software back by decades. We’d have human-equivalent AIs and a social network your grandmother could understand if only we hadn’t wasted years of work by brilliant minds on “but it works in all the other browsers” problems.

DO NOT USE IE. EVER. FOR ANYTHING. Unless you’re at work and don’t have any other choice.

[cyclingfool]

@Amalitza 105303 wrote:

Because one is using one’s work computer, which is loaded with IE and only IE, and one is forbidden and blocked from downloading any “unapproved” software.

Been there. Sux. Sorry.

At least where I am, they eventually wised up enough to include Firefox standard and allow some employees to ask for alternate browsers to be installed, so I am able to use Chrome, too.

[Mikey]

I logged out and back in, my cookies were deleted, and I still can’t get beyond page 1 for certain pages. I didn’t notice it was for character named threads, but now I see that it was. I can only “View First Unread” to get anywhere off the first page.

I am using IE (Govt, computer)

[Powerful Pete]

@ Amalitza, Touché.

Jokes aside, I always find that so hard to fathom – how could an IT department mandate IE use exclusively (I know, I know, some proprietary MS stuff)?

I work for a large bureaucracy and at least we also have the option to use Chrome (although in fairness to your point our intranet only seems to be optimized for IE).

[jrenaut]

I maintain a web application at a large government agency that only works in IE. The menu system is completely unusable without some IE-only quirks (don’t ask). I desperately want to fix it, but it would require 508 compliance testing of literally every page in the application, which would take upwards of eight human lifetimes. So I abide.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@jrenaut 105304 wrote:

DO NOT USE IE. EVER. FOR ANYTHING. Unless you’re at work and don’t have any other choice.

But IE is the number one browser for downloading other browsers.

[jrenaut]

@ShawnoftheDread 105324 wrote:

But IE is the number one browser for downloading other browsers.

wget.

[cyclingfool]

@ShawnoftheDread 105324 wrote:

But IE is the number one browser for downloading other browsers.

Only if you’re using Windows, which I do, at least a lot of the time. Ubuntu users get Firefox standard with install. 😎

[KWL]

It works fine under the I.E. app for Windows 8.1. Please do not chastise me for using both Win8 and I.E. I’m fragile.

Ken

[chris_s]

Tim – FYI, I see this error go by any time I edit a post:

The post edits just fine though.

[Tim Kelley]

I’ll pass it along.

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