Mozilla Firefox 1.0 has a bug with Christian Forums

[Ave Maria]

Hi everyone. I just wanted to report that I found a bug in Mozilla Firefox. Ok, those of you who use Internet Explorer 6.0 know that Internet Explorer works great with Christian Forums "Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing" form of posting. What I mean is that when you hit New Post or New Reply and you go into the full text formatting version of the posting, everything works great with Internet Explorer 6.0.

You know how with IE 6.0, you can click on a smiley to put in your post and you'll actually see the graphical smiley fully animated and all in the text box? Or do you know how when you click the Bold, Italics, or Underline button the text automatically appears in Bold, Italics, or Underline in the text box before you even hit the submit button? Well, with Mozilla Firefox 1.0, it doesn't work right. It has a bug. Instead of showing it as though it is supposed to appear, it puts the appropriate HTML code in the text box and then after hit the submit button, it is shown as it is supposed to in your post. In previous versions of Mozilla Firefox, this did not happen. The smileys would appear in the text box and the text would already be formatted the way you wanted it. Unfortunately, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 no longer does this.

I believe this is a bug. If anyone is a beta tester or developer for Mozilla Firefox, could you please report this bug so that they can get Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Preview Release fixed? I like to use Mozilla Firefox a lot but since this bug appeared, I do not use it for Christian Forums and will not use it until the bug is fixed. I'd really appreciate this. Thanks!

 

[Lenard]

When I visit my own site the bordercolors have a different color then when I use IE.

God bless,
Lenard

 

[Father Gregory]

Dear Senior Veteran

You might want to consider whether or not Internet Explorer's lamentable security profile is the kind of price you want to pay for the occasional display issue in thread boxes. The latest is the hijacking of your PC through ordinary jpegs pics displayed in your browser!

Anyway, that aside, you would be better reporting this in "Bugzilla." Go to the Firefox page and follow the links. You have to register first of course. The chances of a key Mozilla person reading your thread I would have thought is practically zero. 1.0 PR is, of course, a Beta release.

Still using Firefox and VERY happy with it I am indeed.

 

[Beta-guy]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ since you found the bug you would be best to submit the bug, because if they need extra information you'd have that handy...

 

[Ave Maria]

Ok, just checked BugZilla and it appears that this has already been reported. Hopefully they'll get it fixed soon.

 

[SirKenin]

You might want to roll back to an earlier version of Mozilla for now until the problem has been resolved in a patch/service pack/release.

Maybe that will resolve the issue.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/

 

[skysthelimit]

Yeah I have noticed this as well. I just ignored it cause I'm in the CB so much that I just grew used to it.

 

[gusto5]

i dunno know if thats necessarily a 1.0 Bug. i never knew images could load up like that on CForums.

Im currently on 0.9 Mozilla. But i have the same problem on Cforums, but not other sites!!!

 

[SirKenin]

It's a Mozilla bug.. It works fine in IE, so it's probably a feature that's been coded a certain way for IE and Mozilla is mishandling it.. It happens.

 

[Beta-guy]

It's a Mozilla bug.. It works fine in IE, so it's probably a feature that's been coded a certain way for IE and Mozilla is mishandling it.. It happens.

that brings up the question should mozilla/firefox view webpages exactly like IE does even if how IE does it isn't nessesarily standard? I think Mozilla should focus on standards and that'll encourage other websites to use standardized code for ALL browsers.

 

[SirKenin]

Well, the reality is that IE is the standard and holds the lions share of the market. Soooo.. Websites are obviously going to code to the standard, and it's really the little guy's obligation to conform to that standard. They aren't in a position to create their own, if you know what I mean.

 

[Beta-guy]

Well, the reality is that IE is the standard and holds the lions share of the market. Soooo.. Websites are obviously going to code to the standard, and it's really the little guy's obligation to conform to that standard. They aren't in a position to create their own, if you know what I mean.

that's the problem I'm talking about web standards like http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ while most webmaster look to IE as the standard even if MS doesn't hold exactly to the standards that exist they will aim to make thier site compatible with IE not Mozilla or the standards that exist.

EDIT here is a guy trying to bring the standards into IE in a sense... http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/03/12/0454228.shtml

 

[SirKenin]

XHTML isn't a web standard. It's something someone is hoping to make into a standard.

Sure, there are standards like CSS, HTML, etc (I'm having a blonde moment and can't remember the rest) The defacto standard though, no matter how you look at it, is IE.

 

[Dracil]

Which is changing of course. Mozilla market share is rising. And I no longer code my pages for IE. IE users can screw it as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Ave Maria]

You might want to roll back to an earlier version of Mozilla for now until the problem has been resolved in a patch/service pack/release.

Maybe that will resolve the issue.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/sea.../release-notes/

I did do this temporarily drfeelgood and it did fix the problem. However, I have since went back to 1.0 and am using Internet Explorer almost exclusively.

Which is changing of course. Mozilla market share is rising. And I no longer code my pages for IE. IE users can screw it as far as I'm concerned.

Well that's a real friendly attitude to have Dracil.

 

[Dracil]

I have no sympathy for those who wish to use such an inferior product.

 

[SirKenin]

*fanboy alert*

lol

OBJECTION your Honor! Our esteemed colleague is clearly being confrontational, providing superfluous and dubious testimony!

 

[Dracil]

Yah, I'm a Firefox fanboy and I'm proud of it!

It's definitely much better than being an IE fanboy.

 

[SirKenin]

Yeah, it's your right to see webpages that don't show up correctly just so you can have some cute little tabs. I believe that was the 28th Amendment, wasn't it?

 

[Beta-guy]

Yeah, it's your right to see webpages that don't show up correctly just so you can have some cute little tabs. I believe that was the 28th Amendment, wasn't it?

those "cute little tabs" are more efficent that having cute little windows open everywhere