I miss the quick reply box.

Entire periods of glacial activity wax and wane between incidences of me launching Internet Explorer (I think I have version 5?) but I’m happy to report that the newfangled QuickReply works fine with Shiira.

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pretending to quote someone

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bold italic :slight_smile:

works better when I hit the correct macro keys!

ah, i just realised that the go advanced button functions the same as the preview button, so nevermind… :smack:

Doesn’t work for me. It just assumes I’m hitting the Quote button.

Must be a Firefox thing.

I’m using Firefox and Quick Reply seems to work (mostly) just fine for me. The only thing that doesn’t work is the four “buttons” above the edit box – the Bold, Italic, Underline, and Quote buttons. But since I usually put the tags in for these manually, I don’t see it as a drawback.

The vB software was written around IE and that’s always been the gold standard for them; they’re just not real interested in other browsers.

We’re also in a weird situation in that we have an older version of the vB software currently installed . . . but the most recent version of php. That has caused some of our oddities and hampered us a bit; however, we were forced to upgrade php due to exploits. I do not foresee changes in the near future; we’re pretty far down on the “to-do” list as far as the tech staff is concerned. I don’t anticipate us getting much more attention for at least a while.

I’m sorry that our changes have had a negative impact on you. I don’t know what else to tell you.

your humble TubaDiva
Administrator

Just for the record, I have a Quick Reply box at the foot of every thread page.

However, it cannot be typed in, and contains the following greyed-out message:

I’m using IE 6.0.2800, not a Suomi shareware browser program, so clearly there’s something wrong.

Yep, that’s how it’s supposed to work. Directly below and at far right of this very post, you should see, just to the right of the greyish-blue “reply” button, an unlabled icon that looks like a sheet of paper with an arrow (sort of like the arrow on a shortcut or alias icon). Click that and the text “Please click one of the Quick Reply icons in the posts above to activate Quick Reply” should disappear and your cursor should end up in the QuickReply box.

Did you click the Quick Reply icon (the little icon right next to the normal reply button)?

I’m using Firefox as well and the buttons work fine for me.

Works **fine ** with Mozilla too.

You have to click one of the quick reply icons on one of the posts. The grayed text will disappear, and a cursor will appear for typing.

I guess I should’ve added a sentence that said “I think it’s probably one of my chosen extensions that is interfering”.

I like the new box.

Ahem.

But it has raised the occurance of one of my pet peeves on this board: quoting a giant post to add a one-line reply.

Another test, different browser…

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