Firefox and BBCode

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-07-10 07:24pm

Since switching to Firefox, i've noticed that i can no longer highlight then click the appropriate code butoon when making posts, as that just adds an open (or close) tag for the function to the end of my post.

Is this to do with FF or the board?

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-07-10 08:33pm

FF. What you found there seems to be an IE-only function.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-07-11 11:44am

Shit.
Is there a patch for FF that lets you do that?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-07-11 01:07pm

I don't think so. Anyway, I hardly notice the problem, since any post which I'm going to use formatting in is usually long enough to make using the buttons annoying (they get annoying when the text does not fit in the textbox, and the text scrolls up when you close a tag. ).

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-07-11 07:36pm

Wouldn't the problem lie with phpBB as opposed to the browser?

moku · Post by **moku** » 2004-07-12 01:25am

Uraniun235 wrote:Wouldn't the problem lie with phpBB as opposed to the browser?

Unless I am mistaken, yes and no. The problem often is in the browser itself, basically hindering it doing certain things in intergrated text boxes that include a script code that the browser does not understand. There are, to my knowledge patches that can be dled which "install" - probably the adequate word to use - the script coding into your browser files. If it is the script, then I cannot help you at all, since whosoever makes the coding for this board might be able to fiddle around with it...

I use Konqueror, on a SuSE machine, and it can't do that either, but hey, it can't even do alt + b for bold..., but it rocks elswhere.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-07-12 05:05pm

The problem is indeed with phpBB's implementation. vB's WYSIWYG form system works on both IE and Mozilla, for example, though not as well on the latter.

moku · Post by **moku** » 2004-07-13 01:54am

If that is so, which I believe, is there anything that can be done to allow the highlight and click the b button, for example, to work again?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-07-13 11:33am

`naeo wrote:If that is so, which I believe, is there anything that can be done to allow the highlight and click the b button, for example, to work again?

Wait, if I highlight something and then press the button it works for me?

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-07-13 01:10pm

Strangely enough it works just find with Firebird, go figure...

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-07-13 03:46pm

Hm... didn't know about highlighting and pressing thte button. Works fine on Galeon here (Mozilla based).

moku · Post by **moku** » 2004-07-14 03:00am

Well as we have found:

Firebird: Yes (?)
Firefox: No
Mozilla (Firefox predecessor): Yes (?)
Konqueror: No
IE Yes (?)

Available patches IIRC for: Konqueror, IE, Firefox (?)

muse · Post by **muse** » 2004-07-14 11:36pm

Firebird is a definite yes as is Opera. Nifty little feature, I've always wondered how people did those huge part by part quotes, now I know.

moku · Post by **moku** » 2004-07-15 12:12am

Ohh, well I learnt something new...

Damn, can't edit to add Opera. eh, someone else can repost it.