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Topic: O/T Mac users on this board
Posted By: amm
Subject: O/T Mac users on this board
Date Posted: March 20 2005 at 12:02pm
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Anyone else having difficulty posting photos and html with this new forum format? I never had a problem until they switched over and now my Mac splits the html code and photos are a nightmare. My PC works the forum fine (which is odd because my PC is Satan.)
Any help appreciated. |
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Posted By: leia1979
Date Posted: March 20 2005 at 3:08pm
| Amm, I don't have a Mac, but I notice that links now only automatically convert to html about half of the time. I have no idea why. They seem to work better from work (IE) than home (Firefox), so I'll look into any browser issues. |
Posted By: administrater
Date Posted: March 20 2005 at 3:43pm
What browser are you using? Are you using the WYSIWYG editor? How exactly do you insert pictures? |
amm wrote:Posted By: amm
Date Posted: March 20 2005 at 6:53pm
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I'm using Safari (for Mac OSX), Firefox 1.0 and IE 6.0
I've taken WYSIWYG on and off and tried both. I'm formatting directly as described in the help section here. When I include a http:// link, there's a space at the end of "htm l" and I cannot edit the space out. |
Posted By: Save~A~Stray
Date Posted: March 20 2005 at 8:02pm
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Amm, I have a mac with Safari and also IE 6.0. I am having a
hard time posting live links or just half of them will work, if I have a few on one post. I can't get the images to show up. I am still using photobucket to get the image tags but can't get them to show up now. I had to send my pics to Sherrie to post for me (I think she has a PC). I'm feelin' like a total blonde here!! I also tried the WYSIWYG on and off-nothing!! Has anyone mastered the new forum settings on a Mac? 
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Posted By: administrater
Date Posted: March 20 2005 at 8:44pm
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Can you post some here and just let the forum do what it wants to do with them. I will check it out on my mac tomorrow. Jeff. |
Posted By: Save~A~Stray
Date Posted: March 20 2005 at 9:34pm
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Sorry Jeff, I'm thinking it’s totally me that’s
messing up here. I posted this e-mail a few days ago and only one link would come up live. I tried to get the other two links to work but they wouldn’t work or they ended up live linking all the text too. So I just left them with no tags attached, as I could not figure them out after several edits. Posted: March 18 2005 at 8:17am | IP Logged ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------Shel~ You want to pick your name for your site then you have to go to a domain registrar and pay them for the name you want to use, if it's not taken. You can pay for 1 year , 2 , or 5 years to own the .com name. Then you have go and set up web hosting for your site, which is normally set up in a 3 month, 1, or 2 year payment plan. You can do these separately at any of these links here……… Domain Names http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO- 8859-1&q=domain+names Web Hosting http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie= ISO-8859-1&q=web+hosting&btnG=Search OR You can go to some web hosting companies that will register your domain name for free when you sign up with them. Just make sure the domain name is getting registered in your own name and not their company name, because if you leave to go with another company down the line, they can still own your domain name. So just make sure the domain name is registered to you when you sign up with a web hosting company that offers free domain names. I went with http://www.startlogic.com/index2.html where I got my free domain name and web hosting package. There are many companies to go with. You may want to look into the most popular companies here http://www.hosting-review.com/top-10.htm Shop around and find what is best for you!! GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR SITE!! Edited by Save~A~Stray on March 18 2005 at 8:32am This was a pic I was trying to post on another thread. I uploaded it on photobucket.com as I usually do. I copy the image tag link, then copy to my post. I just couldn’t get the pic to show up. This was the exact tag I got from photobucket.com http://img.photobucket/albums/v690/saveastray/lineup.jpg and the images tags were added of course of either side. I posted it and this is what showed up below.  lineup.jpg">
Jeff, if you can just let me know the tags you use to get the pic and the two (dead links) up, that would be great. I had no trouble posting pics or links ever on the original forum settings. I just can’t see where I’m going wrong. Thanks Hun, sorry to be a pain!! |
Posted By: amm
Date Posted: March 20 2005 at 9:45pm
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Here's some more to test. This is coming from a brand new iMac G5
running Safari. Previously, I would http://and the link would be hyper so it could just be clicked on directly. Now it needs to be copy and pasted. Test short hyperlink: http://sfgate.com/ Test short hyperlink with [/url] tag: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050321/ ap_on_go_co/schiavo_congress - http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmp l=story&u=/ap/20050321/ ap_on_go_co/schiavo_congress Test posting long hyperlink: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050321/ ap_on_go_co/schiavo_congress Test posting photo using "IMG":  oolong.jpg">
Test posting photo using "Tag": <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/amm94117/ oolong.jpg" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com"> Test posting photo using "url": http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/amm94117/oolong.jpg |
Posted By: amm
Date Posted: March 20 2005 at 9:46pm
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SAS - Have you noticed our text is now in a short block instead of
running all along the length of the page. Look! We're special! 
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Posted By: Save~A~Stray
Date Posted: March 20 2005 at 9:59pm
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HaHa...Amm,
Now I can't even get the original startlogic link I had live anymore to show live without all the text showing live too. I just edited it back again. 
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Posted By: Jenn_Again
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 3:04am
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Well, I'm not on a Mac, and I've been having the same problem posting
links. It seems that since the site upgrade, extra spaces are appearing
in the code (both for url links and image links), even when the link
has been cut and pasted in its entirety into the message field. If you
go back in an edit the message to close up those spaces, it doesn't
necessarily let you do that either; after several attempts, it may
work, or not. It seems like somehow the message field is "forcing"
those extra spaces. I also got kicked out of my account, Jenny_RR, when I was responding to a message, and when I tried to log back in, it said my cookies weren't enabled (which they are). I still can't access the account. I know Syren had a similar problem as well. :) |
Posted By: administrater
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 10:11am
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050321/ap_on_go_co/schiavo_congress - http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050321/ap_on_g o_co/schiavo_congress |
Posted By: administrater
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 10:14am
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This is not a MAC only issue.
I don't have any problem if I use the insert image button and the insert url buttons. Now pasting into this reply... http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050321/ap_on_go_co/schiavo_congress - http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050321/ap_on_g o_co/schiavo_congress
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Posted By: administrater
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 10:14am
| That was without WYSIWYG editor. |
Posted By: administrater
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 10:16am
| http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/amm94117/oolong.jpg - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/amm94117/oolong.jpg |
Posted By: administrater
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 10:16am
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050321/ap_on_go_co/schiavo_congress - http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050321/ap_ on_go_co/schiavo_congress |
Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 10:19am
| Hmm...so are you saying we need to disable the WYSIWYG editor and it'll work? Where do we find that--in the user preferneces or something? :) |
Posted By: administrater
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 10:21am
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All can say at the moment is that when you copy an url in make sure you get the complete url and that it doesn't have any breaks in it. I can't seem to find out how to break it using the buttons. http://mp.hairboutique.com/ - http://mp.hairboutique.com/ Cutting and pasting seem to work. |
Posted By: administrater
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 10:22am
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I can make it work either way. Haven't had it fail yet. Jenny... What browser are you using? |
Posted By: administrater
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 10:23am
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Yes the WYSIWYG setting is in the profile. |
Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 10:26am
| Great. Thanks for your help! :) |
Posted By: administrater
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 10:28am
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http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html
http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html - http://www.apple.com/ ipod/specs.html It doesn't look like the WYSIWYG editor is available under Safari. Can any other MAC users confirm that? |
Posted By: administrater
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 10:39am
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What browser are you using? |
Posted By: administrater
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 10:43am
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WYSIWYG editor is available in Firefox on Mac OS/X |
Posted By: leia1979
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 2:44pm
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I've found that simply cutting and pasting a long url causes breaks...short ones are fine. If I use the "insert link" function it's okay, though. Let me revise that it does this at home on Firefox. In IE (at work) it pastes as a link. I will look into the WYSIWYG settings for Firefox, though. |
Posted By: amm
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 10:40pm
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I've got WYSIWYG turned off in this forum's preferences and I still
cannot post photos with the Mac. When I paste links in, they do not become hyperlinks that allow others to simply click on them within the post. To open any link I include, the user must copy the url and then paste it into their browser. Nothing seems to work as it used to while running Safari on a Mac.
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Posted By: Jeffrey Hines
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 11:12pm
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Are you using the Link button above the edit field?
------------- Jeffrey Hines HairBoutique.com |
Posted By: amm
Date Posted: March 21 2005 at 11:22pm
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Oh. So, all the links have to go thru there now? Ok.
testing link... http://google.com - http://google.com Got it! testing Oolong link without pic... testing Oolong link with pic... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/amm94117/ oolong.jpg - http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/amm94117/ oolong.jpg _______________ The photos still will not work. They come up fine when I preview the post and then when I update, they are jumbled. I am using the link icon (fourth from the left for the link without pic) and the link icon (second from the right to attempt linking with a pic) |