Author: JimWae
Description:
Recently, clicking the signature icon has stopped working correctly - it does not place the dahes & tildas where the cursor is, but jumps up a number of lines in the text. This has been going on for about 3 days. I rebooted my computer, thus clearing the Explorer 8 session & the problem has continued without exception. I have to manually add the 4 tildas to sign within my own text
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
OS: Windows Vista
Platform: PC
JimWae wrote:
The problem does not appear in Firefox - where the old icon (just the scribble without the pen) is still there. This is with the new icon that includes the pen. I am actually having other issues editing too. SOMETIMES I cannot get back inside the edit box -- the text outside the edit box will get highlighted until I click -- but I have to end the IE8 sessionS & start a new one to clear this (related?) problem
JimWae wrote:
Ok, as soon as I reported this & checked to see if it was an issue in Firefox too, I can now, for the first time in 3 days, use the icon OK. Go figure --- I'll contact you if there are any further developments
JimWae wrote:
Now I've got the other problem about getting back into the edit box again
JimWae wrote:
It is "A" new one -- the one with the script AND pen in the icon, not just the script.
It seems now that I have both problems AFTER the first time I click the icon - both jumping of tildas upward into text and then having problems getting cursor back into edit box
JimWae wrote:
It seems similar - especially the part about highlighting outside the edit box. I am noticing that nearly always (or maybe always) the --~~~~ gets inserted inside a previous signature
JimWae wrote:
I just installed the latest Java for Vista from java.com -- no improvement. I can only find ONE instance where the --~~~~ did NOT get inserted inside a previous sig. And yes, the problem went away for maybe one session, but has returned - even immediately after having closed all IE8 sessions.
JimWae wrote:
also for many weeks now - my new entries into the edit box have been appearing in a line just below the edit box. It appears something (java?) cannot tell where the edit box ends.
JimWae wrote:
Either it's getting worse or I am noticing things more. Now after adding inside the edit box, if I click outside the edit box, I cannot re-enter the edit box. If I TRY to re-enter the edit box by TRYING to click inside the edit box again, some of the text outside the edit box gets highlighted & the cursor jumps up somewhere off the window.
Trevor, could you try to reproduce this?
(In reply to comment #10)
I just installed the latest Java for Vista from java.com -- no improvement. I
can only find ONE instance where the --~~~~ did NOT get inserted inside a
previous sig. And yes, the problem went away for maybe one session, but has
returned - even immediately after having closed all IE8 sessions.
Installing or upgrading Java won't help, because we're using JavaSCRIPT, which is different (and unrelated, despite the similar names).
JimWae wrote:
I tried on another computer & did not have the same problem. I think the problem started about the same time that I installed Family Tree Maker 2009. It has some integration with the browser, so it looks like they need to be contacted.
JimWae wrote:
Probably the reason why my install of Firefox does not have this problem is that Firefox does not fully process what is inside the edit box. I cannot do a "find" for text inside the edit box. Is there an add-on to Firefox to enable that?
(In reply to comment #15)
Probably the reason why my install of Firefox does not have this problem is
that Firefox does not fully process what is inside the edit box. I cannot do a
"find" for text inside the edit box. Is there an add-on to Firefox to enable
that?
Firefox should let you Ctrl+F stuff in the edit box just fine, without extensions.
JimWae wrote:
OK, the signature seems to work Ok - but the (perhaps related?) issue of not being able to re-enter the edit box remains
(In reply to comment #18)
OK, the signature seems to work Ok - but the (perhaps related?) issue of not
being able to re-enter the edit box remains
The fix is not live on Wikipedia yet, only on http://prototype.wikimedia.org/deployment/ . Are you having the second issue there as well?
JimWae wrote:
I was just using regular wikipedia - maybe I was just lucky that the signature jump did not happen that one time
JimWae wrote:
I created an account there (did not know bout it). Both issues seem fixed there.