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Good and nice, but a few things broken

   
sustik
Joined on 04 May 2005
Total posts: 11

Good and nice, but a few things broken

Wednesday, 04 May 2005 20:06

[Updated, corrected]

I see that the forum was nicely designed, it looks really good.

Unfortunately the html is not standard compliant.  Maybe a result of this is that I cannot post messages from the AIX/Firefox machines at work.  It mostly works on the latest Linux/Firefox at home.  The cursor keys do not work (positioning the cursor with the mouse and backspace works) and I could not insert a smiley.

Maybe those .aspx extensions are not standard and work reliably only on Windows?  I am not a web guru so I only know that Validator finds 236 errors on the forum page.  (Go to validator.w3.org and enter this site's web page address.)

It is great that the posts can be edited.

Thanks for reading this.  Matyas
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peter
Joined on 13 Jan 2005
Total posts: 468

Re: Good and nice, but a few things broken

Thursday, 05 May 2005 06:12

Welcome to DanceSport Info. Matyi!

First of all, the developers of this site unfortunately do not have access to AIX machines... :-( Nor Linux as far as I know, although this may be easier to aquire.

About this forum: It has nothing to do with the .aspx extension as it is executed at the server side - what you get on the client is pure DHTML + Javascript.

Even the validator's complains may have little to do with it, as the editor textbox's behaviour has much more to do with javascript event handling than HTML compliance.

Basically what you should know that these are not "our source", we are using CommunityServer for the forums (www.communityserver.org) with skinning and heavy integration, but the bulk of the implementation is form there - they expect a new version out soon (we may follow up with some delay as we have to implement the integration, testing etc) which will probably be more "validator friendly".

On the other hand, the editor itself (which may cause you the troubles) is FCKEditor, which is RC3 yet - they expect the final version within a few days, this may fix most of your problems: http://www.fckeditor.net/ You can browse and add active bugs with FCKEditor at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=75348&atid=543653. If they issue a fix, we will implement it.

Cheers,

Peter

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Leszek
Joined on 08 Jul 2002
Total posts: 20

Re: Good and nice, but a few things broken

Thursday, 05 May 2005 19:28

Yes, it's true that the html does not validate - however if you look closely, most if not all of the validation problems are to do with capitalized tag names and missing attributes in script tags. There are no serious faults that could cause such an incompatibility

 

As for your comment on the .aspx extension, as peter said, this has nothing to do with cross-platform compatibility. What you get is html, exactly what you would get if the extension had been .htm.

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