Well that's progress at least. I know how to trap that error a little sooner now.

Do you have javascript disabled, sites blocked or some kind of app running that is interfering with javascript? I'm going to implement some error handling here, but my guess is that as soon as it's up, you're just going to get a friendly message about the post text being empty.

(Just to clarify, for me, please answer these...)

Does posting a new Post work?

Does posting your reply through the advanced mode work?

Does posting your reply through the non-advanced mode work?

Okay,

I just posted a comment to try to help (comment #7 here https://forums.wincustomize.com/?aid=123028#963115)

I pasted the URL to the mini tutorial in due to this being the way it was working previous to the change.

The link did not take, so I attempted to edit and use the "URL link" button to create the link, and after resubmitting the spacing was lost.

Ok, I'll have a look at that. We keep running across all these 'dependant' situations that we couldnt catch during testing.

Trying this from Home with FF 1.5.0.4 to see whether the error has something to do with the account. Test line break Nope, seems to work well, but so does the older version of FF now. Whatever you were doing with the "error handling", it obviously did the trick for me.

Before submitting this post I got an "server not available"-error

Ok, I edited above post to add the "Nope, seems to work well....."-bit, and although I ticked "plain text" format, I lost all the code again.

Note that the initial post through "post comment" worked fine and showed a line break between "account" and "Test". It's just the editing that mucked it up. I tried to re-edit the above test several times and submitted it in "plain text" but each time it just resets to "Html".

Testing a reply wiht Firefox.
Normal Mode
Vista Partition

Testing a reply with Firefox
Normal Mode
XP Partition
FAILED!

Testing a reply with Firefox (All extentions disabled)
Normal Mode
XP Partition
FAILED!

Testing a reply with Firefox (All extentions disabled)
Normal Mode
XP Partition (Firewall and Antivirus Off)
FAILED!

Testing a reply with Firefox (All extentions disabled) Advanced Mode XP Partition (Firewall and Antivirus Off)

Hurray success! ...but no linebreaks....

I'm unable to create a new thread. I click the link "Create Post", in Firefox and nothing happends. Works in IE though.

Create post link works in all spots in the forums in Firefox for everyone here that I've had test it. Thanks for your work with the posting replies. Should help me track down the issue.

thomassen, try as we might we cannot reproduce the same issue you are having. The cause of this (as best as we have been able to duplicate possible scenarios) is that *something* on your PC is causing the javascript on the page to behave incorrectly, or not at all.

The only good news/result of your testing and situation is that it's going to allow us to write a little bit more elegant handling of the errors that you've seen. It was also suggested that I suggest to you, to try posting from another computer.


I should also have the reply advanced mode/edit line breaks thing solves shortly.

The odd thing is that when I post from Firefox from my Vista installation (got dualboot with XP) it all works fine. But what's odd is that the XP installation is very fresh as well so I really wonder what might block it on my XP. I thought one of my extensions was the cause, but disabling them didn't do any difference. Nor did disabling the firewall and antivirus app. Does anyone know of any other programs that might block Firefox's javascript. It's contained to just Firefox because IE and Opera on my XP partiton doesn't have that issue either.
And I find it odd that a javascript issue from my site would create such an error message from WC? (I've had no other problems)

Thanks for your efforts to resolve this. I'll digg around more and see if I can tweak this.

(Posted in Firefox on Vista in for forum section, normal mode.)