Serendipity Event Forum Plugin

[Wizard]

I haven't gotten a reponse on the author 's forum site so I thought I post this on the more "public" site to see if I can get help. I would love to use the plugin, but seeing how most of my users are Windows centric and can't/won't use anything but IE I am at a lost of what to do.

When I view your Forum pages in IE, I don't have the New Thread, Reply, Quote, Edit buttons. I first thought someting was wrong, I tried many days, different times thinking you were changing something. I am now using Firefox and I see those buttons, so I guess you are not compatible with IE?

the forum surely should be compatible with IE...
Curious... they are absolutly normal images. I really don't know why this shouldn't work in IE.

And, btw., you are the very first one, who has these problems with IE and I guess there are much more users which are using IE...

Yes, in early versions I would see the buttons, but subsequent versions they would sometimes be there and now they don't show at all. I've cleared my cache and even tried from two other computers here at my house. I went to my office and tried from another computer and same result. They are all running Windows XP, sp2 with IE version 6. I don't think it's my computer. Plus, I notice that you are playing with Gravatars, at least I think you are. Sometimes I see an asterick, sometimes I see an image placeholder, but no image, sometimes nothing at all. Nothing at all in IE. I believe you have a problem with IE

I need a resolution before I can implement this plugin.

[garvinhicking]

Which URL need I visit to see the behaviour you describe?

Regards,
Garvin

[Wizard]

Sorry, it can be viewed here:

http://blog.linux-stats.org/index.php?s ... &boardid=7

[garvinhicking]

It might be the "browsercompatibility" plugin. Did you check to deactivate that (temporarily)?

IE sucks to debug, since extensions like EditCSS or LiveHTTPHeaders seem to not exist for IE. If the issue happened in Firefox I could tell you the reason in a few minutes.

Regards,
Garvin

[dma147]

I've deleted this browsercompatibility plugin now...

@Wizard does it work now for you in IE?

[garvinhicking]

Works now, for me. Must be some sucking PNG issue then.

Regards,
Garvin

[Wizard]

It works for me now. I knew I wasn't going crazy. Not sure how you are going to fix it, but it now works fine.

[dale]

I am sorry to dig up such an old thread, but I think this may be the same issue as to what I am going through.

My browser is IE6. I just installed v0.9.1 (under PHP 4.4.1). The transparent PNG files would display as it load -- only to disappear completely after the page is done loading.

I am not sure what to make of this. Is this the notorious IE problem with PNG transparency? Or does this mean that the Browser Compatibility Plugin doesn't work for me? How do I "fix" this? (Do I uninstall the Browser Compatibility Plugin?)

Thanks in advance!

[garvinhicking]

Did you make sure you are using the same URL to access your blog then you configured in your s9y configuration? Otherwise, the javascript might fail on loading transparent IE PNG images.

You might want to disable that plugin, then you'll get the normal PNGs without their transparency, though.

HTH,
Garvin

[dale]

When the URL is exactly the same (in my case, without the "www.") as the URL configured, the PNG files disappear after the page is done loading. When the URLs are different, the javascript does not load.

I think I will disable the plugin for now. Thank you for the speedy reply.

[Josh]

Hi,

those of you who have used this plugin for a while: Do you and your readers like it? Or do you get much SPAM?

Any security concerns? Does this plugin make the rest of the blog vulnerable?