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**leehljp** · 01-02-2003, 01:47 AM

Norm,

Since sometimes New Years day, I have had some minor glitches too:
First, not all of the icons are working right for me. Many of them stay generic.
Second, some of the headers are blacked out on mine but clear up in a Refresh. Some of the HTML code seems to be slightly squashing the text slightly.
Third, When I - click on Active Topics, go to one Discussion group, post a message, a unique thing happens - only the Active topics in that discussion group show up as active/unread. Before New Years, All UnRead messages stayed listed as UnRead until I specifically marked them.

I wonder is this is all an HTML bug of some sort that has gone global.

Hey, after posting this, the UnRead Messages are showing up again as UnRead.

Hank

**Sam Conder** · 01-02-2003, 10:17 AM

I have not run into either of those problems described. Has anybody else?

Sam Conder
http://www.samconder.com

**Ryan F** · 01-02-2003, 11:23 AM

The folder icon does not turn yellow after I have read the thread untill the next time that I visit. Refreshing does not work to correct the problem.

Another question, is it possible to have my setup so that when I click on a thread that it is somehow noticible which responces are new? Kind of like the woodnet forums. Next to all new threads it will have a little new icon and once it has been read the new vanishes.

This site is working out great thanks for all the hard work. My favorite feature is I get to choose my own password!!! I don't have to remember a87fg4d6.

Ryan Flaherty
http://home.kc.rr.com/myworkshop/Workshop.html
BT3000 is just a toy. Isn't it?

**Sam Conder** · 01-02-2003, 11:30 AM

Ryan:

Unfortunatly this is not a threaded forum, it's a topical forum. In the "Active Topics" section, you can "Mark all messages read" by clicking the purple/yellow folder icon on the left edge of the topmost blue bar. Make sense?

Sam Conder
http://www.samconder.com

**Stytooner** · 01-02-2003, 12:53 PM

It works the best for me if I tell it to post new topics since my last logon and if i didn't get a chance to peruse them all then, the next time I will set it at say Active for the last 2 hours.

I haven't had any glitches at all, except maybe attacks of the senility virus, but I get that on all the Forums.

Lee
http://www.leestyron.com

**Norm in Fujino** · 01-02-2003, 10:32 PM

quote:Originally posted by sconder

I have not run into either of those problems described. Has anybody else?

Sam Conder
http://www.samconder.com

Sam, I finally got part of it figured out. My browser is IE 5.5-J, which is the Japanese version; it defaults to Japanese Shift-JIS encoding, which occasionally (rarely) hangs up on strange characters. In this case, for example, the title of Rod's message "Some downunder thoughts on this forum ..." uses an encoded elipse (...) at the end that becomes a deranged character under two-byte Japanese Shift-JIS. That apparently caused (in this case, at least) the entire message to disappear. I found I could view it normally by manually changing the encoding to Western European ISO.
There might be a way to prevent this on your side as well. On your code pages, you include a "meta" line at the top but it omits any "charset" designation. If that is a deliberate design choice on your part, I can't say anything, but if it's simply an oversight, you might add the command
charset="ISO-88559-1"
to the meta line and it will (or should) force non-US browsers to automatically encode properly.

At any rate, everything is working for me now, so long as I manually set encoding to Western European.

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Green Gables: A Contemplative Companion to Fujino Township

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