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Think some people have reported this problem, that you are prompted to login when you try to send a message.

Think root of the problem is when you don't fill out the subject field, tested it and it asks me to login.

My guess would be because the reply from the server when sending the message fails and enters the 'else' block of the if statement here (from function 'CC_Profile_Pm_Send'):

success: function(msg) {
//alert(msg);
var result = eval('(' + msg + ')');

$('#panelError').showError(String(result.Message));
if(result.Success == 1) {
$.modal.close();
} else {
CC_Login_Open();
}

So either need to do some validation before posting the message, or server needs to be more lenient and allow for an empty/null subject.

Steve :oP

Hi all,
well I know as Opera isn't as popular as IE or Firefox that making sure the site works on it isn't as big a priority, and I understand why, so thought I'd look in to why the layout of all the tabs and their contents are all over the place in Opera, as well as the updates not appearing on the right where they should be.

Anyway, looking through the codes, I found out where the problem was. It is withing the DIV tag block for the "My Info" section i.e. <.div id="myinfo"> ... the problem in here is that you break out of the <.FORM> at the start of the page too early, and it throws the HTML DOM out of sync (and regardless of whether it works in Opera or not, I don't think this is a valid HTML document because of it).

So I tried removing the following lines, and it seemed to fix everything:

<./form> <!-- disable stupid ASP.NET form... which is useless :) -->
<.form id="personalDetails" action="#">
<.fieldset>

and

<./fieldset>
<./form>
<.form action="#">

Now the only problem with this is that you would have to modify the validation for the fields in that block, currently you have something like:

if($('#personalDetails').valid())

which would no long work, so you may need to adapt the validation to check the relevent boxes... which shouldnt take too much work to correct, then you have a better formed HTML document.

This shouldn't mess around with the data submission either, because the function that does it builds up a POST request out of the individual fields rather than submitting a form. Of course, it may require some testing in the different browsers to make sure it all works, but if you rather I tried doing it on my machine rather than you editting the site, I'm happy to.

This was another geeky report by...

Steve

Hi,
I realise this is going to be a bit technical, but I was having some problems with copying urls that people had posted in blogs (but hadn't made links out of them).

After trawling through the codes, I found the problem to be in the breakWords function in the javascript. On "words" longer than 32 characters, you currently have this applied:

a[i] = a[i].split('').join(c);

... which I believe is a fix to make sure that browsers that don't properly support word-wrapping actually do wordwrap. I understand why you need to do this to make the flow ot pages ok and not stretch blog windows superwide by people being over-excited with "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" type responses ... but it proves to be problematic when you go to copy a URL someone has posted because within that URL are alot of hidden characters that need to be removed for the URL to work when pasted in a browser.

I realize this is probably not a problem for IE but I found it to happen in FireFox (3.0.3) and Opera (9.62).

Would it be possible to increase the max word length so that it minimizes on the "valid" long words being messed up?

example: http://www.candycrib.com/Blog/post/ki...
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A different problem I've noticed is that in blogs that when pics are put in, that haven't been given a reasonable size, you then have the problem of that blog being stretched super wide. A word-around that would work in FireFox and Opera (and possibly other browsers) is the CSS property max-width, and set that on images within your 'wordwrap' classes. This doesnt work for IE though. Another solution would be to set it programmatically when the blogs are editted i.e IMGs can have a maximum of say 600px width if the user tries to set it themselves, and if they don't set it, and the uploaded image is wider than 600px, or if a height is specified and the scaled up width is greater than 600px, then its scaled down to fit within the width of your blogs

example: http://www.candycrib.com/Blog/post/vi...

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Also, while I was looking, I noticed your trim function, while you use regular expressions to neatly remove the excess space at the beginning, you use a different approach to remove it at the end. Could you not use something like this instead?

str = str.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,"");

An improvement on that still, may be to allow a max of 4 spaces at the beginning (if people try to indent things manually).. so if your parser did read each line, you could use something like this maybe?

str = str.replace(/^\s{5,}/g," "); // Any blocks of whitespace of 5 or more is replaced with 4 spaces

str = str.replace(/\s+$/g, ""); // Any whitespace at the end is removed

Course this only works if your document parser/walker is going through and reading each line.

Anyway, I realize there was a lot in that, but hope it was helpful in someway

PS: I've noticed that new lines in blogs are dealt with strangely, in that I can't always put a few lines between my text and then an inserted image, but too lazy to look in to why right now after all that typing :P

Currently, the link on people's profile page to show the full list doesnt work. Upon clicking the link (tested in IE and Opera), this just hides the link but doesnt show the full list... however viewing the list of "Fans Of" does work.

Also, the tally/count of "Is A Fan" of is incorrect (at least it is for me, SteveT)

It may be helpful to have a section/tab on the "My Profile" page which shows fans, whether it be ones you are a fan of, or ones that are a fan of you (this could incorportate the suggested feature I saw before about showing some sort of status "XXX is YYY")

If you enter your login details (and this is on Opera), and hit Enter to submit, I usually get a prompt to save my details but the login fails. The only way to login is to use the button instead.