Tom400CFI

Two things have changed recently on the forum...why?

1. Can't use a "great than" symbol or a "less than" symbol anymore. If you do, any text that you type following either of those symbols is deleted...and gone if you go back to edit.

2. If you post then hit edit, you used to get about 1 minute to edit w/o a "lasted edited by..." Now, you can edit something immediately after posting, and you get that message at the bottom of your post.

What is going on in the first case....why the change in the second?

EDIT: in this post, I typed the actual symbols in the first question. It DIDN'T delete all the text following the symbols, but deleted the symbols...went to fix by typing "greater than/less than" and had that done w/in 20 seconds...still showed the "last edited by...." message.


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QCVette

I don't know about the greater than/less than issue, but I noticed the same thing on the edits. I frequently read my post again and sometimes I notice a typo or awkward wording so I correct it. Now it shows as a edit.

RollaMo-LT4

If only there was a "Help" section.

cache1

Many web site applications have issues the greater than and less than symbols being used because those are characters used in the HTML language to create the page/text format, like bold, or itallic, or to begin a new line, etc.... It becomes difficult for the web application to tell the difference between the data in a field if the 'greater than' and 'less than' are meant to be literal, or meant to be HTML markup code. Most web applications just throw an error if a user enters them.

crowz

Testing < by itself.

testing

crowz

Ok seems a less than by itself worked but it ate a good bit more of the ones I put in that last post.

Trying > by itself.

crowz

Ok its not the > or the <

That kind of behavior is normally a plugin they added. Either turning off html code in post which was default I believe or adding a plugin that looks for the symbols as wrappers will cause that.

I host forums for a living so I know that's a possibility for the cause. But I cant say for sure since I don't host this one

crowz

Also I noticed the insta edited thing which is annoying since I normally reedit every post I make fixing errors from the crazy on the fly spell checker I use. It swaps out words on me sometimes so now it looks like I'm editing most of my post when I'm just fixing errors.

c4cruiser

The immediate "Edited" deal has been talked about in the Help section.

I can't understand why things like troubleshooting or testing is done in a "production" environment. If there is a problem, then there should be a test environment that is used only for things like that. Once a fix or an improvement is ready, it can be moved to the production side.

Tom400CFI

Good point. Never visited that section until today, through C4Cruiser's link. And there it is/was.

Sorry for the misplaced post.

Cliff Harris

The less than and greater than symbols are standard HTML codes. For example, to make some thing bold you put < b > in front of it and < /b > at the end (without the spaces). For italics, use < i > ... < /i >. You can <u>underline</u> too with < u > underline < /u >.

FOURSPEEDVETTE

Another thing changed is avatar spacing. My call name here is "FOURSPEEDVETTE". It used to be all in one line. Now it's divided up and looks terrible. I didn't change it. I've inquired twice about it to get it changed back but haven't gotten any respose.

RollaMo-LT4

Shows up on one line for me.

crowz

Its wrapping his name on my screen.

06_LT1

The issue with the angle brackets is not unique to this site, so I'm guessing it's an issue/feature with the VBulletin engine.

crowz

Its somewhat unique since I own a TON of vbulletin sites I went and tested it on one and the brackets worked just fine in every combo I could come up with. The brackets get removed here when they are parsed as wrapping around an item. A bracket used when not in a format that would be considered wrapped around a word or text isn't removed.

On the site I went to test with which doesn't have very many plugins installed ignored the brackets > and < completely.

06_LT1

Fair enough. The two sites I frequent regularly - this one and rennlist.com/forums - both have the same issue.

FOURSPEEDVETTE

Yes. That's the way I want it to be shown. I don't know who or what changed it.

RollaMo-LT4

I think it is your web browser.
Try a different computer, or at least a different web browser and see what it looks like.

These screen shots are from a different computer than yesterday.

Mac OS X using Firefox web browser:


Windows 7 using Firefox web browser:


Now look what happens when I use Internet Explorer!
Windows 7 with IE web browser:
Your user name is split


Looks like it is a web browser issue.
Try a different one and see what happens.

FOURSPEEDVETTE

Yep! That was the problem! Thanks RollaMo-LT4