Problem sending message with Firefox

[JeanPierre]

With Firefox 1.0.1 (FR) the button Send (Envoyer) doesn't work to send messages. I don't know if it is a Firefox problem or a board problem. It used to work. I'm currently using MSIE to send this message.

[Molly K]

Jean-Pierre Drolet -

I installed Firefox on my machine today (version 1.0.2) in an attempt to reproduce the problem you were having posting messages. Can you be more specific about what happens when you try to post? Do you get error messages? Does it do anything? Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

Thanks,

[Johnner]

M,

No such problem here with 1.0, 1.0.1, or 1.0.2 (English) in recent months under XP, and I pretty much only use FireFox with the forums. I think I was slightly confused by JPD's description of things, but neither the "Submit Post" button nor any other basic form elements have presented any problems for me. Sorry I didn't chime in sooner, but I figured maybe one of the other French speakers would check it out.

I'm still a little confused about why JPD's button says "Envoyer," since I thought forum-specific localization elements would only kick in if a user navigated to a non-English forum. Maybe Mssr. Drolet has some clarifying remarks for us poor English-speakers?

--John

[Molly K]

Johnner -

Actually, the user interface of the forums can be translated into one of the languages the forums support if your NI User Profile is configured with that language (www.ni.com/profile). The supported languages are currently Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Korean, and Japanese. You can temporarily configure your forum profile to display the community in one of these languages if you change your forum profile preferences. The next time you login though, your settings will be changed back to your NI User Profile language selection.

For those of us who have English (or any other language not listed above) in our NI User Profile, we see the default language per board in the forums. This is why when we go to the French board the UI is in French, but everywhere else it's in English (currently).

Are any of the other French users able to reproduce the issue that Jean-Pierre Drolet is seeing with Firefox?

Thanks!

[JeanPierre]

Molly,

it happens both at work (WinXP, Ffox 1.0.2 FR) and home (Win98, Ffox 1.0 FR).
When I click Envoyer (Submit Post) nothing happens. The cursor changes to a hand on mouseover but the button has no effect. The status bar says Done immediatly.

I tried to switch to English and clear my cookies with no effect. I know it worked not so long ago. I use and enjoy Firefox for months now.

Fortunately, I use the Firefox extension IEview that allows to open the reply page in MSIE on a simple right click.

[Conseils]

I use firefox on Windows 2K(SP4+++++patches) and Windows XP(SP2+++++patches) both at home and work, on a total of 4 computers.

For proof this message is sent using Firefox.. lots of developer extensions installed as well.

The vast majority of my other posts are done using firefox as well.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

I do have some issues with firefox, such as Macromedia shockwave active content has never worked. But it has been a very stable platform to work on and certainly does not suffer from the random exits that IE did.

There is no link shown on the 'Submit Post' button although this is actually what existed on the Submit post button for this message: -
'http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/post?board.id=130&message.reply_to_id=1038'
The HTML indicates that the text is of type 'class=button'
''
value='Submit Post' onclick='submitPost();'

.button is defined as: -
.button { color: #FFFFFF; background-color: #065FA3; font: bold 9pt Geneva,Arial,sans-serif; border: solid thin #FFFFFF; cursor: pointer; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; margin: 2px; }

the onclick for this runs submitPost();
function submitPost() {
doSubmit();
document.forms.post.submit();
}

function doSubmit() {
var body;
body = document.post["message.body"].value;
var tagPos = body.indexOf(" while (tagPos >= 0) {
if (body.charAt(tagPos + 39) == ">") {
body = body.substring(0,tagPos) + body.substr(tagPos + 40);
tagPos = body.indexOf(" } else {
tagPos = body.indexOf(" }
}
document.post["message.body"].value = body;
}



Well that was good ....... but I am not sure where it leaves you.... 😞

I have found that if the temporary web page storage is dodgy then strange things happen on web pages similar to your problem. I normally recommend; clear the browser cache, delete all temporary files, a good low level disk surface scan, followed by a good couple of defrags and if that doesn't work flatten the hard disk and start again.

Problem is it seems you have the same problem on multiple platforms. The only common feature at first glance appears to be locale variant. Perhaps you could try the US variant as an absolute last resort?

Message Edited by Conseils on 04-19-2005 08:24 PM

[JeanPierre]

I have changed both my NI profile and Forum profile to English and used Firefox 1.0.4 English and the problem still occurs.
I attach the errors shown in the Javascript console. It is surely related to javascript since the buttons "Submit Post", "Macros" and "Quote Post" are ineffective.

[Conseils]

The error message would seem to confirm a problem with Javascript somehow.

I would down size the cache (5 Mega bytes), clear it, empty all other browser caches, empty the recycle bin an defrag the disk untill the analysis becomes all blue and perhaps even a low level disk scan.

The Javascript concerned is loaded with the 'Reply to Message' page that you use t reply to a message and occurs just after the 'You may include a limited set of HTML in your messages.' text.

After this comes another included file... for the spell checking.

Interestingly all this javascript code is contained within the

tag and I beleieve that the normal place for Javascript code is within the

tags. Still it works........ even if it runs against the grain so to speak.

Now my point about the cache is that if you have a cache problem or crosslinked files, that spell check javascript module file that has just attempted to be downloaded could be having problems with another file and junking the javascript environment closing it prematurely for example or leaving some string constants unterminated etc.

I hope this works...

As you have never seen them; the bits are below taken from this post......

[Conseils]

I can tell you one thing for certain........

I can't edit or reply to the post I made with the javascript elements in them..........
Now that's bad......

Windows XP SP2, Firefox 1.4 and a French keyboard........

[JeanPierre]

The problem occcurs on three computers (1 Win98 + 2 WinXP). Do you expect me to reformat all of them just in case it would allow me to correctly access with Firefox a single page of the Internet?