I have had several people write in and say they are unable to finish the Add form on a MAC computer. Appearently the categories drop-down box won't work. Has this been brought up before and is there anything I can do to fix it?
Feb 20, 2002, 11:31 AM
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Feb 20, 2002, 11:31 AM
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I set up links using a Mac and that's all I view our site with. Sometimes we had problems with the forms and Netscape on a Mac in particular.
Basically you have to have very good HTML code with forms and Netscape, meaning that you can't have open <td> tags without a closed </td> tag, and that goes for everything. Doublecheck the code that's been generated and make sure that everything is closed </....>, especially in regards to form elements.
Bryan
Basically you have to have very good HTML code with forms and Netscape, meaning that you can't have open <td> tags without a closed </td> tag, and that goes for everything. Doublecheck the code that's been generated and make sure that everything is closed </....>, especially in regards to form elements.
Bryan
Mar 15, 2002, 11:14 PM
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Mar 15, 2002, 11:14 PM
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I have been on a mac forever also. It appears that large category menues on add do not work with Explorer 5.1 although the pull down menu does work with netscape 6.1
Sort of bounce between the two depending on what area of the site I am working on.
Sort of bounce between the two depending on what area of the site I am working on.
Sep 11, 2002, 8:06 AM
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Sep 11, 2002, 8:06 AM
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I'm having the same problem with netscape users. Using the select boxes on my "add-a-listing" form for categories, countries and states is a mess. All values are there in one big messed up box with no selection elements. Those users just can't add their listing and I end up inserting it manually 
I think it's not the code as such. I saved the HTML file and uploaded it as a static page (not one created by the CGI). When it's static HTML it works just fine on netscape 4.5 (which is the version I'm testing on).
The exact same code doesn't work when it's a "live" page.
Check out those two pages with netscape:
http://www.meowhoo.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://www.meowhoo.com/tmp/Meowhoot.htm - this is the exact same page, only saved as html and uploaded to be tested. I did this to run some online code checkers and that's how I found out it's working properly this way...
So, this is not a simple html code problem - all the table tags appear to be working properly.
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I think it's not the code as such. I saved the HTML file and uploaded it as a static page (not one created by the CGI). When it's static HTML it works just fine on netscape 4.5 (which is the version I'm testing on).
The exact same code doesn't work when it's a "live" page.
Check out those two pages with netscape:
http://www.meowhoo.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi
http://www.meowhoo.com/tmp/Meowhoot.htm - this is the exact same page, only saved as html and uploaded to be tested. I did this to run some online code checkers and that's how I found out it's working properly this way...
So, this is not a simple html code problem - all the table tags appear to be working properly.
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Sep 11, 2002, 1:37 PM
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Sep 11, 2002, 1:37 PM
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Hi,
Hmm, one difference is that the HTML is compressed on the CGI page, and uncompressed on the static page. Can you try and turn compress off and see if it makes a difference? Also try it without the utf-8 in the charset, as there are some weird things going on.
Cheers,
Alex
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Hmm, one difference is that the HTML is compressed on the CGI page, and uncompressed on the static page. Can you try and turn compress off and see if it makes a difference? Also try it without the utf-8 in the charset, as there are some weird things going on.
Cheers,
Alex
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Sep 11, 2002, 2:47 PM
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Sep 11, 2002, 2:47 PM
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Alex, sorry - have no idea how to do any of these... How do I uncompress what? and what's the utf-8 and how do I get rid of it?
I need the "for dummies" step by step version please!
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Sep 11, 2002, 2:53 PM
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Sep 11, 2002, 2:53 PM
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To turn off compression, go to Setup->Build Options and set compress to No. To remove the utf, look in your templates and take out the line that says:<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
Cheers,
Alex
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Cheers,
Alex
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Sep 12, 2002, 12:29 AM
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Sep 12, 2002, 12:29 AM
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nope - didn't do the trick...
I changed the compress option to "no" and took out the offending line in the "add.html" template (it doesn't show in the http://www.meowhoo.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi page code any longer).
Ran "build all" before I checked.
Still having the same problem
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I changed the compress option to "no" and took out the offending line in the "add.html" template (it doesn't show in the http://www.meowhoo.com/cgi-bin/links/add.cgi page code any longer).
Ran "build all" before I checked.
Still having the same problem
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