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[StringJunky]

Quoting is nigh on impossible.

[Daecon]

Quoting is nigh on impossible.

Are you sure something hasn't changed recently with whatever you're using to browse with? I'm using a Playstation Vita with JavaScript disabled and haven't noticed any problems today.

Edited August 12, 2016 by Daecon

[StringJunky]

Are you sure something hasn't changed recently with whatever you're using to browse with? I'm using a Playstation Vita with JavaScript disabled and haven't noticed any problems today.

I use two computers. Normally, I just work with the problems but this morning and yesterday I couldn't work with it. It's quoting the people who were quoting someone else as well and putting my own input into a quote box.

 

This what I left this morning after trying to fix it:

 

http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/96920-clocks-and-rulers/?p=937263\

Edited August 12, 2016 by StringJunky

[studiot]

I find the quote system cantankerous at best but one tip I have discovered

 

Write some text, any text you can always delete it later, before you invoke the quote function.

 

You can then come back, at any time, and paste into the quotes at will.

 

[StringJunky]

I find the quote system cantankerous at best but one tip I have discovered

 

Write some text, any text you can always delete it later, before you invoke the quote function.

 

You can then come back, at any time, and paste into the quotes at will.

 

I'll give it a whirl.

[studiot]

Where there's a will there's a whirl.

 

 

 

 

I'll give it a whirl.

[geordief]

Where there's a will there's a whirl.

 

 

Or even a twirl.

 

https://www.cadbury.ie/products/twirl-2364?p=2364

[StringJunky]

I was grinding teeth this morning. ;

[Daecon]

Ah, I guess I've just never made a post containing multiple or nested quotes before.

[StringJunky]

Ah, I guess I've just never made a post containing multiple or nested quotes before.

I tried getting rid of them but, as you saw, it just made it worse. The software made the nests, not me; I was only trying to make one normal quote

Edited August 13, 2016 by StringJunky

[Endy0816]

What did you try inorder to fix it the first time?

 

Suspect it is the editable html :/

 

Wouldn't be the first time it caused problems, have to dig into it though.

Edited August 13, 2016 by Endy0816

[StringJunky]

What did you try inorder to fix it the first time?

 

Suspect it is the editable html :/

 

Wouldn't be the first time it caused problems, have to dig into it though.

I click the button in the top left of the input box to quote most of the time. It doesn't work otherwise.

[Carrock]

When there is an imbalance between quote and \quote tags the post changes each time it's previewed.

Very easy to do with cut and paste of unformatted text.

 

Lokks like that's what happened with http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/96920-clocks-and-rulers/page-8#entry937263

[StringJunky]

When there is an imbalance between quote and \quote tags the post changes each time it's previewed.

Very easy to do with cut and paste of unformatted text.

 

Lokks like that's what happened with http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/96920-clocks-and-rulers/page-8#entry937263

Yeah, that's another one I did. It just seems to be random when I have to use quote tags or not. I'd rather not.

[Endy0816]

Okay... If it doesn't see anything else outside a quote box, then it will quote the quote box. Lines in the outermost quote(s) can be split at line ends(GUI).

Not sure what is going on with the unbalanced tags issue. What it reminds me of is the browser adding tags to fix bad HTML.

 

 

 

I click the button in the top left of the input box to quote most of the time. It doesn't work otherwise.

 

Are the quote buttons non-responsive, or something else?

Edited August 14, 2016 by Endy0816

[StringJunky]

Okay... If it doesn't see anything else outside a quote box, then it will quote the quote box. Lines in the outermost quote(s) can be split at line ends(GUI).

 

Not sure what is going on with the unbalanced tags issue. What it reminds me of is the browser adding tags to fix bad HTML.

 

 

 

 

Are the quote buttons non-responsive, or something else?

The quote button doesn't work sometimes, it just leaves a blank reply box. I then have to click the button top left (above the 'bold' button to use quote tags. It's working at the moment.

[Sensei]

I don't have issues with quoting. But here is 120 Mbps Internet.

I noticed that when Internet was tremendously lagging, quote on forum didn't work as expected.

After pressing "Quote" button there was long delay. And quote was empty.

Happened maybe twice in the entire everyday usage of this forum in the last 3 years since Oct 2013 when I joined.

 

It's plausible that forum is using jQuery/aJax that is asynchronously called.

If there is time-out (because of lagging Internet), no returned reply, but quote function cannot wait any longer, have to return activity to user/browser, and have to return empty text.

(just thinking out loud)

 

Instead of pressing "Quote" button you can simply enter on keyboard [ quote ] (copy'n'paste selected text) [ /quote ] (without spaces).

 

ps. You might also check your DNS. Perhaps somebody/hacker/spy intercepted it, and you're using one you should not be using.

 

ps2. Do you have personal firewall which is showing the all activity/packets send/received by machine?

 

ps3. Start > cmd [enter], enter "ping www.scienceforums.net" [enter] What time do you see? I have 43-45 mili seconds right now.

If you want more samples use "ping www.scienceforums.net -t". You will have to manually break it with ctrl-c.

(ping is using ICMP typically, but HTTP is on 80 TCP/IP)

 

ps4. Why forum does not use HTTPS SSL port 443? It should. For safety of members.

Edited August 15, 2016 by Sensei

[Endy0816]

Okay, was able to reproduce(and then some) in IE 11. I've tried changing different browser settings but haven't gotten anywhere so far.

[DrP]

I am fine at home - but here at work I can't even cut and paste into our reply window let alone quote people. The lack of quoting is fine by me, but not being able to cut and paste is a pain. I just assumed it was something to do with our network securities settings or something.

Edited August 16, 2016 by DrP

[StringJunky]

Okay, was able to reproduce(and then some) in IE 11. I've tried changing different browser settings but haven't gotten anywhere so far.

Thanks for trying to fix it.

[Phi for All]

I tried to edit someone else's post that got messed up in quotes, and I think part of the problem was that the person he was quoting was using different fonts, sizes, and emphases that may have confused the software. It placed three /quote tags at the end that were quite persistent.

[Endy0816]

Thanks for trying to fix it.

 

Welcome.

 

Can you try right clicking the quote button and opening the link in a new tab? Got that much to work here.

[StringJunky]

It's working ok at the moment... typical eh? Could it be a low download speed that causes it?

[Sensei]

It's working ok at the moment... typical eh? Could it be a low download speed that causes it?

It can be empirically verified.

Open couple web browser windows, and start downloading some large file on each of them.

In such case, I had malfunctioning quote, as mentioned in #17 post.

Edited August 17, 2016 by Sensei