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    I noticed recently that I can no longer use my mouse to click and select a section of text when making a comment on my photos. Double clicking a word to select that (for italics, hyperlink, etc) works, but the click and drag to select will not work. Does not appear to be my computer - as it is happening on mulitple machines for me.

    Thanks!
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      CommentAuthorbsurprised
    • CommentTimeMar 11th 2008
     
    Hi
    I checked your problem and it seems that I don't have this issue on IE7 and on Firefox. What browser do you use?
    Thanks.
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      CommentAuthorjason (Admin)
    • CommentTimeMar 12th 2008
     
    Some other people have reported this on IE7 - strange that it is working for bsurprised. The stranger thing is that in theory, we have no control over dragging text in the browser. This is a browser function - we can only see what text has been highlighted. I don't know why the browser would all the sudden prevent dragging over text.
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      CommentAuthorhelen
    • CommentTimeMar 15th 2008
     
    Well this is happening to me as well. Amy also, because she mentioned it in a post a week or more ago. If cannot click and drag. If I double click the text to highlight it, I am not able to use the bold/light/italics buttons. I get the message telling me to highlight the text. This started happening after the recent upgrades. Conflict with the border code perhaps?
    • CommentAuthordobbino
    • CommentTimeMay 25th 2008
     
    I have the same problem and here is the work around: Basically one has to put the cursor at the beginning of the text, hold down the shift key, place the cursor at the end of the text, and then double click. This finally highlights the text. One can then click on the bold or italics or url options.
    • CommentAuthorandrewgould
    • CommentTimeJun 27th 2008 edited
     
    I too have been having this problem of not being able to highlight, copy, paste or use the bold button, etc., when posting in IE7, and have found it very inconvenient. I can do so in Firefox and Opera. Thanks so much to dobbino for coming up with this solution to the problem. I think it needs to be mentioned in the FAQ or somewhere else, as this is quite an annoying problem. I do use Firefox at times, but I find that each web browser has its idiosyncrasies, and no one is perfect for every use in my case, at least.

    By the way, I know that Jason has said that aminus3 has no control over this (and I don't doubt his knowledge of the subject and capability in this area), but surely this not being able to highlight in the normal, simple manner cannot apply to all forums on the Internet, where members make comments. If it did, IE7 would be considered quite useless. In the light of this, I'm wondering if there is really no other fix that aminus3 can come up with for the problem. If not, well OK.
    • CommentAuthorpaulski
    • CommentTimeJul 2nd 2008
     
    Andrew:

    I agree that this behavior is indeed unique to this site; I wonder if maybe it is not a CSS issue.

    Paul
    • CommentAuthorpaulski
    • CommentTimeJul 3rd 2008
     
    Aaron:

    Well, respectfully, while I understand the grass-roots support for browsers like Firefox, and agree that they are great products, IE7 is still the overall market share leader and, further, is a de facto standard on many corporate workstations. I'm not sure that suggesting the IE7 is not a "real browser" is particularly constructive.

    That said, I'll see if I can't begin to narrow down the issue when I get a chance.

    Paul
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    I can understand Aaron's frustrations with IE7, but unfortunately Firefox doesn't work perfectly for everything.. I have had personal experience of sites where dropdown menus that can be seen in IE7 are missing in Firefox, I also find, for example, that if I try to save a page from my favourite newspaper, that although the save dialogue box shows the article's title in IE7, with Firefox, a string. of numbers appears instead. It seems to come back to what Paul has said about IE7's popularity. Having said that, though, I will try using Firefox (or Opera) more for aminus3.
    • CommentAuthorandrewgould
    • CommentTimeJul 5th 2008 edited
     
    Thanks, Aaron. I do see your point of view on this. And yes, I could get in touch with them, but I can see that I'll still have to have IE handy until the day comes that they catch up with the standards.
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      CommentAuthorshuva (Admin)
    • CommentTimeJul 8th 2008
     
    On the comment "IE 7 ...is a de facto standard on many corporate workstations".

    The reason why it is common in the corporate world is because many corporates have a strict policy of not allowing any additional software to be installed by the user other than what their IT team approves. Over the years this has made many MS certified web developers to use MS technologies to develop many corporate web solutions. Its almost impossible to convince an IT dept head to approve Firefox because it becomes a redundant software that his team needs to support. The big advantage for corporates with IE is that it comes along with the OS.

    IE has despite its non-conformance has occupied so much space that it becomes an overhead for law-abiding (standard abiding) designers to make sure their site works on IE.

    Most of my IE use nowadays are testing new features that Aaron develops for Aminus3. Otherwise I hardly use IE out of work. At office I have found a work around for opening most IE only web pages from Firefox 3. Read my blog entry here on how to do that.
    • CommentAuthorpaulski
    • CommentTimeJul 9th 2008
     
    Shuva:

    I certainly didn't say IE7 DESERVED this position, but as you know, IE7 compatability is a necessary evil. And it IS a real browser, though maybe not a really compliant one...

    Paul

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