[TheOtherOne]

Thank you.

[WIladyconservative]

FWIW, I use Netscape and haven't had the italics stick in the *on* position . . .

[Thinkin' Gal]

Looks like <em> is back to italians. My HTML editor uses <em> for italians. Imagine my initial horror when all those italians turned yellow.

[steveegg]

Thanks John. I almost fully traced it to imbedded tables stuck inside of a blockquote. For some reason, Netscape 4.7x was not closing the blockquote after the tables closed.

[sharktrager]

One question. Will the ability to hide categories return soon?

[Hank Rearden]

Using Netscape 4.7 here with Win98 and a Proxomitron filter for ads. I had italics stuck on as well, but figured you were just messing with font selections.

This thread and most others recently have been fine. I asked earlier about animated GIFs and you said they weren't affected by your changes - I may have seen a non-animated of that USA-shaped waving flag and assumed there was a problem. FYI and thanks.

[Salvation]

I have been having trouble posting articles. One was from Yahoo and the other was from Worldnetdaily.com.

It's no big deal; it just rattles my patience button when I do all the HTML and then I get a message that my connection with the server had been terminated.

This seems strange since I can still post replies both on the thread and private---so I must be connected to the server.

Any insight into what I may not be doing?

[LBGA]

Thanks for the reply on the Guild thread, John. I had solved the problem by uploading a style page... pretty neat capability!

That was the only thread I saw where italics got stuck, but a lot of stuff is put in at the start of the thread and so you might inspect the code on that thread to see why italics were stuck there.

I changed your sample style sheet from "FONT-STYLE: italic" to "FONT-STYLE: plain" and the italics disappeared. I am using Netscape 4.75 on a Mac.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

i cant get the EM HIGHLIGHTING to work is their a trick to it or am i just not holding my tongue right ?

[error99]

Why do I feel like you are using us as beta testers?
(grin)

[Benoit Baldwin]

How does one manage one's personal style sheet--i.e. edit or delete it--after uploading it?

[Jackie]

There is some odd problem with Netscape and italics...

John, the Netscape/italics oddity has ALWAYS been a problem -- it's not new. Netscape users have complained forever about italics being left on, but ONLY THEY can see them. Neither IE nor Netscape ever figured it out. :-)

[George W. Bush]

I wanted to ask for something on my own wish list. I wish these TEXTAREA's in the Post Reply form were bigger. Very few of us have 640x480 screens any more. How about a bigger one? Like 75 columns by 30 rows. Or maybe user-defined size?

Just put it on the wish list...

[Benoit Baldwin]

1. Auto HTML tag closer/tidier: Very Good Idea--should have been implemented years ago.
2. BLOCKQUOTE: Bad Idea--For the articles--I, and many others, do not need anyone's help formatting articles, thankyouverymuch. If you want Typographically Correct paragraph widths and margins, use the HTML template I devised. It is simply three nested tables, and looks the same in every browser from Netscape Navigator 3 to Internet Explorer 6. For the replies--BLOCKQUOTE is for BLOCKQUOTING, not for formatting/page layout. Until everyone is using a browser that supports at least CSS1 _100%_ to the specification, TABLES should and must be used for formatting and page layout.
   
3. Prohibition of STYLE: Very Bad Idea--An article's content should be preserved as much as possible when it is posted here. Preserving style was as simple as cutting and pasting from the original site's style sheet and changing all the CLASS elements to STYLE. Now this is impossible.
   
4. Personal style sheets: Very Very Bad Idea--if people want to view this site with their own style sheets, they can use their browsers to do this. Example under IE 5: Tools > Options > General > Accessibility > "Format documents using my style sheet"
5. Hijacking of EM: Very Very Very Bad Idea; the HTML specification is there for a reason.

If a poster is using HTML in a disruptive manner--ban them. Don't make it hard for those of us who Know What We Are Doing to Do Good Work.

Laissez-faire works.

Let it work.

[Brian Allen]

Thank you, John

[Feiny]

The real question is:

WHY ARE SO MANY THREADS DISAPPEARING?

I saw 2 threads disappear today that had to do with Bush, sr. & ties to Bin Laden. Then, the story (being scrolled on Foxnews) was pulled about the police rescue dog getting shot by 2 cops. What gives?

[Hoosier Patriot]

I certainly expect that in the course of your task, you will accommodate my browser.

--- Mosaic alpha 7.0 ---

Yes sir, just got this baby! Blows away Lynx for sure! Wowwwww..... look at all the pretty pictures! Man, this thing is gonna be HUGE! If it goes commercial, I'm gettin' in on the ground floor!

</bs>

Shucks, I thought you might need a chuckle.

[Clive]

The search facility no longer responds to keys such as source: or author:

This has been the case for many days.

To check whether an article has already been posted, I must now use my browser's own search facility.

What happened?

[xm177e2]

Can you tell us how to make all of the text people post blockquoted? That's the only way to get most of the effects with the CSS to apply only to the text people post and not the FR text (the buttons like [reply], etc.)

When the Preview button is right next to the "Post Reply," people might click on "Post" by accident, and that could lead to silly/incomplete posts or even offensive ones, if people accidentally post before they mean to.

[WalterSkinner]

FR continues to get better and better.