Opera Problems Posting

RPM · Oct 22, 2001

The only other simple explanation I can think of is that Opera is not parsing the POST back to the server properly. It may occasionally get confused by the mark-up tags that TBN uses or some unusual combination of punctuation.

Next time it happens take a look and see if you were using any particular elements of the TBN mark-up tags OR punctuation that could have been badly handled by Opera.

Barring that, I would recommend that you do a 'View Source' on one of these reply forms and post the HTML on the Opera web-site for them to chew on. Must be some specific combination of issues.

Good luck with it!

Patrick

MikePA · Oct 22, 2001

The other IE/Opera difference I have noticed is that after a reload, IE will move the browser down to where you were whereas Opera takes you to the top of the page.

Harv · Oct 22, 2001

<font color=blue>confused by the mark-up tags that TBN uses</font color=blue>

My understanding is that the TBN mark-up tags are submitted as plain text and come back as standard HTML. Shouldn't be anything confusing either way. The screen shot MikePA posted does demonstrate that Opera has some shortcomings.

As a web developer myself (as are many of you out there), I can tell you that all browsers are deficient, or at least deviant, in one respect or another, making it a nightmare to create "perfect" web pages. Based on public usage, I use Muhammad's approach of catering first to IE, then Netscape and then pretty much hope for the best.

I'm a big supporter of industry standards. Too bad people like Mr. Gates believe that the only standard is the one they create. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Andyfr · Oct 22, 2001

Mike

When I refresh in Opera it stays where I am on the page. It could be something to do with how Opera is set up. In File...Preferences...Connections you can choose to identify the browser. Mine is set to Identify as MSIE 5.0. Is yours set to Mozilla?

Andrew.

MikePA · Oct 22, 2001

Mine is set to IE 5.0. Just to be clear...

If I am on the Discussions page, down at Forum Feedback and do a Refresh, I get sent back to the top of the Discussions page when I use Opera.

Andyfr · Oct 22, 2001

If I do the same I stay at the Forum Feedback down at the bottom. Weird eh?/w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Andrew.

Andyfr · Oct 22, 2001

Harv writes...

<font color=blue>I'm a big supporter of industry standards. Too bad people like Mr. Gates believe that the only standard is the one they create.</font color=blue>

I totally agree with you that industry standards should be set and adhered to. It needs a body outside of M$ to set the standard. It wouldn't be so bad if Microsoft set standards that worked.