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Post by Forceflow » Mon Feb 28, 2011 8:07 am

Ace Antilles wrote:Couple of problems with the site menu:

Chat - Doesn't do anything
Every menu link except Forum and Tutorial show the Falcon in the top left corner of the frame. Not the bottom right

Same happens with every Screenshot or Progress page

Mhm... which browser are you using? 'cause it works fine on my side. As for the images, for whatever reason some hosts do not appear to work too nicely with phpBB. Though overall it is a better bet to actually upload the images via the attachment system anyways. (Since then they will actually always be there not matter what happens to the originals)

The chat link... yeah, that hasn't been working for a long time. I keep wanting to redesign the navbar, once I get to that I'll finally remove it I guess ;)
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Post by Ace Antilles » Mon Feb 28, 2011 9:27 am

Didn't even see the upload link! :shock:

IE8. I think it was the same in IE9 too.
It all works fine in Google Chrome.

But as IE is the default and most used browser then it should work in that primarily I think.
Also causes me problems in loading the menu nav bar too at times.
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Post by Forceflow » Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:32 am

Ace Antilles wrote:Didn't even see the upload link! :shock:

IE8. I think it was the same in IE9 too.
It all works fine in Google Chrome.
Ah, you've got to love IE, messing up webdesign since the early nineties...
Ace Antilles wrote: But as IE is the default and most used browser then it should work in that primarily I think.
Not really, Firefox surpassed IE in many countries and regions already. Good thing too since it's much better at interpreting HTML and CSS code.
Ace Antilles wrote: Also causes me problems in loading the menu nav bar too at times.
Could you define problems? I just checked with IE7, (don't have a newer version at work) and besides being painfully slow (I mean sure, PNG is only a standard since 1996, no reason to properly support it...) it worked okay.

Oh, and almost forgot, the background images should now be properly displayed. Apparently IE really wants to have a proper doctype:

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
Really not sure why this only affected the background image though. Could you please check that? (It does work with IE7, so I am guessing it'll work with IE8 as well)
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Post by Ace Antilles » Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:45 am

It all looks good now thanks Force.
And the menu problem was bizarrely caused by my Fave link. Made a new one and it fixed it. Weird.
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Post by Forceflow » Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:00 am

Ace Antilles wrote:It all looks good now thanks Force.
And the menu problem was bizarrely caused by my Fave link. Made a new one and it fixed it. Weird.
Mhm... that is indeed strange, glad it works now :)
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