How-To Geek

i just noticed that the post box was really small and not very centered. not really a problem but kinda wierd.

Here is another little problem: I like to use my Opera for the Forum, but I run into a little snag there. I posted the problem on the Opera Forum, but despite 53 viewings, nobody seems to know how to fix it. Anybody have an idea what that could be. Here is what I had posted on the Opera Forum:
"A Forum that I visit often (howtogeek.com) highlights all the threads that I have not yet looked at in blue. When I viewed the thread, it turns to black - at least that's how it works on IE. With Opera, it does not work. The threads stay blue. Am I missing a setting? Thanks for the answers."

Thank you for the advice. But there is no special setting at all. I tried all permutations without success. Must be something else. But don't worry. I can always stay with my good old IE. My Opera is plain vanilla. I never changed anything.

My Opera is 9.27

Sure enough, I see the same problem now as well.

Works fine in Opera 9.5, but not in 9.27. I also figured out the problem, just have to figure out the solution.

In opera the ?replies=x is missing on the end of the link for some reason. It's used to allow the browser to track which posts you've read, because if there's a new reply then the number is incremented and the browser knows that it hasn't been there, so it uses a different color for styling. Opera 9.27 seems to be triggering something that makes it not show up... I'm guessing there's something that opera does differently to make it not work right, but I'll have to trace through and figure it out.

9.5 is quite a lot better, I'd recommend it. I still need to fix the problem for other people, it'll just be a lower priority now =)

Higher priority is to fix the profile edit page... not sure what broke there, but I need to fix it.

Thanks Geek and jd. I got 9.5 and it works. I know it's a Beta but if it crashes I can always reinstall 9.27. This data processing is a drag! I wish I had become a gardener. Old Chinese proverb:
- If you want to happy for a week, slaughter a pig
- If you want to be happy for a year, marry a woman
- If you want to be happy a whole life, become a gardener

fyi, I think I've fixed the problem with the avatars jumping all around, as well as the scaling issues in FF2.

You might notice I've also added a Quick Links drop-down box for quick access to various functions from any page under the forum. It's a nice way to go directly from a topic to a different forum or view.

You must be one of the only people using that feature... I'm planning on doing some major upgrades to that whole feature, because I think it has a lot of potential.