Annoying new "feature" of this forum input page

It may be just my machine but it only appears to happen on the forum post message/reply page.

I'll respond to a question and the entry page will come up, can select quote and the original question will appear as a quote. Start typing an answer and hit enter to get a new line and the message gets sent. Appears to happen randomly. Quite often if I mistype and hit backspace a couple of times its sends.

I have to believe it's something on the page that is running real slow and finally completes as I'm in the middle of typing.

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DougVZ1

OK, Lithium is telling us this was fixed with the latest forums upgrade this week. Please take a look and let me know if you still have the issue, as we have not been able to duplicate.

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eljefe2

What browser are you using? Have you tried a different one?

I'm using IE8 and for a while I was running this site in compatiblity mode. I'd see some funny behavor when trying to create a reply. Lately, though, the site seems to run OK without campatiblty mode and I haven't see those problems.

edit:

FWIW, I've never seen those particular problem you described. My issues were more that I'd type a sentence and then the page would stop responding. I'd have to sit there for a minute or two before I could resume typing. But, as I said above, it's not doing it any more.

prisaz

@viafax999 wrote:
It may be just my machine but it only appears to happen on the forum post message/reply page.
I'll respond to a question and the entry page will come up, can select quote and the original question will appear as a quote. Start typing an answer and hit enter to get a new line and the message gets sent. Appears to happen randomly. Quite often if I mistype and hit backspace a couple of times its sends.
I have to believe it's something on the page that is running real slow and finally completes as I'm in the middle of typing.

I have seen activity as described. The cursor does not always appear where it should and the post button seems to be active. I have to go back and forth clicking in the edit box for the cursor to show up. It gets strange at times.

Firefox 3.6.13

viafax999

@prisaz wrote:
@viafax999 wrote:
It may be just my machine but it only appears to happen on the forum post message/reply page.
I'll respond to a question and the entry page will come up, can select quote and the original question will appear as a quote. Start typing an answer and hit enter to get a new line and the message gets sent. Appears to happen randomly. Quite often if I mistype and hit backspace a couple of times its sends.
I have to believe it's something on the page that is running real slow and finally completes as I'm in the middle of typing.
I have seen activity as described. The cursor does not always appear where it should and the post button seems to be active. I have to go back and forth clicking in the edit box for the cursor to show up. It gets strange at times.
Firefox 3.6.13

Exactly what I'm seeing, IE8 with compat view

Just happened again

also Chrome

Started happening several weeks back and is intensely annoying. has happened on every response I've made so far this morning.

Would be nice if one of the development team looked at it.

eljefe2

Did you try IE8 with compatibility view off? That seemed to have fixed similar problems here.

bcarroll7

Thanks for letting us know. Prisaz, did you say you are also on IE8?

DougVZ1

OK, Lithium is telling us this was fixed with the latest forums upgrade this week. Please take a look and let me know if you still have the issue, as we have not been able to duplicate.

viafax999

@DougVZ wrote:
OK, Lithium is telling us this was fixed with the latest forums upgrade this week. Please take a look and let me know if you still have the issue, as we have not been able to duplicate.

OK that would explain why I haven't seen the effect in the last few days.

Yes, I would agree that the issue certainly appears to be resolved.

Thx vm