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post #1 of 29
9/20/10 at 7:37am
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We rolled out some new features with our last update this past week.  Updates include:

  • Home page updates: The most recent reviews and other site content are now above the activity feed on the main page.
  • You can now subscribe to an entire forum area or a specific forum within an area, and there is an RSS feed for every forum area and forum.
  • The number of choices for polls was increased.
  • Various style tweaks to buttons and other site elements allowed us to remove some unnecessary white space.
  • New For Sale forums where created.  These areas have built in feedback, make it easier to contact the seller and allow you to sort by transaction type.  Existing posts in the for sale area are not compatible with the new areas, so they were moved to an archive area: http://www.hometheaterforum.com/forum/list/4 Any existing post in the archive area can be accessed and replied to, but no new ones can be created.  Please use the new for sale areas for any new listings.
  • Bug Fix: The zoom button on product images now works properly.
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post #2 of 29
9/21/10 at 11:29am

Auto-parsing of smilies is acting weird. It's posting visible code.

<img src=" vbsmilies="" width="" www.hometheaterforum.com="" />" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title=":)" vbsmilies="" width="" www.hometheaterforum.com="" />" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title="" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title=":)" width="" />" width="" />" width="" /> (I typed the emoticon)

(inserted from menu)

 

I typed an emoticon, then submitted. Did an edit, then submit. ON a second edit, it produced the above code. It's erratic, but seems connected to the Edit function.

 

It's also recursive. Since the code produces an emoticon or a smiley graphic, a subsequent edit seems to do a round trip through the parser which then expands the code in the code. This is my third edit and it keeps getting larger. I'll stop now before it consumes the planet.

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post #3 of 29
9/21/10 at 12:17pm

Adam is away for a few days.

 

This must be browser-specific, because I'm seeing it in some posts, but not others. I use IE8, and it hasn't affected any of my posts. Remind me what browser you use, and I'll file a bug report.

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post #4 of 29
9/21/10 at 12:20pm

I've been seeing it on Firefox. 

 

(I'm still on 3.09 or some such...got sick and tired of all the updating and turned it off.)

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post #5 of 29
9/21/10 at 12:30pm

Report submitted, with a link to this thread.

 

(See also post # 16 below.)


Edited by Michael Reuben - 9/23/10 at 7:18am
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post #6 of 29
9/21/10 at 2:27pm

nt

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post #7 of 29
9/21/10 at 2:28pm

Trying Firefox OS X

" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title=":)" width="" />

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post #8 of 29
9/21/10 at 2:29pm

Trying Safari 5.0 OS X

" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title=":)" width="" />

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post #9 of 29
9/21/10 at 2:31pm

I've reproduced it on:

OS X with Chrome, Safari, FF

WinXP with FF

 

Steps:

New Post

Type colon-parenthesis

Submit

Edit

Submit

Smiley gets mangled after round-trip through editing

 

I'll throw in a diagnosis for free :)

The code does a text-find for colon-parenthesis pairs and replaces them with HTML code for the smiley icon. However, when the post is edited, the source code, which contains a text-smiley in the Title section of the HTML code, is itself run through the text-find-replace code and HTML code embedded in there. Each subsequent edit expands this glitch. The solution will be to have the parser operate not on the HTML code but on the "visible" text instead.

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post #10 of 29
9/21/10 at 4:18pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveF View Post

I've reproduced it on:

OS X with Chrome, Safari, FF

WinXP with FF

 

Steps:

New Post

Type colon-parenthesis

Submit

Edit

Submit

Smiley gets mangled after round-trip through editing

 

I'll throw in a diagnosis for free " class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title=":)" width="" />

The code does a text-find for colon-parenthesis pairs and replaces them with HTML code for the smiley icon. However, when the post is edited, the source code, which contains a text-smiley in the Title section of the HTML code, is itself run through the text-find-replace code and HTML code embedded in there. Each subsequent edit expands this glitch. The solution will be to have the parser operate not on the HTML code but on the "visible" text instead.

 

 

Show off!  

 

I like the new forum changes, on the home page. Starting to look nice around here.
 

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post #11 of 29
9/22/10 at 5:50am

Can we have the Activity Feed (perhaps optionally via user pref) moved from the bottom of the home page to the top of the right panel where the PM listing currently resides (and maybe replace that static PM listing w/ a dynamic popup or some such instead)?  Yeah, you'd have to tweak the Feed presentation some in order to fit it into the narrower right panel, but I'd think it should be doable (and be much better than leaving it at the bottom like now).

 

I suggested this in greater detail in the other thread that's focused on this issue, but not sure if anyone noticed there.

 

_Man_

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post #12 of 29
9/22/10 at 6:07am

Doh!  Why am I getting this Playtex ad on this page?

 

HTF Playtex Flash Ad.JPG

 

 

http://spe.atdmt.com/ds/PXPVMENERPLX/playtex_300x250_Redplum.swf?ver=1&clickTag1=http://ads.specificmedia.com/click/v=5;m=2;l=11536;c=105549;b=628722;p=ui%3Db4NdFVU2Xc-79C%3Btr%3DMrHdNDWricD%3Btm%3D0-0;ts=20100922085858;dct=http://clk.atdmt.com/go/259225254/direct;ai.182471826;ct.1/01&clickTag=http://ads.specificmedia.com/click/v=5;m=2;l=11536;c=105549;b=628722;p=ui%3Db4NdFVU2Xc-79C%3Btr%3DMrHdNDWricD%3Btm%3D0-0;ts=20100922085858;dct=http://clk.atdmt.com/go/259225254/direct;ai.182471826;ct.1/01

 

http://ec.atdmt.com/ds/PXPVMENERPLX/playtex_300x250_Redplum.swf?ver=1&clickTag1=http://ads.specificmedia.com/click/v=5;m=2;l=11536;c=105549;b=628722;p=ui%3Db4NdFVU2Xc-79C%3Btr%3DK1YqIjseVgH%3Btm%3D0-0;ts=20100922085824;dct=http://clk.atdmt.com/go/259225254/direct;ai.182471826;ct.1/01&clickTag=http://ads.specificmedia.com/click/v=5;m=2;l=11536;c=105549;b=628722;p=ui%3Db4NdFVU2Xc-79C%3Btr%3DK1YqIjseVgH%3Btm%3D0-0;ts=20100922085824;dct=http://clk.atdmt.com/go/259225254/direct;ai.182471826;ct.1/01

 

http://spe.atdmt.com/ds/PXPVMENERPLX/playtex_300x250_Redplum.swf?ver=1&clickTag1=http://ads.specificmedia.com/click/v=5;m=2;l=11536;c=105549;b=628722;p=ui%3Db4NdFVU2Xc-79C%3Btr%3DNWwLhZ39rTC%3Btm%3D0-0;ts=20100922085824;dct=http://clk.atdmt.com/go/259225254/direct;ai.182471826;ct.1/01&clickTag=http://ads.specificmedia.com/click/v=5;m=2;l=11536;c=105549;b=628722;p=ui%3Db4NdFVU2Xc-79C%3Btr%3DNWwLhZ39rTC%3Btm%3D0-0;ts=20100922085824;dct=http://clk.atdmt.com/go/259225254/direct;ai.182471826;ct.1/01

 

_Man_

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post #13 of 29
9/22/10 at 8:03am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Man-Fai Wong View Post

Can we have the Activity Feed (perhaps optionally via user pref) moved from the bottom of the home page to the top of the right panel where the PM listing currently resides (and maybe replace that static PM listing w/ a dynamic popup or some such instead)?  Yeah, you'd have to tweak the Feed presentation some in order to fit it into the narrower right panel, but I'd think it should be doable (and be much better than leaving it at the bottom like now).

 

I suggested this in greater detail in the other thread that's focused on this issue, but not sure if anyone noticed there.


You'll get an answer from Adam soon, Man.  The big HTF guns are off at Cedia right now. 

 

I think it's an interesting idea...but I'm kinda hoping we can have a page that's dedicated (useful to) the HTF members--kinda like that potential re-working of the My Profile page. 

 

As for the ad...well you know how good internet marketers are these days at targeting their audience... 

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post #14 of 29
9/22/10 at 9:34am

 

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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon View Post


You'll get an answer from Adam soon, Man.  The big HTF guns are off at Cedia right now. 

 

I think it's an interesting idea...but I'm kinda hoping we can have a page that's dedicated (useful to) the HTF members--kinda like that potential re-working of the My Profile page. 

 

 

Ah...  ok.  Hadn't realized they're all off to Cedia (although I thought Adam did follow up on certain other posts in that other thread).

 

FWIW, my suggestion was definitely not meant to replace the idea of a separate dedicate page for something more substantial, but simply something that would both address this current issue for those who'd still want to use the Home page *and* to further enhance the overall experience of the site, eg. if it's in the right panel, then it can show up pretty much anywhere (in the right panel) on the site, not just the Home page.

 

For myself, I think sprucing up the Home page w/ some of these changes is probably a good idea, but not enough thought seems to have been put into making sure that access to important existing functionality (like the Activity Feed) would not be substantively downgraded.

 

As for the ad...well you know how good internet marketers are these days at targeting their audience... 


Haha...  I wonder if my company's WAN gateway isn't confusing their marketing software.  AFAIK, Thomson Reuters is an equal opportunity employer afterall.  Then again, my gender classification seems to have confused certain parties in the company (for years now) too so that I keep getting these corporate emails inviting me to some sort of in-house(?) Women-in-the-corporate-world interest group.

 

You'd think w/ a name like "Man" they'd only ever confuse me for the male gender, not female -- even though the Chinese character (for this Hong Kong transliteration) is actually more commonly used for female names.  

 

_Man_

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post #15 of 29
9/22/10 at 10:06am

Don't get me wrong.  Adam's around and checking in...just not as hard-core as when he's not immersed in an event like Cedia. 

 

I am such a creature of habit that I would love to see some sort of compromise worked out for the Home Page in terns of "attractive information for guests" alongside "functional information for members."  Your proposal may help accomplish that.

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post #16 of 29
9/23/10 at 7:05am
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveF View Post

Auto-parsing of smilies is acting weird. It's posting visible code.

<img src=" vbsmilies="" width="" www.hometheaterforum.com="" />" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title="<img src=" vbsmilies="" width="" www.hometheaterforum.com="" />" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title=":)" vbsmilies="" width="" www.hometheaterforum.com="" />" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title="" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title=":)" width="" />" width="" />" width="" />" width="" /> (I typed the emoticon)

(inserted from menu)

 

I typed an emoticon, then submitted. Did an edit, then submit. ON a second edit, it produced the above code. It's erratic, but seems connected to the Edit function.

 

It's also recursive. Since the code produces an emoticon or a smiley graphic, a subsequent edit seems to do a round trip through the parser which then expands the code in the code. This is my third edit and it keeps getting larger. I'll stop now before it consumes the planet.


I'm seeing this all over the forum.

 

HERE'S another example.  I'm using FF 3.6.10 on XP.

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post #17 of 29
9/23/10 at 7:20am

Mike, since you too are using FF, is it happening in your posts as well? (Apparently it doesn't happen until you edit a post.) If so, please submit an additional bug report. Additional reporting will bump up the priority -- plus, you'll be in a better position to report steps to reproduce the bug.

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post #18 of 29
9/23/10 at 8:42am

I will check. 

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post #19 of 29
9/23/10 at 8:43am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Frezon View Post

I will check. 


Test #1  Just a quote of my prior post. 

 

 

Test #2  Everything looked fine up until now.  Let's see if making this "Test #2" edit changes the look of those perfectly normal smilie happy faces.

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post #20 of 29
9/23/10 at 8:47am


 

Quote:
Originally Posted by Man-Fai Wong View Post

 


Haha...  I wonder if my company's WAN gateway isn't confusing their marketing software.  AFAIK, Thomson Reuters is an equal opportunity employer afterall.  Then again, my gender classification seems to have confused certain parties in the company (for years now) too so that I keep getting these corporate emails inviting me to some sort of in-house(?) Women-in-the-corporate-world interest group.

 

You'd think w/ a name like "Man" they'd only ever confuse me for the male gender, not female -- even though the Chinese character (for this Hong Kong transliteration) is actually more commonly used for female names.  

 

_Man_


I can't seem to reproduce it right now...        

 

I am now editing the post (in which I quoted Man's smilies) and don't seem to be getting the code issue with the smilies.   

 

 

:)" vbsmilies="" width="" www.hometheaterforum.com="" />" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title="" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title=":)" width="" />" width="" />

 

 

" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smiley_wink.gif" title=";)" width="" />

 

 

Oh.  Okay.  I got it.  D'0h!  I didn't realize it was only happening with smilies that were created with text.  The last two smilies were created that way.  Edit the post and the code appears.  I'll submit the bug report right away.

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post #21 of 29
9/23/10 at 9:00am

Mike,

You have to type it, not insert it from the smiley window, in case you're doing that.

 

:)" vbsmilies="" width="" www.hometheaterforum.com="" />" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title="" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title=":)" width="" />" width="" />

 

Yep. FF on Win XP, does it.

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post #22 of 29
9/23/10 at 9:02am
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveF View Post

Mike,

You have to type it, not insert it from the smiley window, in case you're doing that.

 

<img src=" vbsmilies="" width="" www.hometheaterforum.com="" />" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title="<img src=" vbsmilies="" width="" www.hometheaterforum.com="" />" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title=":)" vbsmilies="" width="" www.hometheaterforum.com="" />" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title="" class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title=":)" width="" />" width="" />" width="" />" width="" />

 

Yep. FF on Win XP, does it.


Yup, Dave.  I don't think my morning caffeine ever took hold this morning. 

 

But, I finally figured it out.  " class="bbcode_smiley" height="" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title=":)" width="" />

 

The bug has been reported...again.

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post #23 of 29
9/23/10 at 9:04am

IE8 on WinXP

" class="bbcode_smiley" height="1" src="http://www.hometheaterforum.com/img/vbsmilies/htf//smile.gif" title=":)" width="1" />

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post #24 of 29
9/23/10 at 11:28am
Thread Starter 

 OK I tried sending this yesterday, but was out of range by the time I hit submit....

Quote:
 Adam's around and checking in...just not as hard-core as when he's not immersed in an event like Cedia. 

 Actually I'm with the family on a cruise and have a bit of a cellular signal tonight but not sure for how long so I'll be brief.

 

Dave: It looks like Michael took care of opening a ticket for you Dave.  Thanks.  I know we have been planning on incorporating integrated smiley support--it looks like some code snuck in there a bit early. 

 

Man: As to putting the activity feed in the PM area or white space thats something that Ron, Parker, Huddler and I would have to talk about.  I don't want to say no, but realistically its low on the priority list behind things like mobile support.  Look in the other thread for info about the subscription page links which you would probably like a bit more.

 

Rick: Thanks we have been working hard.

 

Mike: I am trying not to hang around.  On the Home Theater front I did go see the Goonies house today and go to the Goonies jail.  We will be talking more about the home page in the coming weeks.....

 

Will be offline until Friday afternoon....

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post #25 of 29
9/23/10 at 12:44pm
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Originally Posted by Adam Gregorich View Post

 

 Actually I'm with the family on a cruise and have a bit of a cellular signal tonight but not sure for how long so I'll be brief.

 

Eeek!  Sorry to have "mis-remembered" what you were up to, Adam.  Now that you mention it...it all comes rushing back! 

 

Hope you and family are having a great time!

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post #26 of 29
9/24/10 at 3:20am

 

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adam Gregorich View Post

 

Man: As to putting the activity feed in the PM area or white space thats something that Ron, Parker, Huddler and I would have to talk about.  I don't want to say no, but realistically its low on the priority list behind things like mobile support.  Look in the other thread for info about the subscription page links which you would probably like a bit more.

 

Yeah, that's probably what I'll end up doing after hitting the Home page once for the day -- then again, since just about all the featured content there will probably show up in the forums anyway, I may end up completely skipping it instead.  I figured though that you'd want a better solution in the long run to keep more regulars going to the Home page instead of directly to the subscriptions page.

 

_Man_

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post #27 of 29
10/17/10 at 10:20am

Hey guys,

 

I just got around to realizing I should post a comment here about something I've noticed happen on the HTF. I found this thread about a recent update to the forum and I think it coincides with a change I noticed in function.

 

When I get an email update that someone posted a reply to a thread I am subscribed to, I can click on the link and the browser opens a new page and takes me to the thread. But unlike before where it takes me to the first unread post, it now only takes me to the last page of that thread. I have to click on "read first unread post" to get there.

 

I am using Safari on a Mac G5. Runing OS X 10.4.11 and Safari is version 4.0.3. The same happens on my Macbook Pro running OS X 10.5.8 running Safari 5.0. And also on my iPad! 

 

I am not running Firefox all the time. But for the sake of this post, I tested Firefox where I got my email via a browser and clicked on the email link to the thread. It did take me to the last post on that thread.

 

So Firefox works, Safari is not there yet. This must be a known problem and you're going to address it?

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post #28 of 29
10/19/10 at 12:18pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nelson Au View Post

Hey guys,

 

I just got around to realizing I should post a comment here about something I've noticed happen on the HTF. I found this thread about a recent update to the forum and I think it coincides with a change I noticed in function.

 

When I get an email update that someone posted a reply to a thread I am subscribed to, I can click on the link and the browser opens a new page and takes me to the thread. But unlike before where it takes me to the first unread post, it now only takes me to the last page of that thread. I have to click on "read first unread post" to get there.

 

I am using Safari on a Mac G5. Runing OS X 10.4.11 and Safari is version 4.0.3. The same happens on my Macbook Pro running OS X 10.5.8 running Safari 5.0. And also on my iPad! 

 

I am not running Firefox all the time. But for the sake of this post, I tested Firefox where I got my email via a browser and clicked on the email link to the thread. It did take me to the last post on that thread.

 

So Firefox works, Safari is not there yet. This must be a known problem and you're going to address it?


Nelson, I'm doing some digging on this.  Currently notification emails are taking me to the most recent post of any subscribed thread.  That is the way it originally worked, but I thought we changed it a few months ago to link to the first unread post (which isn't happening now).
 

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post #29 of 29
10/19/10 at 1:31pm

Thanks Adam!

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