Question

When i type in the reply box; my screen hops around like little mexican jumping beans..... l.......i.........k........e..........t........r.........y....i....n......g....t.....o.......t.y......p....e.......l......i..k....e.....t..h.....i.....s

Answer 1

Hmm... Really? What browser?

Answer 2

IE of course lol

Answer 3

Still strange, we tried out the new reply stuff in IE. 7 or 8?

Answer 4

That's weird. Mine has done it a few times in the last few minutes as well. I'm using IE8.

Answer 5

IE8

Answer 6

So strange. I just tried it on our Windows VM, which is also running XP with IE8, and it's working fine...

Answer 7

Does it happen on longer posts, perhaps?

Answer 8

the reply box will only show the last 2 lines of text and with my propensity to typo; i try to go back and fix things but where my cursor is doesnt show in the reply box, just the last two lines or so...

and yes; londer posts are a major bogg on the system

Answer 9

kick it

Answer 10

Ah, actually, I do know about that bug, unfortunately. IE in particular insists on scrolling the text box back down to the bottom when you are not typing at the very end.

Answer 11

Mine's fine now, it only did it for a few minutes, mainly while on the immature post. (LOL) I hope you can get yours working properly amistre. :)

Answer 12

at the moment as i type the computer is trying to feed it out of the keyboard buffer and its going slow across the screen...

Answer 13

and get a new one : )

Answer 14

thnx MsC :)

Answer 15

Yeah, there's not much we can do about IE's abysmal Javascript performance, unfortunately.

Answer 16

You're welcome. I'm having the same problem with the script. LOL It makes me feel like I'm typing too fast for my computer's brain to keep up. :/

Answer 17

exactly :) and at 40wpm i dont think thats the issue lol

Answer 18

Eh. Had to ipban those bastards.

Yeah, that sucks :( I actually have to look and see if there's any way that we can speed up typing specifically in IE. There's one thing we may be doing that's causing more trouble than it's worth at the moment.

Answer 19

i wonder if i can cash in my medals for a system that openstudy is a breeze on ;)

Answer 20

The jumping will be much more interesting hehe.

Answer 21

I mean, the upside is, it no longer sucks to use equations because the preview doesn't jump anymore, and in everything *except* IE, neither does the text box :p

Answer 22

Shadow, thank you for getting rid of them, and it looks like I'll be downloading Firefox, unless you can suggest something better. :)

Answer 23

Firefox or Chrome should both do fine. Firefox 4, the latest version, may be having some issues with math rendering, if I remember correctly, but we'll be switching to the latest version of our math library soon and that should take care of it, I hope.

Answer 24

i was using my laptop the other day and the font, after like 5 hours of replies went wierd...very tiny and no format to it...

Answer 25

Cool, thanks. :)

Answer 26

Are there people who still use IE? :P

Answer 27

lol... your lucky i got rid of my commodore 64 :)

Answer 28

Whoa. Really? That's a funky one. I'm guessing that *wasn't* IE that time? Maybe you accidentally zoomed the page?

Answer 29

Medal for mentioning a commodore 64 :D

Answer 30

nope; tried refresh and everything, the font just got defunked lol

Answer 31

what do i get for mentioning my apple IIe :)

Answer 32

If I hadn't built the system to let me give you just one medal, you'd get another :D

Answer 33

Well, if you accidentally zoomed you'd just have to Ctrl-0 or Ctrl-1 depending on the browser.

Answer 34

ive tried emptying my cache; but there are like a few hundred cookies or so that wont delete... any clue as to what thats about?

Answer 35

Wait, so your font is still screwed up?

Answer 36

yeah, i zoom sometimes; my fat fingers hit the ctrl instead of shift when going to the =+ key :)....oh and my internet speed is 3.1Mbs. and there is no live preview of.... ok, it just popped uo lol

Answer 37

BOOM!

The live preview is actually entirely client-side, so internet speed is irrelevant :)

Answer 38

the font was fine the next day; havent had an issue with it since; but the school computers never render the font, or the format...

Answer 39

Hmmmmmmm.... Screenshot? :)

Answer 40

ill get one monday; at home at the moment...and i finished typing this reply like 40 secs ago lol

Answer 41

:( That's rather sad to hear. I'll have a look.

Answer 42

my gut tells me that its something in the client side thats bogging me down

Answer 43

Not unlikely at all. Again, IE is abysmally slow in many things, including DOM manipulation, which is what previews, fading, and posting are all about.

Answer 44

thanx for the ear :) hope you can iron some of these issues out :)

Answer 45

Yepper, we'll keep working on it!