September 1, 200619 yr Well, as you guys know, I am a Mac-user. Which mean I don't use IE, I use Safari. And for some strange reason, YC doesn't work for safari... Is that some that can be fixed?
September 1, 200619 yr Are you referring to the shoutbox? I've already had one member report it not working with Safari.
September 1, 200619 yr Author weel, both that and the rest of the forum... I can't press on a single link or thread... REALLY ANNOYING!
September 1, 200619 yr Which links can't you click? You must have been able to use at least some considering you just posted this thread. Anyway, it seems Safari does indeed have some major issues with the shoutbox, but this shouldn't spill over into the main forum. Later on I may create a Safari skin with the shoutbox disabled, but my advice for now is to try Camino: http://www.caminobrowser.org/ Or, Firefox, if they still do a version for Mac.
September 1, 200619 yr Author well, i'm using firefox now... but i don't like that idea of changing browser because of this problem...
September 1, 200619 yr If you described the problem a little better, maybe I could fix it, or find a workaround. What links can't you click in Safari? Is it always the whole page or mainly the shoutbox that's affected? Does it mess up immediately or after a few seconds?
September 3, 200619 yr Author Well, now on Safari most links are openable. I can't open the suggestions forum (so i'm using camino right now). Well, Safari tends to quit by itself after a certain period of time :S Well the main problem with safari, is the shoutbox, i can read what everybody is typing ut i can't type myself, maybe it is blocked?
September 3, 200619 yr Safari seems to have problems with AJAX, which is the technology powering things like the shoutbox and pager to make them feel like they are running in real time. Unfortunately there isn't a lot I can do about this. It's probably possible to find workarounds that will allow full functionality with Safari, but for one thing there would be a lot of code to fix, and for another I don't have a working copy of Safari to test on. So for now, I recommend using an alternative browser. By the way, are you able to use the other AJAX features on the forum in Safari, such as edit, quick reply etc.? And when you said you couldn't open the suggestions forum, did you mean that you clicked the link but nothing happened, or that the link wasn't there, or what? You need to be more specific.
September 3, 200619 yr Author yes i can use quick reply on safar, not really tested the edit function yett. But before, the older version. Both worked. The link was not there. The first main forum is not openable at all. You hover the mouse on the, what should be the linked text, but safari doesn't seem to respond. It seems donkey safri doesn't notice that there is a link there.
September 3, 200619 yr In that case, I suppose it's very possible that the shoutbox is simply less cross-browser compatible than the rest of vBulletin is, as unlike vBulletin itself, the shoutbox is an unsupported, unofficial third party add-on. I've actually just remembered that there's a brand new piece of software out which aims to port the Safari rendering engine to Windows. I might download that later and test the shoutbox out with it (can't download it now as their website appears to be down).
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