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Title: IE 8 and trouble posting on the forum
Post by: Duke Nukum on July 05, 2009, 04:15:56 PM
I updated to IE 8 today and I am having trouble with posting on messages that scroll.  The message keeps scrolling back to the start of the scroll except for when I type a letter it shows where the cursor actually is but then it jumps back to the bottom of the scroll.

Anybody else having this issue?
Title: Re: IE 8 and trouble posting on the forum
Post by: DixieBelle on July 05, 2009, 04:35:01 PM
Hmm....i haven't run across that one yet. Maybe one of the other guys can enlighten?
Title: Re: IE 8 and trouble posting on the forum
Post by: rich_t on July 05, 2009, 04:49:31 PM
I tried IE 8 a few weeks ago.

I had all sorts of problems with it.

I rolled back to IE 7.
Title: Re: IE 8 and trouble posting on the forum
Post by: thundley4 on July 05, 2009, 04:58:25 PM
I updated to IE 8 today and I am having trouble with posting on messages that scroll.  The message keeps scrolling back to the start of the scroll except for when I type a letter it shows where the cursor actually is but then it jumps back to the bottom of the scroll.

Anybody else having this issue?

I don't understand about posting and scrolling.  Is that similar to the shoutbox on here?
Title: Re: IE 8 and trouble posting on the forum
Post by: Duke Nukum on July 05, 2009, 05:24:35 PM
I don't understand about posting and scrolling.  Is that similar to the shoutbox on here?
No, it is weird and hard to explain but as I'm typing if I start to get a scrollbar then as I go past the point of scrolling it keeps going to the last line.

I think I am just going to roll back to IE 7 and would have already but I had to reboot to get some IE8 update off first.
Title: Re: IE 8 and trouble posting on the forum
Post by: MrsSmith on July 05, 2009, 05:41:35 PM
No, it is weird and hard to explain but as I'm typing if I start to get a scrollbar then as I go past the point of scrolling it keeps going to the last line.

I think I am just going to roll back to IE 7 and would have already but I had to reboot to get some IE8 update off first.
I have the same issue on the Windows XP in my daughter's room.  I don't know if she upgraded to IE8.  Now I'm going to have to look at it... 
Title: Re: IE 8 and trouble posting on the forum
Post by: thundley4 on July 05, 2009, 05:49:25 PM
I use Google Chrome most of the time, but I do use IE 8 for the *Cubs message board and a couple of others and haven't noticed a problem. I do that on 2 computers, one XP and one Vista.

I can't use Chrome for the Cubs board, because the last automatic update from Google made it so no threads are visible on the MLB boards.
Title: Re: IE 8 and trouble posting on the forum
Post by: Wineslob on July 06, 2009, 10:22:00 AM
I have the same problem when "quoting" someone. I disabled refresh, seems to help?
Title: Re: IE 8 and trouble posting on the forum
Post by: Duke Nukum on July 06, 2009, 11:32:19 AM
I rolled back to IE7 and it is working again.  I tried to get help at MS's forums but my scripts aren't enabled and I don't know which ones need to be going through the long list in the security tab.  Their forums don't work in either 8 or 7 for me.  But it could be Zone Alarm too.
Title: Re: IE 8 and trouble posting on the forum
Post by: zeitgeist on August 24, 2009, 03:06:34 PM
I have the same problem when "quoting" someone. I disabled refresh, seems to help?

Click on the torn piece of paper to the right of the address bar.  It forces IE8 into a compatibility mode which solved the problem for me.  I just upgraded my Office Suite an at the same time upgraded the browser from IE6 to IE8.  You may have to do this each time you log on, I have not logged off and back yet.

More info here> (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=309186.0)

Title: Re: IE 8 and trouble posting on the forum
Post by: TheSarge on August 24, 2009, 07:29:00 PM
No, it is weird and hard to explain but as I'm typing if I start to get a scrollbar then as I go past the point of scrolling it keeps going to the last line.

I think I am just going to roll back to IE 7 and would have already but I had to reboot to get some IE8 update off first.

I know what you're talking about.  I have problems with it on certain threads here...but never in all of them.  If it gets too annoying I just switch to Safari for Windows...or wait til I get home to post.