the forum does not render properly when browsed with opera

Thank you for submitting this request. We are working on supporting additional browsers. At this time, I do not have an ETA on Opera since it is not a frequently used browser on the forums. If we decide to fully support Opera, I will post an announcement. I encourage you to select another browser until then and I apologize for the inconvenience.

Thanks

Jana Carter

Forums Product Manager

Jana at 2007-9-8 >

The rich text box exists because these are development forums, and we wanted our

However, there are several problems with the rich text box... It's full of bugs! (just like Internet Explorer :P) The formatting goes weird at times (on one of my posts, the text went really small, so I had to edit it to make the size larger). Also, I doubt that developers would really need a forum where they can change font color, font face, paragraph style, add smilies/emoticons, etc. Why not just use BBCode? This is what most *normal* forum software does (SMF, phpBB, myBB, punBB, vBulletin, IPB, YaBB, ..., ..., .....).

Also, can't you just detect if the user is running Opera, and if so, just show a textarea? The only reason it doesn't work on Opera (well, the only reason I've come across) is that you use a rich text editor. If you only supported other browsers by having a textarea fallback, these forums would be a lot more friendly.

Daniel15 at 2007-9-8 >

Ever get the feeling we've been here before?

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=182725&SiteID=1

MichaelLuke at 2007-9-8 >

Version 9 is supposed to support rich text editing in some fashion but I still don't see the edit box on the MSDN forums (this post is composed with IE6). Anyone else have more success?

That's because Microsoft's code is still disabling Opera from having *any* textbox at all (I mean, even a plain textarea would be good!). Opera does indeed have this functionality to match Internet Explorer and Firefox, as TinyMCE is fully compatible with Opera

Daniel15 at 2007-9-8 >

I was trying to look through their code to see if I could get it working on Opera, but their code is so badly structured that I couldn't understand it

EDIT: There appears to be an error in the JavaScript:

JavaScript - http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/AddPost.aspx?PostID=512952&SiteID=1&ReturnUrl=
Inline script compilation
Syntax error while loading: line 217 of linked script at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/scripts/MSNCompat.js :
get xml(){ return (new XMLSerializer()).serializeToString(
-^

:P

EDIT2: Just to prove to Microsoft that it is possible to have a rich-text editor on Opera, take a look at http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/example_full.php?example=true . Please, we want a plain <textarea> back, please!

Daniel15 at 2007-9-8 >