[RESPONDED] Cakewalk forum compatibility with Firefox - HELP

hey helpful peoples of the forum! i'm am currently using my laptop as a mobile studio and then pulling up my projects in my home studio to mix. anyway, i know people say NOT to use your laptop or whatever to browse the web, however i have to use my laptop to pay bills and shop on ebay! lol  ok so here is my question. i am having some issues with IE "operation aborted" so i'm thinking of switing to firefox. anyone else have firefox? any problems ? compatability issues with 8.5 or x1? any help is appreciated. thanks in advance.
jeff ledge from the beautiful central coast of Oregon!

For the umpteenth time on this forum ....

This forum software is outdated and CW ha not updated it for some reason.   Browsers are being updated and fixing security holes - but most are no longer compatible with this forum software.

However, Firefox versions 3.6 and 5.0 work just fine here - and are pretty safe to use elsewhere.

Hope that helps.

One thing I have noticed that may - or may not be related. If I create a post in my favorite text editor (Textpad) and past it into a post (I am using IE 8), it looks like its formatted correctly, but when I post the line breaks disappear.

If I go back and edit the post, inserting a line break results in no line breaks in the saved post. I have to insert two breaks, then every thing is fine.

Glyn Barnes


Testing the double carriage return theory in Firefox 7.01 Testing Testing Edit - Looks like its unrelated

Glyn the reason for all the troubles is that the forum uses a very old version of this:

http://www.tinymce.com/

The version of MCE embedded in this version (3.5) of ASP playground does cause issues related to the text formatting of posts with many newer browsers.

The permanent fix is for Cakewalk to implement the 'free' update provided by ASP playground to v3.9 which incorporates the updated text editor and eliminates all the problems currently being seen.

Until that time you have to resort to DIY formatting like you are trying to do or use a compatible browser, I suggest Firefox 3.6 because it is the only one I know of that is fully compatible yet still maintained for current security threats online.

http://www.mozilla.org/en.S/firefox/all-older.html

mgh


As much as I know this issue is CW's, the release schedule of FF is causing other issues - Flash player 12 won't work with FF7, for example...

One of the reasons they continue to maintian 3.6.

Flash being yet another non-W3C compliant interweb gizmo.

Brandon Ryan [Cakewalk
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I guess the comments about "I've got something better to do, etc" didn't seem like gentle humour to me. The people who help on ths forum do so often at night, on weekends, and on holidays...so try to see it from my angle.


I've brought up the issue and again and will try to get something done about it. All I'm saying is it's enough to bring up the issue. It doesn't need to be conflated wth other issues and turned into a dig on the organization as a whole...which it seemed to be. If I'm being too sensitive then I apologize but reading it back again I have the same reaction, even though I take your word at face value that it was not intended that way.

Brandon, I do see it from your angle and mention quite often that you guys often turn up on the forum in your spare time as well as state frequently that I believe you personally do a difficult job very well.

The inspiration for my jibe actually came about from an earlier post after a discourse with Keith on another thread, this one;

 http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.ashx?m=2416079

It wasn't meant as anything other than a little bit of cuteness on my part...

Ok Jon, it's cool. Let me just see if I can get something done about this. Thanks. 

I'm trying Chrome version 15.0.874.106 m  and it's working fine on this forum so far.

Just lettin' yas know ...

Brandon--In case you see this. It was apparently another recent thread where I said that Firefox had written to me saying Cakewalk is using outdated software--MY BAD - It was a response from ASPPlayground I was thinking of. When I wrote to them about how Firefox wasn't working with this Forum anymore, they replied saying they have offered to set Cakewalk up with the current version of their Forum software for some time now, for FREE, but nobody has taken them up on the offer. They said that this Forum software is more than a few versions behind, and that they knew browsers were becoming incompatible with it.-- That's the info I meant to add later, but I garbled it, mistakenly thinking at the time that it was Mozilla who had replied-SORRY--ASPPlayground. According to the message to me, it's just a matter of communicating with them and getting the FREE upgrade to the software you're using. RB

Forum software almost totally unusable with Firefox 8 on a Mac. All the formatting tools at the top of the reply window have gone away and the quote function doesn't work. And it's not only browsing through posts that have problems - the user control panel has some issues as well, especially when trying to enter and format one's signature file. It's so bad I have to resort to Safari and I hate that; it doesn't remember login info even though you tell it to do so in a cookie.

Please fix this ASAP.

Click the ASPPlayground.net link at the bottom of this page, contact them about this Forum's out-dated version of their software like I did. Maybe we can get Cakewalk's attention about this very old problem if we request the ASP folks to contact Cakewalk again. RB

My understanding is that the forum will be receiving a more over-arching and significant overhaul and that the upgrade requires resources that are being dedicated towards that (and other) endeavors, rather than being directed at something that will be a moot point. Unfortunately, I don't have anything more at this time. 

For now, the best bet is to use IE or Chrome (and maybe others) to participate on the forum.

FWIW: Just know that the issue is recognized, understood, and that the MO is not to just ignore it, even if it might seem that way. 

Thanks for the update, Brandon. Randy

Brandon Ryan [Cakewalk
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For now, the best bet is to use IE or Chrome (and maybe others) to participate on the forum.

Current version of Opera is also working.

mike_mccue


Will I be able to log in to the new forum?

;-)

You are assuming here that there is still going to be a forum...