PF5 Problems & Errors: Report & Discuss

[Charles Link]

If I am replying to a thread and a new reply comes in while I am still editing mine, the Latex I have in my reply can get zapped. E.g:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...avitational-field-part-3.983410/#post-6289798

I'm not sure you can actually see it happening, but when you post the reply, the Latex gets zapped.

I've experienced the same problem. It can arise also when you try to edit a post, for what can be minor corrections, and it can be very frustrating when, instead of making the improvement, the whole post, i.e. the latex, basically crashes. Getting it back can be painstaking. In one case, after a couple unsuccessful attempts, I started an identical but different post, and scrapped the original.

 

[Stephen Tashi]

Today, with my Firefox 69.0.1, the preview function of the editor truncates long quotations. If I ignore this defect and post a message with a long quotation, the entire quotation appears. For example, post #2 in https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...nal-variance-intuitively.987588/#post-6329366 didn't preview correctly.

 

[phinds]

Today, with my Firefox 69.0.1...

Which is quite a few updates behind. Why not update and see if you still have the issue?

 

[symbolipoint]

Which is quite a few updates behind. Why not update and see if you still have the issue?

Let me guess - phinds is using Windows 7 ?

 

[phinds]

Let me guess - phinds is using Windows 7 ?

No, Win 10 Pro 64 bit and Firefox 75.0 (64 bit)

 

[symbolipoint]

No, Win 10 Pro 64 bit and Firefox 75.0 (64 bit)

I mis-identified the quote.

It was or is Stephen Tashi, who may still be using Windows 7 ? If it is you, Stephen Tashi, but you are on Windows 10, you should be able to update to version 75 of Firefox.

 

[pbuk]

Problem

• Insert link tool in BBCode editor strips ' characters from URLs.

Steps to reproduce

1. Copy a URL containing a ' character to the clipboard e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy's_law.
2. Select the Insert Link icon (or press Ctrl+K) in the WYSYWIG BB code editor.
3. Paste the URL, add some text for the link and press Insert.
4. Select the Toggle BB code icon.

Desired behavior

• Illegal ' should be encoded as %27 so the link becomes some text.

Actual behavior

• Illegal ' is stripped from the URL so the link becomes some text which does not identify the same resource.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Desired behavior

• Illegal ' should be encoded as %27 so the link becomes some text.

Actual behavior

• Illegal ' is stripped from the URL so the link becomes some text which does not identify the same resource.

For me, both the links open up the same web page. To be specific, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphys_law opens the same page as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law. Don't know if it's the same for other websites as well.

 

[pbuk]

For me, both the links open up the same web page. To be specific, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphys_law opens the same page as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law. Don't know if it's the same for other websites as well.

No, if you look at the top of the page (or at the HTTP traffic in Developer Tools) you will see that the first page is redirected to the correct one. I could probably have chosen a better example, but this one seemed appropriate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphys_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law

This problem is a common one in web development but is easily overcome using functionality built into every web development environment I know of - for instance in JavaScript you simply need to call encodeURIComponent() on the raw string, a fuction which is available in every browser including IE since IE5.5.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I have submitted it to the devs. The editor is Froala.

 

[Ibix]

Minor one, but the links to pages of multi-page threads seem to have vanished (in the last few days) from the top of the page on my mobile (Firefox on Android). They're there at the bottom, and at both top and bottom in desktop.

 

[russ_watters]

That can't be good...

 

[Tom.G]

It works for me here in California.

 

[OCR]

That can't be good...

Yeah, I got that too. . . .

But. . . only when I clicked on your profile button. . .

JK

.

 

[Tom.G]

Still works in Southern California. I just read the most recent post, #15, by mfb that said SN4 passed cyrogenic test.
What part of the world are you in on?

 

[OCR]

What part of the world are you in on?

The flat part. . . .

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[mfb]

The forum was gone for a while (nothing accessible, 410 error message on every page) but then recovered.

 

[Tom.G]

The flat part. . . .

Well... there's the problem!
To be on the flat part you would have to be an infinite distance around the (almost) sphere. Ergo, it would take infinite time for that Forum to get to you.

p.s. Ah, I see @mfb warped space-time and brought you back in range. Heavy-Duty dude there!

 

[OCR]

Ah, I see mfb warped space-time and brought you back in range.

Looks like he brought my twin along two too. . . .

.

 

[Tom.G]

Yup, seems that a version of the Twin Paradox sneaked in during a "Reply" operation!

Try replying to that line in your post #506, we may have found a matter replicator. (or at least an Electron replicator) (FREE ENERGY, FREE ENERGY)

 

[OCR]

Try replying to that line in your post #506

Well, I did. . .

we may have found a matter replicator.

No. . . nature cannot be fooled. . . !

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[OCR]

I think we proved the no-cloning theorem , also. . . .

Wait. . . maybe that's the no-deleting theorem ??
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[OCR]

The forum was gone for a while. . .

But, according to the no-hiding theorem , it couldn't have gotten lost. . . .

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