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Posted by DPD1 on Saturday, August 26, 2006 3:34 PM
Yeah, I don't get the toold either... I would prefer Safari, but it seems to have some issues. And I'm not going to switch to the latest OS just for that... Think I might have to start using Firefox. Does anybody else get the problem with quoting when they use Safari? The problem is where you quote and all the tags and everything are displayed in the post. I'm not sure if it's browser related or not, but seems like it must be.

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Posted by da Milwaukee beerNut on Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:37 AM
Dale: I have tweaked the original MacUpdate link to TinkerTool 3.6.1 and cloned it here. beaulieu's directions work - I was not familiar with using that tool above.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:09 PM
 KBCpresident wrote:
Yeah well...I'm on an apples and proud of it! If only I could find that smiley face bar.



Which browser are you using?
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Posted by KBCpresident on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 7:02 PM
Yeah well...I'm on an apples and proud of it! If only I could find that smiley face bar.

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 4:46 PM
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Anti...How you dooin? I contacted Trainsmag and they told me they had issues when using Safari browser and which issues gave me the problems I wrote about. They are beta testing and say they will be able to resolve the problems (which are still there, by the way, Trainsmag). But I like Safari, so I'm waiting. I knew I hadn't lost my marble. Thanks for confirming what I was seeing. Indeed...West of the Rockies....



Hey Chuck, glad to hear you have not given up hope. And was going to suggest you try one of the "spoofer" agents if you had not tried already.

There is a dandy one called "Prefbar" for Mozilla/Firefox that offers that functionality, plus a lot more "tweaks" for people who like to fine tune their browsing experience

find it here
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Posted by beaulieu on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:36 PM
 nanaimo73 wrote:

Beernut-

Can you ask David Voss to fix the forum so that it will recognize links and activate them, as the last forum did ?

The link you posted is dormant.

Is it something David Voss can fix, or is he on holidays ?


Hmm, links work fine for me once I figured out how to do them. Type what ever you want to describe the link, i.e.
Link 

Highlight it then click the create link button and type or paste in the URL, and click OK.
I use Firefox and Windows XP Pro.
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Posted by nanaimo73 on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:47 AM

Beernut-

Can you ask David Voss to fix the forum so that it will recognize links and activate them, as the last forum did ?

The link you posted is dormant.

Is it something David Voss can fix, or is he on holidays ?

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Posted by da Milwaukee beerNut on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:31 AM
Apparently Shock [:O] everyone using Firefox (on various platforms) is able to access all Big Smile [:D] the toys.

Unable to locate TinkerTool  - the Safari add-on -at the site Squeeze cited Dead [xx(] but, thru Version Tracker Eight Ball [8] found v 3.6.1 [with the Polish update!] Wink [;)] at TinkerTool 3.6.1

Guess if I want to tweak Safari's doopah, I'm all set! Cool [8D]

Interesting - my original proper 4-letter Polish spelling of the red word above came up as 3 ***. It's the only Polish word I'm positive I can spell correctly!
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Posted by erikem on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:42 AM
The toolbars are showing up on my browser - Firefox v1.5.0.5 running on Solaris 10 (6/06) on a SPARC based computer.

Even the insert smiley works! Evil [}:)]
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Posted by BaltACD on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:49 PM
When I use IE7 the tool bars for color and font etc. are missing from the screen display.  When I use Firefox....such as I am using now....the are available for use.

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Posted by upchuck on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:32 PM
Anti...How you dooin?
I contacted Trainsmag and they told me they had issues
when using Safari browser and which issues gave me the problems I wrote about. They are beta testing and say they
will be able to resolve the problems (which are still there,
by the way, Trainsmag). But I like Safari, so I'm waiting.
I knew I hadn't lost my marble. Thanks for confirming
what I was seeing.
Indeed...West of the Rockies....
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Posted by KBCpresident on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:33 PM
I can't insert smiles

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Posted by eastside on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:23 PM
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how could I go there and ask how many users here are not using windows?

Doesn't make sense. How would they know?

FYI, I'm not at any disability (personally) over this, I'm just trying to see how big the problem UPChuck was having, is here for the locals.

I take it that your indifference implys that  you are a windows user?
Does the fact that I'm trying to help by looking up the vendor and bothering to write a reply imply indifference?

Did you go to the vendor's forums?  They use their own forum software, the same as Trains uses.  Therefore the users would know.  You should ask if there are any known issues for non-Windows (Mac) users, or do you want me to do that for you also?  Since I use Windows, I wouldn't be able to describe the problem first hand.


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Posted by squeeze on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:33 PM

For all you Mac users that that use the Safri browser, there is a nice little tool out there that will let you on almost any web site and masquerade as a different browser. The place to get it is www.missingmanuals.com. The free program is called TinkerTool, which will enablr you to access Safari's Debug menu. TinkerTool allows you to click in  a checkbox that turns on the Debug menu. The Debug menu will appear next to the Help menu, and the submenu UserAgent will allow you to act as IE browser if you want. Useful for the websites that Safari has trouble with (banking websites). Thought this may be useful to our Mac users.

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Posted by da Milwaukee beerNut on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 1:45 PM
Quite interesting - the Tools you mention do not appear when this reply page is loaded in Safari 2.0.4. Black Eye [B)]

Loading the same page in Firefox 1.5.0.1 [PPC Mac] they are obviously displayed Tongue [:P] otherwise I could not have played with the styles in the line above, or added any Clown [:o)] to this reply.
Firefox is built from Mozilla - the same browser engine used for Netscape.

Apparently Bergie should be flagged about this browser issue. There is a new cat - Mac OS 10.5 due sometime in early 2007 - its Safari version may play nicely with all these features. Know Mike Y. is using Mac when away from the office. Hasn't been able to talk the Kalmbach IS folks into liberating him from the DARK SIDEBig Smile [:D] in his office.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 1:40 PM
how could I go there and ask how many users here are not using windows?

Doesn't make sense. How would they know?

FYI, I'm not at any disability (personally) over this, I'm just trying to see how big the problem UPChuck was having, is here for the locals.

I take it that your indifference implys that  you are a windows user?

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Posted by eastside on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 1:23 PM
It looks like Kalmbach uses Community Server:
CS

They have a number of user-help forums there. Why don't you go there to ask your question?
CS forums
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Off Topic: How many non windows users are regular members here?
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 22, 2006 12:57 PM
I remember UP Chuck (mac user) who was experiencing missing features here after the recent format change, and as hard to believe at the time that he was having the problems that he was claiming, I now see exactly what he was experiencing.

The toolbar with the B I    etc   controls was invisible to him.

Recently, I started using a browser plug in that lets me control the information reported back to the server, specifying the Operating system and browser type being used by the end user

And by gosh, I've found that if I "spoof" claiming to use MAC with Netscape, MAC with MSIE or some variants of Linux, I get the same malfunction Chuck was experiencing.

And I was just curious how many more of you might be experiencing  similar?

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