A new improvement

A)

B)

C)

1)

2)

3)

4)

5)

6)

7)

8)

9)

As far as I remember, in the days of the fair forums I had to avoid certain list items, such as B) and 8), but they do not seem to work here, contrary to your list, John.

and of course my ire's not directed at you, claudio. you are always patient, courteous and gracious in your advice and comments.

and i've been through all that before. all it's gotten me is a mangled id that i feel lucky to have been able to recover from, kindly and thankfully, with john's help. the point i'm making is the whole freakin internet works EXCEPT adobe. i'm done with the cr*p fixes and workarounds. it should "just work".

on thing that's not improved is the ability to stay logged in.

why must i log in 4 or 5 times a day?

usually the latest firefox on windows.

i use adblock plus and noscript.

if i hit "remember me" it mangles my user name next time i get kicked out and have to log back in.

i'm not going to stop using standard technologies like the 2 plug-ins mentioned so don't bother asking me to. no other sites have issued like this one. none.

i just wish you'd fix the damn problem!

but that's like wishing in one hand and... pooping in the other. see which one fills up first.

thanks for listening.

dave

I missed the horse, David.

I still miss some friends.

so we're back to the same (actually less) options than we had under web crossing, less secure, buggier, slower... why did they change again? why do they persist on beating the dead jive horse?

To really get back on the track, and deal with the real issue:

Claudio González wrote: I can no longer change the font in my messages from the almost illegible tiny bad copy of Helvetica that someone chose for these forums, to one of the fonts that have been specially designed for screen reading like Verdana. I can make and see the change on screen, but text reverts to Arial on posting. Safari/Mac; Explorer and Safari on Windows 7.

In addition, all the other styling options that were part of the new and improved forums, are gone.

As Jochem wrote in the first post (using the Tab to at least hint at the following being a quote):

     That is a consequence of closing a number of loopholes that allowed spammers to inject invisible links in messages.

     But IMHO this is a very positive side effect. Font control now lies with the reader of these forums who can use the techniques described in the FAQ to control how text should be rendered. This allows people to choose

a font that matches the way they read these forums depending on device (laptop or mobile phone), application (browser or client) etc.

The FAQs deal with stylesheets downloadable for certain browsers from somewhere else and the use of HTML.

Exactly which improvements does this leave us with  as compared to the fair forums (where we could just insert quotes from (any part/number of) other posts and have each stand out clearly, and where we could also use HTML, even without having to change the mode back and forth, and without the mess often created here (actually, I am still using the same HTML snippets))?

cop out. pfft. call a freakin waaaaaa-mbulance.

I made some quick tests here

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3098936#3098936

and it would seem that the following formatting features are also gone:

Underline. Change text color or size. Indenting. Right and center alignment.

save this as a CSS and put in yourBrowser Preference Folder:

#jive-wrapper {

width:100% !important;

background-color: #ffffff !important;

background-image: none !important;

}

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("forums.adobe.com") {
  body {
    font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif !important;
  }
}

In FF and SM  name as userContent.css and put in chrome folder

This has no affect on what gets sent. Just what you see on screen.

And btw the user should be able to set permanently what font style and size he wants to send permanently, if he she so wishes.

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