Basic bugs and problems with forum, and type.
The following problems that I am reporting, have always existed with the new forum, for all versions of Firefox and Safari on mac.
Interestingly, since this is mainly a design and art forum, my only conculsion is that the forum must have been designed to run smoothly on Windows PC browsers, with some lazy work on the mac side? Why this is, is anyones guess. Anyway …
1. Conventional mac typing allows for the Option (alt) key, with the left and right arrow keys - the cursor will then skip quickly between words. All applications support this. This essential shortcut is not available on this forum. My main annoyance.
2. Sometimes while typing the line just breaks for no reason. It's then sometimes impossible to join the two sections of type with delete. Suggesting that there is some basic problem with the stucture of the type, and the conventional carriage return character. Indeed copying and pasting text is difficult to do, because it creates weird unresolvable glitches.
3. There is a general slowness when loading windows, sub windows, and commiting. Especially when loading images, using the camera icon - which seems to take minutes. I have a quad processor machine running 8 Gigs of Ram and a fast connection. So there is no excuse for this.
4. The width of the typing box has recently become far too wide meaning that contiuous scrolling left and right is necessary. Very difficult to work with.
But congratulations on sorting out one very serious issue - The entire browser would crash sometimes when clicking on "Reply" or on "Submit"- since this hasn't happened for few months, it may have been sorted out.
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