Why do quoted blocks sometimes have gibberish at the top?

[Noel Carboni]

Virturally every time I quote someone I get gibberish at the top of the quote.  I'll demonstrate by responding to myself...

I use Internet Explorer to access the forum.  As far as I know, there are no problems with it, though I'm pretty stingy about letting any sites run active content.  I'm not getting messages that an Add-on failed to run here, though.

-Noel

[Noel Carboni]

Noel Carboni wrote:

I'll demonstrate by responding to myself...

Note the "function" etc. at the top of the above.

At the moment I'm using IE9, though this same behavior existed in IE8 as well.

A lot of other people aren't getting this in their quoted blocks.

-Noel

[Jochem van Dieten · Accepted solution]

Noel Carboni wrote on 11/03/25 05:53:

I use Internet Explorer to access the forum. As far as I know, there are no problems with it,

IE 8 & 9 are not supported. Switch on compatibility mode.

[Noel Carboni]

Jochem van Dieten wrote:

IE 8 & 9 are not supported. Switch on compatibility mode.

That floored me...  One of the most prominent browsers on the planet is not supported?  I can imagine it might take some time to support a brand new release, but IE8 has been around a while now...

I've enabled compatibility mode now.  Let's see if the above quote is still prefixed with misplaced script...

Edit:  Woohoo!  It's nice that one little button press was all it took to get rid of that.  Thank you!

-Noel

[~graffiti]

We're lucky that this forum software (it's not an Adobe product) works with anything.

Noel Carboni wrote:

That floored me...  One of the most prominent browsers on the planet is not supported?

[Claudio_González1]

~graffiti wrote:

We're lucky that this forum software (it's not an Adobe product) works with anything.

Noel Carboni wrote:

That floored me...  One of the most prominent browsers on the planet is not supported?

But does it really work? Or should it be "kinda work"?

[Noel Carboni]

Just some real stats from a real web site as a follow-up to an earlier comment I made...

-Noel

[Jacob Bugge]

Noel, Jochem,

I brought this IE issue to the attention of the users in the Illustrator forum, and now I can bring the following addition back here (I always use FF myself):

The option in IE 8 is Compatibility View, not Compatibility Mode, and it is in the Tools menu.

[Noel Carboni]

In IE9 is is the little broken page icon near the right end of the Address bar:

-Noel

[Daniel Flavin]

Test...ahem...

Noel Carboni wrote:

Virturally every time I quote someone I get gibberish at the top of the quote.  I'll demonstrate by responding to myself...

I use Internet Explorer to access the forum.  As far as I know, there are no problems with it, though I'm pretty stingy about letting any sites run active content.  I'm not getting messages that an Add-on failed to run here, though.

-Noel

I've been plagued with the "quote previous bug" also

edit - Fixed!