New Mac-Forums Bug Report Thread

[pigoo3]

Hello all. This is the new Mac-Forums "Bug Report" thread. If you run into any "Bugs"...please report them here. Things such as graphical issues/anomalies...unexpected code showing up...features not doing what they're supposed to do.

Theoretical example. If you were composing a message...and you clicked on the "Bold" text button...and it underlined the text instead of Bolding it...this would be a "Bug".

Thanks

 

[MacInWin]

Do you care that RSS is in post #9 of this thread, totally irrelevant to the discussion? https://www.mac-forums.com/threads/...ion-apps-running-windows.357462/#post-1854652

I've seen that in other threads, too. Kind of like sprinkling ads into the forum.

 

[pigoo3]

Thanks Jake for reporting the issue. RSS articles/posts shouldn't be showing up in regular thread conversations. Will investigate what's up.

Thanks,

- Nick

 

[krs]

Here is a trivial bug, at least I think it's a bug

For some reason the count of on-line members is one more than the member names that actually show.

A few minutes ago there was only Rod and myself (krs) on liner and the member count shower as 3

Now, in the screen shot, MacInWin went on line and it shows 4 members.

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[krs]

Next item is not really a bug, just some missing information.

When attaching an image it doesn't tell one which formats are acceptable.
Tried attaching a tiff image since that is what I get when using the Apple GRab application, the message I received was to contact the administrator.
It would make more sense IMHO if the message just indicated that the image format used is not supported and to use one of (with a listing of valid ones).

BTW - Telling the user to "Please try again" is really the absolute wrong message - one can try a million times and nothing would change.

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[pigoo3]

Tried attaching a tiff image since that is what I get when using the Apple GRab application, the message I received was to contact the administrator.
It would make more sense IMHO if the message just indicated that the image format used is not supported and to use one of (with a listing of valid ones).

Try uploading a .tiff image again...see if it works now.

As far as the "Please try again" language. I think there are situations where trying again can be appropriate. Of course there can also be times when trying again simply ends with the same result.

From time to time there are all sorts of glitches on the internet. Many times over the years I've tried to load a webpage & maybe it didn't render properly the first time...but if I reloaded the page a 2nd time...it rendered fine (what the glitch was who knows). Also...glitches can happen when servers & end user computers (or anywhere in between) have communication issues.

I'm sure there are many times when the "Please try again" makes sense. The issue can be internal or external to a website.

- Nick

 

[pigoo3]

For some reason the count of on-line members is one more than the member names that actually show.

Reasonably sure this is a setting issue.

- Nick

 

[krs]

trying tiff image

Didn't work - got the same message as before
Tiff image is quitesmall, only 21KB and about 350 pixels wide.

BTW - Is there still the 800 pixel; wide limitation for images?

 

[Raz0rEdge]

trying tiff image

Didn't work - got the same message as before
Tiff image is quitesmall, only 21KB and about 350 pixels wide.

BTW - Is there still the 800 pixel; wide limitation for images?

When you click on the Picture icon and then on the "Drop Image" dialog, if you click it, the Finder open window should pop-up, this will now automatically filter to the just the supported files, i.e., PNG and JPG are definitely supported. Non-animated GIFs are supported as well, but animated ones are not.

This is how traditionally websites tell you what you can upload or not, by filtering the files based on type.

 

[pigoo3]

trying tiff image

Didn't work - got the same message as before
Tiff image is quitesmall, only 21KB and about 350 pixels wide.

Will investigate this further.

- Nick

 

[pigoo3]

trying tiff image

Didn't work - got the same message as before
Tiff image is quitesmall, only 21KB and about 350 pixels wide.

Please give this a try once more. Hopefully it works now.

- Nick

 

[macgig]

looks like its showing that I'm online even though Ive unchecked that option? I see it anyways, not sure if others can.

 

[krs]

When you click on the Picture icon and then on the "Drop Image" dialog, if you click it, the Finder open window should pop-up, this will now automatically filter to the just the supported files, i.e., PNG and JPG are definitely supported. Non-animated GIFs are supported as well, but animated ones are not.

This is how traditionally websites tell you what you can upload or not, by filtering the files based on type.

Sorry, but that is not the way it works here.
Tiff images are not filtered out as you suggest, I actually see nothing filtered out, not even non-image files.

I know exactly what you mean -I have come across that with some applications that will filter out file types they can't open, but that is not the case here.

Besides, based on Nick's replies it sounds to me that he thinks tiff images are allowed.

 

[krs]

Please give this a try once more. Hopefully it works now.

- Nick

OK, here it goes:

Sorry - still doesn't work.
I tried a few different things with the file name
1. The original one is MacForum Image.tiff
2. Then I tried MacForum Image.tif
3. Then I tried MacForum Image
4. Finally tried dragging the file into the window

All with the same message I posted earlier.

Maybe tiff images are just not supported, same as for the old forum.
Would be nice if they were, but this is not really a problem as long as one is somehow notified of that fact (or there is a list of supported image types)

 

[Raz0rEdge]

This is what I see, and I can't select any of the dark ones.

I'm on Catalina 10.15.5

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[krs]

Yes Ashwin, I understood that.

For me all files and folders show normally - nothing is dimmed out when I select "Insert Image"
Do you have any tiff images? And are they dimmed out or not?

I'm on Mojave, but this shouldn't really matter

 

[Raz0rEdge]

3rd file in the list is a TIFF file that was exported from the PNG which is 4th in the list to try it out. What browser are you using?

 

[ferrarr]

Do you have any tiff images? And are they dimmed out or not?

There are tiff images listed in the attached image.

 

[krs]

3rd file in the list is a TIFF file that was exported from the PNG which is 4th in the list to try it out. What browser are you using?

Firefox

 

[pigoo3]

...based on Nick's replies it sounds to me that he thinks tiff images are allowed.

Still exploring this. Hopefully get to the bottom of the issue soon.

- Nick