[thelist] Looking for advice on browser copy/paste bugs encountered on mysite
Hugh Blair
hblair at bigfoot.com
Fri Oct 6 21:29:58 CDT 2000
A quick test:
Using IE 5.01 ( 5.00.3105.0106 )
-- All types of copy/paste work without problem.
Using "@Home 2.01" (build 2,0,1,16) (a flavor of IE)
-- All types of copy/paste work without problem.
Using IE 5.5 ( 5.50.4134.0600 )
-- All types of copy/paste work without problem.
Using Netscape Communicater 4.75
-- All types of copy/paste work without problem.
I hope you find the solution to your problem.
-Hugh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Ellen Key
> Harris-Braun
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 4:31 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] Looking for advice on browser copy/paste bugs
> encountered on mysite
>
>
> I have been having a strange problem with one of my Web sites and
> have finally gathered enough data to ask for your help on it. Some
> users of the site (4 out of 500 or so) cannot paste their text into a
> text box (though they can type directly into it); others can't copy
> text displayed on our site into their word processor or into our text
> boxes.
>
> We run an online writing workshop where submitting your work via a
> textbox and reviewing others' work (displayed on the site) by copying
> bits of it into a text box and commenting on it are both very
> important. So despite the small number of users reporting this bug,
> we really want to get it solved.
>
> Users were using these platforms/browsers:
>
> 1) PC, "recent version" of Netscape--can't paste into text box
> (copies from word processor but doesn't paste in)
>
> 2) PC, IE 5.0--can't paste into text box (copies from word processor
> but doesn't paste in), can't copy from text displayed on site
> (doesn't get copied)
> Upgrade to IE 5.5 solved all problems for this user.
>
> 3) PC IE 5.0--can't paste into text box (copies from word processor
> but doesn't paste in), can't copy from text displayed on site
> (doesn't get copied)
>
> 4) not sure yet about platform/browser--can't paste into text box but
> copy and paste work fine within word processor and on other sites
>
> Everyone can _type_ into the text boxes, just not paste. No one has
> reported trouble copying/pasting within their other word processor.
>
> So we have two (possibly related) browser/code problems:
>
> --inability to copy text from our site (PC IE 5.0 but not Mac IE 5.0
> or PC IE 5.5)
>
> --inability to paste text into text box (PC N 4.?, PC IE 5.0 but not
> Mac IE 5.0 or PC IE 5.5)
>
> I read recently about <TD ALIGN=LEFT> making it impossible to select
> text in a table cell via Netscape 4.x browsers...but our target text
> is not in a table, and these are complaints from IE users, mostly.
> And I have yet to find anything helpful about not being able to paste
> into a text box. (Not short text, not long text.)
>
> My only thought is that maybe the WRAP=VIRTUAL attribute to the text
> boxes is a problem. Does anyone know if the WRAP attributes cause
> trouble like this in some (PC, mainly IE) browser versions?
>
> And of course I'm open to other suggestions, leads, suspicions, and
> (esp.) quick fixes.
>
> I've set up a copy of the form in question (which you normally have
> to be a member to access) in case anyone wants to have a go at it.
> Please let me know what you find out (and which browser and platform
> you're using). (You won't be able to submit the form, but you won't
> need to to test out the problem.)
>
> http://sff.onlinewritingworkshop.com/testform.html
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Ellen
> sff.onlinewritingworkshop.com
>
> -
> Ellen Key Harris-Braun
> Online business strategies
> http://www.panix.com/~ekh
> ekh at panix.com
>
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