Where Has The Edit Button Gone?

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Content originally posted in LPCWare by MikeSimmonds on Fri Sep 27 00:47:29 MST 2013
I have just made a post, but there is no edit button for me to correct the spelling mistakes!
Is it because there are attachements?

Mike

[lpcware]

Content originally posted in LPCWare by TheFallGuy on Fri Sep 27 02:10:24 MST 2013
Firefox 24 (and probably before) has an address bar, with some buttons that fit in the same area. You can specify small Icons and you can configure what appears in the bar. In other words, it does NOT bloat your screen.

If only you were right. Validated HTML is no longer sufficient - you also need stylesheets and a whole bunch of other stuff. And old browsers have bugs.

"If it aint' broke, why fix?" - Firefox 3 WAS broken, and it HAS been fixed.

Upgrade to a decent browser and stop harping on about how it was better in the old days. The world has moved on and unless you move with it, you are going to have more and more problems.

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Content originally posted in LPCWare by MikeSimmonds on Fri Sep 27 01:41:38 MST 2013
I did try a recent version -- 18 ir so IIRC.
Did you miss my concerns about bloat/reduced screen real estate due to bigger buttons
and status bars (or was that Thunderbird?)

There are no new features that I want/need so, if it ain't broke, why fix it.

PS: I heed the plight of supporting many browsers, but my point is that simple and basic
(validated correct) html should run on ANY browser. It is the tricks and java that muck
things up (I think).

IMHO (not so humble) we would all benefit from simpler cleaner website pages and remove
the shiny bells and whistles that do not actually have any editorial merit.

I'm sure that I will be flammed to hell and back, but that is what I think.

Cheers, Mike

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Content originally posted in LPCWare by TheFallGuy on Fri Sep 27 01:21:37 MST 2013
Having been involved in writing lots of web pages, I have some sympathy with NXP. Try to support all browsers is an impossible job. There comes a point when so few users are using a browser that it becomes impractical to support them, if you are trying to provide a better web experience.

It looks like Firefox 3.6 was release in January 2010 - pretty ancient in the world of browsers. I dread to think of all the exploits that exist in that version of the browser, especially as you are running on XP! Have you even taken a look at the latest version of Firefox (24, I think). It is much faster and safer...

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Content originally posted in LPCWare by MikeSimmonds on Fri Sep 27 01:08:13 MST 2013

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Quote: TheFallGuy
This has been reported before. I think it was tracked down to using an old version of IE. AFAIK, it works with all decent modern browsers (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, even IE9/10).

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Thanks for the hint.

I am on Firefox 3.6.28 but DON'T want to update due to bloat and reduced screen real estate issues!

Surely, if web authors use validated html only, these 'browser' issues should not happen.
Why should many (thousands?) of viewers have to jump through hoops just because ONE author
can't write html that works with all browsers witout relying on modern 'quirks' [Rant Off]

Regards, Mike

Edit! This reply DOES have an edit buttom -- Go figure!
Edit 2: As you can see, I NEED edit because my typing is atrocious.

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Content originally posted in LPCWare by TheFallGuy on Fri Sep 27 00:52:24 MST 2013
This has been reported before. I think it was tracked down to using an old version of IE. AFAIK, it works with all decent modern browsers (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, even IE9/10).