If you're reading this and you can't see the post content textarea, clear your browser cache and try again, innit.

Er, what?

Which bit are you confused by?

Whats a "post content textarea"? Is that just the reply buttons, or sigs, or what?

I think i might know what he means. In this reply all the buttons for text formatting, entering links, pictures, etc are gone. I wouldn't have described all that as the "post content textarea" myself, but that might be what he means.

Yeah, that must have been it. Cleared my cache and it's all back.

Hmmm. Strangely, the "MrTrent" text in my sig seems to have turned black. Is this related? IT's irritating, anyway, as it's been so long since i wrote that little sig i can't remember what colour code i used.

Should be back to normal now.

That might make some sense as to what I'm seeing, or not

I see, thanks. <3

That gives me the toolbar back, but I only seem to be able to reply to you. The other posters aren't there :(

It's a text field, you type in the name of the person you want to reply to. As you type it has provides autocomplete suggestions for you.

When you reply to a post it will default to the author of the post you're directly replying to, but you can still change it by deleting and typing in someone's username.

I haven't seen that shit for ages. Oh, it's there now.

It doesn't appear to work on IE8, innit.

I do realise that anyone with a sense of self worth doesn't give a rat's nipple about IE, but some of us have to use that shit at work. And some of us /need/ to post here to take our minds off the the sheer hell of it all.

Anyhow, I cleared caches on IE8 several times, but only managed to make one near-sensible post (as near-sensible as I ever get). Otherwise, all I could see was blue in place of the text area.

No, this is odd: I tried a quote (here: 39989.6) which allowed me to post, even though I couldn't see or edit beforehand. But at least the textarea had text, so it allowed a post. When I tried to edit the post, to actually make the point I wanted to make, all I could see was the blue. However, when I right-clicked and selected 'refresh' I could briefly see the text area, before it got covered again. Pinkage?

No amount of emptying the cache and refreshing has allowed me to access the post facility. Works fine here at home though (OSX, Safari 6 \o/)

One other thing that I hate about this new text area: if I right-click a misspelled word to correct spelling, it brings up a cut/paste context-sensitive menu. It's a bit retared IMO.

I noticed that, and also find it annoying. My typing skills leave quite a lot to be desired, and i spend about as much time correcting typos as i do writing the post, so not being able to right click on the squiggly lines is a problem.

That'll be that corporate cache proxy server being a bitch again. That's probably the cause of the auto-complete thing not working too.

Nothing you can do about that unless you write a nice email to your IT department.

The right click thing. Hold Ctrl (or Option as you're on a Mac) when you right click and you'll get the browser default context menu. This is actually contrary to the default in CKEditor, which by default wants to stop you using the right click at all and use the build in Dictionary which is advertising sponsored.

And because they're hoping you'll pay for their cross-browser "SCAYT" or Spelling Correction As You Type, but why do that when there are free tools / built-in functionality.

Mr B,

I have made some changes to the Beehive CKEditor plugin that should make it work on IE8.

Force refresh (if it makes any difference) to reload the files.

Thank you, kind Matt. I shall check it out (as the wikkid kids are want to say) and report back. But it may be tomorrow evening if it doesn't work (natch).

It seems if I click quick reply, then cancel, then quick reply again I can't type anything.

Win7 - Chrome Version 22.0.1229.94 m

seems to be fine now (kiss) (flower)

Hmmm... (kiss) (flower)