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  1. I think that explaining is beyond me. Put it down as an example of communication failure and why we don't approach people for help. Almost always goes wrong. Even dropping the matter does not work, people come after you. I think it is the central coherence problem biting me. I write information, that is all. About all I can add is what happened. I have for quite some time been occassionally viewing a few things in this place. I decided I could add input on something and tried to join. Joining wasn't particularly difficult but when I logged in successfully and tried to post I was informed I had no rights. No further explanation. The following day there is a second email saying I have been accepted. Posting is then possible. I then try and use the place, where is quickly became apparent that for me it is difficult to use and very uncomfortable visually. I then find that fixing some of the visual problems has been made difficult by the design of the software. I then find strange things going on as though there is a configuration problem, still don't know what was happening, showing partly as missing navigation. If I try and make the text larger that messes up other things. Today this mattered, I had what once upon a time would have been a severe migraine, no bad headache these days but my eyesight is blurred and has holes. A place like this would be impossible to use. As it stands I can use the place. I did try and edit my profile but it rejected the changes. Doesn't matter. Now please drop the matter or delete the thread.
  2. > I am not really sure what the point you are trying to make is. The answer seems to be forget it, I'll do whatever to protect myself. I did not intend to annoy people. Sorry I trouble folks.
  3. I cannot remember clearly but there are issues over beds (usually a canopy). The floor does not move, whereas a bed is wobbly and I think that motion sickness might into this. This are things surrounding beds and being tucked in too tight, probably related to the do not touch me and other things like that. Also note the squeeze thing mentioned by that American woman who's name escapes me. Maybe over many years the best beds I've used are something like an old horsehair mattress, heavy and the kind you can thump into shape. Best not try this though whilst still part of the horse. Another thing is more difficult to explain. Because any human is a threat, takes away the little attention breadth we have, being able to relax is difficult if anyone might appear, why I prefer things deep at night. Thinking on the hoof here (horses again) I wonder if there is a relationship to all this and kids digging large holes in the garden then sitting in there. I used to and I read somewhere fairly recently that ASD kids are known to do that. Sadly with the lack of domains outside for kids today they cannot do that. Wish I understood more.
  4. > If you go into My Controls and then select Board Settings from the list on the left, you then have the option to change the settings and block signatures, images in posts such as smilies and avatars. Looks like fatal problems with the ECMA script (java-script) the site uses. With that turned on the effect is it _hides_ things like the routes to change anything. Just tried it and it is a now you see, now you don't. This includes breaking configure and hiding the means to change anything. In fact when I first tried it took me ages to find a way to post. I go right back, was no web, and that can be a problem as youngsters do things in ways that to me are illogical and very NT. The easy answer to getting rid of the mugshots is block them one by one since there will not be many regular posters. Low key is fine, faces are not. > I'm not sure what problems you are having with the editor. Invision are trying to implement a fancy editor on top of a simple browser web form. Instead of using a known working one they do their own and it is not very good. For example it gets confused about white space and might decide to display text with the spaces removed. With script disabled it works fine, but no control bar etc. The HTML markup is broken (probably works with American web browsers and a workaround for the very broken IE, all versions) so that changing the text display size pushes the edit box off the right side of the screen. The font size is uncomfortably small. The easy solution here is directly accessible page zoom, works fine with script disabled. My guess is that the markup and script are inconsistent on units of measure. Historically almost all browsers are broken on at least one unit of measure em, pixel, % etc. with a result that page authors firefight the browser bugs, fix one thing, break another. Don't worry about it. On the plus side Invision have got it right that it works without script. (so far anyway) > Hopefully then we can understand the problems better and find a solution. I'll find workarounds, there won't be anything you can do other than mention known solutions others have found. > What site navigation are you having difficulty finding? Go to forum home doesn't, it points outside but that is inconsistent. The root is visual confusion, part of what I am trying to get rid of. The panels and shades and colours and bold and not bold and small font and large font and so on. I've now worked out part of it and is a mistake. There are three navigation items displaying and they go to two different site addresses, using three different URL. From the top of the page you are viewing now: - "Asperger and ASD UK Online Forum" "Asperger and ASD UK Online Forum" "Asperger and ASD UK Online Forum" Here are the three different routes http://www.asd-forum.org.uk/forum/index.php? http://www.asd-forum.org.uk/forum/%5C%5Cwww.asd-forum.org.uk http://www.asd-forum.org.uk/forum/index.php?act=idx I am AS and I am amused... I only saw the least violent and that link leads to the web site home page, not the forum. Put a huge great button and we won't see it, wherein lie some tales.
  5. > Are you sure that this isn't the settings on your browser/machine? Yes. > Do you have all OS patches installed? Yes and rather more than that. > Which browser/OS are you using? At this moment Opera 9.51 (eye candy disabled) and XP SP3 (eye candy disabled) > I've been happily using the site for several years now on various versions of IE, Firefox and Safari from various locations and various machines (Windows, OS X and Linux) and never had any problems or had to configure anything. So you do not notice the problems. I am trying to find workarounds for problems you do not notice. I've had another fiddle and provided the place works it looks as though a part solution is disable ECMA script. I'll have a further think about how to disable the images.
  6. This is proving one of the most difficult to use and unfriendly web forum packages I have come across. I seem to recall coming across invision before and walking away. One thing that would help is blocking images but that seems to be impractical because there is no way of uniquely identifying the main problems, the mugshots and many of the icons without losing vitual ones. It is so bad that it wrecks any attempt to resize text, misrenders.. The editor is broken so goodness knows how this post will come out. Turning off CSS makes a total mess but the editor then works, falls back to straight display of an edit box. Am I correct that there is no forum threading or can that be turned on? There seems to be missing navigation. Where is it? Sorry be moan but I am struggling. There again I have no idea what the site is supposed to look like. A check shows a lot of markup errors.
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