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I'm very carefully sticking with my way out of date IE6!

WHEN WILL THE EMOTICON PROBLEM BE FIXED?

So I've sent the question to "theteam" by email.

Maybe I'll get an answer.

:rofl:

Just to clarify too -- those of us who don't use browsers that show us the emoticons are still causing the problem for other users.

When the codes are accidentally inserted in a post -- for instance, a colon followed by a hard line return (new line), or a capital X and P together, or a capital B and D together -- you may not see the stupidfaces, but many (most?) people reading your post do.

So when you say B.D.M (without the periods), you see capital B, capital D, capital M, but we see a big smiling idiotface followed by a capital M.

BDM

Janey, I totally agree!

All the census posted now looks like a complete dogs breakfast, it's awful.

I didn't know what was happening when I posted a census, until someone kindly explained it to me.

Also happened when I posted BDM (bdm) in capitals

We can't possibly remember all the emoticon codes when we're typing!

See what I mean! i can't post bdm in capitals!

WHAT AN EXPERIENCE!

XP


or, as this previously read

WHAT AN E:-PERIENCE!

:-P

Have you received an answer to your question to "theteam" by email?

Well, I did send it on Friday afternoon my time, so I'll give them a day or two.

;)

and they don't work from Friday 4 pm until Monday 8 am

:)))



sylvia

And this Monday (today) is a bank holiday.

So, a reply sometime towards the end of July then? :D



I must admit to liking emoticons as and when I want to use them but, it's a nuisance when they crop up uninvited :-(


I think the faces on Rootschat are more fun because some of them move! I really must get a life.......lol



Memo to self.......get out more ;-)



Cx

Sadly, some of us do work on Bank Holidays. I completely agree with you all about the annoyance factor when they are displaying when they weren't intended.

Such as when you put colon at then end of the line, what is saved is the colon ":" followed by the html character for new line, which is less than symbol followed by "br" then "/" then greater than symbol. The combination of the colon and first character of new line creates the icon. We will sort this out for the next release (due later this week).

From this thread, the situations are

Colon at end of line:

B D M together displays as BDM

E X Perience displays as EXPerience

For the record, the icons were implemented following user requests.
Regards - Phil Moir - Genes developer

Thank you Phil for your response

But I am not keeping my fingers crossed

This should not have been allowed to happen. There should have been more testing before going live on site

Thank you for replying, Phil.

I cannot see emoticons on genes reunited, but have happily used them for a few years now on various other sites.

All such issues being referred to genes reunited in this board should have been sorted out before the recent changes to the site were implemented, in my opinion.

Thank you Phil - sorry you have to work on a Bank Holiday, but it's good to know that the problem is to be addressed. :D

Cx.

Well I'm having to work! Of course, it's isn't a bank holiday here, and there's no work for me because Parliament doesn't sit until later this week ... well, there's that stuff that was due 3 weeks ago ...

mgnv has also added some other problems he has inadvertently created, in the other thread about this silliness.

I believe they are (with added spaces to prevent the code problem occurring)

= P

makes a dumbface, as in pob=Prince Edward Island

and

S 2

makes a cutesyface, as in Schedule S2

There are undoubtedly others ...

We have just rolled out a patch to resolve the unintended appearance of emoticons (thanks to Chris for that). It was caused by the option to allow 2 character shorthand versions to emulate the icons, which we have withdrawn. You can still use emoticons but behind the scenes it will only use three character versions. Our apologies for the frustration this has caused.

To see the change, you MAY have to force a refresh of your browser - this is normally CTRL+F5 together as you browser will cache the settings.

Regards Phil Moir - Genes developer
(I will lock this thread at the end of the day - maybe the owner of the thread can edit the title to include Completed - thanks)

Can now see the option to add emoticons but not tried them out

Yaaaaay!

I have checked back to the infamous Mr. Hill/Monck thread that I happened to have open, 7 pages defaced by random idiotfaces -- reloaded, and they're gone!!

I kind of like the easy codes for the things, e.g. ;) for wink, but I've seen even those that are unlikely to appear in text go awry at other sites that do use them, as well.

Now, if we could only get the two that are missing

- sad face (not frowny face, which is what the traditional sad face :( turned into)
- eyeroll

;-)

It's a little hard to be hugely grateful when a problem that shouldn't have existed takes so long to get fixed, and the people begging for relief only get attention by kicking up a huge fuss anywhere and everywhere available ... but it always feels good when you can stop banging your head against the wall.