topic text box makes you think you can enter more text tha

SerfurJ · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Texas

the topic text box in the "post new topic" form lets you type more than is displayed once the post is submitted.

ian! · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:44 am Post subject:

It's limited to 60 characters. The input-type definition also defines that so that the browser should not allow the user to enter more than 60 characters. What Browser are you using?
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SerfurJ · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Texas

you're right, it's probably my browser. i'm using elinks. (embarrassed)

masseya · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject:

This only annoys me w.r.t. the GLSAs which sometimes are not very clear given the limit.
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SerfurJ · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Texas

i don't think it was my browser. it also happens with firefox 1.0.1. see here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-312414-highlight-.html

ian!

SerfurJ · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Texas

the original subject i entered in that post was 'kernel message "irq 6 nobody cared" when floppy is disabled'. i'm not sure why "disabled" was cut off. it's not happening right now.

SerfurJ · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Texas

it just happened again (using firefox 1.0.2).

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-314098-highlight-.html

see if you can reproduce it on a new thread.

SerfurJ · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Texas

one more example: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2147521.html

masseya · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:53 pm Post subject:

This is not a browser issue. It's a phpbb thing. Subjects are limited to 60 characters.
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SerfurJ · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Texas

if the browser doesn't follow html standards, then it could be a browser issue (which is why i'm testing with firefox). i think it's being caused by a disagreement between the html and phpbb code, but somehow it's not consistant. nothing's changing on my side.

masseya · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:23 pm Post subject:

No, it's really a phpbb thing. The thread subjects are stored hacked off to a 60 character limit as ian! said earlier, so it should be impossible to go to any of those links and see a thread subject longer than that. Here's a description of how it could be changed to 120 with a few changes: http://www.phpbbhacks.com/forums/archive/o_t/t_29612/increase_possible_subject_length.html
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Given M. Sur · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject:

Firefox 1.0.2-r1 doesn't let me type in more than 60 characters.

SerfurJ · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Texas

here's the problem:

masseya

SerfurJ · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Texas

i submitted a bug report:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87339

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