Anthems, Firefox And You

All you Firefox users... Have you had trouble opening up attachments on anthems.com.au? Every attachment I click on opens the attachment as if it was a txt file. Is this a Firefox thing or a forum thing?

Does anyone know a fix?

HELP!!

yeah, i've had the same prob aswell dave. ever since the uploading permissions shit happened.

i think its software prob. how it deals with it.

Happens to me in Safari.

yeah im having some issue.

and i think with IE aswell

when paul put that " public announcment" picture up the work computers couldnt open it either.

i use opera and i have problems as well with the attachments.. comes up with criptic stuff


*shrugz*

yep, modzilla firefox here and thats what I've gotten as well

IE seems to work fine, but there's no way i'm going to use that again... Can't find anything on the Mozilla forums either. Does anybody have any mates that would know about this stuff?

i have been using firefox, never had a prob

it's to do with the coding of the web page. firefox is a standards based browser which means it has been made to spec and to do the one job, it's just doing what it's told with the info it gets. who ever the code monkey is is the only one who can help us here... fuck your IE, ff displayes pages faster anyway. - same reason opera and other browsers have issues too... don't get me started on my hatred of IE, oh how it makes my blood boil....

This post has been edited by philbert: Apr 21 2006, 09:18 AM

i'm not going back to ie either, ff just get better and better but thats another issue ...

i am posting now just to try out attaching a pic to a post :

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and that seems to work ok, so it's not exactly like the permissions error of a few weeks ago ... but i still get the binary garbage when opening attachments, like the flyer for The Supperclub. To me it means that our browsers are not seeing the file as a pic but as a binary file and are interpreting it as best they can. This will give us the closest match to ascii characters that can be made from the bytes in the jpg/gif/whatever

If IE is working then there is a "standards issue" as Philbert pointed out (see many global discussions re: IE and standards). As at least three other browsers are having this issue with attachements I would be checking the server config, maybe it's handling of mime-types? Unless there have been some code modifications in the last 2-3 months I would not suspect the coding (all php?) of the page itself as it has been working well in the past. Have there been any version updates or even changes to the skin recently?

edit:// I have now added a larger file to this post and have been permitted to do so: can you all open it ok in your browser of choice? (I think it's great that we have four browsers running when few years ago it would have been only one of two ...)
Joker: can you get this one ok too?

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edit2:// works great for me in IE6.0 but using FF1.5.0.2 still no good for "Click to Enlarge". HTML standards anyone?

i remember when i set up my server online i had problems with getting it to generate php pages instead of dumping the full binary info to the client.

ok, here's another wierd thing. on the second picture that tobes sent do a right click and "save target as..." in IE it tries to save as index.htm but in FF it tries to save it as index.php..... <insert twilight zone music>

but the point of that excercise was to see if the data was still identical - i renamed the saved attachment to .jpg and low and behold the picture was displayed. I think we have found the one good part about IE, despite the data it recieves it will still try and use/display it. which is also the single worst part about IE cos if you give it malicious code it will try like hell to execute it.....

so it brings me back to my point that the coding of the page is off as it appears to not be sending the mime type along with the data or some shit like that. unless there were core package upgrades on the box a little while ago, it shouldn't be anything to do with server config - if it originally worked... but i'd need to speek in person with the server admin to try and trouble shoot this one.

who is the admin??? what access to the rest of you guys have?? where can i get some tang?!


test,
does it do the same for GIF's??

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ok, it does, shit!

This post has been edited by philbert: Apr 21 2006, 04:02 PM

yes same with giffs....


then again.. my eyes right now......, ouch....




u are both geeks....

thanks del ... good company to be in ...

tobes.. it is belive me

geeks make this world operate


long live geeks!

issues tho... at work and here earlier...

ok, so we've established that geeks are cool cos they've done some ok things but are we closer to resolving this issue? i was serious when i said i'd help debug and sort this problem out, Foonji, who do i send an email to to help get shit fixed? what is the licencing structure of this web site, can we mofify the code ourselves or does the original coder have 100% rights to it? - even though it's php he still may own the intellectual property that is the layout and form of this site...

seriously, lets fix this shit

guys??

pb

lol.. me? paul is the one who set this up, gotta speak to him. i'll try to remember when i next speak to him in the next few days

cool, i knew you were the man and sorry for my blunt comments on a thread a while back about dodgey time stamps... just out of curiosity who hosts this site and how much is it costing "anthems". also what't the deal you've got going on the domain name? just out of personal curiosity and like i've said before may be able to help out.