[Wylug-help] firefox and bulletin boards
Smylers
Smylers at stripey.com
Wed Apr 27 22:34:17 BST 2005
James Holden writes:
> He's almost certainly posting on a board which uses an active X applet
> for the editor. Either that or it's Java and he doesn't have Java
> configured.
It could just be a JavaScript thingy, but one that uses 'IE'-specific
features. Here's a rich text editor thingy that does work in 'Firefox'
-- it's ghastly, but it's a proof of concept that these things are
possible:
http://www.freetextbox.com/
However, getting that to work in multiple browsers involves much hassle;
that there are sites out which have equivalents only working in some
browsers is not surprising.
Smylers
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