Forum down for conversion

[Steven_L_Intel1]

The Intel Software Network Community site will be unavailable while we migrate the forums.
During this time: 9.00am to 10.00am PST Friday, June 23, 2006

Users will not be able to login, register, post or reply in the forums. Users will only be able to read the posts.
During this time: 10.00am to 7.00pm PST Friday, June 23, 2006

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Note from Steve - the new forum software will be somewhat different from what there is now, with some nice new features. Once it's up, please let us know of any problems.

[Jugoslav_Dujic]

I know it's not your decision, but every time Intel or Compaq changed the Forum software (and those were some 4 major and a dozen minor "upgrades") we encountered brand new collections of bugs; while the current software is far from perfect, at least I learned to live with its quirks.

Oh well, time to get used to a new subset of quirks. Life goes on...

[Steven_L_Intel1]

True enough. But at least now, the forum software will be directly controlled by Intel and not through an outside vendor, so perhaps problems will be attended to more quickly than in the past. Also, I am sure there will be some startup issues - please be patient as we work through them.

[Jugoslav_Dujic]

Well, OK. Less initial problems than I expected. First impressions:

• User interface is somewhat sluggish, but generally acceptable. It takes quite a long time after this (compose) page becomes operable.
• Layout of "My profile" page is broken in Firefox, although it's OK in IE
  
• I don't see the place for "My signature" in My profile? Conversely, it's lost from all my previous messages (I used to type it manually before, but lost the habit in the meanwhile)
• How can I get rid of this ugly Times New Roman while composing the message (it is not in the list of my browser's default fonts)?

• I dare not look if old attachments still stick... ("Insert Smiley" dropdown doesn't work, btw :-) )

• "Pre/Code" button could be explicitly put on the toolbar instead of being hidden under "Preformatted" entry of "Paragraph" dropdown (which causes odd spacing of this list, btw)

There will be more, I'm sure...
...also:

• Navigation could be bit better; the link to IVF Forum is tiny on the top of the page, and I didn't find a way to easily get out of "My profile" other than hitting "Back" several times
• The view of the messages is too narrow, and looks optimized for 800x600.
  

[Intel_C_Intel]

Signature should now be under Preferences at the top of the page above the forum search box. Most of your other complaints I've already had myself and reported.

Times New Roman is a standard Windows font.

[anthonyrichards]

I posted this in the welcome thread, but am repeating it here in case it was not seen...

The new forum software gives me a large blank right hand section of screen that could be used to expand the post into,so the posted textoccupies only about half the space available for it and forces the use of a horizontal scroll bar when it should not be necessary. Here is a screen shot of my display. I use IE6.

....umm, I am still looking for the attachment button or option!!. I will try a paste...

No, that doesn't work either...what to do?

(I posted any way and tried an Edit, hoping an attachment button would appear, but no luck.

Plus, how do I cancel an edit?

Plus, 'Reply' when not logged in leads you back to the Intel home page, forcing one to navigate back to the Fortran forum..

[Intel_C_Intel]

I answered in the other thread, but will probably remove those posts after a bit. I already complained about the unused whitespace, but I don't have hopes of getting it resolved because it seems to be a corporate design thing. Sigh. The other issues I'll have worked on.

[dbruceg]

Minor bug - format problem - header line of posts chops the last couple of digits of the previous post number

[anthonyrichards]

'..the unused white space....seems to be a corporate design thing...'. A corporate decision to waste space? Why am I not surprised?

[garylscott1]

Argh.

1. Great difficulty (i.e. impossible) getting logged on with my existing account (garyscott). The system forces completion of a profile, yet all fields are defautled to uneditable. I could not get around that. Any time it prefilled top sections with my existing info, all fields except the promo code were uneditable (both IE 6 and NS 7.1). Had to create a new account.

2. Recommend change the background of the "sticky" messages to separate those from the "non-sticky" ones.

[Jugoslav_Dujic]

Also, in Firefox, keyboard navigation is pretty much broken; it has mixed success on the other Intel site pages. Ctrl+End don't work on threads, so I have to scroll manually. Ditto for PageUp/PageDown.

[anthonyrichards]

In short, it would appear that the developers of this software
a) Have Portrait-format VDU screens, OR
b) Have normal screens with Post-it notes covering the right hand half, AND
c) Dont get out enough to know about other browsers besides IE, AND
d) Do not want you cluttering up the boards with attachments OR to post source code.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Attachments are coming back soon. As for code posting, you can type or paste the code and then apply the Formatted style (last pulldown).

The wasted whitespace is due to the corporate "C-clamp" design - content is not allowed to extend past the end of the header and footer elements.