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[TeTeT]

The button besides a topics title that transfers to the last post in a thread is not working for me at all times. It seems to me that when images are displayed in the postings, it will transfer me to the wrong location in the thread. I use FireFox 2 on Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, Fedora Core 6 and Windows XP.

[+Erik]

Not sure I'm following you on this.

 

The only place this option is available is in your personal assistant.

 

It has always worked for me regardless of images being present in the post. The way it does work is transfer you to the thread not necessarily the last post in that thread. I guess I can see that point, but that's its function.

 

Let me know if I'm missing something.

 

Your OS and browser are compliant with our boards, they are not an issue.

 

Regards;

 

Erik

[TeTeT]

Not sure I'm following you on this.

 

The only place this option is available is in your personal assistant.

 

Sorry, I was using the wrong word then: I talk about the orange squares with the white lower right corner, which seem to present paging. They seem to call 'view=getnewpost', like in this example URL:

 http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=16031&view=getnewpost

 

They work fine most of the time, but not always.

[+Erik]

Yup that's what their supposed to do and I haven't noticed a problem with it, however now that you mention I'll take a peek when I have some posts I've not read available with images in them to see if I can duplicate the problem.

 

Thanks for the report, I'll advise.

 

Regards;

 

Erik

[+Erik]

I can reproduce the problem but I fear it's browser behavior that's to fault not the site. What's actually happening is the page loads and shows the last post like it should. Then if the thread has pics in it the browser loads the pics starting with the last one first. The browser then repages itself to the last image it loads which is usually the first one in the thread. Fairly annoying behavior I'm not sure can be designed around as I don't know of a way to tell the browser to load the images first. Now the good news is that if the images are already cached by the browser (read: you've viewed the post recently) then the page loads the last post fine as there's no need for the images to download they incorporate into the page just like text.

 

Erik

[+Erik]

I believe this is now fixed. :)