[IMC-bristol] DADA says you have a virus

[James Venables]

Hello Mike & BIMC,

DADA says you probably have a virus. I sent them a report on the garbled 
text problem on the longer threads I've been complaining about for 
months, and they confirmed I wasn't imagining it ;o)

They give a possible solution below.

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James --

You can always reach support at dadaimc.org if you have questions, without 
wanting to subscribe to the list.

While I can't duplicate the problem you're seeing (feel free to send a 
screen grab if you can), I have no doubt that you're seeing it. And 
while the problem probably _did_ arise after the switch to dadaIMC, 
given your description of the layout, it sounds like a CSS problem. 
Bristol has customized the stylesheet for their site, and in so doing 
probably ran into a bug that only manifests itself with certain MSIE 
versions.

Consequently, it isn't really a dadaIMC bug so much as a customization 
issue with their stylesheet (see if you can get them to enable the 
"default" stylesheet temporarily, and see if the problem still exists 
after switching to the "default" theme). After that, you'd need to see 
if you can work with them to resolve the CSS problem and get rid of it.

Cheers,
spud.


On Jun 24, 2004, at 4:22 PM, James Venables wrote:

> Hello DADA,
>
> I'll be unsubscribing soon after as I've sent this, as I wasn't 
>planning to subscribe to this list, but that seems to be the only way 
>of communicating, as I'm only writing on behalf of Bristol Indymedia, 
>and don't want to get loads of tech stuff I don't understand sent to 
>my inbox :o)
>
> If you need to contact me with any further questions, please email:
>
> james at venables.plus.com
>
> THE PROBLEM:
>
> Since Bristol Indymedia switched over to DADA, earlier this year, 
>longer submissions have been unreadable on my PC. It looks as if two 
>out-of-synch versions of the post are layered on top of each other, 
>making the text unreadable.
>
> After checking with the techies on Bristol Indymedia, as well as 
>checking other PC's it seemed that the problem was to do with my PC, 
>and the Internet Explorer package I use, but a couple of other people 
>have since complained of the same thing, so it may be more widespread.
>
> An additional reason why it seems to me to be a problem with DADA, and 
>not just I.E is that this problem began when Bristol Indymefia switched 
>over to DADA, and only occurs when I visit Bristol Indymedia.
>
> But when I instead save the page it seems to come out ok, but this 
>doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist, as your average tech 
>illiterate punter will just see a garbled screen and not know what to 
>do, but I thought you should know in case that indicates what the 
>problem may be.
>
> When I use Opera things seem to be ok, so it's only I.E which has the 
>problem. The version of Internet Explorer I've got is 6.0.2800.1106IS
>
> Here's a couple of example threads which I've had problems with
> (which no doubt will look perfectly ok on your PC).
> http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire/display/17264/index.php
> http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire/display/16892/index.php
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Venables
> --  James Venables
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James Venables