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Offline Chiroptera

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Forum emoticons
« on: December 27, 2010, 06:11:18 PM »
It could just be my computer/connection, but the emoticons are showing up as words rather than pictures.


(It's kind of funny actually - people have random words tacked on to the end of their posts.)
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Re: Forum emoticons
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2010, 06:19:56 PM »
Quote from: Chiroptera on December 27, 2010, 06:11:18 PM
It could just be my computer/connection, but the emoticons are showing up as words rather than pictures.

(It's kind of funny actually - people have random words tacked on to the end of their posts.)

That'll happen when your browser for whatever reason fails to download the images. The words are the alt-text.
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Re: Forum emoticons
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2010, 06:22:27 PM »
Quote from: iago on December 27, 2010, 06:19:56 PM
That'll happen when your browser for whatever reason fails to download the images. The words are the alt-text.

Hmmm. Could be that the javascript isn't running for some reason or other, but nothing's been changed that should affect that. A mystery.
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Re: Forum emoticons
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2010, 06:35:54 PM »
They're not showing up for me, either.
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Re: Forum emoticons
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2010, 06:36:07 PM »
It looks like site avatars are also affected.  With those, and the emoticons, I'm getting the ? pictures.  Could it possibly have something to do with redoing the main site? Things moved from where they were, maybe?
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Re: Forum emoticons
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2010, 06:38:03 PM »
Nope, the images are still where they're supposed to be:

... and no javascript that I'm aware of was ...

Hmmmm .... (wheels turning)

Let me poke around with some stuff. That's an interesting thought.
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Re: Forum emoticons
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2010, 06:40:07 PM »
Freaking hilarious. All this time, it's been pointed at the old forum installation on the other site and I had no idea. :P
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Re: Forum emoticons
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2010, 03:11:10 PM »
Is that why your avatar still isn't showing up here?
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Re: Forum emoticons
« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2010, 03:36:28 PM »
Quote from: Yeratel on December 29, 2010, 03:11:10 PM
Is that why your avatar still isn't showing up here?

Must be. Son of a gun.
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Re: Forum emoticons
« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2010, 03:37:58 PM »
You know, that image is easily 10 years old at this point. I should maybe change it.
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Re: Forum emoticons
« Reply #10 on: December 29, 2010, 03:38:11 PM »
I thought he'd found the One Cyber Ring of Power.  :P
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Re: Forum emoticons
« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2010, 06:12:27 AM »
Quote from: iago on December 29, 2010, 03:37:58 PM
You know, that image is easily 10 years old at this point. I should maybe change it.

Actually, when I was new to the forum (not long ago) I wondered if that was actually you, and then when I saw you in the youtube vids of the recent dragon*con it was quite obvious that it is.  So IMO the image still works it.

Oh, and I just realized that you are wearing the ozzy specs that I recommended Eibhlin put on her son for his Nicodemus costume in this post
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Re: Forum emoticons
« Reply #12 on: December 30, 2010, 06:52:27 AM »
I was in YouTube vids? Wackass.
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Re: Forum emoticons
« Reply #13 on: December 30, 2010, 02:44:38 PM »
Quote from: iago on December 29, 2010, 03:37:58 PM
You know, that image is easily 10 years old at this point. I should maybe change it.

Naw. A cool pic is a cool pic.
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Re: Forum emoticons
« Reply #14 on: December 30, 2010, 03:17:34 PM »
Quote from: iago on December 30, 2010, 06:52:27 AM
I was in YouTube vids? Wackass.

Very briefly.  @8:45
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