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SL Page Editing Cutoff Problem
   

This page shall be a place to collect informations about the difficulties some people have with certain browsers when editing large SL pages. (To try,it out, go to Large Editing Test Page.)

rubilia: Apparently, I can hardly edit pages anymore without having to worry about unintendedly deleting the lower part of it. I am quite sure this issue has been discussed already elsewhere, but I canīt find it. What shall I do to fix that? I am visiting SL using Opera 7.5p3. Perhaps, this page will be cut off, too. However, I choose this one because, among the places prominent enough, the content below may be the least important one, so it can afford to remain invisible for some time until someone restores it, hopefully.

unkx80: I think you could revive the previous page.

rubilia: In the case of this page, pruning might be appropriate. However, what Iīd like to do right now is to (partly) undo a deletion of a particular discussion, but I donīt want to cut off that page. So why does that cutting off happen, and which settings of my browser or whatever do I have to change to avoid it?

Arno: as I told you by email, it seems like your browser is unable to handle text input fields larger than 32KB. Either you use another browser, or you refrain from editing large pages (or make large pages smaller). There's nothing else you or I can do.

rubilia: Thank for your reply, Arno. (Unfortunately, your mail seems to have arrived exactly on the day when my mailbox was unusable (overcrowded), hence I havenīt got any.) Perhaps the file size limitation is a matter of Opera 7.5 preview. I donīt remember to have ever experienced that problem before the upgrade.

rubilia: I have checked it again: Opera 7.23 behaves well, itīs Opera 7.5p3 only which shortens pages. However, at [ext] http://www.wikipedia.org Opera 7.5p3 does handle text areas bigger than 32KiB without problems. Strange, isnīt it?

Morten: The 'beta' (or 'preview' version as Opera like to call it) which you are using (although there is already a preview version 4...) comes with the following [ext] healthwarning:

 Due to the experimental nature of this release, upgrading a
 previous Opera installation is not recommended.

Report the issue to Opera - that is why they release betas....

Although I have been a keen Opera user for some years now, I went off their beta releases quite quickly and only use full releases nowadays...

Morten Just noticed that you reported it yesterday - it seems that they responded that there was a change in the behaviour between 7.5 preview 3 & 4 in the handling of text fields..? As mentioned, I don't play with Opera beta versions anymore - have you tried with preview 4?

rubilia: No, I haven't. Probably, I won't even try p4, cause it's said to be very buggy. To me, the text field size limitation is the only restriction of p3 so far, (better, compared to 7.23 final, btw), hence I will probably keep sticking to it in the near future. If I remember correctly, I have read some complaints about pruned pages at SL from time to time. I can't find these discussions anymore, nor can I recall which particular browser was causing this. However, if I expected to be the only one and Opera 7.5p3 to be the only browser experiencing that problem, then I wouldn't have created this page.



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