Why aren't my smilies showing up?

[Cal Weldon]

If clicking fails try typing in the symbol. If you want the 😱 to show up type "colon eek colon" with no spaces.

 

[sprinter]

If clicking fails try typing in the symbol. If you want the 😱 to show up type "colon eek colon" with no spaces.

I need to know the proper word for the yellow smile. Some of the names apparently aren't the same as what shows up when you mouse over the smilie. e.g. the eek says "EEK!"

😱 has always worked.

We can test with just those two.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Cal Weldon]

When you click the [More] under the smilies the words (or what you type) associated with the symbols come up for you. So for yellow smile it's colon, close parentheses.

 

[sprinter]

When you click the [More] under the smilies the words (or what you type) associated with the symbols come up for you. So for yellow smile it's colon, close parentheses.

Okay, heres a yellow smile 🙂 typed in

Yellow smile clicked in the right-hand menu

Yellow smile click in from the "more" menu



So, neither of the clicked-in smiles work, but typed colon ) does.

That a clue?

 

[purplepeople]

Javascript turned off?

 

[Pano]

Very strange - it's not inserting them at all, not even wrong. One would think it's a browser problem, but you changed browsers and computers. We might have to get the mechanics to look at your account.

 

[sprinter]

Javascript turned off?

No, but thanks for the tip.

We might have to get the mechanics to look at your account.

I'll be here...🙂 (typed in)

 

[Jason]

That the problem extends to multiple computers, and multiple browsers, is super, super weird. A colon stealing demon of some sorts? Bizarre. Anyone else with this problem? Try waving a rabbit foot directly above each computer and shouting wildly at the same time.

There are sometimes innovative workarounds for computer problems - YouTube - Crazed Office Man

Seriously though - what OS, OS version, browser, and browser version are you using?

 

[wintermute]

Sprinter, have the different computers and browsers been through different ISP's or on the same internet connection? I'm wondering if there is a problem with an upstream proxy server!

edit: BTW DQ828 seems to have been having the same problem: http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/foru...-displaying-properly-today-4.html#post2544831

Tony.

 

[wintermute]

I've noticed that I'm also having this problem! most of the time I only use two smilies 🙂 and 😉 which I always type. I've noticed lately when I've gone to do some of the others that I didn't know the code for off the top of my head that they weren't present after posting. The really weird thing is that they do show in the edit box if I do say the 😱 smiley by clicking on it it shows in the edit box however if I press preview post it disappears. It isn't all smiles though. below are all of the smiles at the right of the advanced box clicked on left to right top to bottom: 😛😎 as you can see some of them remained after a preview but a lot disappeared...

I've attached a pic of what the edit window looked like before I hit preview post.

Tony.

 

[wintermute]

Previous post was done in firefox 4.

This one in ie8 and the problem is the same. 😛😎

OS is windows 7 64 bit.

Tony.

 

[sprinter]

Curious that only some of us have this problem. Must be hard to fix the problem if they haven't done it yet. Oh, well, it's not exactly life threatening🙂 (typed)

 

[Pano]

Your computer must be in a bad mood. 😉

Certainly is strange.

 

[wintermute]

😛😎

OK well the above shows that it isn't OS related (this is my winxp laptop) and it isn't ISP related (I'm on my wireless connection).

I'm still using firefox 4.0

So that is two computers, two os'es, two browsers and two ISP's what is common? My userid... shame I can't test with another on either of these pc's.

Tony.

 

[Mooly]

I just type them usually

Lets try 🙂
and 🙂 from the smiles box
and from the more smiles

Just a thought... is it anything to do with later browsers (I'm thinking IE9) and problems that are fixed by running the site concerned in IE9's compatability mode. Do other browsers have that option ?

I have had weird forum problems just posting text (not diyAudio) where that has been the complete answer.

 

[wintermute]

ok so I've just downloaded google chrome lets see how it fairs...
🙂🙁😕😡😛😉😀😱🙄😎

Hmmmm I can see this one is going to work without even pressing the preview post button! The smileys have been pasted in as their text equivalents.

Both IE8 and firefox show the graphic in the editor box, Chrome shows colon confused colon for 😕

I'll have to check if there is a compatibility mode mooly, I'm sure this is something that broke after the optimisation of the site though...

Tony.

 

[cogsncogs]

Using FF 4.0.1 smileys appear in the text box when I click on them in the smiles box, but vanish when I hit the Preview Post button. When I type them they stay. 🙂 😉 🙁 😀 😎. From the smiley drop down they stay also.🙄 OK it's just certain ones in the smiles box not "sticking", 😛😎 namely the wink, big grin, embarrassment, smile, frown, confused, mad, roll eyes, EEK etc. 😀

 

[ByronInPortland]

me too

My smilies show up sometimes, and not at other times.

Sometimes the words describing smilies show up
I'm using Firefox.

 

[ByronInPortland]

for example. I put 2 smilies in the above post. The one that didn't show up was from the menu to the right of the message box. the one that did show up was from the extended selection which appears in the pop-up window.

OK, "confused" did not show up.

 

[M Gregg]

😛😎 <<<<from the right of the box <<<<<<<<<<this was all the smiles

😛😎<<<<<<<<<<<from the more box this was 7 of the more smiles

Strange isn't it!

It seems that some are blocked?


Regards
M. Gregg