Opera & Smilies

[Vincent]

Cheers for that Trooper, I'll try and download that later on today and try it out. :-D

[levelLORD]

Hi Vincent!

I'm using opera since version 3.xx, I think it's 3.60 and I love it! There is no better browser than that (at least for me). Right now I'm using 7.02 and it's working perfectly, actually, never better. OK, back to your problem. I'm just thinking that your problem is actually a java, you probably just have installed opera over old version and that's it? If that is true, you got to uninstall opera, java runtime environment and java webstart and to install new opera w/java again. Save your bookmarks before, and make sure to delete opera7 directorium before new instalation. If that is not an issue, I have no idea what it is... OK,
later

levelLORD

[Vincent]

Cheers for that levelLORD :-)

I actually installed Netscape with Java before getting Opera, but I'll try wht you've suggested and see if it works.

Here's hoping :-)

[ShadesOfGrey]

Are you supposed to see something like this?

It seems to me that Opera is incorrectly parsing the URL, "http://amiga.org/misc.php?action=showpopups&type=smilies&target=message","smilies",300,430" in the javascript.  It becomes "http://amiga.org/misc.php?action=showpopups&type=smilies&target=message%22,%22smilies%22,300,430" if you cut and paste it to another window and "Go" to it.  Removing "%22" in the URL takes you to the page I linked to above.

[levelLORD]

I just remembered something else... Go to opera's drop menu -->file-->preferences-->multimedia. Make sure that enable java and enable plugins boxes are checked, and click on fing plugins button. If there is no java plugin or whatever, reinstall opera, or at least java or any other plugin that doesn't wanna work. And finally, l just find out that _more_ does not work on my opera either... Well, however you like, just dont use M$IE, please... )
later

levelLORD

[Vincent]

Right.  Just tried a few things.

@Trooper

I can't find an earlier version of Opera to download, so I can't try 6.05 :-(

@ShadesOfGrey

The link and suggestion you supplied didn't work either :-(

@levelLORD

I installed Java with Netscape 7.0, then again with Opera.  I removed Java and Opera, and reinstalled them.  They still don't work. :-(

Preferences ---> multimedia, everything's fine there, all on what you've said.  That was the first thing I checked before posting here.

Don't worry, I won't be using IE6! ;-)  I'll use Netscape as a backup, failing that, I'll install K-Meleon aswell :-)

All that hastle over smileys?  I don't even know what you're looking at as I've never bothered to use a smiley.  I use Opera 7.  What should I be looking for to see if it works on mine?

[Vincent]

Hi LordSteven

Under the box where you type your message there's a few smilies.  Click on the more... bit and you should get a small window open containing more smilies.

This still doesn't work here.

All this hassle over smilies?

Well, I do use smilies regularly, so I notice them, if you don't use them, you'll never notice.

I'm just annoyed that I can't get them to work.

Okay, no, it does not show in Opera on my end either, although the source did come through and you can view it.  Probably some Javascript issue as it seems to parse the the available smileys using it.  Does it work in IBrowse?  

:pint: I'll use this one anyway.

LOL, in the oddities of the world, it does work in IBrowse.  That's messed up.  I've noticed that there is some java script that Opera doesn't like.  My guess is that's cause they are striving to make a browser that is based on the w3c standards, while others are trying to make their's like IE which uses non-standards approved HTML and Javascript.