 At some point soon you'll find a new menu located above the reply box in the forum, it's an upgrade to the forum which means:
• smilies       etc.
• images within the forum post
• youtube clips on the forum
• wysywig formatting of text, so bold in the composing box actually looks bold.
• you can also use your 'My Forum' page to switch the feature on and off
• there's also a spellchecker if you're bothered about stuff like that.
Couple of things to note: one is that you need Javascript switched on for all the new gubbinses to work. Next is that Safari users on the Mac will just have normal formatting buttons because of incompatibilities, it says here. Mac users can still use Firefox or Opera and have full functionality though. You can also see other people's images etc.
That's it. It'll apparently be along in a short while, enjoy and please post any feedback / problems here.
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sorry guys, the whole site is having to be reuploaded to the server, and it's complaining more than usual
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Right, as you've probably noticed, we don't have image insertion yet, but hopefully that'll be along in a minute We do have formatting and wysiwyg and links - which don't seem to work with Firefox on a Mac.
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 phew! long upload! 
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I think formatting for Firefox is working just fine, Jon 
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Phew
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Note: if you want to insert a Youtube clip, you need to use the URL rather than the embedding code
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link   - one
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And back to normal, spjelling?
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 Jon, If I nicely, will you add SubZero to the list of manufacturers so I can review all the bits of their kit I have tried over the years.... John
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 Isn't that typical? I went to a load of effort to learn how to do urls and bolds and stuff using square brackets, and was dead chuffed with myself that I could do it properly, and now anyone can do it!
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 I'm not getting any of this. I'm using Firefox on a PC.
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Sorry Kate.... looks like our ivory tower has been razed to the ground for an out-of-town shopping mall!
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 Hi John, I can add SubZero to the list for you - two ticks. Susan
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It's not working Jon! I can't see half the icons or pictures, nor do I get a menu offering me these goodies. What's changed for me is I no longer have the icons to do bold, italic or a link above the text field. Instead there is a purple box above to the left which has 'Nearly Normal Polar Bear says:' in it, and if I click on it it flies me to the top of the page. I'm not happy with that trade! Hmm, now when I edit text I get a menu bar but I can't actually see any of the icons, they all appear as that default 'there is an icon here' symbol!
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NNPB, may I ask a bit more: - Do you mean you can't see the formatting bar (the buttons for bold, smilies etc)?
- If so, has the page definitely finished loading? (it can be slow the first time, until it's cached)
- Do you mean you can't see smilies, images etc in other people's posts?
- And which version of FF are you using? And do you have, eg Javascript switched off?
many thanks Sean, Magicalia edit: just read your last post while I was typing this. How odd. Is it working in IE on your PC? And other images around the site are loading fine, presumably.
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Sean, I think the Polar Bear's sloped off for the evening.
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