About those icons.....

[Oddysey]

Siamesecat:

Quote:Block images and use alt text instead? Works for me.

Not a bad idea, but I'd just as soon see the images, all things considered. Thanks.

ProxRocks;

Quote:You are not filtering cookie contents for this site, are you?
There is a "topicsread=" cookie spec. that is passed to an' fro' for those icons to function properly...

With a sidki 6/9 base config, everything is seemless on my end (after the AllowCookies change)...

Nope, no cookie filters. In fact, I can take Proxo out of the picture entirely, and I still get this bizarre behavior. As Kye-U noted above, I can't totally rule out cookies as the cause. In my case, it could be that dhost simply can't properly set, and then retrieve, a cookie on my machine.

Quote:I ...... click the "mark all posts as read" link at the bottom of the main page...

I have to admit, it hadn't even crossed my mind to do things manually! [lol] I'll give that a try, and report back here in a short while.......

<span style='color:red'>edit:</span> ProxRocks;
Manually clearing the unread posts marker on the main page does the trick - much grass, amigo!

<span style='color:red'>more edit:</span>
Sigh. Make that a big sigh. I hit the link, and I don't see the icons change. I refresh the page, and voila! - it's all updated. However, if I go to a topic, then come back, the updates have disappeared!! WTF?!?!? So I carefully check the address bar, and sure enough, there's a slight difference (doesn't matter what, just read on.....). It seems that when I hit the left-most link at the top of any page, that link might take me to what appears to be the same page, but in point of fact, I'm being served that page from a different addy. Hence, I deduce that to be the reason I don't see the most recent status vis-a-vis what topics I've read.

Now, to make matters worse, if I dive out of all browser sessions period (thus forcing a cache flush), then come back in, not only do I have to log in again, but the same old dark-blue icons have miracously returned. It's as if the link to mark them as read was not remembered at all. I'm really at my wit's end, I can safely tell you all that much!


Oddysey