I can't cry

[TechGuy]

I could not adequately express my sorrow in the thread about the news that another Munchkin has passed away. The crying smiley was rendered as text rather than the emotive heartstrings tugging human tap. This is not the first time I have noticed this phenomenon as several times previously I have found it necessary to downgrade my grief to just sadness using the sad face smiley instead which does render correctly. Even though I doubled up and used two sad face smilies it still did not convey my true heartbreak. I can envisage potential inter-personal problems further down the line if a someone should misinterpret the level of my empathy in a post should I have to resort to mere sadness again rather than bawling my eyes out. Please fix this you amazing wizard behind the PHO curtain before I shed real offline tears over this issue.

What I wanted --->

What I got --->

What I had to do --->    (not quite the same is it?)

[jotee]

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heartbreaking news indeed

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[Scratchibum]

I've had this before, can't remember how it fixed itself!  Have you tried different browsers??

[riaY]

My heart goes out to you sweetheart  :'( :'( :'(

[Michael]

Hi

I would imagine you have a corrupt cache on you PC.

Download CCleaner and run that, this will clear all your browser, cache, history and temporary Internet files..

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login It is free, and I use it all the time.

Hopefully that should fix it..

The problem is local to your PC rather than a problem with the forum.

Thanks
Michael

[TechGuy]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your response. I am almost certain that whatever is causing this issue is not local and more likely a server side issue. As it happens I already am a user of CCleaner and regularly clear all the junk that my browser accumulates. Anyway, I have come by further evidence today that it is not a problem with my browser, Internet connection or PC. If you look at this You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login in the 'Brand new what are you listening to' thread you'll see that the crying smiley was not rendered.

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I have viewed that post in different browsers and that is still the case. Just to be absolutely certain that it is not something local i.e. my browser not loading the the crying smiley Animated GIF image from your server I viewed the source code for that section of the post and this is what your server outputted:

Code: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login

<br /><br />A song to&nbsp; :&#39;( then&nbsp; <img src="http://www.psoriasis-help.org.uk/forum/Smileys/yabb/smiley.gif" alt="Smiley" border="0" /> with
As you can see the crying smiley Animated GIF image is not actually linked to but the happy face smiley Animated GIF image is. It is not actually possible for this output to have arisen due to browser, cache, PC problems or anything with a local explanation. Even if the browser could not load the image from the server or local cache then you'd still see the link in the HTML source code and furthermore you'd see a broken image rather than the text version of the smiley.

It should be noted that in both my original Munchkin post and in the Dire Straits song post there is a video embedded from YouTube in the post - could this be a contributing factor. I should also add that the crying smiley renders correctly on 'Preview' and the issue only arises after the post is submitted.

Thanks,
Ives

[Michael]

Thanks Ives, appreciate you taking the time to post this.. I will have to do some tests to try and work out what is happening

[Midge]

I'll have a cry on your behalf - you don't need to thank me, it's the least I can do...
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[Michael]

 :'( :'( :'(    :'(  :'(   :'(

but it doesn't work with an image in the post, how bizarre

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[mustang]

Look at you 2 out-geeking each other