After pulling every hair out of my head I finally found what was bugging Mac Firefox in large threads.
Turns out to be those nifty scrollbars on large comments.
So we had to remove them (deleting a single crushing line of CSS code) for the time being. Some people disliked them anyway, and all Mozilla browsers were having some problems displaying them.
Mac Firefox now works, and Camino scrolls the pages quickly too, even in vast threads that are expanded. Still, you'll have the best performance with an updated Safari on Mac OS 10.3 or 10.4.
I sincerely apologize for not discovering this problem earlier and causing any of you discomfort. We thought the scrollbars were a good idea (they let huge images be seen, for instance), but you can always just shrink comments that are too large and hogging the page. It's possible we could turn them back on for some browsers in the future, perhaps as a preference.
Give things a try now and let us know in this thread if you're having further difficulties. We're still working diligently on making sure everything works, but this fix was too important to wait on.
-peeder
DAILY KOS AJAX COMPATIBILITY
Common Considerations:
The site will look and work much like the old site does with JavaScript disabled, or with browsers that don't support Ajax (old ones, mobile phones like the treo, etc.). This is called "legacy mode". The technology that makes that support so smooth, by the way, has the lovely name "progressive enhancement."
WINDOWS
Recommended Browser: Firefox 1.5
Firefox 1.5/1.07:
- No known issues, but staying up-to-date is recommended
- Greasemonkey extension is emphatically NOT supported: if you load that hack onto your browser, uninstall it before reporting problems.
Internet Explorer 6 (Including AOL Explorer and Netscape 8 in IE mode when IE 6 installed):
- Links created with link editor are pasted in at the end of comments. They can of course be moved from there with a cut and paste.
- Animations are disabled
- Find on page is broken when you Expand a page that was loaded as shrunk. The workaround is to reload in Expand Always mode, with Autorefresh off.
- Autorefresh may cause periodic "clicking" sounds as it loads (the same sounds as if you were pressing the reload button manually); these can be turned off in the Sounds tab of the Sounds Control Panel: Set the "Start Navigation" sound to "(None)".
- Renders faster than Firefox, but JavaScript is slower
- IE7 beta 2 "works" much like IE6
Internet Explorer 5.5:
* All IE6 problems. Even so, upgrading is recommended.
Internet Explorer 5.0, Netscape 4 and earlier are all stuck in legacy mode (no Ajax).
Opera 8.5:
- Autorefresh sometimes makes comments disappear, sometimes doesn't work
- Back button may sometimes require numerous presses (use rewind button)
- Parent links on comments in /story mode open an ugly page instead of scrolling up.
- These issues, true for all Opera platforms, will be fixed in Opera 9.x
MACINTOSH
Recommended Browser: Safari
Safari 2.x (on 10.4 Tiger) / 1.3x (on 10.3 Panther):
- No known issues provided Safari is updated via Software Update
Safari 0.x/1.x (Early versions on 10.2 Jaguar):
- These browsers are not supported.
- The site will render, but some links will not be clickable
Firefox 1.5.0.1/1.07/Netscape 7.2:
- Should now work fine.
- Not as fast as Safari, or as pretty.
Camino 1.0:
- Will support Ajax usage on 10.2 Jaguar
Opera 8.5:
* Same problems as Windows Opera 8.5
Internet Explorer 5.2:
- Uses legacy mode...no Ajax support
- May be best browser for 10.2 Jaguar and earlier
LINUX
Recommended Browser: Firefox 1.5
Firefox 1.5:
Konqueror 3.4:
