Hi, I've noticed a usability problem on the forums, and I'm not sure if it's Firefox or the forum code itself that is to blame. The issue is that many commonly-used characters are handled inconsistently. The most problematic one is the plus sign, "+," which cannot be typed as-such; instead the HTML character code #43 must be used. As mentioned, however, this behavior is inconsistent. For instance, when editing a post where character codes were used, the text box contains not those codes as typed, but rather the characters they represent -- which means that one must again go through the post and replace all instances of certain characters by their codes. This is even more problematic and inconsistent in "source" UBB tags: I find that there, the usual plus character can be used (as opposed to the HTML character code) the first time the post is written, but the post cannot be edited: If the plus character is used in the edit, it simply appears as a blank space in the post, and if the character code is used, then it appears in the post as the code rather than as the character. If this only occurred for certain "strange" characters like letters-with-accents, this would not be much of a problem. But for a character as commonly used as the plus sign, it's real usability problem. Do other people have these issues?

The issue with the plus sign is only in the preview window. Even if it doesn't appear there, it will appear in your post.

Really? That's all it's been all this time?

---- TEST ------
2 + 2 = 4

3 + 5 = 8


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Ok, that works. Good to know. Thanks!

(Hmmm... how hard would it be to fix the preview IFRAME? Let me look at how this is implemented...)