FCKeditor does appear to have this feature - sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php  - been complaining about the R'osity right-click disabled option since it was implemented, 'cos Mozilla had the spellchecker available (as an add-on) prior to Firefox 2.0.

If they can't fix it, put a simple "Quick Reply" without any WSIWYG or editor features (restrictions ;-)) on bottom of each page for text replies, and have FCKeditor on a followup Reply page and/or the Preview page.  This will save bundles of bandwidth too, by not downlaoding FCKeditor EVERY TIME just on the statistically slight offchance that it will actual be used.

MikeJ,

If not tried already, type:

about:config

in the URL Address/Location field of Firefox 2.0.  Enter

spell

in the filter field, then set

layout.spellcheckDefault

to 2 (from 1).  You'll now have spellchecking on single-line input fields as well.

karanta, 

Re all those Sydney face dials, you should perhaps look to installing my old Poser 5 Dial tweak.  It works in P6 and apparently still works in P7.  Netherworks has it on his site under Poser 7 (or you can find it under Poser 5 Tips & Tricks at poserpros).  It'll reduce the real estate used per dial by at least 50% (vertically) allowing you to see way more dials at once, without any reduction in functionality, and to me it makes the dial name much more readable too.  Just a thought...

Oh, and I see this site has Stylesheet overload:  11 (yes, eleven) referenced style sheets according to my browser, plus a large in-line stylesheet in addition (!) at the top of this page, and css style commands embedded in the code for this page(!?!).

Overlooking the fact that there can't be enough entities to be described to need 11 separate sheets as well as the 2 lots of inline stuff without at least some duplication (it looks to me as if everything is defined in the 2 inline ones), every incline/embedded css style command is pure wasted bandwidth loaded, and reloaded, on every page display, defeating the browser's caching attempts made possible by referenced stylesheets.

Getting the inline style stuff out of the pages will speed up everything including the webserver and the PHP engine.  And if this basic an oversight still exists after, what, 4 months?  What else probably still lurks?

I think you'll find the speed of the site is related to the user's computer!  Which is why there is so much variation in perception.  Yeah, seems impossible, but if you have a slow PC and/or video card and/or limited memory, this site will run slow.

Here's an example - and yeah, I still have a 1GHz PC with a very old/average video card - open a fresh copy of a modern browser with Tab support, and go ahead and open about 6 tabs pointing to R'osity Forums.  After about 4 or 5 you'll find your even your mouse starts to behave bizarrely, and take a long time to react.  Go up much above 8 tabs and the browser will be unusable while any network traffic is occurring.

And before anyone ridicules 6+ tabs, that's the fastest way to read Forums, esp. from a slow site, middle-button click each article you want to read on that page, click next page, and go read the others while it refreshes.

Now, I've not found ANY other site in the universe that behaves this way.  Heck, a 286 outta be enough to run a browser.

The reasons may be many, but one that seems obvious to me is:

 - This FCKEditor (that's its name not an expression of my opinion of it) uses a huge amount of javascript resources.  Nothing against FCKEditor, or even the amount of resources - I use a very similar one.  But not on EVERY PAGE!  Have it on a click to bring up when/if you reply.  Or do what almost every other forum with a reply box does: have a simple no-bells-&-whistles "Quick Reply" box on bottom of every forum page, with a button to take you to the FCKEditor "wsyiwyg" editor version if you want/need it.  (And also please install the FCKEditor option to NOT take away the built-in spellcheckers available in today's browsers - or pay the $$$ to FCK for his spellcheck utility.)

But clearly something is very wrong - which cannot be related to server speed, network traffic, or anything else out on the 'Net - when your otherwise very slick and fast browser suddenly starts to fall over itself just because you went to www.renderosity.com and dared to open more than 1 tab/window...

BTW, I rarely come here to the Forums anymore - just came to read reviews of DAZ V4 - so this isn't a complaint, more an attempt at constructive criticism.  It really makes no diff. to me if the speed of this site is ever fixed or not, as I personally was driven out of near-daily involvement with this community when this new/improved service was rolled out.

Kuladen,  I think I know what's causing it, but Howard is the man to tell you for sure.  Go to his website (hogsoft.com) and post in the PBooost forum there, and I know he will help you.

While there must be some, it's hard to imagine that you'd notice it.  System resources is not the issue under W2K/XP that it was under Win9x.  Nor does it affect Poser memory significantly - it uses Poser Python (PPP/P5/P6) (or P4PyE for P4 which uses zero Poser memory) instead of the library panel, so as the latter is very image intensive, it seems unlikely to increase memory usage.  (The library manager will still occupy memory of course due to Poser's total lack of any real memory management.)

And PBIIalso no longer resides in memory between Poser sessions a la the original PB, relying instead on the included Hogsoft Hub which uses a very, very small memory footprint in your Windows Tray, but can reload PBII in a click.

Trade this against huge user workflow improvements, and modern mouse support - thumbwheel, right-click menus, etc.  (If you have 2 monitors, PBII can reside on the other monitor and always be visible.)  And anything has to be better than that ridiculous near-circular pop-out menu selection at teh top of P5/P6 library panel!!!

Attached Link: http://www.hogsoft.com

As the announcement says, with PBooost II SR1 you can now ditch the Poser Library Folder system ENTIRELY.  Or, just leave it shut, and use that valuable space for something else.

As is typical of Howard, SR1 is entirely free (to PBII owners), and even most of the PBooost -> PBooost II monies goes to an arts charity.  Which is one reason Howard remains not a rich man ;-)  So help him out by making PBooost "Super Popular", eh?

BTW, if you want to see the info on PBooost problems, look on Howard's own site - www.hogsoft.com.  Everything's there for you to see.  But I should warn you, there still isn't much though, and if you break it down, you'll see that each significant problem - even if it's a "nut behind the wheel" problem - gets fixed PDQ in a update.

(Full Disclosure:  I'm a long time beta tester for Howard - after getting PBooost early on - but I do NOT gain financially in anyway from sales of PBooost.  But the FII plug-in is another thing entirely ;-)

I see that VM Server (www.vmware.com) is now free.

Anyone ever tried Poser under VMware?  Only real requirement for running VMware is a lot of memory (circa 2GB and up).

[ VMware allows you to run Windows (or Linux) as a virtual machine under Linux (or WIndows).  This in theory should allow Poser to run on Windows on a Linux system. ]

If you use Mozilla/SeaMonkey/Firefox take a look at PageInfo.  You'll see why it's slow...  Alternately, clear cache completely, and load up a R'osity Forum Page.  It'll take minutes to finish loading.

There are about a dozen StyleSHeets (instaed of 1) and huge number of Anchors, and FCKeditor on every page!  The latter is a big culprit.  Almost (all?) other PHPbb-like forums either have no reply on the main forum page, or a quick reply (no formatting, etc.)  FCKeditor is just too unweildly to load on the slight offchance that it might be used.

nrudduck,

Thanks for clarifying.  I realise that that workaround will work for FireFox, but alas not for Mozilla.

The real fix is in the hands of Renderosity's programmer...

Hmm, I too am confused.

I'm using latest Mozilla, but an early version of Firefox, so I downloaded FF 1.5.0.6, and installed on a system which had never had a previous FF install.  Leaving everything at default, and using no proxies, no blockers, no special settings, nothing, I logged into R'osity and clicked on wolmol's Delivery Truck:  a winodw opened and displayed www.poseatier.com.  Without touching  the download window I then went back to R'osity free stuff and clicked on EvilInnocence's Short Dress Textures:  www.evilinnocence.com appeared in the SAME window as, and thus overwrote, www.poseatier.com.  To confirm this I clicked the Back button on the window displaying www.poseatier.com, and www.evilinnocence.com appeared.

With "old" style Free Stuff I would have had a total of 3 windows open after performing the same steps:  R'osity Free Stuff, www.poseatier.com and www.evilinnocence.com  (and teh Back buttom would have been greyed out on both of them).

Karen,  No.

nrudduck, What's Tab Browsing got to do with it?

Refer back to initial message please:

Until new freestuff was implemented it was possible (using my current Mozilla & Mozilla Firefox browsers - with their still current settings) to click on more than 1 Free Stuff Download link.  The result was a number of site- (or blank bot-prevention- ) windows opening, and EACH DOWNLOAD PROCEEDING IN PARALLEL.

With new Free Stuff it is not advisable to click on a second Download link, deliberatelyu or even accidentally, as the 2nd download will open into the exact same new browser window as the 1st one.  And thereby overwirting and interrupting any activity stemming from the 1st site.

I believe that old Free Stuff used a generic form of thye NewWindow command (e.g. Target="_blank" or similar) which lets the browser handle the new window naming and allocation.  The new Free Stuff is using a specific name for the new window, and then uses that same name for each subsequent download link, forcing the browser to overwrite the first download site.  If as Karen reports the problem does not occur on her browser, then my hunch is that she uses a version of IE, and new Free Stuff is using an IE-specific extension of W3C HTML...

This new approach does reduce teh number of windows open (to a max of 2), but is way less flexible and versatile.  So I was merely wondering if the "old" functionality - or it's equivalent - could be put back.

And for the record, I was only trying to help ouyt the developemnt process.  I hardly come here to assist and learn from others anymore - since the "new PHP" version - it's imply too hard to use IMHO, as it kills the fun when it a) slows my browser to a crawl at times, b) locks it for seconds at a time periodically, c) crashes it, and d) disables the Back button (which incidently it did NOT do until the fix for the disabled Back button was implemented!!!).  None of teh above happens with ANY other website, nor did it with old-style Renderosity.

TIA
p.s.  I do wish spellchecker still worked on Mozilla+Renderosity, but alas the right-click in this FckEditor (that's its name, not a reflection on its feature set ;-) in Renderosity's implementation is usurped to only allow/provide Cut, Copy, and Paste (which I never use, Ctrl-C, etc., being so much quicker) rather than my personal default  browser settings which offers me a spellchecker and so much more (in addition to Cut, Copy and Paste!).  So in the meantime speeling errors will persist until normal service can resume :-O

Karen,

Mozilla 1.7.13.  Also get same result in Firefox...

Old free stuff opened a new broswer window for each free item accessed.  New free stuff reuses the same (named) browser window for each and every item.  Can the old method be retorfitted to new free stuff please?  Else 1 slow/busy freestuff provider's site holds up all exploration of teh rest of free stuff.

TIA.

Sorry, late to this thread (don't come here much since the redesigned-to-crawl version of R'osity ;-)

Your best bet is CPG-Nuke.  It's PHP-Nuke redeveloped to remove most if not all of the security holes from which PHP-Nuke has always suffered, and also to speed it up immensely.   It's also easier to install that PHP-Nuke - as it's mostly all automatic - and easier to manage - very little need to know any HTML.  I've managed 2 websites under PHP-Nuke, and 5 under CPG-Nuke, and would never, ever go back.

P.S.  Sorry for spelling, but new designed-as-a-deterrent R'osity interface prevents my spellchecker plug-in from being called (right mouse button is usurped)..