There is a long living bug in your board software with the "Preview Post" button. If you use it without adding a picture link, you will see a preview of the text as expected. But if you use the "Post Message" button from the preview, all you get is this error message: > Form validation error > Only .GIF, .JPG, .PNG or .TXT files can be uploaded > Please press Back, correct the errors, and try again. I would guess that the software checks for the picture name extension but fails to handle messages without pictures at all. We can live with this (the workaround is to use the browser "back" button and post from the previous page), but I think it would be better to either repair the button, or just to delete the button - having a button which creates nothing but the error message is not that useful... :-)

Thanks. We're aware of this one, and just haven't had the time to look into it. I'll try to look at it today.

I was unable to replicate the bug using your description. I was able to Preview and then Post messages both with and without images with no errors. If you can replicate the problem, please tell me exactly what you did. Feel free to use the Community Ideas forum to test in.

Ooops - it's an iCab bug. The reply above was done with iCab and a picture, but then it failed without one. However, it just worked with IE - so it must be a bug in the way how iCab submits the form data. Sorry for this false alarm...

No problem.

rcook, I think I found the reason. On the "preview" page, IE creates this snippet: < FORM action="messages.ez" method="post" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="Subject" value="Re: Preview Post bug" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="ForumID" value="12357" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="NotifyPost" value="Y" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="Body" value="test" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="LinkURL" value="http://" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="ImageURL" value="" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="ParentID" value="367924" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="Content" value="???" > < INPUT type="submit" name="SaveMessage" value="Post Message" > < /FORM > iCab creates this: < FORM action="messages.ez" method="post" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="Subject" value="Re: Preview Post bug" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="ForumID" value="12357" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="NotifyPost" value="Y" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="Body" value="test" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="LinkURL" value="http://" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="ImageURL" value="???" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="ParentID" value="367924" > < INPUT type="hidden" name="Content" value="???" > < INPUT type="submit" name="SaveMessage" value="Post Message" > < /FORM > So the reason for the bug is the ImageURL entry - if you don't specify a file with the button, IE leaves it empty, but iCab gets creative and sets the value to "???". I guess that your board software stumbles about the fact that "???" is no valid filename. Do you know if this "???" is legal behaviour for a browser, or a violation? If it's a bug I will tell the iCab folks about it.

Thanks for the update. I've put some code in to try to trap this difference. Let me know if the "???" are gone now. Thanks.

Posted from Preview! If you can read this then it will work now... :-)

I checked it twice - posting from preview works now, and the ImageURL is empty now (instead of "???") as well. Thanks a lot - great work!!! :-)