Re: IE 4 on the Mac

Marc Antony Vose wrote: > hey everyone: > > ok, we all know this is a horrible browser (can't do file uploads, > putrid javascript support), but can anyone confirm that it will just > drop text from a textarea when you submit a form? > > i've got a standard form-db interface i wrote, and i've got a bunch > of people posting film descriptions and they're getting truncated. > the weird thing is, there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to > the truncation (like a number of characters or whatever). > > is the only solution to this a message that says "please don't use > this browser"? > That's a good suggestion but anyway, the only thing I can think of is the field is longer than 255 characters on a GET form. Try making the METHOD of the form POST. Or make sure your database field can hold more then 255. Michael