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iFixIt forum is incompatible with Safari on Mac (latest versions)

I am writing here because I do not see a contact page. These forums are not compatible with Safari 10.1.2 (12603.3.8) on macOS 10.12.6 (16G29) (latest versions):

1. Boldface or italics cannot be used. Instead, you get quotes like iMac.

2. After posting, spurious unwanted extra carriage returns are included.

Check example in:

One or Two SSD on 27‑inch iMac with Retina 5K display (mid 2017)?

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The quotes are actually two apostrophe marks together. Anything between the two sets will be italicized.

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Three marks on either side will result in bold text

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Thanks. Testing boldface, yet cannot see how to select it here!

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Peter, IFIXIT uses a markup string of single quotes ' in pairs in front of and behind what you want altered as an example: for italics and using three for Bold

FYI I'm using Safari 10.1.2 with no problems.

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Thanks. Test for 'one quote', two quootes, three quotes, 'four quotes' and five quotes. This is amazing, but I rather would like it "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG).

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I do post on this forum daily and I have not experienced this issue. I'm using Safari 10.1.1.

Will see if this is an issue after going to 10.1.2 But I am not seeing 10.1.2 available in the APP store. Are you running High Sierra Beta?

I now have looked at the press releases on this "bug fix" version from 5 days ago.

After being an Apple user for 38 years now, I have learned not to be to fast in updating systems, especially about the last 5-6 years. It can be costly in time and frustrations. Twenty years ago Beta Releases only went to actual developers (which I was). Time was taken to insure everything actually worked. Now they put it out there for every kid who just has to have the latest thing. Apple is using people to do their work for them.

My recommendation is to not be the first kid on the block to get the latest thing, wait a few weeks until they get the bugs out. Report your Bug to Apple.

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@mayer - I'm using Safari 10.1.2 with no issues.

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@danj where did you get it? Was it a separate update?

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@mayer - Yes, it was a separate update under the Apps Store Updates. I'm currently running it under El Capitan on my MacBook Pro, I've also got it running under Sierra & High Sierra as well at work.

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The problem with Apple now is since they began using the public for beta testing, the quality of OS X has gotten worse. I held onto 10.6 for 5 years despite being EOL. I still think 10.6 was the last good release of OS X since it was stable, which is a lot more then I can say about Mac OS X now. The only reason I upgraded (10.6->10.9) was software support.

On top of that, my A1297 nearly came to a halt with 10.9 with 4GB of physical RAM (and a WD Blue that was aggressively indexed by Vista SP0), which did not cause issues in 10.6, yet was somehow an issue in 10.9 (which is why I consider 8GB the minimum installed RAM for OS X now). With the way Apple is doing things now, continuing to use stable versions of OS X (even if they are EOL) is the way to go.

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Does anyone use chrome anymore? After all, it basically is the first browser. Still the best...

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