iMechanica has just upgraded to Drupal 5. Any issues?

Thanks for making iMechanica a comfortable place for us.

Zhigang,

Does that mean that we now have DruTeX installed?   If it has been installed, can we get some instructions on what tags to use for LaTeX equations?

If you haven't been able to install it yet, there are some pointers at http://drupal.org/node/111980.

Biswajit

If you're a Firefox user, you may notice that the color scheme in the header and the channels seems changed (e.g., cyan-like font color, not very visible in a blue background).

Actually, the default color scheme is not changed, and you can get back to the previous color scheme by doing the following trick: click through all links
in the header and the channels, then shut down firefox and restart. At least this works for my Firefox). The mismatch color scheme has not been experienced in Microsoft IE. 

Thanks Mogadalai Gururajan for raising the concern.

Please report any bugs and/or share your tips in using Drupal 5-powered iMechanica by leaving comments here. Thanks.

I notice some difference in iMechanica. It used to have the useful "Popular for today" and "All time polpular" items in the left column but they disappear now. Do you also see the same problem? Can they be brought back?

Thanks!

I had serious problems trying to write a post on my Mac with Camino; the links including "promote to the front page" were inactive, I could not paste text from an email, and now at least on my machine the post only appears as a headline on the front page requiring me to click "read more" in order to see any of the text even though the whole post is only a few lines and would normally appear in its entirety.  I ended up having to go back to Safari to get the post online (so I could paste the info from a PoroNet email announcement) but this iexperience was, at least from my perspective on the Mac, a huge slide downwards from what was running yesterday.  Everything I click on seems to take forever to load as well.  The text editor looks like Microsoft Office with its amazing and ever growing feature bloat instead of the nice, streamlined, functional interface that was here yesterday.

Michelle,

  I'm posting this on a Mac with Camino and don't appear to be seeing the same problems you are.  Maybe try restarting the browser?  I also did just download Camino, so perhaps the most recent version is better suited?

John: it's as though the site has been slowly evolving since it was updated such that each time I've looked at it it's been slightly better; the problems I was having earlier seem to be mostly not here now!  But you're right that I am still on Camino 1 and should upgrade!

That said, I maintain that this new interface for typing has waaaay too many buttons and features.  I really do not need something with complexity akin to MS Word to write a few lines of hypertext... What is all this "functionality" doing to bandwidth?