Eiredrake (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} eiredrake) wrote in ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} deepestsender,@ 2008-06-23 10:14:00 |
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Deepest Sender XP Issue?
One is minor and the other is a right pain in the keister.
At work, I use XP Sp3 and on my laptop I use Vista. In both locations I am using Firefox's 3.0 release ( though I have seen both in the last release as well). The odd thing is that neither of these problems are occuring with Vista, Firefox 3 and the newest DS. But on XP with the same version of firefox and DS I see a couple of issues.
The minor problem is that for some reason, there are times when I open a brand new edit window to write a brand new post (ie: not editing a previous post ) that no matter what DS will not let me click on the Subject field box. I don't know if it's just because it refuses to take focus or if it's merely not painting the karet so I can tell it's selected but I do know that when this happens typing does not put any text in the subject at all. I can however, select the main content box, and then tab around until the tab order ends up at the Subject box and go from there.
The other issue is significantly more aggravating. As I said in another post I do a lot of political posting and as such I use the L Embed features a lot with different types of media. The regular LJ WYSIWYG editor has a button to pop up a dialog so that you can paste the object embed code from, for example, youtube and it will automatically put the embed tags around as needed. The Youtube clip shows up fine and plays.
However DS doesn't have a button, so the only option is to either put in the LJ embed tags yourself or to drop onto the Source tab and paste the object embed code in there. However, I have seen on XP in both versions of Firefox and DS that after the post is saved all that appears in LJ is a static box the size of the original imbed that can't be clicked on and doesn't play. When looking at the source in the HTML view of the LJ editor, the embed code has suddenly become a series of DIV tags.
For example the embed code here:
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YZMteez
Would look like this in LJ:
<lj-embed id="268">
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MeSSwKf
</lj-embed>
But comes out like this after using DS:
<div title="http://www.youtube.com/v/oI5EY5k
In order to fix this, you need to edit the post, yank out the DIV'd embed code and replace it in the LJ editor with fresh embed object code from youtube and then save the post again. This takes a lot of extra time to do, especially in a post where I am already quoting a lot of other articles so I would use DS's functionality. It's not a deal breaker or anything. It's not like i'm going to stop using DS. But it would be nice if there was a work around for this or if someone could either fix it so DS doesn't munge up the embed code or to put a toolbar button in to handle it right.
To the Devs, thanks for all your hard work so far.
One is minor and the other is a right pain in the keister.
At work, I use XP Sp3 and on my laptop I use Vista. In both locations I am using Firefox's 3.0 release ( though I have seen both in the last release as well). The odd thing is that neither of these problems are occuring with Vista, Firefox 3 and the newest DS. But on XP with the same version of firefox and DS I see a couple of issues.
The minor problem is that for some reason, there are times when I open a brand new edit window to write a brand new post (ie: not editing a previous post ) that no matter what DS will not let me click on the Subject field box. I don't know if it's just because it refuses to take focus or if it's merely not painting the karet so I can tell it's selected but I do know that when this happens typing does not put any text in the subject at all. I can however, select the main content box, and then tab around until the tab order ends up at the Subject box and go from there.
The other issue is significantly more aggravating. As I said in another post I do a lot of political posting and as such I use the L Embed features a lot with different types of media. The regular LJ WYSIWYG editor has a button to pop up a dialog so that you can paste the object embed code from, for example, youtube and it will automatically put the embed tags around as needed. The Youtube clip shows up fine and plays.
However DS doesn't have a button, so the only option is to either put in the LJ embed tags yourself or to drop onto the Source tab and paste the object embed code in there. However, I have seen on XP in both versions of Firefox and DS that after the post is saved all that appears in LJ is a static box the size of the original imbed that can't be clicked on and doesn't play. When looking at the source in the HTML view of the LJ editor, the embed code has suddenly become a series of DIV tags.
For example the embed code here:
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YZMteez
Would look like this in LJ:
<lj-embed id="268">
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MeSSwKf
</lj-embed>
But comes out like this after using DS:
<div title="http://www.youtube.com/v/oI5EY5k
In order to fix this, you need to edit the post, yank out the DIV'd embed code and replace it in the LJ editor with fresh embed object code from youtube and then save the post again. This takes a lot of extra time to do, especially in a post where I am already quoting a lot of other articles so I would use DS's functionality. It's not a deal breaker or anything. It's not like i'm going to stop using DS. But it would be nice if there was a work around for this or if someone could either fix it so DS doesn't munge up the embed code or to put a toolbar button in to handle it right.
To the Devs, thanks for all your hard work so far.
