Deepest Sender

bug in 0.9.0

2008-07-26T19:30:52Z

Hi there. I've recently upgraded to Firefox 3 and DS 0.9.0 and suddenly the following bug appeared: my user image isn't displayed, I can't select which journal to post to, and all other fields like tags aren't labeled. I haven't experienced any problems with DS before.

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icon/username unnecessary for single account

2008-07-03T13:17:09Z

This may have been answered somewhere in the distant past, but I didn't see it in the most recent few posts.

I use Deepest Sender in the sidebar on Firefox, and I've told Firefox to block all images that come from a LiveJournal server generally, so until recently Deepest Sender just sat there being all nice and text-based. Now, though, it picks up my user icon despite the fact that Firefox should be blocking LiveJournal images.

What I'd really like to see is an option not to show my default icon in Deepest Sender at all. Come to think of it, I'd like the option not to see my username either. I use DS for a single livejournal account and nothing else; I know what my username and icon look like, and I'd really just rather have a nice DS text editor in the sidebar with no frills.

Is that possible? For now, I've just told LiveJournal not to use a default icon (not the greatest solution, but the best for me at the moment) and I'm just living with my giant, bold, unnecessary username sitting there.

Thanks all.

Feature request: Editable list of entries for «Current Location».

2008-07-03T11:02:46Z

Hi.
I think it would be nice to have an editable list of locations which i can fill up and then just choose from this list rather than typing it each time. Or auto-complete function. Will be useful IMHO. What do you think?

"content or summary element for a post" error message

2008-06-28T16:19:39Z

Love your product, but I'm having a problem. When I attempt to post to my blogger site via Firefox 3.0, Iget this error message: "Error sending post: Must specify either a content or summary element for a post"

I have no idea what a content or summary elements are. No post shows up on my blogger site.

What do I do?

Many thanks.

~Dana Garrett

LJ User tags on DS

2008-06-24T14:59:52Z

The 'user' button in Deepest Sender on my XP/Firefox 2/DS box used to create a user link in a post just fine. That appears to be broken. What should look like:

eiredrake

and have code like this:

<lj user="eiredrake">

is coming out like this:

eiredrake

Because the code it's putting in the post looks like this:
<span class="undefined">eiredrake</span>

Not really a huge issue or a deal breaker. Anyone else having this problem?

E

Deepest Sender XP Issue?

2008-06-23T14:14:55Z

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/YZMteezqDlE&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YZMteezqDlE&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

Would look like this in LJ:
<lj-embed id="268">
<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MeSSwKffj9o&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MeSSwKffj9o&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>
</lj-embed>

But comes out like this after using DS:
<div title="http://www.youtube.com/v/oI5EY5kqiBU&hl=en" style="border: 1px solid rgb(223, 223, 223); background: transparent url(chrome://flashblock/content/flash.png) no-repeat scroll center center; overflow: hidden; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; min-width: 32px ! important; min-height: 32px ! important; width: 425px; height: 344px; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; -moz-box-sizing: border-box;"></div>

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.

Deepest Sender Request

2008-06-22T07:52:04Z

Let me say right now that I absolutely love Deepest Sender. It is almost as cool as sliced bread. I do a lot of political posts and the very fact that I can select text in an article and immediately open an LJ window is a serious serious serious time saver. It does 85% of what I used to do manually , thus allowing me to focus on the content of my post rather than worrying about if I copy/pasted the right text and if I got the URL right. I tend to do a lot of political posting and as such I end up quoting things quite a bit. After each quote I make my own comments, which need to stand out from the quoted text in an obvious way. Normally I just back-indent, which helps a bit I suppose but isn't really as obvious as I'd like.

That being said I was wondering if it were possible to have a toolbar icon to change the background color of a text block in order to highlight it.

For example, consider this text from an article:

You won’t love Mike Myers’ ‘Guru’ > SundayPaper.com > The Sunday Paper :: All you need to know.:

Some Hindus have expressed fears that “The Love Guru” would mock their spirituality and culture, but they come off no worse than human beings in general. The movie, which stretches the plot with musical numbers, runs only runs 87 minutes, but seems twice that long: Who would have thought they could cram so many jokes about male genitalia into an hour and a half? The obsessive crudeness goes beyond juvenile to infantile.

Now, here we have my comments. I chose this article completely at random from Google. I don't really like Meyers for anything past his Wayne's World stuff. I didn't really like any of his Austin Powers schick but that's another issue. The thing is that

If it could look something like this:
You won’t love Mike Myers’ ‘Guru’ > SundayPaper.com > The Sunday Paper :: All you need to know.:

Some Hindus have expressed fears that “The Love Guru” would mock their spirituality and culture, but they come off no worse than human beings in general. The movie, which stretches the plot with musical numbers, runs only runs 87 minutes, but seems twice that long: Who would have thought they could cram so many jokes about male genitalia into an hour and a half? The obsessive crudeness goes beyond juvenile to infantile.

Not only would it look a bit more like other blogs, but in making postings with a lot of quotes from articles it would help to make the text stand out a bit more.

Is this possible? I know you can set the color of the text. In this particular instance I had to put the block into a table to do it.

Thanks and keep up the good work.

Deepest Sender 0.9.0

2008-05-21T09:09:54Z

Oh yeah, just a heads up: Deepest Sender 0.9.0 was released on Sunday night. It's over at the MozDev site - Mozilla always take like a thousand years to approve extensions so I don't know when it'll appear over there. Nothing is really new other than Firefox 3 compatibility - and it will run ONLY in Firefox 3, not Fx 2 or SeaMonkey, due to a large amount of changes to the code to get it working under Fx3. Release notes:

This is the "oh ffs get something out that works in Fx3" release.
Does not work in Firefox 2 or SeaMonkey, due to major changes in the internal workings of Firefox. Once there's a major release (ie. not beta) of SeaMonkey that uses Gecko 1.9, I'll be able to get DS to run under it again.
Password code changed to use nsiLoginManager functions, calendar code removed and replaced with XUL datepickers, lots of bugfixes related to focus/blur on the tag/location/music boxes, fixed some friends editor display bugs.
New experimental LiveJournal Sync function. Currently it can download all posts from a journal and display them by date, or you can search through them in an extremely basic manner. This feature will be massively enhanced in future versions as discussed in the DS community on LJ, but for now it can only do the basic things. Preliminary, very buggy, and not localisable at the moment.
Random minor accumulated bugfixes.
As you can see, nothing new for non-LJ protocols.

deepestsender @ 2008-05-05T18:50:00

2008-05-05T08:50:51Z

So imagine you have your entire LiveJournal sitting on your hard drive as an SQL database. What do you want to do with it?

Granted it's pretty fugly at the moment and nothing actually works, aside from the journal downloading part (most annoying code ever written). I'm just playing around with the interface at the moment. So what should be on there? Ideas I've had so far:

Export to random formats (but what?)
Mass search-and-replace
Search for entries by keyword
Maybe open a raw SQL interface to just type your own stuff in

deepestsender @ 2008-05-03T15:20:00

2008-05-03T19:21:00Z

Hi,

Using Deepest Sender 0.8.0 with Firefox 2.0.0.13 Linux

I like DS a lot; but have found something that needs to be solved on my side at least:

When *editing* a post, once I click on "Save" it edits it or re-posts it with a completely incorrect date such as:

1969 12 31

My system's date and time are set correctly--just checked it--and other blog clients do not behave with same error.

Any chance I can get some help with this?

Thanks.

PS When posting a *new* post, date is correct

deepestsender @ 2008-04-29T13:15:00

2008-04-29T03:23:39Z

Alrighty, so in celebration of me doing nothing with DS for 13 months, I've gotten stuck into coding a new thingy for it.

You've used ljArchive before, right? Well I'm aiming to have that functionality built into DS. Download your LJ + comments to a SQLite database, then you can search through it, edit old entries, or export it to some other format. I only started working on it last night, so there's a loooooooong way to go, but so far I've encountered a problem:

What the hell do I call it? Currently it's in the Tools menu as LiveJournal Sync, but that doesn't really explain what it does. Any ideas?

Deepest Sender and Firefox 3 Beta

2008-04-26T21:16:34Z

When I upgraded to Firefox 3 Beta, I noticed that Deepest Sender didn't upgrade with it. Is there a version of Deepest Sender for Firefox 3? If so where is it? :)

deepestsender @ 2008-04-27T01:26:00

2008-04-26T15:28:55Z

View Poll: Sorry, just one more poll...

Does anyone actually use DS for non-LJ stuff? I know it sucks massively and Scribefire does a far better job, so I'm mulling over getting rid of it all. My time is limited and I have no real interest in the non-LJ stuff.

deepestsender @ 2008-04-27T01:01:00

2008-04-26T15:03:19Z

View Poll: #1177980

Deepest sender window doesn't show up, sidebar has no shortcut

2008-04-06T07:05:29Z

Hi, I'm not at all versed in Firefox extensions and customizing, so the minor problem here might be a cinch to resolve and I wouldn't know it. The minor problem is that I can't bring up the DS extension in the Firefox sidebar without going into the "View" menu and "Sidebar" submenu and selecting it there. There really ought to be a sidebar shortcut, IMO.

But that's not the major problem, and it might not even be an issue were it not for the major one: I am running SuSE 10.3 and Firefox 2.0.0.13 (apparently the latest stable release), and Deepest Sender does not even open when I click the icon, select the item in the "Tools" menu, or hit the CTRL-\ shortcut combo. Nothing works; the only reason I even know that this extension loads on my machine is because it is featured (sans shortcut) in the Sidebar list. Any ideas?

Okay, a minor update, and a tip in case anybody else runs into this: I tried disabling a bunch of suspected plugins, and I managed to isolate an offender: an extension called Weekedit, for integrating basic MediaWiki functionality. So if you use Deepest Sender, avoid Weekedit and you'll avoid at least one possible cause of aggravation. Cheers!

Almost Loving DS

2008-03-29T04:00:56Z

I've just installed DS in seamonkey under Linux (Thanks for supporting Seamonkey!) and I like it so far ... except I can't get started. When I click on New User I get a WIzard that runs through to the end but the Finish Button doesn't work. Cancelling or simply closing the dialog doesn't create the user (I guess that's fairly obvious) and putting in a username and login without creating a user makes it try to login eternally. Is there some way someone can give a path forward? Perhaps a boilerplate user that I can edit to get things started?

Embed content through DS

2008-03-27T07:00:27Z

I wonder if embedding content through DS is possible.

I know that LJ gives us the option to that. Is there any way that this can be done by DS?

Give me Google Checkout & I'll Donate...

2008-03-03T21:02:24Z

I want to THANK YOU for making the job of Posting-to-Blogs a breeze with Deepest Sender —it's a godsend!

I'd like to make an annual Donation (over @ deepestsender.mozdev.org) however I don't use paypal. Google Checkout (which has Donation Badges) has three(3) fewer steps than paypal and is EASIER to use. (I have other reasons why I don't use paypal and I'll spare you the rant).

Please setup a Google Checkout account and let us know WHEN we can Donate that way @ deepestsender.mozdev.org.

Thank you.

Steven

having a problem

2008-01-21T13:19:38Z

my deepest sender hasn't been working for about a month, i guess since the last time my firefox updated. this is really frustrating cus i LOOOOVE deepest sender. if anyone has any ideas please please help me out. i have uninstalled DS a few times i guess if i have to i will try uninstalling firefox.
thanks in advance

Feature request for deepest sender

2008-01-18T01:56:01Z

Hi, I'd love to be able to tab from the subject line to the body area when posting w/deepest sender. Can this be incorporated into the next version?

Version for FireFox 3.0?

2008-01-10T09:52:00Z

Is it any chance to got working version for FF 3.0 soon? I've tried to change versions in RDF, and it's seems to work, but right after login it's just displayed "logged in" in status, but login window doesn't disappeared.

Trouble with Atom posting links

2007-12-03T21:14:39Z

Hello there! I'm having a problem with posting to Blogger (<username>.blogspot.com). I found the recent post about similar trouble but it didn't explain me the thing. Well, maybe you got any suggestions.

When I'm trying to log in, DS 0.8.0 returns error message: "Didn't find any Atom posting links! Can't continue!" Yes, I know that release is like buggy. Though, can anyone give me some advice? Thank you.

I'm using Windows XP & Firefox 2.0.0.11.

UPD: Fixed! I've been told to put link tags in my Blogger template (none of them has it by default). Just like this:

<link href='http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default' rel='alternate' title='link_title' type='application/atom+xml'/>
<link href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/your_blogID (e.g. 7692378490411869057)/posts/default' rel='service.post' title='link_title' type='application/atom+xml'/>
<link href='http://www.blogger.com/rsd.g?blogID=your_blogID' rel='EditURI' title='link_title' type='application/rsd+xml'/>

UPD2: Still, after all I experienced problems with date/time [Line 2, Column 222] (known error). Fixed with a little help from Tom. Finally, it works.

Temp files for Deepest Sender?

2007-11-11T00:03:51Z

The Livejournal entry I posted last night with Deepest Sender is missing. This could be due to any number of things, but I'd like to check temp files if they exist. Does DS have temp files, and if so, where are they? I didn't see any in the Firefox or Windows directory.

I'm using Vista, my version of DS is 0.8.0, and Firefox 2.0.0.9

Editing and saving frustration

2007-11-04T16:35:50Z

I have just started using Deepest sender, and I'm frustrated with it already.

I am using Firefox 2.0.0.9, and the latest 0.8.0 version of Deepest Sender.

When I edit an entry and click "Save", it brings up a screen that says "Saving your post on the server", and then it sits there...

And sits there...

And sits there...

And sits there...

And sits there...

And sits there...

And sits there...

It's been sitting there for about fifteen minutes now, still doing absolutely nothing but sit there and show the message. The help file offers no help whatever, and I am about on the point of exploding with frustration.

I've even tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it, with no discernible difference.

The Post History window is also useless - it too sits there, displaying a "Loading ..." message.

deepestsender @ 2007-10-25T08:49:00

2007-10-25T13:49:15Z

I've been using Deepest Sender forever and adore it. However, I do have a question. I remember back a long time ago the feature of selecting a community/friend from a drop down box via the insert LJ user tag button. The drop down box is still there, but it no longer pulls up the communities/friends. It's not a huge deal, but I'm lazy and really liked that feature.

Does anyone know if it's just my DS messing up or if that feature was actually disabled/broken in an update?

If it helps:
Firefox 2.0.8
DS 0.8.0
Using it with LJ