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Monica ([personal profile] cellio) wrote2004-06-13 11:01 pm
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LJ weirdness

It appears that LJ has changed its post-comments interface a bit; it now re-renders the page with a comment form inserted into the thread. That's nifty, except that it doesn't always work. I'm not sure why, in the same entry, I was able to post a reply to one comment but not to another. It worked in IE but not Mozilla, so I upgraded to Mozilla 1.6 and it still doesn't work. This could rapidly become annoying.

Update: the problem is now fixed; it was an error in their javascript that triggered on comment subjects containing apostrophes. Also, as of 6/15/04 9PM, I note that you can now select a userpic and preview a comment using the new interface. Yay! The userpic thing was my last barrier to using this new interface (which I prefer) all the time.

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[identity profile] tangerinpenguin.livejournal.com 2004-06-13 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
If it renders correctly enough for you to get the "click here for more options" link, that takes you to the old-style long form for comments (or did for me when I ran into it, at least.)

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[personal profile] cellio 2004-06-14 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
I seem to get either a fully-functional reply (like I just got now, while typing this) or a page reload with no changes in content (like on the comment I cited below). No intermediate states. I still don't know what's special about the broken cases.
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[personal profile] geekosaur 2004-06-13 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm. It just worked for me (or lat least seemed to), in firefox (based on an older mozilla). I'm tempted to say "make sure javascript is turned on and you haven't restricted what javascript can do too much" — but then again there's those lovely little javascript wormlets going around....
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[personal profile] geekosaur 2004-06-13 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeh, seems fine. I think. Although I'm not as out of date as I thought, it's firefox 0.8/mozilla 1.6.

Re: Seems to work for me

[identity profile] zachkessin.livejournal.com 2004-06-14 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
I'm using Mozilla on linux, and it seems to work fine for me. Actually I kind of like this. One less page to load.
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Re: Seems to work for me

[personal profile] goljerp 2004-06-14 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
It's working for me, for a totally different reason: I'm using the "old" styles, so the posting behavior hasn't changed at all, I think. (I'm displaying both my journal and other entries in the "old" style (Dystopia), and so nothing has changed.
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Re: Seems to work for me

[personal profile] cellio 2004-06-14 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
I'm using old (S1) styles too, so that's not it.
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Re: Seems to work for me

[personal profile] goljerp 2004-06-14 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm... Well, my browser of choice is iCab (I'm using 2.9.6 for OS X). I haven't tried the test message, yet.
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Re: Seems to work for me

[personal profile] cellio 2004-06-14 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
I like the idea (and if it offered userpic selection by default, rather than via extra links, it'd be perfect for me). I don't know why it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't.
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[personal profile] cellio 2004-06-14 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Out of curiosity, could you try it on this comment? For some reason, that specific comment won't accept a reply, though others on http://www.livejournal.com/users/cellio/316909.html">that same entry do. (Actually, I just noticed that the followups from [livejournal.com profile] caryabend and me also won't accept comments, though the entry to which Cary replied does, and other comments from Cary do.)
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[personal profile] cellio 2004-06-14 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I tend to be cautious of javscript because of the security issues. With everything turned on except window resize it still didn't work, though -- but the erorr only occurs some of the time, and I haven't teased out what's special in those cases yet.
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[personal profile] geekosaur 2004-06-14 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
Doesn't work for me, either. But I find in the JavaScript error console:

Error: missing ) after argument list
Source Code:
return quickreply(1814765, 7088, 'Re: Tests? We don't need no steenking tests!')

Looks like their code doesn't deal with singlequotes in the subject properly...
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[personal profile] cellio 2004-06-14 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
Aha! Thanks for the detective work, and for filing the bug report. (Yes, it's a public entry.)
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[personal profile] geekosaur 2004-06-14 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
Just filed a support request with the JavaScript error and pointer to the journal entry (hm, didn't check if it was public; but then I suspect it's easy enough to reproduce elsewhere, given the error).

I'm not sure I want to know how/why IE doesn't get confused by it.
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[personal profile] cellio 2004-06-15 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure I want to know how/why IE doesn't get confused by it.

I have found that I keep more of my hair and retain more sanity if I don't ask too many questions about why IE does what it does. :-)

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