LJ weirdness

[cellio]

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.

Comments

[tangerinpenguin.livejournal.com]

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.)

[cellio]

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.