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

[cellio]

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.

[geekosaur]

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...

[cellio]

Aha! Thanks for the detective work, and for filing the bug report. (Yes, it's a public entry.)

[geekosaur]

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.

[cellio]

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. :-)