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Some people seem to have problems with writing new posts since we updated the Blog editor, especially after the upgrade to FCKeditor 2.1.1. We fixed some little things today, but are not sure, if we caught all the bugs, as we couldn't reproduce everything. So here's the question to all of you:

Who has still problems posting/editing/saving blog posts? (please clear the browser cache, if you didn't do that already since this afternoon before testing :) ) And if yes:

- Which browser are you using? Which version? Which operating system?
- What was the error?
- Did the Blog editor not start up at all (no buttons)? Or did it not save properly?
- What exactly did you do? Just wrote some text? Added links? Images? Etc..
- If you are using Firefox/Mozilla, do you have any error-messages on the JavaScript Console,
- Anything else?

We really want to solve this issues as soon as possible and making it work perfectly. There's nothing more annoying than a not working blog editor, therefore we need your feedback. Just add your notes to the comments (you can also add, if you don't/didn't have any problems lately :) )

Update: We found one additional error, FCKeditor seemed to add   under some circumstances... We try to convert them now on the serverside, so that it should work correctly again... (and if it still goes wrong, it at least displays a more meaningfull errormessage now). Hope this removes most of the recent errors...

Alain @ 01.12.2005 01:04 CEST
Hi

it seems to work now. from time to time the editor did not get loaded (at all). i had to klick around and hit "make new post" again.

and i had to turn off the "target=_new"-blocker in about:config (i think it was "browser.link.open_newwindow.ui") ;)

i have ff 1.0.7 (from freebsd-portstree).

i think the fck-editor is a bit heavy-stuff. maybe a simple form-field without much js would make it, too. and something like wiki-syntax would be great as well :)

anyways, i am wondering about the dms-plugin, whats it all about?

:)

Alain @ 01.12.2005 01:06 CEST
Ah yes, the editor does not seem to work with https. the whole textfield does not get loaded...

chregu @ 01.12.2005 09:15 CEST
from time to time the editor did not get loaded (at all)
That should be hopefully fixed now.

i had to turn off the "target=_new"-blocker
That's something we can't fix, but is a general FCK issue.

i think the fck-editor is a bit heavy-stuff.
Yep, I have this impression, too. I think, an config-option for having FCK or just a simple textarea is in order. The simple textarea mode is already there (for safari and opera users), so that shouldn't be a big deal to be implemented.

omething like wiki-syntax would be great as well
That's unfortunately not that easy. Either we convert from XHTML to Wiki back and forth or we store the original wiki syntax in the DB. both would need some developement (but certainly doable)

i am wondering about the dms-plugin
It's a document management plugin (file up-downloads, versioning, etc) currently under heavy developement. We need that for a new project, but will be available for everyone, of course.

the editor does not seem to work with https
strange, I have to check that.

Alain @ 02.12.2005 08:48 CEST
Thanks for your feedback! Something else: i think the "upload image"-field somehow got lost?

chregu @ 02.12.2005 09:40 CEST
which one? The one in the blog editor? I have it still there under "advanced options"

Alain @ 02.12.2005 11:43 CEST
Ou, i am missing it there... i'll doublecheck :)

Alain @ 02.12.2005 14:06 CEST
Nevermind, must have been some kind of a cache problem...

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