Comments on: QuickTags http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/01/16/quicktags/ Like a chicken with a jewel in its beak. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:34:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: shacker http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/01/16/quicktags/comment-page-1/#comment-239669 shacker Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:30:06 +0000 http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/01/16/quicktags/#comment-239669 @Jeb: Re MT having had these for years - you're referring to the back-end, not for public comments, right? All the major blogging systems have had them on the back-end for years, but not for the public, for whatever reason. Unless there was an MT option to do this that I was never aware of. @Matt: I <em>love</em> the resizable textareas in Safari. Wish FF had those, but unfortunately that's not reason enough (for me) to outweigh the plugin culture of FF. @Jeb: Re MT having had these for years – you’re referring to the back-end, not for public comments, right? All the major blogging systems have had them on the back-end for years, but not for the public, for whatever reason. Unless there was an MT option to do this that I was never aware of.

@Matt: I love the resizable textareas in Safari. Wish FF had those, but unfortunately that’s not reason enough (for me) to outweigh the plugin culture of FF.

]]> By: Matt Schinckel http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/01/16/quicktags/comment-page-1/#comment-239638 Matt Schinckel Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:08:12 +0000 http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/01/16/quicktags/#comment-239638 For a while, Safari was incompatible with these systems - I think the javascript interpreter was missing a function. No wait, it was that you couldn't get the selection inside of the <code>textarea</code> from within javascript. Basically, adding a tag just added it to the end of the <code>textarea</code>. This was fixed in a Safari Nightly build <em>ages</em> ago, and rolled out with Safari 3.0 to the rest of the world. Now, we also have <em>resizeable</em> <code>textarea</code> elements by default. That, IMHO, is cool. For a while, Safari was incompatible with these systems – I think the javascript interpreter was missing a function. No wait, it was that you couldn’t get the selection inside of the textarea from within javascript. Basically, adding a tag just added it to the end of the textarea.

This was fixed in a Safari Nightly build ages ago, and rolled out with Safari 3.0 to the rest of the world.

Now, we also have resizeable textarea elements by default. That, IMHO, is cool.

]]> By: Jeb http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/01/16/quicktags/comment-page-1/#comment-239626 Jeb Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:57:46 +0000 http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/01/16/quicktags/#comment-239626 Movable Type has had these for years, and have had some incremental improvements, but I remember being frustrated for a year or so when they would not show in Safari. Joomla lets you choose from a number of plug-in editors, shipping one that is quite sophisticated, even helping you compose in-line CSS. Movable Type has had these for years, and have had some incremental improvements, but I remember being frustrated for a year or so when they would not show in Safari. Joomla lets you choose from a number of plug-in editors, shipping one that is quite sophisticated, even helping you compose in-line CSS.

]]> By: shacker http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/01/16/quicktags/comment-page-1/#comment-239546 shacker Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:39:27 +0000 http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/01/16/quicktags/#comment-239546 By gum, you're right - I just had to Shift-reload in Safari to get the old stylesheet out of the cache. Der. By gum, you’re right – I just had to Shift-reload in Safari to get the old stylesheet out of the cache. Der.

]]> By: Matt Schinckel http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/01/16/quicktags/comment-page-1/#comment-239525 Matt Schinckel Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:05:29 +0000 http://birdhouse.org/blog/2008/01/16/quicktags/#comment-239525 Safari is styling the buttons above, but not the Submit Comment button below. Safari is styling the buttons above, but not the Submit Comment button below.

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