Enhanced Entry Editing Buggy
Jan 10th, 2006 by Karen
I upgraded my Firefox recently and the upgrade seems to have broken the Enhanced Entry Editing plugin for Movable Type. The plugin sort of works in Safari although I get a message saying that it isn’t really supported. I’m pretty annoyed by this because one of the reasons I liked the plugin is that it worked on both PCs and Macs. Since most everyone who will be using the Movable Type here (with the exception of yours truly) is on a PC, it isn’t a HUGE problem. However, I’m hoping that it is something that the plugin developer will consider fixing over time. Another really nice thing would be for the plugin site to say “this plugin is supported in these browsers on these platforms”. This would save people like me a lot of time because when the plugin stopped working I thought that either:
- it never worked in the first place and I didn’t adequatedly test it
- it got broken when I installed another plugin
It took me quite a while to come to the conclusion that it was a browser issue because I remembered it working for me before. Oh well, just a heads up for Mac users who use Movable Type and this plugin.
Hi, are you on the latest version of Enhanced Entry Editing? Previous versions bundled an older version of the tinyMCE editor which caused problems with Firefox 1.5. Since Enhanced Entry Editing simply adds tinyMCE to Movable Type, you can check out the tinyMCE website for more details (eg. supported browsers, bug reports etc.) http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/
I upgraded the the latest version of Enhanced Entry Editing earlier this week and am still seeing issues in Firefox. The main thing that happens is that when I go back to a post which has content ie. write a post and save it or view an older post via edit entries, none of the post appears in the editing box.
Karen,
I was experiencing other problems with TinyMCE on firefox, but this solution might be worth a shot:
When initiating TinyMCE, set “strict_loading_mode” to true.
This seemed to solve a lot of the problems I had in firefox.
I know this post is old, but it comes up on google when searching for this problem, so maybe it’ll save someone out there some time.