The honeymoon is over, and the shine has worn off my copy of Safari 4. This morning I tried to write a quick post on this blog using Apple’s latest Safari beta, and quickly ran into trouble.
It turns out that the Safari 4 beta has problems with the WordPress 2.7 administration theme. Specifically, with displaying the modal dialog that appears when you try and make a link. Normally, the rest of the admin page fades into the background and an “Insert/edit link” window opens in the foreground.
Under Safari 4 beta however, the link window also fades into the background and you can’t focus your mouse in any of its text fields.
- Safari 4 and WordPress 2.7
Whoops. While it’s probably a quick fix (and possibly no fault of Safari either – I haven’t looked at the WordPress theme closely enough to see how standards-based it is), you would think that Apple would have tested their beta browser against one of the most popular blogging platforms out there.
Oh well. Until either Apple or WordPress fixes things, it’s back to Firefox for posting. Other than this little bug, I’ve been really pleased with Safari 4 overall.
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Stephen
February 25th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Since I test out nightly webkit builds so frequently, I have noticed this bug for quite some time, and the webkit team has known about it for many months, but does not deem it important enough to fix, alas. It is quite literally the one thing that stops me from using Safari as my main browser.
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February 25th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
[...] not. Of course it may be a WordPress template issue, but a quick Google reveals that I’m not the only person to encounter this bug. Silly [...]
Björn Andersson
February 26th, 2009 at 2:21 am
I have also noticed it. Looks like bug that soon will be fixed. But it’s kind of ironic now when Safari 4 gets 100% at the Acid3-test.
Brian Jarrett
February 26th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
I had the same problem; I’m just hand-coding the links with the html editor until Apple fixes this. Other than this, I’ve had no other issues with the beta.
walker boyd
February 27th, 2009 at 10:14 am
I was having a ball using the new Safari to procrastinate on blogging and school work. Now I know it’s got serious bugs with regard to both, so it’s back to firefox (and back to work).
Kel
February 27th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Yep – it’s that way under Tiger or Leopard, nut sure about Win, but I assume it’s the same – the issue appears to be TinyMCE. Using the HTML tab for links (not the Visual tab) works OK. HTH.
Esme Vos
February 27th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
I have the same problem. Funny, I use this same theme on my personal blog, http://www.rosecantine.com. But the problem appears on all of my other WP blogs.
mike
February 27th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Wow. A veritable flurry of comments!
As Brian pointed out, you can just hand-code the HTML links. I can do that for the time being, but I’m really looking forward to a fix, either on TinyMCE’s side of things or in Safari.
If I actually had the time I might dig into the problem a bit more, but unfortunately too busy with work these days.
Technocrank
February 28th, 2009 at 3:46 am
Safari 4 Beta…
Well, looks like I can retire WebKit for a little while. The Safari developers have released a beta of version 4. I had a bit of trouble starting it at first (Mac OSX 10.5.6). It was the Glims plugin which was crashing it. I removed it from /Li…
Xster
March 8th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
yup… lame problem. I have a problem with Firefox as well. With the default WYSIWYG editor, moving images actually copies them. Anyone know a solid desktop blog editor? I’m not writing my blogs with TextMate for sure
Jonas Riegel
March 10th, 2009 at 1:50 am
Solution for WordPress and Safari 4?
The problem is solved with the new WebKit Version.
Just look here: http://jonasriegel.de/2009/03/09/safari-4-und-der-wysiwyg-editor-von-wordpress/
or here: http://nightly.webkit.org/
Hope i could help.
Jonez
Mark Wheadon
March 13th, 2009 at 1:56 am
For those of you having problems backing out of Safari 4 beta, here’s how:
http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/02/how-to-back-out-of-safari-4beta/
Cheers,
Mark
Mark Wheadon
March 17th, 2009 at 3:17 am
I’ve explained how to use WebKit + Safari 4 to get around the wordpress problem here:
http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/03/safari-4-and-wordpress-now-works/
Cheers,
Mark