Safari/MT Bug Workarounds
posted on october 31, 2003, tag: software
Here are a few things you can do to save yourself from the Safari/MT bug I wrote about the other day:
Download Safari Enhancer, which allows you to turn off Safari's caching. The app also allows change some other hidden settings (like removing link underlines and dis/enabling the debug menu) and is Panther compatible.
Or, Replace the Safari cache folder with a null file, so that Safari doesn't actually cache anything. You can do that by opening Terminal (Utilities) and typing the following (all one line, no breaks): touch ~/Library/caches/safari (via macosxhints). Note that using the Safari menu item "Empty Cache..." will remove what you've just done, so after doing this don't use that menu item (you won't need to, there's no cache being created).
Of course, the simple solution is to only delete MT comments via the Edit Entry page (by checking them and then hitting delete).
Hopefully, even if this issue isn't solved in Safari any time soon, Movable Type itself could be changed to circumvent this bug. As far as I can tell, simply changing the Edit Comment's textarea name from "text" (which matches the Edit Entry content textarea) to something different would eliminate this problem.
Apologies to Anil for trackbacking this to his non-MT website, but I just thought he should be aware of the bug.
Comments
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Anil on 11/04/2003:
We're aware of the bug (actually, i'm the only non-mac person at Six Apart) but I don't know that we'll be changing the app to conform to Safari's bug, since a lot of third-party developers have made scripts and things that interact with MT. I assume since Hyatt (like most browser developers) is an MT user, he'll fix the problem sooner rather than later. Also, this bug affects thousands of other web apps, not just MT, so it'd probably be a little ambitious to hope they'll all change to conform to the bug.
Garrett on 11/04/2003:
Anil—thanks for commenting. I understand the problem with changing MT in this case (Ben also confirmed he's aware of the problem and it affects other areas of MT too (as would be expected)), and I think you're right in saying it makes less sense for everyone to change rather than just Safari.
Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
Mister Y on 12/19/2003:
Cool blog!
Creno on 02/20/2004:
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