Benj’s blog!

… and indeed it is. So much for trying to keep the blog up-to-date. The fall semester started at the end of August and I’ve been fairly busy since.

Anyway, in case you were wondering, all is well here in Ithaca.

To keep you occupied, here’s a few pictures I took over the weekend. I’ll see about writing more some time. Honestly.

If you’re wondering why your paragraphs disappear when using the ‘Rich Editor’ features with Safari 3 and Wordpress, then look no further.  Well, at least I can point you on the right track.

I first noticed this problem with the release of Safari 3 beta, and soon discovered that changing the UserAgent (UA) to Firefox eliminated the problem.  I’d hoped it would only be a matter of time before the Wordpress folks undid whatever they’d done in their integration of TinyMCE.  However, two point releases later and it appears the problem is still there.

So, this morning I made a very simple change to  

	$WPHome/wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce.js

Namely, line 33, do the following

//      this.isSafari = ua.indexOf('Safari') != -1;

        this.isSafari = false; 

This removes all the Safari specific hacks and now my paragraphs work nicely.  (You may need to quit and reload Safari for this to take effect).

Almost surely this breaks a whole bunch of things, but if you just need the basic editing features of TinyMCE, then until Wordpress gets their act sorted, this should do the job nicely.   Perhaps someone with a bit more time can go through this same file and see which of the hacks causes the problem. See comments.