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Discussion: Safari used to work
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 Ruminator |
Safari used to work
Apr 28 2008, 2:18 PM EDT Not certain what broke it. Any word as to when it will be working again? 5 out of 6 found this valuable. Do you? |
 Jason_wetpaint |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 28 2008, 3:11 PM EDT What's broken for you? Do you find this valuable? |
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Anonymous |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 28 2008, 6:49 PM EDT When you try to edit a page, the tools are missing. If you click on the link, you get the following text: About Safari Some features are not supported by the Safari web browser. Read more about supported browsers at Wetpaint Central. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
 grapplinghook |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 28 2008, 6:52 PM EDT "When you try to edit a page, the tools are missing. If you click on the link, you get the following text:Well, I use Safari sometimes 2, & it does not work because wetpaint doesn't support Safari all the way. If I were you I'd download Firefox & use that. That's what I did. Hope that helps. ~grapplinghook~ 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Ruminator |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 29 2008, 7:09 AM EDT Thanks, but I prefer Safari over Firefox and find it annoying to have to open another application when Safari used to work just fine. I'm a web developer, and I know that there isn't anything being done with WetPaint that shouldn't work with Safari (and it frustrates me that it used to work with Safari just fine - it's been kind of a cycle, when WetPaint first came along, it didn't work with Safari; then it did; now it doesn't again). 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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grapplinghook |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 29 2008, 7:13 AM EDT "Thanks, but I prefer Safari over Firefox and find it annoying to have to open another application when Safari used to work just fine. I'm a web developer, and I know that there isn't anything being done with WetPaint that shouldn't work with Safari (and it frustrates me that it used to work with Safari just fine - it's been kind of a cycle, when WetPaint first came along, it didn't work with Safari; then it did; now it doesn't again)."huh, well i just signed up for wetpaint & Safari didn't work at that time. oh well... 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Jason_wetpaint |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 29 2008, 10:07 AM EDT Safari has always had limited functionality on Wetpaint wikis. There is quite a lot that Safari doesn't do gracefully. Safari 3 addressed a number of the issues with the built-in editing tools, but not all of them. When Safari is capable of handling the Wetpaint toolset, we will fully support it. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Ruminator |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 29 2008, 1:00 PM EDT "Safari has always had limited functionality on Wetpaint wikis.I've been with WetPaint since the original beta (where you had to fill out all kinds of forms just to join). At first, Safari wasn't supported. Then it was and Safari worked fine. Now, it doesn't again (however, as it's been a while since I've had to edit a page (users are doing a good job now), I can't tell you when it stopped working). Do you find this valuable? |
 jeremy_wetpaint |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 29 2008, 1:17 PM EDT We've never had full support for the Safari browser. Some functionality works with it and some doesn't. This is due to some inherent limitations of the Safari browser. We have more on this topic at http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/page/Browser+Support 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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grapplinghook |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 29 2008, 1:19 PM EDT "We've never had full support for the Safari browser. Some functionality works with it and some doesn't. This is due to some inherent limitations of the Safari browser. We have more on this topic at http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/page/Browser+Support"Will you ever fully support Safari? Do you find this valuable? |
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Jason_wetpaint |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 29 2008, 2:00 PM EDT "Will you ever fully support Safari? "We don't know. It's up to Apple to decide when or if they'll fix the problems with Safari that prevent us from fully supporting it. Do you find this valuable? |
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Anonymous |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 29 2008, 2:03 PM EDT I find it funny that other sites work with Safari and you guys don't. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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grapplinghook |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 29 2008, 2:17 PM EDT "I find it funny that other sites work with Safari and you guys don't."Me too, but maybe it's apple. btw Apple rocks!!! Do you find this valuable? |
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Jason_wetpaint |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 29 2008, 2:25 PM EDT "I find it funny that other sites work with Safari and you guys don't."Other sites don't do what we do, Ruminator. Safari works fine for viewing content. It can even edit content, to a certain extent. I personally use Safari as much as possible, but there's plenty of sites that it has trouble with, not just Wetpaint. Do you find this valuable? |
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grapplinghook |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 29 2008, 2:42 PM EDT "Other sites don't do what we do, Ruminator.Yeah, I've had other websites not work on Safari too. That's why I use Firefox the most. Do you find this valuable? |
 Leo- |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 29 2008, 2:47 PM EDT "Me too, but maybe it's apple. btw Apple rocks!!!"Safari Is fast and it would be great to be able to fully use it with wetpaint But apple...No i dont like apple :P Do you find this valuable? |
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Ruminator |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 30 2008, 7:41 AM EDT "Other sites don't do what we do, Ruminator.Hhmm, if I enable the develop tool bar in Safari, I can change the User Agent reported to Firefox, and all of the tools come up and work just fine. FYI...pbwiki does what you do, and it works with Safari just fine (I just happen to prefer WetPaint - more styles and templates built right in..a little more user friendly - plus, I've been with WetPaint since the beginning and really like it). There are plenty of other sites that do WYSIWYG editing that work with Safari without any issues. Do you find this valuable? |
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Jason_wetpaint |
RE: Safari used to work
Apr 30 2008, 4:09 PM EDT The problem is that it doesn't work just fine. It may look fine in Safari, but the changes you make with the user-agent string changed may not look right in IE6/7 or Firefox, especially when dealing with complicated content. Safari's compatibility problems aren't restricted to only Safari. We must take into account the other browsers. 0 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
 rubikubism |
Rear in Gear
Jun 11 2008, 6:58 PM EDT As I see it, Wetpaint does a LOT of waiting around for things to happen without actually doing them. This applies to many things. Whereas a company like Apple, daresay, would actually do something about a problem when it is brought to their attention or if they see it when it occurs. Wetpaint just sits around and waits for people to get angry about the service. For example: HTML editing: People have been complaining about Wetpaint not adding an HTML editing ability to the tools. People have been whining and complaining about it for at least a year and a half to easily two years. Wetpaint hasn't done anything other than consider it. If this same type of ruckus occurs because people can not edit their site, people will flock to other site builders. I agree with Ruminator on the point that Wetpaint is user friendly, and that is one of the two reasons I haven't flocked with the others to another site builder. I have come upon many a problem that have only been considered. Nothing has EVER in Wetpaint history had anything done about them. This isn't going to look good when people are looking for site builders. Eventually Wetpaint will lose advertisers because the people advertising will see that Wetpaint and its sites are losing traffic. This is what WILL happen if Wetpaint continues to be this naive. In short Wetpaint should get their rear in gear and do something. Until next time, Rubikubism 3 out of 3 found this valuable. Do you? |
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jeremy_wetpaint |
RE: Rear in Gear
Jun 11 2008, 8:17 PM EDT I can assure you that no one at Wetpaint is waiting around for anything. You could say that we have a limited number of developers that only have so many hours in the day though. There's only so much that can be done. Note that we are in the process of adding more developers to our team so we can get more done faster. I'm personally amazed at how much our development team is able to do in a short time. There will always be an infinite number of things we could do, but a finite amount of time and resources to do it with. This equation pretty much guarantees that someone will always be unhappy with our choices. As far as the HTML editing issue goes, it's pretty safe to say that we have shelved that idea. There are no plans to implement that. It doesn't quite fit into our plans. It may not be fully evident from the outside, but yes, we do have a plan. Keep this old adage in mind: You can make some of the people happy some of the time, but you can't make all of the people happy all of the time. We do our best. 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
