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Edit box on preview page was greyed out on particular thread.
I've never seen this before ...
I hit the "preview" button and the preview showed fine. But the edit box below it was greyed out and empty. This was reproducible in two senses: I hit the back button and then the preview button again with the same result. Also, after posting my response, I went back to post #1, hit quote, added some text, hit preview and again ended up with the greyed out box. I tried this on a different, arbitrary, thread and it worked fine.
I understand that it is early in the bug hunting process to be making sweeping pronouncements, but from the limited evidence so far I would say there is something about his particular thead. The vast majority of my posts on LQ have been made with this same Mozilla 1.4 browser. (I quess I am what would be called a slow adopter. ;) ) Maybe this just needs to be laid aside until (if ever) more evidence comes in to match against it.
As with the first time, this was "reproducible" in the sense that I used the "back" button to edit my post and when I clicked "preview" I again had the problem. But that's how the problem on the other thread manifested but then turned out to not be consistent afterall.
I'll note that it has been 10 days and aprox 20 posts w/o seeing such a problem.
Assuming it happens again, are further reports from me useful?
I continue to have sporadic problems with this. It seem to be reproducible inasmuch as back[/b] button + editing (usually) + [b]preview button gives the same result. As noted earlier, revisiting the thread later sometimes results in no problem.
I have verified the problem is not solved by disabling Privoxy. (I haven't tried skipping the proxy altogether. Maybe next time ...) Perhaps my old browser and the new LQ software just don't play well together? (The few times I've posted with (more or less) up-to-date Firefox or Seamonkey have not resulted in problems. But there is not enough data there to conclude anything statisticly meaningful.)
This issue does not seem related to LQ itself. It's possible that your old browser + hitting the back button + AJAX is the issue. I'm going to mark this as closed for now, but will re-open pending further information.
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12-26-2008 09:33 AM
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