I just discovered this Bug in Apple’s Safari 4 Beta. Although some “interesting effects” and minor issues are expected out of a Beta release and should go away in the Final version but after all, a bug is a BUG!
In WordPress, when we use the Tiny MCE Editor – WUSIWUG and click on Upload Media or Insert / Remove hyperlink or anything which gives a Lightbox type effect in a different window and changes the focus from the previous window. The Screen gets stuck and kind of hangs! You cant go back, The X (Cross Button) doesn’t Work, Esc key fails. It just hangs! You have to close the Tab and reopen it all again.
- As you can see, both the background and foreground of the popup have merged together and no editting is possible
I was thinking to switch to Safari after its launch due to many of its appealing features but this wordpress bug has left me a bit disappointed. All WordPress users out there (quite lot of them) wont be too happy I’m sure. The Blogging community will find it quite a pain I’m sure.
Hope Apple fixes it / patches it up in the next release or Safari is out of bounds for many people who blog using WordPress. Will keep you updated as in when this issue is fixed.
Update : I finally found a solution to the above problem.
Someone please call the guys at Apple so that they can hire me.
Ok, Here it goes, It appears that, this is not Safari 4 bug (gasp!), but related to the webkit that Safari 4 use. I’ll still blame Safari.
Install the webkit by following these steps.
1. Download webkit from http://nightly.webkit.org/
2. Run ‘run-nightly-webkit’ till the message ‘XXX files copied’)
Ok, that’s no rocket science for sure but Apple guys could atleast get me a Macbook Pro (hmmmm iPhone will also do)….
Is anybody listening?
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Over at ConnectedSocialMedia.com, I’m running numerous WordPress 2.7.1 installs. Yes, I’m getting the same error on all of the sites. To be honest though, I’m never in Visual Mode.
There is of course one more button that works and that is the Bug button (in the nav bar). I reported the error, but other should as well.
I’m wondering if this is a general bug between Safari 4 and lightbox?
ммм. забавно (Hmmm. funny)
Its not a general bug between Safari 4 and lightbox as I also opened the Lightbox 2 website and its works fine. As of now, I think its confined to Wordpress only.
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