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Exc-el editor doesn't work with iBook?

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David Gilmour

Friday 09 June 2006

Chris Day found that the (eZpublish) Online Editor doesn't work with the Safari browser on his iBook. I've since heard from Karen Robertson that she has successfully used it with the excellent Firefox browser on an iBook, but this isn't installed as standard in East Lothian. It won't be a problem for student blogs as these won't be on eZpublish. We're now at the stage of planning migration of blogging onto other platforms, so it will cease to be an issue for weblogs. It does mean, though, that anyone wanting to update the Exc-el site via a standard school iBook will only be able to enter plain text (including XML, if they want).

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Online Editor

Pete

Saturday 24 June 2006

By the way, which version of the Online Editor are we using? I'm sure I saw the latest one working with Safari too.

Browsers, patches, favourites

Pete

Saturday 24 June 2006

"IE supports JavaScript. That's another browser where you won't lose your favourites when security patches are remotely installed."

Technically, I believe IE supports 'Jscript',which was MS's version of Netscape's JavaScript (originally called 'LiveScript', changing it to JavaScript was just marketing to link it to the completely unconnected Java which was the current hot topic - the Web 2.0 of the mid-90s). Maybe we should call it ecmascript. Anyway, the editor works in IE5.5 and later, true. The disappearing favourites thing is an East Lothian 'feature' that happens to our machines when patches and updates are applied. Home users and people in other areas are unaffected...

IE still sucks though.

Browsers

Chris

Thursday 22 June 2006

IE supports JavaScript. That's another browser where you won't lose your favourites when security patches are remotely installed.

Safari or Firefox

Pete Gray

Saturday 17 June 2006

Almost anything that relies on javascript (such as the online editor or other similar editor -HTMLArea and TinyMCE spring to mind) doesn't work in Safari. Even a simple image swap (such as I used here: http://www.jmbt.org.uk/content/pages/muir-quarter-puzzle.php) won't work in Safari.

So Firefox is the answer - and at least you wouldn't lose all your favourites every time there's a security patch remotely installed!

Firefox

Ewan

Saturday 10 June 2006

Firefox... as standard... East Lothian....

Is the answer not in the question ;-)

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