Missing "Post" Button

January 2, 2002 12:17 PM

The 'Post' button for comments seems to have stopped working for me in Mac IE 5.1. The button is there, but it doesn't do anything.
posted by jjg to Bugs at 12:17 PM (10 comments total)

I had to switch to Netscape (!) to post a comment.
posted by jjg at 12:20 PM on January 2, 2002

But the 'Post' button here in MetaTalk works just fine.
posted by jjg at 12:20 PM on January 2, 2002

Yep, me too. Coincidentally, I was trying to reply to jjg in the apple thread, in which the formatting has gone balls-up too. Maybe there's some bad HTML in the thread?

*goes to look*
posted by rodii at 1:01 PM on January 2, 2002

Nothing obvious that I can see. However, something with mr_roboto's <BR /> tags is screwing up the formatting.

(I've mentioned this before, but that tag-closing code interacts with some tags in a bad way on about 10% of the pages I look at. Also Mac IE 5.1, Mac OS X)
posted by rodii at 1:09 PM on January 2, 2002

Same problem, same thread. Odd, that. The "preview" button also stops working after the first time I click it - the "preview" button on the first page works, but the one next to the "post" button does not.

-Mars
posted by Mars Saxman at 1:45 PM on January 2, 2002

same here. what bitter irony
posted by machaus at 1:47 PM on January 2, 2002

Same thing happened to me (Mac IE 5.1), while trying to post a comment to the mythical 9622. I assumed it was punishment for trying to enter that dark realm.
posted by liam at 2:20 PM on January 2, 2002

is it just on certain threads, or all of them?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:47 PM on January 2, 2002

The Apple thread is the one that gave me trouble. Liam had the same problem with this one.
posted by jjg at 4:12 PM on January 2, 2002

I figured posting test comments to every thread would not be smiled upon by the management.
posted by jjg at 4:28 PM on January 2, 2002