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January 23, 2005 3:13 PM

Have the recent changes included removing the "B | I | Link" buttons from the comment boxes? (Because they're gone).
posted by MikeKD to Bugs at 3:13 PM (18 comments total)

I'm running Firefox 1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-2) on Linux and removed cookies. The lose isn't a big deal for me, but I'm fluent with HTML whereas others may not be.
posted by MikeKD at 3:17 PM on January 23, 2005

Bold, Italic and link buttons present and accounted for in the blue, the green and the grey. Using Firefox 1.0, running WinXP SP2.
posted by contessa at 3:19 PM on January 23, 2005

Hmmm, a good chance it's my system, then. I think there was a new build of Firefox released--that may have broke whatever widget Matt uses. Does anyone know how the buttons are created? If it's something with FF, I'll go file a bug for it on bugzilla.
posted by MikeKD at 3:36 PM on January 23, 2005

Hm.
I'm on Mac OS 10.3.7, using Safari, and I've NEVER seen those buttons. Granted, I've only been a member for a few months, but still. News to me.
posted by Dr. Wu at 4:57 PM on January 23, 2005

Firefox on an OSX G5 10.3.5; I can see them.
posted by interrobang at 5:49 PM on January 23, 2005

I think this is a browser issue, on my old version of FF those buttons here and the same buttons on my MT-powered blog entry page didn't appear, but when I upgraded they came back.
posted by sciurus at 5:52 PM on January 23, 2005

Firefox/Windows 2000, they're not there anymore (they were).
posted by Count Ziggurat at 6:17 PM on January 23, 2005

Firefox/Win2K and I still have them. Weird.
posted by scarabic at 6:24 PM on January 23, 2005

I don't see them in Safari, either - but they are there in Firefox. OS X 10.3.7
posted by milkrate at 6:25 PM on January 23, 2005

WinXP running FF1.0 (installed last week) and the buttons are all there.
posted by swordfishtrombones at 6:28 PM on January 23, 2005

The buttons have never worked in Safari. Matt is aware of this and I believe it is a Safari issue that may someday get fixed [maybe w/Tiger?].
posted by birdherder at 6:29 PM on January 23, 2005

OK for me using FF1.0/Linux build from mozilla.org. Maybe it's an issue with the Debian build?
posted by Galvatron at 6:32 PM on January 23, 2005

Might be... I'm using Firefox 1.0/Debian right now, the buttons are there, but one of them appeared as a broken image rather than an I just now, then changed back upon scrolling. Freaky.
posted by arto at 6:58 PM on January 23, 2005

What contessa said.
posted by deborah at 7:18 PM on January 23, 2005

FF 1.0, WinXP SP2... still see 'em.
posted by LouReedsSon at 8:00 PM on January 23, 2005

arto, I have the same problem on a spare ibook running firefox 1.0. It seems that all interlaced GIFs are messed up.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:18 PM on January 23, 2005

These buttons do not show up in Opera 8.0b or in the previous 7.0 version. They do however show up on Firefox 1.0...
posted by Dreamghost at 9:36 PM on January 23, 2005

They don't show up in Opera or Safari or any old version of IE or Netscape due to a lack of javascript support.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:55 PM on January 23, 2005