Live preview with iPhone/iTouch? [more inside]
posted by Brandon Blatcher on Mar 26, 2009 - 24 comments

Bug report: The preview function is disabling some features. [more inside]
posted by Rhaomi on Mar 11, 2009 - 16 comments

Is there a preference setting to turn off comment Live Previews? [more inside]
posted by orthogonality on Jan 13, 2009 - 18 comments

Whenever I preview a post—at least on the front page and MeTa—any &langs in my links became 〈.
posted by Korou on Nov 14, 2008 - 15 comments

Suggestion: In AskMeFi (and perhaps elsewhere, Idunno), line breaks in preview ought to look/work the same as when published. [more inside]
posted by jimmyjimjim on Oct 6, 2008 - 25 comments

One or more of the links you entered were found in 47597 previous threads. [more inside]
posted by wilful on Jul 14, 2008 - 30 comments

I'd like to suggest that the "related questions" feature of Ask appear in the preview stage of posting a question. It may cause the asker to find their answer pre-posting (great for people who suck at searching, like me!) or rephrase their question in a manner that's more helpful and therefore cut down on the asker having to clarify repeatedly in the thread.
posted by dobbs on Jun 16, 2008 - 31 comments

I had edited this FPP post after previewing it and the changes weren't applied to the post. Did I miss a step or does this have something to do with using Mozilla Firefox? [more inside]
posted by Bathtub Bobsled on May 28, 2008 - 9 comments

What happened to live preview? And why do I have to hit preview before post now? [more inside]
posted by sveskemus on Mar 10, 2008 - 4 comments

Do overwritten Comment Previews exist beyond the Post refresh? [more inside]
posted by breezeway on Feb 14, 2008 - 1 comment

Pony request: When previewing comments, can we please still be able to favorite & flag other comments in the thread? Or is there a reason otherwise?
posted by jmd82 on Jan 17, 2008 - 13 comments

Would it be possible to have preview in MeFiMail? [more inside]
posted by Miko on Jan 17, 2008 - 50 comments

Previewed HTML works fine, posted HTML less so... [more inside]
posted by dirtdirt on Jan 11, 2008 - 36 comments

When you preview a comment the post's title disappears both in the browser's title bar and at the top of the page. Is that supposed to happen? Because it seems weird to me.
posted by sveskemus on Jan 1, 2008 - 15 comments

It's pretty annoying that inserting carriage returns shows line breaks as typed in the "preview" window, but the final result is breakless (after all, what's the point of the preview?). I've had unpredictable results manually adding "BR" tags and "P" tags...they seem to sporadically interact with the typed carriage returns and yield vast white space. If anyone can point me to a workaround, I'd be appreciative. But, really, it'd be fitting if postings posted per the preview, no?
posted by jimmyjimjim on Dec 10, 2007 - 29 comments

I've come across a few issues in my latest AskMefi post related to rendering. [more inside]
posted by PuGZ on Oct 19, 2007 - 12 comments

I've been fooling around with user javascript for Opera and fixed a few problems with the live preview. The first problem is that it doesn't appear at all for me. The second problem is the sluggish live update performance when viewing longer threads. My solution is available here, but I wouldn't mind if it found another home, like the metafilter code? For instructions on how to install and enable user javascripts, go to Opera's documentation. [more inside]
posted by KirkJobSluder on Oct 6, 2007 - 12 comments

iPhone-y pony please: a way to supress the automatic inline comment preview to mitigate typing lag. [more inside]
posted by Good Brain on Sep 25, 2007 - 16 comments

Apropos of nothing: a preview of this week's upcoming podcast.


posted by mathowie on May 8, 2007 - 26 comments

For my own sake, what about enforced preview when posting? In the absence of the ability to edit posts, post-post, forcing the preview stage would probably save me some embarassment. Maybe it could even be a user-configurable option.
posted by mzurer on Feb 23, 2007 - 36 comments

I noticed a minor bug when posting a comment earlier. When previewing, all the timestamps are in PST. After posting the comment, everything went back to normal (CST for me). Not a big problem or anything, but a quick search didn't show it having been reported yet.
posted by Spike on Dec 18, 2006 - 11 comments

AskMe preview is broken when the post contains list tags.
posted by AmbroseChapel on Nov 9, 2006 - 3 comments

Just when I thought I'd figured out how to post code into AskMeFi ... some feature of the back end is changing two single quotes into one single quote?
posted by AmbroseChapel on Oct 30, 2006 - 30 comments

Preview and final post modes have diverged. I keep seeing complaints, after munged or garbled messages, about how 'it looked fine in preview!' [bit more inside]
posted by Malor on Oct 30, 2006 - 18 comments

I made a comment that had a < symbol. the rest of the br tag showed up, and i imagine the rest of the paragraph would not have.br>
It apparently happens in MeTa as well. I'm not sure it's a "bug" as such, but it might spare someone some embarassment to have a note above the post dialog, or a function that converts them to character entities on post.

I did a search and it seems to have been danced around a couple of times a few years ago.

Also "preview the link" text in MeTa posting seems a little confusing to me.
posted by hoborg on Oct 10, 2006 - 9 comments

Preview displaying outdated versions of threads? [more inside]
posted by staggernation on Aug 1, 2006 - 8 comments

I just posted a comment that showed no other comments on preview but there were two comments when I did post (a couple of minutes ahead of me so no simultaneous posting). Is this some trick to make me look stupid? Sorry, stupider?
posted by fenriq on Jul 20, 2006 - 19 comments

Hmph. I made a couple of paragraph elements with a background color to highlight colors in this green thread. [more inside]
posted by symphonik on May 31, 2006 - 14 comments

cannot preview long comments in askme
posted by andrew cooke on Apr 12, 2006 - 16 comments

Every time I clicked on "Preview Question" when I was typing my most recent AskMe missive, a new window opened. Is that supposed to happen? If so, it is slightly strange - I corrected/added to my question a bunch of times and I had five windows open before I knew it!
posted by MeetMegan on Mar 11, 2006 - 4 comments

Pony: In addition to "Post Comment" or "Preview", I'd like a "Post Comment/Preview If There Are New Comments." Live Preview is enough for slow-moving threads, but in fast-moving this would be really handy, and I imagine less server-intensive than Preview.
posted by Aknaton on Mar 8, 2006 - 26 comments

In this post the formatting of the "posted by..." message is weird.
Using Firefox 1.5 on a Windows XP SP2 machine.
posted by matkline on Feb 28, 2006 - 8 comments

MeFi Bug: Preview posts.
posted by five fresh fish on Feb 8, 2006 - 10 comments

It would be nice to have a little place (possibly on one's own user page) where one could work on posts.
posted by interrobang on Jan 19, 2006 - 37 comments

AskMe apparently trims line breaks from posts. I guess I understand this, but it would be nice if it also happened in the preview. In preview, my line breaks were still intact, so I hit the post button, and now my post looks a bit silly. Not the end of the world, but I figure it can't be intentional.
posted by bingo on Jan 15, 2006 - 12 comments

Having just made an FPP, I can still get to the posting page by pasting the "post_good.mefi" link. I can also put in any user id and it still gets me into preview. I didn't dare to hit post though to see if that works, but I thought I'd point it out.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane on Jan 12, 2006 - 16 comments

In Metatalk and Ask Metafilter, when previewing a comment, mousing over a username produces their /username.mefi/username, instead of their user number. Why? [more inside]
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane on Jan 7, 2006 - 18 comments

projects doesn't have the usual wonderful (and i don't mean that at all) auto-format line break thing. but preview preserves html markup. so i'm kinda pissed that posting deletes the markup i added, leaving me with a lumpy squashed-together run-on paragraph thing.

how about some consistency in the use interfaces round here?
posted by andrew cooke on Jan 6, 2006 - 56 comments

Please include a link to the thread itself when stuck inside comment preview mode.
posted by nixerman on Jan 4, 2006 - 26 comments

Make tag and category links work on preview
posted by Sharcho on Dec 2, 2005 - 13 comments

Preview on the main page keeps wrecking my FPP.
posted by penguin pie on Nov 17, 2005 - 23 comments

HTML color command works in the live preview, but not in the actual post. On purpose or an oversight?
posted by PurplePorpoise on Oct 15, 2005 - 1 comment

Descriptive text error on AskMe preview page (+)
posted by blag on Sep 21, 2005 - 3 comments

'Preview' only works once?
posted by The Jesse Helms on Sep 15, 2005 - 5 comments

On the AskMe preview page, the following text appears: "If everything seems right, hit the post button below. If not, hit your browser's back button and tweak the form again." How about: "...If not, edit below and hit the preview button again to confirm your changes before posting." or some such wording referencing the ability to edit ON the preview page?
This isn't really a bug, but it seemed the closest category
posted by birdsquared on Sep 14, 2005 - 3 comments

When creating an ordered list (and possibly a bulleted list) for an AxeMe question, it shows up in the preview in Times New Roman. It appears fine when posted.
posted by keswick on Sep 12, 2005 - 6 comments

As noted here, Opera has a bunch of bugs wtih the live preview (vs. safari or firefox.)
Of course MI
posted by filmgeek on Sep 8, 2005 - 11 comments

Feature Request: Is there any way to indicate that a thread has been closed when using comment preview?
posted by loquacious on Sep 8, 2005 - 12 comments

Did the addition of live preview break comment posting in Opera? Comments still get posted, but on submit, the page never refreshes, and just sits there and spins.

Are other Opera users having this problem, or just me?
posted by Caviar on Aug 20, 2005 - 17 comments

I *hate* the live preview feature. There, I said it.
posted by interrobang on Jul 27, 2005 - 77 comments