WordPress 2.0.6 supports HTML quicktags in Safari

Text formatting aside, this should offer the Safari-slinging WordPress users out there some browser-hopping relief when drafting their next diggable post.
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thanks for the info Brady, i'm looking into a hack for this right now, i'll post any results.
January 13 2007 at 8:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply"can't they stick some CSS on them- looks a little odd a row of curvy bubbles"
You can't override those html elements with CSS in the safari browser... atleast, not in anything but the nightlies and the coming soon builds.
Cocoa apps have always had the ability to "hook into" Apple's built in spell checking ability.
I don't know if Apple purposefully left spell-checking out for a while though.
One of the perks of having an OS X user with WordPress commit access now (that'd be me).
January 06 2007 at 11:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWell, that is good news - it has been possible for a good year or so, via a little hack, to make safari play along with these buttons, still- can't they stick some CSS on them- looks a little odd a row of curvy bubbles.
Has anyone noticed (or have I just re-enabled it!) that OS 10.4 now has systemwide spelling check with a little red underline as-you-type facility?
I would strongly recommend avoiding using the rich text/WYSIWYG editing tools: I used to use them until I realized they were responsible for the many serious formatting problems I had. In particular, the bold and italics tags are often malformed. Life is much better without the rich text editor.
January 05 2007 at 8:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNice, I've been waiting for this!
January 05 2007 at 7:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyFrom what I gather, the issue is really in Safari's court - the hooks to do wysiwyg via javascript editors are not all there or buggy at best (there have been large complaints with javascript support in safari nevertheless). If you need to force your apps to use wysiwyg http://editor.hardcoreinternet.co.uk/ offers full support. TinyMCE, what's in Wordpress, works somewhat decent with WebKit Nightlies, FCK is trying but holding for Safari to get it together http://www.fckeditor.net/safari
It's a shame too, I am building a few apps for Safari usage only, and it's CSS3 properites let me do some great designs, but it's javascript weaknesses are an annoyance.
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