We appreciate the emails from folks. We've done what we could, and even brought in old hands like Fab and Cal to doublecheck the blog HTML. But a visit to the Blogger help forums shows that there are a number of issues going on with comments for a variety of browsers and setups.
We're sorry about that. If we could fix it, we would. Please have patience.
Chrome seems to be the browser that is causing the fewest problems.
Test from RGM.
ReplyDeleteHave you gotten any complaints from Firefox people? I hate bothering you guys when I can get around it, but I always see a video at the bottom where "leave a comment" section ought to be. But I only see it from Firefox.
ReplyDelete(until right now, when I hit "reply" and it took me to an entirely separate "leave your comment" page? I can't even view the original post now. Oh, Blogger, what is your deal...)
Another firefox user here (without ads blocked), so I'm not much help on the IE issues, but I have to say that there are some advantages to the chronological, non-threaded comment format. For those of us who check the site too frequently, it's easier to see what's been added to various threads.
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Nothing is working. All is darkness.
ReplyDeleteTest of IE.
ReplyDeleteTest from Firefox.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what to tell you folks, I've accessed collegemisery.com and collegemisery.blogspot.com using three different browsers and have been able to comment.
ReplyDeletecollegemisery.blogspot.com is less buggy for some users. Chrome is less buggy for most people who try it. Firefox is moderately less buggy.
IE is the most incompatible browser I have found so far.
Test of Safari.
ReplyDeleteIE is complete shit and has been for a while. Please, everyone, stop using it. Chrome is by far the fastest and easiest browser. Firefox seems to work okay, too.
ReplyDeleteIt's true; IE is complete shit.
ReplyDeleteRGM, you are lovely for testing around. I've never not been able to post, but I had to refresh in order to get rid of a video that was superimposed over the comments box.
That's gone now, so no big deal!
Hiram, the only frigging reason I've used Internet Exploder is because it came with the laptop, and I didn't want to screw with it.
ReplyDeleteThen the IT problems started, I downloaded Firefox (a cool plane in a crappy Clint Eastwood movie), and have been using it since.
Now the comments don't want to work with Firefox...Firefox is down. And I'm back in Bill Gates' stinky pocket.
On this situation I just want to say...
"Of all the motherfuckers in the world Charlie Brown [blogger.com], you the motherfuckest." - "black" Linus in the parody film "A Charlie Brown Kwanzaa"
Oh, Strel, surely the choice goes Firefox -- Chrome -- Safari -- [low grade browser] -- IE.
ReplyDeleteI'm commenting via Chrome 7:11 a.m. eastern time--unable to comment via IE still. Chrome is about to become my default browser. But, ugh, I hate the thought of needing to rebuild my favorites/bookmarks...I'll deal; change is good!
ReplyDeleteAnybody have any idea why my OWN blog has not given me any grief via IE (excepting of course, when all of blogger went rogue last spring)?
ReplyDeleteSafari test, Saturday morning, Fab.
ReplyDeleteFirefox test, Saturday morning, Fab
ReplyDeleteChrome test, Saturday morning, Fab.
ReplyDeleteFWIW, I use Firefox at both home and work and can comment fine. I use the latest version at home.
ReplyDeleteAnd to echo what CC said, I prefer the chronological, non-threaded comments too.
Never had any serious problems with the blogspot site with FF for windows, Safari for iPad. CollegeMisery.com comments don't work with Safari/iPad, or at least they didn't long enough for me to switch to the blogspot.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a fan of non-threaded comments, myself.
The current "threaded" comment style (called embedded by Blogger) allows you to STAY on this page, make comment, see post and comments together. Any other comment system, including the normal chronological one we've always used, now takes you to a NEW page or a POP UP Page to enter your comment. You click a link to come back to the post.
ReplyDeleteThere is an equal number of complaints about these options.
RGM
I'm a technodummy, but I just downloaded Google Chrome. If this gets posted, it works.
ReplyDeleteMy browser is Internet Explorer, and to make this work I had to click on Google Chrome on the desktop first. So maybe I've got two browsers in my computer?
Shatever. Let's see if it works. Here goes . . .
Cool.
ReplyDeleteFor other technodummies: Just go to the link for Chrome that's in this post. Click on it, and follow your nose.
Philip: It's not uncommon to have more than one browser. IE certainly is widely used as it gets packaged with every Windows PC on the planet.
ReplyDeleteBut, it's got some well documented issues, especially concerning compatibility with other software.
People tend to get attached to a browser they like, but different browsers offer different functionality.
I actually use IE very occasionally. It renders large chunks of dense text better than any other browser I know. Firefox is great for ad-heavy pages. Chrome is fast and uncluttered. Everyone has a favorite. Seamonkey! I always forget it. It's awfully stable, and has a decent HTML editor built in.
Got it. And thanks, College Misery.
ReplyDeleteFor other technodummies out there, after I installed Google Chrome, I found icons for two browsers, IE and Google Chrome, down at the bottom of my desktop page. I (and you, too) can click on whichever one you want to use. To reply to anything on this blog, I click on Google Chrome, and to use IE for all the rest of my stuff (and without changing any of my favorites), I click on IE.
Tried IE 9.0.4 Saturday night.
ReplyDeleteDidn't work; loaded Chrome.
@CM -- Seamonkey's HTML editor sux hamster nards. Just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteHi Mindbender, I have to revise my lab webpage this summer, and was going to go ahead with Seamonkey. Which editor would you suggest as a better alternative? Bearing in mind of course, that I don't have megabux to shell out on Dreamweaver.
DeleteYes, it'd be good to know some of the great free HTML editors. I'd love to find one.
DeleteI've downloaded Chrome here at school this morning and am having no comment-freeze issues; however, I'm getting many "broken images" icons scattered here anf there.
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