Moodle in English: WYSIWYG gone in forum using Safari 4

WYSIWYG gone in forum using Safari 4

by Julian ter Huurne - Monday, April 20, 2009, 5:48 PM

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could help me with my surprise I got earlier this weekend. When posting a note on a forum using a Mac (OS 10.5) with Safari 4 beta, I realised that the toolbar/WYSIWYG editor was gone (see attachement). I wondered if:

it's because of Safari's 4 Beta status;
it's because of our Moodle version, which is 1.9.1+ (Build: 20080611);
it's a result of our slight custimisation of Moodle;
anyone had the same experience.

The editor is shown on the same computer using Firefox latest browser version.

Any help would be highly appriciated.

Thanks.

Julian

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Re: WYSIWYG gone in forum using Safari 4

by Mary Cooch - Monday, April 20, 2009, 6:44 PM

HI there. I wasn't aware that the WYSIWYG editor worked under ANY version of Safari actually (or Opera or Chrome for that matter)

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Re: WYSIWYG gone in forum using Safari 4

by Eric Hagley - Monday, April 20, 2009, 7:43 PM

I'd second what Mary said. It's been documented extensively - safari doesn't support the editor. A real shame, but fact. Firefox is the way to go.

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Re: WYSIWYG gone in forum using Safari 4

by Julian ter Huurne - Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 4:02 PM

Sorry for having brought up an 'old issue', but thanks Mary and Eric for the feeback. Too bad Safari isn't supporting the editor, meaning that the odd Mac users in our network may have to rely on Firefox (like you said Eric).

Cheers,

Julian

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Re: WYSIWYG gone in forum using Safari 4

by Greg Rodenhiser - Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 9:29 PM

As an aside, the editor in Moodle 2.0 Beta DOES work in Safari (at least my Safari 4 beta on OSX).

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Re: WYSIWYG gone in forum using Safari 4

by Jonathan Moore - Thursday, April 23, 2009, 11:25 AM

Not sure I would recomend it, but there are reports of folks back porting the 2.0 editor to 1.9 or maybe earlier efforts to make compatible editors.

I think Eric Merril said they had done something at Oakland at the Canada Moot.

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WYSIWYG gone in forum using Safari 4