Comments on: Quick Bug Note

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:26:09 +0000

Meloukhia,

Thanks, that worked. (I’ve been slowly catching up with the posts I missed.) The “subscribe” link in the header works, but the orange dingbat in the Firefox address bar doesn’t; I guess that’s because you’re using Feedburner?

By: meloukhia

meloukhia — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:33:49 +0000

Hi Susan, I would recommend unsubscribing and then resubscribing, I suspect that the feed might have been interrupted.

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:03:10 +0000

My Bloglines hasn’t had any of your posts since Jan. 18th; I guess the RSS hasn’t been working since your site was down for a while.

By: lauredhel

lauredhel — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:38:53 +0000

The DW feed issue has been reported to DW developers.

By: meloukhia

meloukhia — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:38:59 +0000

I’ve taken a gander at the DW feed and I see them as well; they do indeed look like artifacts from a word processing program. But…they aren’t present in our source, so I think something is getting translated funny between our feed and DW (the LiveJournal Feed, for example, as well as feeds in readers, are not displaying those weird characters). Seems to be related to quote marks/spacing?

By: Jesse the K

Jesse the K — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:35:18 +0000

I’m also seeing the high-ASCII characters in the RSS feed on DW, Safari 4.04, the characters are in the source.

By: Mel

Mel — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:36:14 +0000

The RSS feed (at least where I’m reading it, through Dreamwidth) often has gratuitous special characters. It’s not a big deal for me since I usually click through to read comments anyway, but it might be for others. I suspect it may be a side effect of some people (it’s not every post) composing posts in Word and then copypasting, but I’m not sure.

By: meloukhia

meloukhia — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:20:22 +0000

Thank you, Viv! You are, as always, luvverly with sprinkles on top.

Edited to remove something which did not make sense once I realized I was responding to a comment which was actually left on a different post and had nothing to do with what I thought it did.

By: Viv

Viv — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:53:31 +0000

*waves* I’ve done a quick and dirty fix to give the text a white background that works for me in Firefox and IE8. I’ll come back soon and sort out why it’s sitting in the header area instead of in the expected position on a page.