Blog description is erased

[drx]

Hi,

i installed s9y 1.3.1. When i change the configuration in the admin tool, the "Blog description" is always forgotten. So when i edit some paramters and save, the Blog description is gone. Looks like a bug to me.

Bests,
drx

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Which browser do you use? Some firefox versions are known to "forget" input fields even though the HTML sourcecode lists the proper existing values.

If possible, have a try with Opera, Safari or others?

Regards,
Garvin

[drx]

It's not the browser's fault, here is what s9y generates:

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<span style="white-space: nowrap"><input class="input_textbox" type="text" size="30" name="blogDescription" value="" /></span>

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Did you try to save with another browser? Please do that.

The HTML can look like that if the browser submits an empty blogDescription.

Regards,
Garvin

[drx]

This is crazy for me, in Internet Explorer 6 the value of the field is saved and put back into the value parameter of the input field on reload.

Neither Konqueror 3.5.9 nor Firefox 2.x nor Firefox 3 beta could do it?

Does it really have to do with the browser?

What is this bug, is there something to read about it?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Yes, this is really often a problem of the browser! Some extensions do cause this, but usually only in firefox. Konqueror should be unrelated.

Are you using the working IE and the non-working Firefoxes on the same PC? Maybe a difference in the Proxies?

Regards,
Garvin

[drx]

I am using all browsers on the same system. Mainly Konqueror, if something doesn't work there i try Firefox. IE6 runs in Wine. No proxies for any of them.

The problem stays in Firefox and Konqueror. Indeed the input fields' values are set correctly when entering the "general configuration".

Could it be a CSS related bug? Do you run any weird Javascript on this page? It only happens in s9y for me.

Is this browser bug documented anywhere?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

There's no javascript involved in saving the page there. You could disable your javascript, it should work without JS just fine - just to eliminate such a problem.

I'm not understanding why FF and Konqueror show that symptom, because their engines are completely different. I'd understand it in Firefox (because of extensions) but in Konqueror...do you use any add-ons or the likes for Konqueror, does that exist?

Are you using any kind of reverse-proxy system on your webserver? Is the webserver the same like your client?

For firefox, you could install the LiveHTTPHeader extension and see what your browser POSTs to that page, and see if your blogdescription is contained. It should.

I don't see a relation to CSS, this should not be involved at all.

Is this browser bug documented anywhere?

I believe the extensions that are responsible or the auto-complete function of the browser does document edge-cases where this can destroy functionality of web-apps.

Regards,
Garvin