In a word, yes.
I’ve written before about how I’d love to move to Safari full-time, but it simply won’t work properly with the WordPress web editor. Under Safari, the web editor flat-out borks post formatting, and occasionally decides to omit entire blocks of text that it, ostensibly, thinks suck and shouldn’t be published.
(An aside: I am a full-on convert to MarsEdit as my blog editor, so the need for me to dig around a web interface is truly asymptotically approaching zero. Nonetheless, I hate the idea that if I have to use the web editor, then I have to fire up another browser.)
The good news is WordPress’s Lloyd Budd reports that help is on the way, and soon:
Very soon we will release WordPress 2.5, and about the same time WordPress.com will be updated.
With Safari 3 and WordPress 2.5 you should finally have a great experience if Safari is your preferred browser.
So, if the WordPress web editor is the last thing keeping you from moving to Safari full-time, then you might want to start getting those bookmarks synchronized. (I recommend BookIt, by the way.)
[Via Daniel Jalkut]
18 responses so far ↓
Khürt Williams // March 1, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I hate it too. Sometimes I use the “Post to ….” from Safari. It always screws up my post. Glad to know this will be resolved.
David Dugan // March 2, 2008 at 2:15 am
Let’s hope Six Apart follows suit with Movable Type and TypePad. Little birdies tell me there’s not a lot of love for Safari inside Six Apart, even though they’re head-over-heels for the iPhone.
I love Safari. That aint gonna change.
Jeff Ventura // March 2, 2008 at 9:52 am
David: I’d love to use Safari, but these days, with so much functionality in the cloud, the browser actually becomes the critical-path platform — even above the OS itself.
emalyse // March 2, 2008 at 9:54 am
Hoo-ray-one of the few ‘features’ that has stopped me using safari full time. Safari 3 solved so many other previous wordpress incompatibilities bar this final formatting fault.
jphearts // March 2, 2008 at 11:20 am
Thank you for sharing this information - I have been so frustrated with WordPress and am glad to know that we Safari users have hope!
-Jessica
zachdude1094 // March 2, 2008 at 12:59 pm
If you’re running IE and your looking for an alternative then use Firefox, it has the best security out of all the browsers and it works fine with WordPress.
drmike // March 2, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Actually the editor is TinyMCE and it’s known for having issues with Safari.
ase7 // March 2, 2008 at 4:51 pm
The best journal keeper or blogging client (that supports WordPress) is Jounler. It only works on Mac OS X.
Jeff Ventura // March 2, 2008 at 5:19 pm
ASE: Journler is a great app, but as a blogging client, it can’t compete with MarsEdit.
Gringo // March 2, 2008 at 6:11 pm
So that’s what is going on!
Thanks!
thewritinggenie // March 3, 2008 at 12:14 am
I have problems with Safari when I write on Suite 101.com– I can’t edit. It works when I use Firefox. I started with Safari, but now I go back and forth, especially if I’m writing online, which is inconvenient. Good to know that at least the problems will be solved on WordPress.
scarhand // March 3, 2008 at 3:27 am
safari is a piece of shit.
mistergreenjeans // March 8, 2008 at 10:38 am
I have the same problems with the WordPress Visual Editor in Safari, Firefox, and Flock. None of them work properly. Going to give MarsEdit a try.
mistergreenjeans // March 8, 2008 at 10:51 am
Just tried out MarsEdit and it is definitely *not* the solution I need. While it is a well written application, and quite elegant, it does not have a visual WYSIWYG editor. I do not want to use any mark up language while creating my blog. Hope that WordPress gets 2.5 out the door quickly.
mistergreenjeans // March 18, 2008 at 10:04 am
I am writing this using the newest version of Safari which just released today (version 3.1) and it still does NOT work with the WYSIWYG editor in word press. Bummer. When is wordpress going to work with safari?
Jeff Ventura // March 18, 2008 at 11:13 am
greenjeans: WordPress 2.5 will contain the fix.
mistergreenjeans // March 29, 2008 at 7:04 am
Hi Jeff V.,
Thanks for the info. Do you or anyone else know when 2.5 will release? I’d read that it would be out in mid-March but cannot seem to find any info. WordPress’ visual editor still does not work on the Mac - both Safari and Firefox are useless when using the WYSIWYG editor.
Tom // April 4, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Jeff,
I got version 2.5 on my site today (actually, was in the middle of writing a “vacation” post when it happened).
After a few “events”, I was able to Publish the new post from Safari 3.1. You can read it here:
http://thesmallwave.com/2008/04/04/vacation-and-wordpress-25/
I’d love to play with it more but I’m kind of out of it for a week.
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