330584 - typepad.com - No rich text editing in Camino (works in Firefox)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Jeff Noble]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060311 Camino/1.0.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060311 Camino/1.0.0+

I use Typepad for my blog. But I can't see the features such as text color, on-screen editing and so forth that I can see when I open it up with Firefox. Is there a fix coming, or should I switch to Firefox?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

If you change Camino's user-agent string (using CamiTools or in about:config) to Firefox's user-agent string, does that fix the problem? If so, Typepad is sniffing for Firefox's user agent and you should ask them to not do that.

Comment 2

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

My guess is that this is TE and TypePad is probably TE-worthy.  Is there a sample url we can use?

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

This is the second report we've had (the other was on feedback) in a week. Apparently Typepad officially DOES NOT support Camino, but they DO support Fx.

That right there is TE-worthy, whether it's the cause of this bug or not. There's no excuse for supporting one Gecko browser and not all of them.

cl

Comment 4

[Jeff Noble]

I have no idea how to change Camino's user agent string...

Comment 5

[Jeff Noble]

I found this link under Typepad's help section...

http://support.typepad.com/cgi-bin/typepad.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=171&p_created=1131070255&p_sid=Ysy2FF2i&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MSZwX3Byb2RzPSZwX2NhdHM9MCZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PWNhbWlubw**&p_li=&p_topview=1

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

TypePad is at least aware of the problem, although I wasn't entirely satisfied with this non-answer:

     Hi,

     Thanks for letting us know you would like to see TypePad
     support Camino. We are always working to keep TypePad
     up-to-date with all browsers, and we hope to see a future
     release of TypePad that supports Camino in the near future.
     At this time, we do not have a timeline as to when it will
     be released.

     We will update the list of Supported Browsers when there is
     a change:
     http://support.typepad.com/cgi-bin/typepad.cfg/php/enduser/
     std_adp.php?p_faqid=171

     Please let us know if you have any other questions.

     Thanks,
     Jen

To view this ticket, click on the following link:

https://www.typepad.com/t/app/control/help?__mode=edit&ticket_id=109330

I think we can safely kick this to TE now.

cl

Comment 7

[Jeff Noble]

What is TE?

Comment 8

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I have no idea how to change Camino's user agent string...

http://www.caminobrowser.org/support/hiddenprefs/#SpoofUserAgent

Jeff, verify that when pretending to be Firefox you see the same features as you do in the actual Firefox, and then we'll send this bug to Tech Evangelism.

Comment 9

[Jeff Noble]

OK, I tried it, and it didn't work... Didn't know you could do all that... Cool.

Comment 10

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

I'm still unclear why this doesn't work in Camino spoofing as Fx, but until such time as someone from their end points out a concrete Camino-only bug in Midas, ->TE

Comment 12

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Fixing summary.

Comment 13

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Adding the blocks from the dupe, since Sam has investigated there.

Comment 14

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

TypePad now lists Camino as "supported" with the caveat "Camino version 0.8.4 (but not WYSIWYG Camino)".

Presumably this means they're just being up-front about their silliness now ;)

Comment 15

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Appears Camino has been removed from the list http://help.typepad.com/browsers_supported.html.

Considering Camino is not being developed anymore I'm going to close this bug.