I am Ajax and there's no way for that to be an insult.   



And how am I obsessed with mythology, Greek or otherwise?   I wrote one article and then talked you into doing 60% of the work for an app.   That's not obsession, it's trying to show you where all those D&D stories you like actually originated from.

And I am Hera who is unable to make a rich text editor posting on Science 2.0! Please fill in the field it is empty. 
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The wife (and sister) to Zeus, but that's not what makes me famous. I help the Greeks because of my anger at the Trojans over the judgement of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Paris and I'm willing to go to battle with the most powerful god to assist them in Book 14. Plus I have a great cleavage to go with my imminent facelift.

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Anyone seen Zeus lately to tell him the good news?

Helen, If you have a good fire wall, as bloggers should, then there may be a secondary blocker built into it. The secondary can be turned off also, but some versions automatically turn back on without your permission. Other versions are not off when they say they are. The remedy is to turn on your primary pop up blocker, but put the URL into the exclusion list. http://www.science20.com If you have spam blocking enabled, you may need to add the URL to that exclusion also. After that it might take one or two tries before the firewall blocker replicates with the primary blocker. Error message “Done but with errors” may occur, but it should only be for a moment, followed by additional down loading which should end in a successful operation “Done.” I believe cookies have to be enabled, but then your virus protection should watch for web tracking cookies and destroy them, or prompt you to destroy them. Lowered security should not be necessary, and you should not have to put Science 2.0 into the trusted category. Notice that the web site is changing occasionally and has a new URL now. Also there can be an occasional page error like “Out of memory at line” or “Unresolved conflict at line.” Sometimes the error disappears by opening a new page or a new tab. Other times it may be helpful if the browser is closed and reopened without logging off from the web site or from the connection service. Some very large pages can stall if the down loading is not complete before scrolling is started. Over time the problems appear to be diminishing. So if you continue working on, your problem might disappear with no clear explanation of why. Keeping the editor open too long can end in an error if someone else is responding to the same article at the same time. Also editing your own comment may be blocked if some one has already commented on it. Your results may vary depending on your hardware and software, also from features of your connection service and occasions when someone is hacking at you.

For what its worth, I just encountered a fatal error on Science20.com :-

Fatal error: Cannot use [] for reading in /home/sciblogs/public_html/sites/all/modules/cool_links/cool_links.module on line 83<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

 
when I clicked on recent comment 

"By arguing about axioms doesn't that make them no longer axioms?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axioms..."

 

I've just been into Adobe reader to try to put it into manual update mode but couldn't see where to do it. Can you give me a bit more of a pointer? Thanks for your help Jerry.

Unfortunately, I still can't do any posts using the Rich Text Editor. I have tried from many different computers with many different configurations commonly used here in Australia. I am an experienced IT professional and I still can't get it to work. What I would like is for Hank and Patrick to be brave enough to create a blog where we can all share our problems with postings and similarly share the remedies that have worked for different people at different times. Even though it might well be nothing to do with the Rich Text Editor and everything to do with some 'big fat pig' of a software package that we are using, I still think it would be good to share our knowledge and to see a list of possible ways to fix the problem. One thing is for sure, I can't create the blog here even if I wanted to.

OK, I think I tried that before but here goes.

This is a line in bold text.

This is underlined

Here is my Goddess alter ego....

• I've tried this before
• but you never know
• Friday 13th could be my lucky day

OK so I can't underline things but I can write in bold and italics, insert pictures and links? http://www.scientificblogging.com

The Rich Text Editor supports a slightly larger set of HTML codes than the published pages do. A few things like Fonts and Underline appear as intended in the Rich Text Editor but are not displayed in the published pages. Spacing between lines is different on the two pages, and changes from time to time. Most of the items appear the same on both pages. All of the edit features appear to work OK on my system. My Firewalls like to add security codes to everything that comes in or goes out, which could be a problem for someone who in not IT experienced. All of the software gets updated occasionally which means the success rate changes also. To make it more fun the communication links by different routes all go through filters and fire walls that are configured differently. My success rate is best when I write my comments in MS Word 2007 which is set by default to Unicode UTF-8, and by preference to Verdana 10 font. With a source code of Unicode UTF-8 and Verdana 10 font the formatting is not lost when pasting into Plain Text editor. Before discovering this combination, I got some of the fill in the blank errors and other things people are describing. Copy and paste works best with the web site editor in Plain Text mode. Then it is possible to switch to Rich Text Mode for final editing links, and attachments. I do my posting from Rich Text editor, but if it didn’t work, I would try posting from plain text mode as Gerhard suggested. Copy and paste from a word processor into Rich Text mode creates formatting and other problems because the source and destination have differences in the HTML code sets. Occasionally there is a problem of unknown origin with the published version. In those cases I edit the item in plain text mode, especially the HTML codes, which give a lot of control over the published comment. If some of the readers are trying to read HTML code on a XML oriented platform, then the errors might be similar to the ones that were described on this page.

Let’s see how the improvements look.

This should be bold and double spaced
This should be underlined and single spaced


This should be italics and triple spaced


This is pasted into Rich Text Editor and posted from there.  The present configuration loses the message when changing from Plain Text to Rich Text.

All is Unicode UTF-8 Verdana 10, except this >>> is Calibri 16, or at least it was.

It all looked prefect in the Rich Text Editor.

 

Just to let you know Patrick, everything to do with adding comments on science20.com is working fine for me now, presumably whatever you did has worked well, at least it has for me, I'm not sure about everyone else? :)

Helen, I don't know if you have NoScript on your browser? I have to allow yahooapis.com, to get full access to the add comment/edit functions using firefox HTH Aitch