Bug 7197 – Blogger.com only shows minimal editing toolbar

• Component: Accessibility
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Chris Judson]

When editing, no tool  bar shows up (does show up in other Mozilla browsers, though.

[Joost de Valk (AlthA)]

"other" mozilla browsers? :)

[Chris Judson]

By "Mozilla" browsers, I meant Firefox (along with variant Flock).

[Gustaaf Groenendaal (MysteryQuest)]

Could you please provide us with a test-case by saving the page in FireFox and uploading it as an attachment, so people who don't have a blogger account can also take a look on this.

[Chris Judson]

Created attachment 6860 [details]
Screen Shot of Blogger editing screen with tool bar

Per request

[Scott Park]

The full editing bar does not show up in Safari because Blogger specifies to only use the basic editing tools. I believe this has something to do with varied support for HTML content editable. A nightly WebKit build from the 31st displays at least some editing bar. I'd move to have this bug closed.

I'll attach a screen shot.

[Scott Park]

Created attachment 8644 [details]
Toolbar visible

This picture is from a Nightly build of Webkit from May 31st.

[Sam Weinig]

I am confirming that only a minimal Toolbar is visable in ToT.  It would be nice to have access to the full toolbar though, so for now I am going to leave this open.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Does Blogger.com integrate one of the third-party tools like TinyMCE or Kupu?  Or is this a user agent sniffing/evangelism issue?  Has anyone tried masquerading Safari+WebKit as Firefox to see how much of the editor works?  (You can change the user agent that Safari sends through the hidden "Debug" menu.)

[Scott Park]

Changing the user agent string in both the Safari 2.0.4 (419.3), and WebKit r15395 yield the same results. If there is support detection it seems to be done on a different level. One example is the editing bar available in Safari has fewer options then WebKit, even when both are set to MSIE 6.0, or Mozilla 1.1.

Webkit shows as many options as Firefox and IE, except there is no visible tab to switch to "Compose" which contains all those editing tools. This could possibly be due to the visible rendering glitch on the create post page. See bug #8796.

[Scott Park]

Created attachment 9414 [details]
Toolbar in Safari 2.0.4 (419.3)

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Blogger.com is also Google.

[Shawn Smith]

As of latest nightly July 19th, 2006 the full toolbar is now visible along with a fully working compose and preview funtion.  Only remaining issue I can see is the "size" drop down to modify the font in compose mode does not work.

[Maciej Stachowiak]

Closing since this is now working in TOT.