WordPress.com has annoying IE bug

Hey Molly, don’t be a idiot. You can fully customize your template with WordPress, the only thing is you have to…OH NOES! Install WordPress yourself on a server! For God’s sake, that’s not difficult to do at ALL! But of course, most of Scoble’s readers use IE and don’t know anything about computers, so I guess it’s to be expected that you wouldn’t know a damn thing, either.

Lorelle: I will do. I didn’t even realize that WordPress was not a “shipping” service. I would never have signed up for it if I had realized that. When I go to http://wordpress.com/ I don’t see any reporting mechanism for bugs.

Finally, I didn’t even see the Feedback panel. Now that you pointed it out to me, I’ll send bugs in there.

I like http://opera.com but I just type links by hand <a href=” and drag the url from the toolbar, not a lot of work? What could go wrong?

Coby, sometimes its not an issue of skill but of finances!
If you give me a free server and free bandwidth, I am sure I can set it up. In fact if you where going to do that, maybe I might write my own. Wouldn’t be as good as any available but would be a fun experiment.

Lorelle, although you were probably not talking to me directly, I think your points are a good one and I will enter some feedback on this.

Molly

Your post was interesting.
The comments were priceless, ha,ha..

Agree with the above comment, Blogger is so much better. Plus the integration with Picasa & MS Word gives you multiple post creation options.

Molly: You’re computer can act as a server. All you need is broadband and you’re set.

While it can do that, I would watch out.

Say you get traffic like scoble does, my former ISP (I went off to college at Syracuse University) was Optimum Online. They are NOTORIOUS for the caps. She would be capped and her blog would be done in a second.

Cody,
Somewhat true except for two things:
1) Bandwidth cost (not great in Australia)
2) Reliablity. If you have a 5 year old and 14 month old, Reliablity sucks!
3) (I lied) Cost of running it. (Power, etc)

Molly

To all who want to help improve WordPress.com and WordPressMU, which in turn helps to improve the future release of WordPress 1.6, the FEEDBACK button is in your Administration Panels.

On every panel. Look in the upper right corner, just below the “Howdy, your name” and SIGN OUT.

As you have noticed, this is a very exciting community to be a part of and it is helping all WordPress users now and in the future to create a better product. I think it’s a brilliant method for really incorporating users’ needs to have hundreds and maybe even thousands participate in the process. We all have a say in how this works.

Sure there are limits to wordpress.com. Since we are all working in a giant laboratory, the lack of control over Themes, plugins, and javascripts and styles within the post act as a controlled environment, testing the parts of the program the developers can control, not the parts we users can tweak with and mess up. We just all have to learn to live with the temporary constraints, bugs and glitches as the software is changing even as I type this comment.

With things changing all the time, I compare it to blogging inside of a Cracker Jack box. Every day a new surprise. Very exciting to be on the cutting edge of this hot technology, even as the knife’s blade is being sharpened.

hey Scoble…for the first time in 10 years, my computer’s primary internal hard drive crashed…i lost some good data there…just wanted to say this about Vista:

I hope Microsoft allows users to set the default partition in Vista…so Documents & Settings > User Profile > User Name > My Documents etc could be set on D:

I know you can set My Documents to default to the D: partition, but I have multiple users on my computer and since my documents is located outside my user profile, I can’t hide it from other guests who would log on my computer…

so let’s hope this stuff improves in Vista…

btw my computer is only 2 years old…so if u’re thinking serves him right for using a 20 year old machine…then don’t

the way i want it: C: for all your OS, programs etc related stuff…D: for all your data…so even if I’m making a website in Macromedia the default location for the saved webpages should be D:

i’ll deal with the things later if I have to move to C: for some specific stuff…

Hi, I see. That’s Matt help you did the configuration. No entry to do this for common users. May I customize my template more than just colors?

I do submit a lot of Feedbacks to the “Dear Admin”. Hope those help.

Just to shake things up ive decided to make a post that is on topic. It would appear that the bug has been fixed. Thats all.

Cya.

http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/imac_more_than_just_a_media_center/

Headline: iMac Stepping Stone To An Entertainment Thin-Client?

what do you think Scoble…I sincerely hope Microsoft is firing on all cylinders in this period…because not only are they getting competition from everywhere, their competitors are becoming smarter by the day…

why I want to root for MS…cause, in an about-turn some may say, Microsoft’s solutions these days turn out to be closely related to what consumers really want as well…just that other companies getting a bigger bite at the table w.r.t coolness, perhaps?

Wow, who is this “Cody” person. Looks like Scoble gets new trolls all the time. It’s hard to keep track of them!

“Isn’t it ironic how someone at MICROSOFT is complaining about bugs in the software? ”

How is that ironic? That’s not ironic at all. You might think it’s funny, but that’s about as ironic as that stupid Alanis Morisette song.

As for using IE, many of us prefer it to Firefox. Despite your claim, people who use IE aren’t therefore stupid. I use Maxthon for my daily browsing activities, although I use IE6 and IE7 a lot in my work.

Despite what you may think, using a non-Microsoft browser does not make you “l33t.” It doesn’t make you smart, it doesn’t make you cool.

Firefox is a fine choice of browser. But so is IE.

What exactely made you choose WordPress over other services like MSN Space, MovableType, TypePad, LiveJournal, etc…. I’ve recently started blogging and I’m not entirely happy about BlogSpot, so im thinking about moving as well……Hence my question asking why WordPress over others……

http://kenacious.blogspot.com or http://www.rohdeonline.com

As a guy who leads javascript development for a website, I have to say that IE is a terrible browser with a lot of bug and we spend an awful lot on working around its peculiarities.

We also don’t develop using IE, we develop using FireFox because it has a useful debugger and gives good error messages. Then we back-port to IE.

This is because IE is the WORST browser on the internet with more than 1% of users. Please, fix your thing.

Hahahah, whata entertaining sideshow. CMS gone back to the stone age.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=118

really good stuff…something i definitely want and would make Windows a lot more stable:

- applications that don’t need an install…drag and drop and run! if MS Office can do this on the Macintosh…why can’t it do the same on Windows?

Just like I tell everyone else.
Click Feedback, type away with as much details as possible.
So far as I hear, you’re one of their special beta testers (as witnessed by your custom header). Surely your input matters and has hopefully already been given .