Comments on: Calling All Safari Enthusiasts

By: KNP

KNP — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:37:00 +0000

I beleive this is caused by a buggy javascript.

Viewing the sorce HTML does not show any __LongTerm__ and the original text is all there.

I am using Firefox. When I encountered pages that shows __LongTerm__, I tried disabling Javascript in Firefox and reload the page and the original text came back.

I noticed in the sorce HTML page that all of the pages that show __LongTerm__ are using javascript from kontera.com which is an ad provider site.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:16:06 +0000

I see it when using Safari or NetNewsWire on both my Macbook running OS 10.4.11 and my iPod touch which is fully updated. Hopefully updating Safari will work on my Macbook but it looks like I’ll have to wait until the next update for my iPod touch. Sad day.

By: A2Veeness

A2Veeness — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:11:53 +0000

Upgraded to Safari 3.1.2 last night and no more _LongTerm_ It was driving me crazy!

By: Michigan Mom

Michigan Mom — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:46:27 +0000

Yes I’m seeing it and I’m using Opera.

By: 0ldB4t

0ldB4t — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:53:25 +0000

On a Mac, Long Term was replacing ONLY words with apostrophes (and was replacing ALL words with apostrophes) in Safari, but not in Firefox. I just upgraded to the current Safari version and the problem disappeared.

By: Emily S S

Emily S S — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:08:24 +0000

I use Safari, 3.1.2, and I don’t see “_LongTerm_”.

By: ramon

ramon — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:23:56 +0000

I’m on a real old Safari (1.3.2) and everything seems fine.

By: M

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:00:59 +0000

I haven’t seen any such thing in Firefox, versions 2.6 or 3.0, on a PC.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:56:25 +0000

Could be a language issue on the webserver. This is why you sometimes get question marks instead of apostrophes, etc. Make sure that the language that the webserver is on is set. The next problem would be in how the textual data was stored for the post. If someone copy and pasted from something like MS Word, sometimes the apostrophes, and other special characters get copied directly, as opposed to in a plain text format. That is where I would start.
To track it down, you could put in javascript on a page that scans the innerHTML of the entire document. if the LongTerm word is found, capture the innerhtml of the area, plus the persons web browser info and operating system so you can try and recreate the issue.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:43:01 +0000

Sorry that should have said month’s. And I was using IE.