Thanks Roy, that's good to know. The new function user_can_richedit() first checks the user option, then looks for known-bad browsers: Konq, Opera < 9, Safari < 2. If neither of these is present, it returns true.
If you have any new insight on ways to improve this, let us know! Andy On 12/7/05, Roy Schestowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > _____/ On Thu 08 Dec 2005 04:37:56 GMT, [Andy Skelton] wrote : \_____ > > > On 12/7/05, Roy Schestowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> For what it's worth, the same happens in the latest of Opera, in > >> Konqueror, and > >> in Netscape 4.8 (no surprise). I installed the latest build (8-12-2005). > >> All > >> works okay in Mozilla 1.7. > > > > For the record, the gzdeflate problem was unrelated to any browser issue. > > > > Roy, you seem to have a lot of browsers installed somewhere. I need a > > good list of browsers that can't use TinyMCE, and their user agent > > string patterns. I can use it to make WP revert to Quicktags for those > > browsers, even if they have the rich editor switched on. > > > > One browser I'm missing is Netscape. Could you find out the lowest > > version that works, if any, and the user agent string they use? That > > would rock. > > I can't imagine that old versions of Netscape will still be available for > download. Even oldversion.com does not have any. The latest of Netscape, > however, is a gross re-use of Mozilla Firefox, so should work fine. My > colleague uses Netscape 7 and it appears to be a close relative of Mozilla, > which is compatible with TinyMCE. My bet would be that version 6 (or 7) is > where support was in tact. I have Netscape 5/6 on a Mac, so I could possibly > check. > > You might not like this, but here is the string sent by Netscape: > > Mozilla/4.8 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.20-4GB i686) > > [No 'Netscape' or 'netscape' or 'communicator', so might be safer to > use WYSIWYG > if agent is known to work rather than reject if the agent is known /not/ to > work] > > As for the remainder: > > Mozilla:-- Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 > > Konqueror:-- Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux) (KHTML, > like Gecko) > > Opera:-- Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686; en) Opera 8.5 > > [Note that Opera still spoof although I read that they had stopped it. > Opera is > useful for zealot sites that reject anything that is not Internet Explorer. A > regex accepting Internet Explorer (MSIE) might trigger issues with Opera] > > Let me know if you need more tests. I can test on Mac OS 9, as well as old > versions of Windows. If you can put a mock-up page of the Write screen, (which > is also public) then you could then use http://browsershots.org/ . > > Hope it helps, > > Roy > > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
