Cannot post on digg.com

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Cannot post on digg.com

OK, please no jokes. I like posting on digg occasionally. Unfortunately, all of a sudden it's no longer possible. I'm using Safari on Leopard and I do have the Saft extension installed, however, the posting problem started more recently than the installation of Saft and I even uninstalled it with no benefit. What happens when I try to post is that I type out the message then press "submit comment". My text dims and freezes and nothing happens. I tried logging into another account and it has the same problem. I recently enabled the debug menu but I don't think that's the problem. I'm not sure what to try next to solve this problem.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Nov 27, 2007 5:05 PM

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iBod

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Nov 27, 2007 5:09 PM in response to cbell123

Hi,

It's not you. It's a bug in Safari:

[Digg.com -- Anyone know how to make Safari work with it?|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1253971]

It's been raised as a bug with the WebKit developers.

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Nov 27, 2007 5:23 PM in response to iBod

Well, I'm not so sure. As I said, until just a couple of days ago it worked fine and I'm using the same version of Safari and Leopard.

There is something else I need to mention. I also use Safari Stand (I know input managers are evil but I NEED them). I did something the other day to cause a SIMBL error to pop up every time I start Safari. The only way to get rid of the error was to remove Stand. I reinstalled Stand and SIMBL 0.8.2 to no effect. I think this SIMBL error is connected in some way to the posting problem. I'm not sure how to fix it though. Here's the error:

SIMBL Error:

Failed to load the SafariStand plugin. * -[NSNull host]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0xa03a6020

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iBod

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Nov 27, 2007 5:26 PM in response to cbell123

Maybe digg.com changed their underlying code and this has affected Safari.

I don't have any extensions installed and it doesn't work for me either.
People using other versions of Safari have also noted the same behaviour.

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cbell123 Author

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Nov 27, 2007 5:34 PM in response to iBod

OK, I am starting to think you are right. I just tried posting on my wife's MacBook running Tiger and Safari3 beta and it didn't work. I guess Kevin Rose is a FireFox user.

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Nov 27, 2007 5:34 PM in response to cbell123

I am not sure what the bug is but as of last week i could not post comments on digg using my G5 with 10.5 and safari but i could post on digg using my macbook using safari and 10.5

as of my 2nd comment today safari on my macbook stopped working as well. Over a week apart but the same issue in both.

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Nov 27, 2007 5:51 PM in response to Joshua Erdmann

In my post above, I mentioned a SIMBL error. Well, I seemed to have fixed that somehow...not sure if it was the reinstalling of SIMBL or changing some settings in Stand but I'm not getting the startup error anymore but I still cannot post to digg.

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