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iWeb/MobileMe not accepting comments

Over the past week or so, I have had two people tell me that they can not leave comments on my blog. I have tried myself (from MacBook Pro, iPhone 4 and Dell/Windows) and can not get a comment to post. I get the pop-up comment window, enter my comment, enter my name and then enter the security "phrase" that is provided. Then, when I hit "Add Comment" it just sits there. It does not reqister at all. And this is all on a very simple MobileMe hosted site. No outside domain. No outside tools. Just iWeb and MobileMe.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Does anyone know if MobileMe is experiencing issues that are causing this? It sounds like I am not the only one.

15" MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Nov 2, 2010 10:07 AM

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Nov 15, 2010 5:04 PM in response to tmhale13

I manage my wife's site which includes blogs on mobileme with comments. Readers leave comments, but other readers (or the same readers at other times) report they, too, cannot leave comments. My wife often cannot post a comment (the misdisplayed comment screen hangs just as you described). I had the same experience on my computer today. In my wife's case, using Firefox instead of Safari allowed her to comment. In my case, restarting my computer cleared up the problem. But the inability to enter comments happens to too many would-be commenters on different computer using different browsers at different times to ignore. I promised my wife I would investigate. I echo your question: Does anyone know a solution or have a handle on why users have this problem?

Nov 15, 2010 7:25 PM in response to tmhale13

I am certainly leaning toward an Apple server issue. I am 99.9% sure it is not something I have done. The comments started to work again a day or so after I posted this. I have not tried another comment in the past week, but I suspect it is working now. I am leaving this as an open issue since this has occured, corrected and then occured again. My guess is that it will rear it's ugly head again in the near future.

Nov 21, 2010 4:00 AM in response to tmhale13

Tonight I installed "Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 8", restarted, and immediately after my "Add Comment" windows now format properly and more importantly my comment posts actually post. Apple must have made some changes to their "Add Comment" window Java code that made Java 10.5 Update 8 necessary. Can anyone verify that installing "Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 8", or "Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3" resolves this issue?

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