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Go to the new post: It’s All Text! v0.6+ (March 26th, 2007)

But it has one behavior that I don’t quite understand. I can live with it, but it makes me think that something’s slightly amiss with the interaction of IAT and Firebug…

I use the fabulous Firebug web development extension (http://getfirebug.org/) every day. It has a fine feature that makes it easy to inspect a specific element on a page: control-click the element of interest and select “Inspect Element” from the context menu, and it opens Firebug with that element selected in the HTML pane on the left, and its styles showing in the CSS pane on the right. Beauty.

With IAT installed, however, that selected element has two new properties added to it:

id=”itsalltext_generated_id__1″

and

itsalltext_uid=”1i22272h2135352u2p1k2w1z2×1b1w2d3b1k261i1y3b1p1p”

These are present no matter what element I select on the page. I guess it’s part of IAT’s inner workings, but it is somewhat distracting.

I assume you tried to download from http://addons.mozilla.org/ and not from here? Or was it from here? Addons is having problems of late. I’ll probably post about that in a little bit.

Ciao!

Hi! Thanks for trying it out. I’ll take a look at gmail again. :-/ I’ve had a strange bug where in the wordpress admin screen the button won’t show up sometimes. It’s very strange.

I knew about the Mac OS X problem but have been having a hard time searching for what the problem is. Obviously, I must be using an incorrect call to openDialog(). Your information should help me narrow that down.

Thanks again for the feedback.

Ciao!

I really would like to use this gadget, but, alas, when trying to download it today (26 March, 8.00am CET) from Firefox extensions page it says “Couldn’t install. Bad file hash”.

Any idea?

0.6.0 is working well on my Mac too. I like the context menu.

I notice that I still can’t edit the main textarea in the GMail compose screen,
the button doesn’t appear and the context menu is all gray except for the
Preferences item. So it seems to me that It’s All Text! is not recognizing the
main textarea as a text area. I guess Google might be doing something funny.

I also notice that if I bring up the preferences dialog from the context menu,
there are no buttons that I can use to dismiss it (no OK or Cancel buttons). I
have to hit Escape to get out. This is probably an OSX thing as the preferences
dialog is displayed as a drop down sheet attached to the current window, rather
than in a separate window. See http://flickr.com/photos/vanessahugh/434243324/

If I launch the preferences dialog by clicking on the Preferences button in the
Add-ons manager, then I get a normal dialog with a close button. See
http://flickr.com/photos/vanessahugh/434254886/

If there is anything I can do to help with these bugs, please tell me.

Thanks again.

Remember to be polite. They made a couple of bad choices, but they have worked really hard on this stuff.

Meanwhile…

I posted (about 3 posts above) a temporary link to a newer version, since addons isn’t accepting updates.

Thank you so much for this - I have it running beautifully on my
MacBook Pro, with Firefox 2.0.0.3 and Aquamacs, and am using it to
type this message I couldn’t figure out how to get Darwin Emacs to
work, but Aquamacs worked first time. Thanks also to Hugh for nice
clear instructions on how to make that work.

It’s All Text! Version 0.6.0

Get the latest at Addons

I’ll delete this comment once addons is back.

EDITED: I fixed the above URL. Somehow it got an extra ‘/’. :-/
EDITED: A newer version is available on addons.

I finally, finally, finally have fixed the edit button for all the places it has been broken. I think this was the correct fix, I understand new things, etc. etc. The next version should be fixed. Alas, addons.mozilla.org is not yet done migrating. When they do, I’ll submit a new version.

Re: the context menu. It is one of the last things I am still fixing before version 1. It currently only works when you right-click on a textarea.

Ciao!