MT bookmarklet + XHTML 1.1 + application/xhtml+xml
It is still possible to use a “Post to MT Blog” bookmarklet in Mozilla or other Gecko-based browsers with Mark’s fancy new XHTML 1.1 + application/xhtml+xml pages, but it takes a little modification of your bookmarklet.
Chances are you’ve never noticed it, but every time you use your bookmarklet to post in Mozilla, it protests by way of the JavaScript Console about “”Deprecated method document.getSelection() called. Please use window.getSelection() instead.” However, now that diveintomark.org is triggering Mozilla’s “so strict it barely works” mode, you get “Error: d.getSelection is not a function” and no popup window.
To fix your bookmarklet, you only need to change the first part (by right-clicking, selecting Properties, and then changing the Location field), from (shown on two lines so it doesn’t break my page):
javascript:d=document;t=d.selection?d.selection.createRange().text:
d.getSelection();
to
javascript:d=document;t=window.getSelection();
and your bookmarklet should work without a warning on less-strict pages, and should work on even the strictest of pages.
Love that description of Mozilla’s ultra-standards mode. Let’s see, there’s ”quirks mode”, ”almost-standards mode”, and ”so-strict-it-barely-works mode”. They should update their documentation accordingly. :)
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/quirks/doctypes.html
I’m a user of MT and Mozilla and I’ve never had any trouble with their bookmarklet. It worked perfectly every time. Is there something wrong (or fortunate) about that?
Certainly nothing wrong with it: ”so-strict-it-barely-works” mode really isn’t good for anything besides demonstrating how careful an author can be (unlike IE, where getting out of quirks mode is also getting out of the CSS scrolling bug mode).
But with all the Mozilla milestones and builds and side projects like Chimera and Phoenix, plus the fact that Mark’s page was the only one I’ve ever had trouble with, it wouldn’t be very surprising if other people with other builds didn’t ever have any trouble.
I just figured it was worth mentioning here and in the MT forum, so that in case Mozilla 1.3 explodes when you call document.getSelection() on an XHTML 1.1 Strict document, MT 2.6 could already be set with window.getSelection() bookmarklets.
Um, that breaks the bookmark in Opera V7b1 – suppose it is a beta bug?
MT bookmarklet XHTML 1.1 application/xhtml xml
phil ringnalda: ”It is still possible to use a ”Post to MT Blog” bookmarklet in Mozilla or other Gecko-based browsers
Small changes
Ladies, please change ypur bookmarklet! Chances are you’ve never noticed it, but every time you use your bookmarklet to post in Mozilla, it protests by way of the JavaScript Console about ””Deprecated method document.getSelection() called. Please use w…