Press This

I see a link back to the source. Could you provide browser information and explicit steps to reproduce?

If you don't have any text selected when you click on "Press This", it will automatically put a link in the post with the title (of the site) as the link (example: You are on gmail.com and press the bookmarklet. Your new post would open up with a link that said "Gmail - Inbox (X) - xxxxxx@gmail.com".

However, if you have text selected when you press your bookmarklet the whole selection becomes a link. I don't believe this is the intended behavior. To make matters worse, if you then click on the "Photo" tab, the large link converts to plain text and stays like that even if you click back on the "Text" tab

Does this help clarify? I'm using Firefox 3.

however, when I use Safari, or IE7 (the css also appears to be messed up for use with ie7) the editor fails to appear at all. Instead, I see the code (example below)

<a href='http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/09/g-power-aims-to-rival-m-with-supercharged-z4/'>a natural choice for anyone who wants a high performance BMW, but that hasn't stopped G-Power from offering go-fast parts for Bimmer ow</a>

Also, when I've tried clicking my bookmarklet in IE6, nothing appears. If I click on the link (that you're suppose to add to favorites), it works fine. If I add it to my list, and try and click on it, it fails to open anything.

(In [8302]) Don't format_to_edit TinyMCE inserts. Don't turn selection into a link. Restore editor contents when switching back to text tab. see #7261 #7220

That fixes up some of the mess.

Hey ryan, thanks for your help. I haven't been able to get tiny_mce editor to come up, but I think that might just be something on my end.

Also, would it be possible to have an option to automatically cite your source? Meaning that a link could be placed at the bottom of the post that leads directly back to the webpage you "Press This"ed from?

Thanks again!

I think this might have something to do with why the IE 6 bookmarklet doesn't do anything.

http://blog.seagul.co.uk/articles/2007/12/14/bookmarklet-favelet-limits-in-internet-explorer-6-and-7

One way to potentially get around this is have separate bookmarklets for *good* browsers, and then one for IE.

By killing off the user agent string to see if it's firefox, you can save quite a few characters, and you should be within the 508 char limit.

I can now confirm that if you stay under the 508 character limit that IE6 is limited to, the bookmarklet will appear.

Is there anything else I could try to get the editor and a link?

Is TinyMCE missing from the regular write post page too, or just from Press This?

I'll work on shortening the bookmarklet.

(In [8308]) Reduce size of Press This bookmarklet. see #7261

It is only missing in the bookmarklet.

supposedly this patch fixes the editor not coming up.

http://trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/6813/press-this-combined_7-11.patch