Cocoalicious and Safari 1.3

Observant users of Cocoalicious who have updated to Mac OS X 10.3.9 may notice a problem with the “New Post from Safari” feature: namely, the selected text on the page is no longer captured. This problem is caused by an unfortunate regression in both Safari 1.3 and Safari 2.0: the Javascript “getSelection()” call no longer works properly when invoked through Safari’s “do javascript” AppleScript command. Rest assured, there is a bug in Radar for it, and hopefully it will get fixed at some point.

(Update: Sent trackback to Hyatt’s Safari 1.3 regressions post.)

2 Responses to “Cocoalicious and Safari 1.3”

  1. Joe Maller Says:

    getSelection() Workaround for Safari 1.3 and Firefox 1.0.3

    A simple workaround for problems introduced by security-based changes to getSelection in Safari and Firefox….

  2. Backup Brain Says:

    Bookmarklets fix

    Love those bookmarklets I wrote about in this Macworld piece about a year ago, and are disappointed that the Dictionary one stopped working when you upgraded to OS X 10.3.9? Yeah, me too. Here’s the fix: Old:javascript:inText=window.getSelection();if(…

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