Any reason why at certain times the LG TinyMCE extension won’t load? It works half the time but the other half is MIA. I don’t need a client calling me every other time they want to post to the site. I’m not a serious developer so if you could really dumb down the response I’d appreciate it. Imagine me with a helmet on and you’ll get the idea.

Well the latest TinyMCE has some funny problems with Gzip (they know about it, and they are fixing it)..

Solution: disable gzip.

Thanks. Will do.

I’m going to append to this thread because I have the exact same problem.

Two of my sites that I’m working on are really screwing up. The hair I’ve pulled out…

OK, so on both sites, the client cannot see the TinyMCE interface on their computer. I can see it on mine. Well. One time this week one of the sites’ tinyMCE fields stopped working for me, but I deleted and reinstalled the tMCE files (no idea why this would do anything at all) and it came back.

Using LG TinyMCE (latest v), tried working with the last stable of Tiny 2, AND Tiny 3. This is with trying to integrate iBrowser…

I am on XP on Firefox (and occasionally IE for testing). Clients are on, respectively, a Mac (not sure which browser, I thought he said Firefox) and Vista (Firefox, Netscape, and IE all not working).

On the site for a client with a mac, he can now see the Tiny interface but the popups are doing something weird, for HTML view or Paste from Word, the window opens but shows him nothing, and cannot close (you have to refresh the page to get rid of the stupid popup). This behavior also happened to me once this week when I was installing/uninstalling/reinstalling everything to try and fix.

The other client just simply cannot see the Tiny interface. At all.

*sigh* Anyone have any ideas? I’m really frustrated right now. I thought I had installation of TinyMCE/LG’s extension/iBrowser down pat, but these two sites are kicking my butt.

Instead of dealing with other fixes for these sites, I’m dealing with this, for HOURS. ARG!

Edit: Oh, and I don’t have Gzip enabled.

The same problem here. I’ve posted about this on tinyMCE forum. An answer software creator is here. So… I’m using tinyMCE without compressor :(

OK, so I switched to the first party plugin for TinyMCE. Client #1 can see it proper, the popups all work, etc. Why LG TinyMCE messes that up for him I will never know (would have thought it was a TinyMCE internal code issue), but there you have it. When I can get a hold of Client #2 who wasn’t seeing the wysiwyg at all, I’ll try to remember to post if it fixes hers too. I switched hers to the first party plugin too. I bet dollars to donuts this solves the problem.

(This fix was based on this thread here where it was suggested.)

Sorry Leevi! I liked your plugin better, it letting you choose between WYSIWYG and textarea. But I gotta use what works.

How much hair would I have not pulled out this week if I’d tried this sooner? *sigh*

Anyway, if you or anyone with LG TinyMCE thinks you have 100% correct configuration on TinyMCE and it still isn’t showing up, try uninstalling the LG plugin and install the first party one. (Make sure you go back and put all your wysiwyg fields back to textarea.)

Just to clarify…

All LG TinyMCE does is add a class to the textarea and include the scripts and configuration from the settings you provide. A lot fo the code is based on the first party extension. All I added was the ability to select specifc text areas and add gzippping.

I suggest that if the first party is extension is working try the following:

1. Copy the settings from the first party extension.
2. De-Activate the first party extension
3. Install LG TinyMCE
4. Configure the extension using the same settings that worked in the first party extension and don’t forget to add the following to the extension TinyMCE configuration:

5. Turn off gzip compression
6. Save
7. Test

Cheers Leevi

*sigh* I’m beginning to wonder if it’s not ibrowser, I went to reactivate ibrowser today for one of my clients and the whole TinyMCE wysiwyg went missing again for her.

I’m using TinyMCE 3.0.8/ibrowser 1.3.8, and with these instructions different than the EE wiki one, I tried it out (copying tinyMCE3.0_editor_plugin.js twice, the second time as the src filename), it still didn’t work.

Disabling ibrowser in the plugins call makes it show up again for her, but we need some sort of image upload capability with the WYSIWYG.

Arg!!!!

At least, Leevi, you can probably guess from this that it’s NOT your plugin!!!

LynneL - 23 June 2008 04:40 PM

*sigh* I’m beginning to wonder if it’s not ibrowser, I went to reactivate ibrowser today for one of my clients and the whole TinyMCE wysiwyg went missing again for her.

I’m using TinyMCE 3.0.8/ibrowser 1.3.8, and with these instructions different than the EE wiki one, I tried it out (copying tinyMCE3.0_editor_plugin.js twice, the second time as the src filename), it still didn’t work.

Disabling ibrowser in the plugins call makes it show up again for her, but we need some sort of image upload capability with the WYSIWYG.

Arg!!!!

At least, Leevi, you can probably guess from this that it’s NOT your plugin!!!

You can use the imagemanager from TinyMCE or SMimage

LynneL - 23 June 2008 04:40 PM

*sigh* I’m beginning to wonder if it’s not ibrowser, I went to reactivate ibrowser today for one of my clients and the whole TinyMCE wysiwyg went missing again for her.

I’m using TinyMCE 3.0.8/ibrowser 1.3.8, and with these instructions different than the EE wiki one, I tried it out (copying tinyMCE3.0_editor_plugin.js twice, the second time as the src filename), it still didn’t work.

Disabling ibrowser in the plugins call makes it show up again for her, but we need some sort of image upload capability with the WYSIWYG.

Arg!!!!

At least, Leevi, you can probably guess from this that it’s NOT your plugin!!!

Yay….

I suggest that you try MC File Manager which is the Moxicode Filemanager. I also have an extension that implements its features into normal text fields.

Super quick victor strikes again!

Yeah…client can’t really afford to buy anything else for this site, though, I don’t think…so I’m stuck with trying to make ibrowser work.

I mean, why wouldn’t it work for her but would for me? I’m no crack debugger, especially javascript, so…

Blegh.

Probably the browser, the cache, the server…. anything really… her computers security… Did you have gzip turned on? Did it work without iBrowser? I thought iBrowser was dead in the water many moons ago.

It works for the client without ibrowser activated, as soon as I put that plugin into the list of plugins, it goes poof on her machine. On mine, I get the WYSIWYG fine, I get the ibrowser icon, clicking on it gets me the popup and allows me to upload and insert images just fine!

This would likely also be the reason my other client for another site (Mac user, FF2 & Safari) suddenly also had issues. I had thought at first it was using the first party extension that fixed the missing TinyMCE problem, but I must have deactivated ibrowser at the same time too…

But both of their sites work on my machine. XP, FF2 and IE6.

Oh and this is without Gzip running ever. I don’t even activate it at all (given the Safari problem).

LynneL - 24 June 2008 03:21 PM

This would likely also be the reason my other client for another site (Mac user, FF2 & Safari) suddenly also had issues. I had thought at first it was using the first party extension that fixed the missing TinyMCE problem, but I must have deactivated ibrowser at the same time too…

But both of their sites work on my machine. XP, FF2 and IE6.

Oh and this is without Gzip running ever. I don’t even activate it at all (given the Safari problem).

I had an issue on Safari and FF3 which was solved by putting this…

...right at the top of /tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/ibrowser/editor_plugin.js

After that, everything relating to LG TinyMCE and iBrowser has been working fine on all platforms/browsers we’ve tried using it on….  it’s worth a try!

OMG if this works, I am SOOOO sending you a cookie!!!! Thanks, will try!

OK, so this fix apparently worked for one of the clients! You are my new bestest friend, joe_d. Just tell me where to send the cookie and I will.

Now I gotta see if it works for the other client (though I have a pile of other nonrelated updates to make on those templates and need to get them done before calling him). I hope it works for him too!!

No problem, LynneL, glad to have helped! I can’t really take the credit for the fix, though.. I blindly tried it along with another ten or so other suggestions following a mad Google search when the problem first appeared. I don’t know how or why it works, just that it does.

I’d venture a guess, though, and say that it’s probably something to do with Safari and FF3 implementing JavaScript in a stricter way, and requiring variables to be defined in advance, or something. If anyone knows, please share!

Oh, and about the cookie… I’d better pass on that. I’m in Bangkok, Thailand where pretty much any type of confectionery sent via the postal service will be infested with ants and other creepy-crawlies by the time it gets to me.

This is happening with our install of LG TinyMCE too, but we’re not using iBrowser for this project - we’re using Moxiecode’s ImageManager. I was trying to find some sort of pattern for when TinyMCE shows up and when it doesn’t. Of course, right when I thought I found one, something came along and threw it out the window.

What I DO know is that this only occurs in Safari. The good news is that if TinyMCE doesn’t load, hitting refresh brings it back.

Not sure if there’s a fix, just thought I’d share.