Very soon we will release WordPress 2.5, and about the same time WordPress.com will be updated.

With Safari 3 and WordPress 2.5 you should finally have a great experience if Safari is your preferred browser.

Supporting WordPressing is explicitly discussed in Surfin’ Safari Ten New Things in WebKit 3: “1. Enhanced Rich Text Editing”, “We now have support from web applications like WordPress…”.

But that is only half of story. With WordPress 2.5, we have upgraded WordPress’s visual editor to the much anticipated TinyMCE 3 — yes, 3 is very auspicious number.

The TinyMCE team only released TinyMCE 3 in the last month. This is the first release with full support for Safari (3). Thanks to Andrew Ozz’s generosity, with the support of Johan Spocke Sörlin and the rest of the TinyMCE team, we were quickly able to integrate it into WordPress 2.5 and fix problems as they have been identified.

The dreaded bug where all of your paragraphs would become one continuous jumble of text has been fixed.

If anything about the development version of WordPress (soon to be released as WordPress 2.5) isn’t working well with Safari 3, it’s now open season on reporting the bugs to us at WordPress, and we can work on figuring if they are ours, Moxiecode’s, or Apple’s.

As my friends know, when on Windows, I’ve been enthusiastically using Safari on Windows as my secondary browser since August.

The secretive Apple Corporation is not known for having dialogs with its customers — it is known for letting its products do the talking. Nor is Apple known for being an open source participant — the parts of its systems that are open source, and often shared with a, “Here’s the source, do what you want with it. No, we won’t tell you what’s coming next.”

Surfin’ Safari, with its great content, discussions continuing in the comments, and developer community participation seems to show a different, and much appreciated by me, side of Apple. But any questions about future Apple will go unanswered, like when will Safari for Windows be updated next or released?

Surfin’ Safari wasn’t always powered by WordPress, but it has always been powered by browser building legend David Hyatt and his ability to keep us all updated and interested.

embedding youtube – I know to turn off WYSIWYG but is there an easier way?

First, you can’t do embeds, JavaScript, etc if you are don’t have unfiltered_html, which only the Admin and Editor roles have.

Nancy, describe it works in “code” mode so she has sufficient permissions. So this is a big clue that the problem is how we integrated TinyMCE (the WYSIWYG or visual editor) into WordPress.

Although, if I had waited until tomorrow I would have gotten additional important details. I was about to confirm there is a bug in the latest release (2.3.3).

And it is fixed in the next major release (WordPress 2.5), further in 2.5 it will remember whether you were last using Visual or HTML editor mode, so even if the bug still existed, which it doesn’t, it would be worked around.

The bug is #5336 TinyMCE Mangles <object> tag’s and DD32 verified that it is fixed:

WordPress 2.4/2.5′s TinyMCE has a built-in flash functionality.

Heres the HTML it generates: (as seen on the published page, i’m pretty sure its identical in the edit window)

<p><object height="110" width="315" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"><param value="http://www.spiegel.de/media/0,4906,16534,00.swf" name="src" /><embed height="110" width="315" src="http://www.spiegel.de/media/0,4906,16534,00.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></p>

Appears to be fixed.

So Nancy, it sounds like you have the best work around until WordPress 2.5 which will fix the problem.