Pete wrote, "Jason, I resized text to medium and it cut off the rest of the post. It's either firefox doing it or some sort of text formatting issue. The same html type page with one line of text popped up for a half second. "

Yes, Jason, when is that fix coming along?  :-)

Pete, I managed to grab screen captures of that momentary flash that you have seen.  The development team has them now.

It shouldn't be difficult to fix.  The bug is easily and reliably repeatable.  Just sign off, write a post with an embedded format change, and submit it.  After being asked to sign in, the screen flashes momentarily with the text that is in the process of being dropped.

Repeatable bugs are the easiest ones to find.

[See post immediately above for an example.  It's this post, being cut off at the point where I made a color change.]

You guys are talking greek to me.  But that's ok..as long as you guys know what you're talking about that's all we need.

Now..someone tell me how to put pictures in someones elses blog.  I can do in on mine but not on any other.

First, Nancy, the picture that you want to embed in a blog comment has to have a URL (an "http:" link).  There are two ways to do this:

Find a picture of your liking on the Web and copy the URL, or upload an image of your choosing to your own blog space using "Upload media."

If you use the Upload Media, the next step after you upload it is to go to the Show Pictures page, and copy the URL of the image as it's stored in your blog space.  Mouse over the name, right-click, and do "Copy Shortcut."

Then use the Insert/Edit Image button inside the Leave A Comment box (the little yellow button with the mountain inside), and paste the URL into the appropriate input box.

I don't change colors or font in posts...I just plug along.  Besides I very rarely hit that post button before saving it.  I've learned my lesson by golly.  About as adventuresome as I get is to use bold or underline.

Now..about that ability to post pictures..please don't tell me I have to use html.  I haven't done that since I used to have to do it selling on ebay.

(edited)  ok ok ok..http...I forgot my h's

 Nancy, I just dragged your profile pic into this comment.  Uploading a picture from your computer into your Bakersfield.com "My Media" folder, where it will then have a URL that you can copy and paste as Pete described, isn't much harder.  Neither require you to know HTML.

Pete, H4F, and Tom, thanks for the tech-question pitching in, as usual.  :)  And I know you hate to hear this from me, but re: the format-change-leading-to-text-truncation problem, "we're working on it!"  (Really, we are--along with a whole bunch of new features and products that you'll love, trust me.)  But your help on figuring out problems is priceless, and what interactivity and community is all about.

Pete, one last thing--you read Tom's description of the problem, right?  Were you logged out at the time you made the formatting change and then submitted?  Thanks!

Joe, I never thought about the ole' simple drag-and-drop.  That's what I get for always doing things the hard way.

I've never had the URL appear like that.

It looks like we found another bug?

Glad that worked out for you, Pete.  And by the way, that formatting-truncation-while-logged-out problem is fixed in beta, the fix will go live with the next roll-out of updates (early Jan. probably).

Re: the url showing up next to your pic in the comment--what method did you use, the drag-and-drop?  That's weird.  Didn't appear on the pic of Nancy's logo I dragged over, nor in the pic H4F embedded.  But I know I've seen the phenomenon here recently.  Hmmm... 

Okay, is this what happened, Pete?

Did you embed the picture via the "insert/edit image" button in this RTE?  (The little mountain thingie.)  If so, did you paste the URL of the picture in both the field marked "URL" and the field directly below it marked "alternative text"?

Hey Pete..all it takes is a blonde to ask for you.  Saves face and no one expects her to know without asking.

By the way..what little mountain thingy..where ae you finding that?

Jason..you're aiding and abetting a highjacking ya know.  For shame.

Mountain thingie:

Okay, in the Leave A Comment box, a.k.a. "the rich text editor" or RTE, in the second line of icons, second from the right, that's the "little mountain thingie," a.k.a. "insert/edit image."

As for hi-jacking, well...  This is site business, isn't it?  :)  And it's my job to help folks use the site?  :)  And plus, the original post is from 6/27, the thread went thru 7/5, and got revived 2 days ago, so, well...

As for why it didn't work for you before, that might have been before we rolled out 2.0.  (Tom, when did you start doing the drag-n-drop vs. the "insert image button" method?)

Just bein' helpful.

Don't worry; your job is secure.  I lack the pages and pages and pages of formal qualifications needed to even be considered for any IT job there.