Show me what you got people.
So I get asked this nearly weekly, and I wanted to set the record straight. Yes, I know the "remember info" button in the comments box does not work. It has never worked. It doesn't work for me either. I am not trying to torture you, and honestly I am amazed that all of you are still posting comments here as a result. I would have bailed long ago. I'm petty like that.
However, I do not know how to fix it. I am not now nor have I ever been the mad genius behind the design of this site. I just take the pictures and write the stories. I barely know enough HTML to make this bold. All the coding and uploading and compiling and CSS and RSS and HTML and java and applets and God-only-knows whatever else is going on in the bits and bytes of the background to make all this blogging magic work is managed by none other than The Mighty Halcyon , John Styn.
Now John is a very busy man what with all the hair care and porn and chest waxing he has to do every day, so I don't like to bother him with this site. He has been generous enough to host this thing we all love so much for free, and frankly, I like to insulate him from my depressing technical deficiencies. I had asked him about it back in February when we made the glorious transition from Blogger to Movable Type, but as this was his first leap into that particular application, he did not know how to fix it.
Now I would ask John to dig into the issue to fix it, but every time he has to put on the designer hat, the cash register starts to ring. And although I am on the Styn Friends and Family Discount Development Plan, John has to pay for all those fur pants somehow. And with his sweetie en route to NYC, well, trust me when I tell you that plane tickets are not free. Besides, he will make way more money developing gay porn sites than he ever will developing my humble little blog. And despite the wonderful and terribly flattering support of my three gay readers, I can assure you that we won't be taking DigitalCatharsis in THAT direction any time soon.
So, if any of you Movable Type Masters of the Universe know WHY the "remember info" button in my comments window does not work, and can tell John and I how to fix it, everybody wins. Most of you reading this have blogs, and most of those are using MT. Got any suggestions? Cause frankly, I'm sick of typing my name too.
Comments
Mine was doing that. Now it's doing other things. Not a clue. Not a computer guy, either, though.
Posted by: Billy | November 20, 2003 11:49 AM
this is just a test. please move along. nothing to see here. but, i could have sworn the cookies worked for a while. or maybe i just didn't post comments frequently enough to notice. regardless, this is only a test.
Posted by: heather | November 20, 2003 12:19 PM
C'mon, you have 4, FOUR gay readers, man. Don't make me come up there.
Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Elissa | November 20, 2003 12:41 PM
"Now John is a very busy man what with all the hair care and porn and chest waxing he has to do every day..."
http://personal.utulsa.edu/~edward-sharrer/joe/images/toomuchinfo.jpg
Posted by: AVERAGE JOE | November 20, 2003 01:09 PM
Test. Lemme see what I can do.
Posted by: UnderwearNinja | November 20, 2003 02:02 PM
testing. not sure why it don;t work.
Posted by: hal | November 20, 2003 02:02 PM
I uploaded the default template.
Posted by: H | November 20, 2003 02:11 PM
test
Posted by: test | November 20, 2003 02:12 PM
all this testing. so very exciting. i feel like i'm at nasa or something.
Posted by: the mighty jimbo | November 20, 2003 02:16 PM
so, have we passed yet?
Posted by: heather | November 20, 2003 02:25 PM
Your comments are hosted at lifestudent.com. In the code on this comments page, the cookie variable is set for digitalcatharsis.com
I'm not 100%, but I think that's your problem.
Posted by: UnderwearNinja | November 20, 2003 03:10 PM
var HOST = 'www.digitalcatharsis.com';
Posted by: UnderwearNinja | November 20, 2003 03:11 PM
test
Posted by: test | November 20, 2003 03:25 PM
"And despite the wonderful and terribly flattering support of my three gay readers, I can assure you that we won't be taking DigitalCatharsis in THAT direction any time soon."
hey, as long as you post a beefcake shot every once in a while, i'm happy. =)
Posted by: gay reader #3 | November 20, 2003 03:27 PM
"hey, as long as you post a beefcake shot every once in a while, i'm happy."
And as one of your non-gay readers, so am I! :)
Posted by: Crazy Girl | November 20, 2003 04:17 PM
So, does it work yet? I'm testing, too.
Posted by: Heather #2 | November 20, 2003 04:22 PM
sadly, it still isn't working. any MT experts who want a crack at it should contact me.
Posted by: the mighty jimbo | November 20, 2003 04:35 PM
Var Host is right now... If this doesn't work, I'll have to dig more =)
Posted by: UnderwearNinja | November 20, 2003 04:36 PM
You need your function setCookie in there. If you care to let me into your MT I'll take a crack at it.
And dude...chest waxing just sounds so goddamn painful. How does he manage? I mean, I've waxed other areas, but...yeeps.
Posted by: sean | November 20, 2003 04:38 PM
Wait wait wait. You DO have that function. I'm stumped. What I CAN do though, is send you a copy of a page that works, and you can throw your stylesheet in there and just use that. If you want.
Posted by: sean | November 20, 2003 04:48 PM
I just double click on each of the fields, and my info shows up.
This works for almost any comment form that doesn't have a "remember info" button. It also works on many other internet forms, like when you're ordering something from an online catalog.
Posted by: DogsDon'tPurr | November 20, 2003 05:26 PM
Here goes nothing ...
Posted by: melly | November 20, 2003 08:12 PM
Oh, I didn't read and find out that it still isn't fixed. I had a whole routine planned.
Posted by: melly | November 20, 2003 08:13 PM
All the javascript looks the same as mine. I did notice, however, that there is an extraneous closing tag (</MTEntryIfCommentsOpen>). I don't know for sure, but that could be affecting it. Doubtful, but it's something.
Posted by: Nicole | November 20, 2003 10:50 PM
If it's not working, I have no idea - digging into MT for the first time myself.
Posted by: cassie | November 21, 2003 09:58 PM
excuse the extra post. I'm trying to see if it succeeds in seting a cookie locally on my computer.
Posted by: peter | November 24, 2003 10:02 AM
I know this doesn't necessarily help your Javascript problem, but I wrote PHP code to set and retrieve cookies, which you're welcome to use. It's in use on my blog, and I'd be happy to give you the code. Of course, that requires PHP be installed on Lifestudent/DigitalCatharsis, which it might very well already be.
Posted by: peter | November 24, 2003 10:24 AM