So it turns out that the current version (v1.02) of SimplyThreaded silently fails if you preview your comment before posting it. This made me sad, so I wrote a patch for it, which I just mailed to the plugin's author (and posted on the author's support forum). I also installed it on here, so that should work now, and please let me know if it doesn't.
(The patch also addresses a potential runaway-quote bug in the JavaScript that it generates, if someone's name has an apostrophe in it. I will henceforth call this the O'Reilly Bug.)
That I could do this as rapidly as I did, never having been exposed to MT plugin source before, is fairly awesome, and gives me another reason to love Movable Type.
Remaining LiveJournal-to-MT4 migratory projects:
- Importing all my old LJ entries - "easy" but not trivial. Will involve some Perl-n-XML hackery. And I also have to decide whether I want all those old entries here. (Probably.)
- Making comment subscription work.
Does your fix handle leading apostrophes? I worked on some SQL back in the day that handled embedded apostrophes nicely but fell to bits when someone's name was 'tHooft (a suprisingly common Dutch moniker.)
Nice tip... that's a new one to me.
It should work, though. All it does it URI-encode the name before placing it into any HTML attributes, and decode it again prior to display. So the position and number of quote marks shouldn't matter.