Are all captcha's supposed to be 5 characters? I just loaded your blog on my Mac in Safari 1.3.2 and tried to comment. The first time I tried to post the comment, the captcha displayed was only 3 characters, which seemed odd. Not surprisingly, your blog rejected my post. However, the next captcha di...

This mystery of Sparacus is really clearing up for me now. Now I know that the reason I wasn't seeing the part about "fetching xml" in the available plugins list is because I didn't even have spartacus installed before. I think I was always clicking on the Install sidebar plugin link inste...

After spending a long time comparing everything about your Blue Streak theme that works to the Plain Vanilla that doesn't, I think I've finally figured this out. In serendipity/templates/plain-vanilla/style.css, line 37 makes the content div a float: #content { position:relative; float:left; If I re...

aaaaaaaaaaaaahhh... ok NOW I think I understand!!

So do you call the repository itself Spartacus as well as the "plugin" that fetches from it?

Hi, I just noticed that in the code you posted above, the div is still called "mainpane". That is the same div the code is checking the height of, no? If I change "mainpane" to "container" I no longer get the JS error, but then I get the same problem I had before -- the...

Yes, I'm sure I am still using plain vanilla. To be absolutely certain, I just installed a fresh copy of serendipity-1.0 and downloaded the plain-vanilla theme from http://spartacus.s9y.org/cvs/additional_themes/plain-vanilla.zip and added the preview_iframe.tpl you posted here and then copied in on...

Also, in the plugin documentation: http://www.s9y.org/45.html The description does make it pretty easy to understand what spartacus is, however it refers to Spartacus as ".. a repository manager plugin which you can install." But isn't already included with Serendipity 1.0? I also don't ha...

That's weird, but I don't see any "fetching xml" type message at all. Maybe it's in a frame that I'm not seeing, like my preview problem? ;) My suggestion would be to refer to Spartacus as a "plugin manager" or "plugin installer". Calling it "...a Plugin for the We...

Thanks for you help, but I'm afraid that didn't work. It throws a javascript error-- document.getElementById("container") has no properties. I tried some other templates and I discovered that your Blue Streak/contest theme displays the preview correctly, while the default admin theme does ...

I think your database is unhappy. Is this your server or a shared hosting account? If it's someone else's job to maintain the db server you need to tell them to fix it.
If it's up to you I think you need to make sure mysql's user has permission to write to /tmp and restart mysql.

Hmm... I'm still not seeing anything that identifies the installer thing as spartacus, or that tells where the plugins are coming from. It just has a title, short description, and names the author and version of the plugin. While I think I understand it now, it literally took me months to come to re...

I assumed it was a browser bug because it happens in Firefox and Konqueror but not in Opera-- the preview iframe works fine as is using Opera. Plus I found an open bug report for mozilla offsetHeight problems: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306428 But anyway, I'm using the Plain Vanill...

Hi everyone, I've been using serendipity for about a year, and I try to keep up with blog.s9y.org so I've read about Spartacus, however I still don't know exactly what it is. Actually I've just noticed the similarity between the plugins listings at http://spartacus.s9y.org/ and those on the "In...

Hello, I've been a serendipity user for a while and the preview entry feature has never worked correctly for me. The iframe with the my post preview shows up for a fraction of a second, but as soon as the page finishes loading, it dissapears. I've just installed seredipity 1.0 (yea!) and I noticed t...