Facebook: website coding FAIL

[gwalla]

Facebook and Mozilla apparently don't get along. I can't post status updates from my home computer. If I click on the "What's on your mind?" box, it goes blank, changes size a little bit, and doesn't accept any input. If I type anything, the browser thinks I'm trying to do a find-in-page, because it doesn't recognize that box as an object that takes focus.

Why in the everloving fuck do so many sites insist on rolling their own text input widgets? They're inevitably slower than normal ones (Last.FM really took the cake here for a while, with a text widget that would make a network call for every letter typed just so it could display a little "376/500 characters" thing) and usually glitchy. The vanilla text boxes work fine! Use them!

The threads in the support forums indicate that this problem has been around for the last couple of months, and are full of people saying that they've gotten no response from tech support.

Comments

[rimspace.livejournal.com]

From watching southernmyst use facebook while she was here, I came to the firm conclusion that their web coders are beyond incompetent. Some of the stuff on there I'd be ashamed to be associated with.

[cholma.livejournal.com]

Yep. Sometimes I'll comment on someone's status, and when I click Submit, my entry vanishes as if I never typed it. Happened last night. I posted some comment to Animal's status, but it never showed.