IAT vanishes submit button on comment textarea on diaspora* 0.5.1

[maste9]

Tried your wonderful AddOn and started creating posts and comments on diaspora*.

Unfortunately it seems to prevent js to set display: none; of .submit_button class to block so that there is nothing to submit your post. Which makes the addon unusable for diaspora unless manipulating stylesheets with userstyles.

By the way nothing's wrong with the buttons of the posting interface. It's only the comment fields.

[docwhat]

I'm not familiar with diaspora. Is there something I can try out?

[xOneca]

Totally a guess, but maybe Diaspora is waiting for the user to press a key in the textarea to then check if there's content in the textarea (and then enable the submit button accordingly). I don't think IAT! is somehow preventing the button to be enabled.

IAT! doesn't currently simulate key presses. (It fires change and input events only.) If I am correct, maybe it's not a bad idea to add and fire keydown/up/press events too?

[maste9]

Indeed the submit button appears just when you click into textarea and disappears if click somewhere else. With IAT! installed nothing appears at all and stays unchanged like the shot at the top (except of the IAT!-edit button of course).

@docwhat If you'd like to have a look at the actual code you may if you like register to any diaspora-pod you'd like to. Usually you have to activate account with a valid email address, no further information about your person needed. A list of pods open for registration you'll find at https://podupti.me/. Most pods codebase should be identical with mine - at least as far as comment interface is concerned.

[docwhat]

@maste9

So IAT would have to call .focus() on a <textarea> when it is updated, in addition to the events @xOneca mentioned.

I'm not sure it is a good idea or a bad idea. It seems like it could be disruptive.