I apologize for the vagueness ahead of time, but as a web guy I remember testing some DHTML/CSS stuff back in the spring, when Safari was still "beta", and noted some incompatibilities. Here's the vague part, I don't remember what was causing the problems.

I have no idea what the Perl Monk's CSS looks like, but here's a relatively recent chart of CSS compatibility, for what it's worth. Also some helpful links there.

Gotta love them browser standards!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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Things I'd try next (since it sounds like it will be an on-going annoyance, to say the least):

1) Try posting an anonymous reply using an otherwise identical setup.

2) Try your account on someone else's copy of Safari. You could do this by loaning someone you trust your password or getting someone to loan you their computer.

3) See if POSTing is part of the problem. Change www.perlmonks.org (or whatever) in your hosts file to localhost and write a quicky web page (or web server) that will deliver a copy of a PM page, accept your reply submission, and deliver the copy of what PM gives back. If that doesn't trigger the problem, then consider sacrificing a few chickens. If it does trigger the problem, then you've built a perfect lab for figuring out exactly which changes prevent the problem.

As for things that changed at PM in the last while, I didn't have too much trouble finding pages from a few weeks or months ago in my browser cache. My files won't match your setup, but you might also be able to find such.

Then, of course, there are the standard things that I often call "voodoo" debugging, that is, changing any number of things that may or may not be related hoping to make the problem go away (user settings, upgrade the browser, flush cache [though I might actually try that one at some point], ...), but I usually prefer to identify the problem...

                - tye

I've just switched to red theme, no custom CSS... lets see if we get a crash...

Nope. Worked fine. On Mac OS X 10.2.8, Safari 1.0 (v85.5).

No problems, but do notice that I don't get a flashing cursor in the text box. Anyway, back to the altar of Bill Gates and IE (not real happy with the way Safari renders certain sites).

Did this start at about the same time that the code for wrapping div tags around sigs was added? Do you have anything in your style sheet that might bork it?

Also, I recently got to play with OSX (10.2.6 iirc) for a few days. I installed Opera on it and it seemed to work pretty flawlessly. You'll have to use Opera 6 because they haven't released Opera 7 for that platform yet, but it'll be worth the wait. Opera 6 is still very functional. Just lacks some of the customizable features in 7.