Links in and out of indexes

Really, short, but:

Essentials:

There's no problem. Only thing is that the icons might disappear, but they reappear in fractions of a second. So no big deal.

But:

ie is really slow and annoying with apture. So I couldn't saturate blogs with as many links as I'd like, even though I don't think I'll run into any problems on further testing. If you guys want to be proof positive nothing breaks with a thorough stress test, permission to use firefox, and I'll give it a more comprehensive run sometime this weekend. Yeah, i.e. is just really that painful. Fucking microsoft....

Below is a car crash of observations/suggestions. Enjoy...


Details:

Opera:

The welcome to apture thing should only appear once after you've been there before after clicking cancel on browser incompatibility warning. If this is an opera specific bug, you shouldn't allow apture period when you're in opera.

ie:

we need to figure out if by default, people want the linker panel to stay open. because ie is slow, it's becoming annoying.

some links blink, but appear in the right place, so no biggie.

should allow one to close the linker panel while the text on it for the first apture link shows. In otherwords, I should be able to close the linker panel and move on with adding more links to text, or just some way that if I only want one media item per link, I'm not being slowed down by the persistent linker panel.

linker panel switches place with the media window, and refreshes the entire browser window in ie.

Sometimes on selecting a link it searches and finds things, other times it keeps searching...

Don't know how to add successive end of paragraph links smoothly...

And do I have to preview the resource I'm trying to link to before linking? If I know what's already there, it slows me down to have to click view preview and then link item. Users should have a choice.

Read more section on an external link opens a new window. Is that how it works? If so, it should probably be re-worded to something more specific.

Can't double link (i.e. if there's already a link to a page, placing an apture link over it obliterates the one underneath it. Maybe apture could display the old link in a new window?)

Add link at end of paragraph feature shouldn't change the paragraph shape. It makes me miss links sometimes.

ps: Because archive links are sorted by month and not quantity, we'll have to wait a little over a week to see what happens with linking consistency in that aspect, unless you know a way of hacking it)

hrs: 8:30 - 9:20 (oh, and on Tuesday, it was 11:30 to 3:20 (creating blog articles) )