Thought I’d pass this along so that no one else wastes and afternoon in total frustration thinking that Freeway has lost it’s charm. It’s another lesson filed under “retrace your steps”, moron.
Seems my analytics code was entered wrong on my pages, so I needed to see the HTML. Fixed the code using the page action, source code snooper. Then I went about updating other portions of my site. Soon found out, I could cut and paste between pages, but the new items would not show up in preview, nor in any browser. Tried to “force publish”, tried quitting the program and restarting…all my changes were there but would not show up. I think you guessed it by now, if you didn’t already know.
You must turn off source code snooper for each page in order for any changes to show up in the preview.
Sometime around 13/5/08 (at 18:29 -0400) Earthcat said:
You must turn off source code snooper for each page in order for any
changes to show up in the preview.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Source Code Snooper is an amazing add-on. BUT it is as much a
technology demo, a geek example, as it is prime-time utility. Please,
please reserve it for absolute last-ditch cases where all the markup
options and actions honestly can’t do what’s needed.
I’d agree. The action tries it’s best to integrate your code changes into the
page but, as you’ve noticed, it will lock any further alterations out of the
final preview. I’ve looked at creating a version that attempts to merge the
code Freeway produces with the user markup but things get very complex very
quickly!
As Keith says use the action as a last stop solution as it can be heavy handed
at times.
Regards,
Tim.
Sometime around 13/5/08 (at 18:29 -0400) Earthcat said:
You must turn off source code snooper for each page in order for any
changes to show up in the preview.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Source Code Snooper is an amazing add-on. BUT it is as much a
technology demo, a geek example, as it is prime-time utility. Please,
please reserve it for absolute last-ditch cases where all the markup
options and actions honestly can’t do what’s needed.