It was brought to our attention this past Friday that craigslist is doing something that causes text within HTML tables to not wrap, not just for us, but seemingly for everybody. This has affected some postlets users in regard to the description field, where the description text no longer wraps automatically. We tried explicitly stating the table width, the table row width, the table cell width, setting the nowrap attribute, and even a stylesheet, but none of them worked to wrap the text.

We’re still working on a workaround, but if anybody has any ideas or knows how to get this working, we’re open for tips. In the meantime, you can manually wrap your text by adding in line breaks when typing in your listing description.

We just added Vast to our list of distribution partners. Vast is a classifieds search engine (similar to Oodle) that currently indexes listings for cars, jobs and personals. Postlets cars & trucks listings are included now, and rentals and real estate should follow shortly.

We noticed today that our colored templates don’t appear correctly when pasted into craigslist, for example black text on a black background. This is because craigslist is defaulting all text color to black. Don’t worry, we really don’t believe they’re doing this just because of us, but are doing this across the board to combat spammers. At any rate, since we’re a legitimate service, and we still want to offer color options for our users, we’ve come up with a solution. We’ve already implemented it for Real Estate postlets, and we’ll get to Rentals and Cars and Trucks soon.

May 9th – Rentals and Cars and Trucks done too.