I use the bookmarklet quite a bit when adding words from articles or "transcripts" from Skype tutoring sessions. Usually this is a smooth process, although the word 改革开放 seems to be giving Skritter trouble. Whenever I select it and use the "Add to Skritter" button it loads up the normal page, but the 5 second countdown never starts. I added a batch of other words both before and after this one without problem, but this one won't count down no matter how many times I've tried.

Of course I can just add 改革开放 manually, but I thought I'd give the Skritter team a heads up on this possible bug.

What is a bookmarklet? I wanted to try and reproduce your issue, but stumbled onto the vocabulary lists and found out that many of the Chinese Breeze stories' vocabulary is available in the form of Skritter lists. Hence, I added them to the related topic: http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=171181075.

Under the Skritter homepage, under tools, click the Bookmarklet link. It will allow you to install a button in your browser. Later, when you spot a Chinese word you want to add, highlight and click the button - that easy. With this particular word I was unable to use the Bookmarklet button successfully.

Also, I don't see how your discussion of the Chinese Breeze series is relevant to this bug... 改革开放 definitely is a word Skritter recognizes and can be added manually, but for whatever reason the tool for quick adding from other websites doesn't play well with it.

Thanks icebear; I wasn't escaping double quotes in definitions, and the double quotes in the definition for that word were gumming up the logic for the page. I've made a fix for beta, which will go to the live site for the June release.

Thanks for confirming and remedying the problem Scott! I was worried it might be an issue on my side...

The Chinese Breeze series is completely irrelevant to this issue, but my mind often tends to go off on a tangent. Sorry about that. :-)
Thanks for explaining the bookmarklet option. That will undoubtedly come in handy in the future.

@Scott: will the June release bring any new features?

Nothing in particular. We'll still be working on the iOS app for a little while yet after the launch. It's just we regularly push the previous month's changes around the 15th to the live site. That way changes that might inadvertently break things tend to have some time on the beta side to work themselves out.